Plants for Africa?
posted by Paul
Cape Garden Centre has plants for Africa. If you're confused by this and thinking to yourself, "What? Plants for Africa?", then I'm guessing that you're not South African. Translated into normal-speak it could read "Cape Garden Centre has a lot of plants". For us the expression has nothing to do with the continent of Africa or its size.Until a year or so ago I hadn't given the expression a second thought. Then, one day when preparing to visit family in Australia, I thought about it and suddenly realised that I couldn't imagine them saying "Woolworths has sweets for Australia" to mean that they had plenty of sweets...
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After seeing your comment on this post, I went out to find a specific shop in the local shopping center, but alas! it was no longer there.
I wanted to get a photo because it was named "Pies for Africa". Danny and I had been highly amused by the name.
I think in another lifetime, when the world looked soooo big, and we considered ourselves a small country on the tip of Africa, if one had something in abundance you'd consider you had sufficient for the whole of Africa, not just our little country at the bottom.
Thanks for this one. The origin of sayings always fascinate me.
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