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Barbados Foodways

Bajan

National

⚠ THE MOST ENGLISH OF THE ISLANDS AND THE MOST BRUTALLY EARLY SUGAR COLONY. Barbados was English continuously from 1627 — no other Caribbean territory stayed with one power that long — and it was where the English sugar-and-slavery model was invented before being exported to Jamaica and the rest. Coral limestone, not volcanic, so flat, dry and farmable edge to edge, which is exactly why it was so profitable and so densely worked. The food: COU-COU AND FLYING FISH, the national dish; FISH CAKES; PUDDING AND SOUSE on Saturdays; MACARONI PIE; JUG-JUG at Christmas; CONKIES in November; cutters from the rum shop; and BAJAN SEASONING in everything. ⚠ ELEVEN PARISHES, and Bajan is its own languoid.

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Communities and languages

  • Barbadians community documented

Languages: English, Bajan

What is recorded

  • Barbados was under continuous English and then British control from 1627 until independence in 1966, longer than any other Caribbean territory under a single power. Its coral limestone geology, in contrast to the volcanic Windwards, permitted cultivation across nearly the whole island and is directly connected to the intensity of its plantation development. documented

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  • originates from West Indian Panama and the Canal documented

    ⚠ Barbados supplied the largest single national contingent of canal labour — the "Barbados Colony" — and Barbadian descent is a large part of Colón.

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