food
In many ways, the daily food of Black South African families can be dated back to the indigenous foods that their ancestors ate. A typical meal in a Black South African family household that is Bantu is a stiff, fluffy porridge of maize meal (called "pap," and very similar to Americans) with a flavorful stewed meat gravy. Traditional families (and many urban ones) often ferment their pap for a few days — especially if it is sorghum a type of maize) instead of maize — which gives it a tangy flavor. The Sotho-Tswana call this fermented pap or "ting."