Woman Who Ran Out of Coffee and Tea Shows How She Made a Plan With Homemade Maize Meal and Sugar Drink

Woman Who Ran Out of Coffee and Tea Shows How She Made a Plan With Homemade Maize Meal and Sugar Drink

  • A South African woman went viral on TikTok for her homemade coffee drink, which she made with dry maize meal and sugar
  • The woman's kitchen filled with smoke as she cooked the mixture, and the pot was left black and burned when she was done
  • The woman told Briefly News that she learned about the drink from her mother and that it tasted like weak coffee
  • The woman's drink amused netizens while some were curious to know how it tasted

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There's nothing quite like a warm cup of coffee or tea in the morning to start your day. Unfortunately for one woman, she was out of the main ingredients needed to make the hot beverages.

Woman shows how she prepares homemade coffee drink from maize meal
A woman used maize and sugar to prepare a warm beverage. Image: @katlego_mokwena_/TikTok
Source: TikTok

Woman shows how she prepares homemade coffee drink

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Thankfully for her, she had a plan up her sleeve and resorted to making a drink that her mother used to make when she was young.

In a video posted on TikTok, Katlego Mokwena (@katlego_mokwena_) is seen cooking dry maize meal and sugar in a pot and stirring continuously as the mix goes from white to a hard brown substance.

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The entire kitchen can be seen filled with smoke as she prepares the mixture. The pot was left black and burned when was done. Katlego proceeded to prepare a cup of the drink and used a filter to separate the liquid from the burnt hardened maize. She then added milk and enjoyed her "decaf coffee".

Briefly News asked Katlego where her mother learned about the drink and what it tasted like. She said:

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"I'm not sure where she got it from. I will ask her. Honestly it tastes nice, like half a teaspoon of Ricoffy with milk."

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Netizens were taken aback by Katlego's drink and her dedication to making it. Others were curious as to how it tasted.

marshall reacted:

"Skhokho water ."

Ghost said:

"You are extremely dedicated. I would've drank a glass of water and called it a day "

❤️. said:

"Just drink water or skhambelele."

Nonhle_Tavie replied:

"Okay, but does it taste like coffee? Or burnt skhokho water?."

Georgia said:

"Hai ivale mfana ."

Yongama Mtshali commented:

"Hhayi Ntombazane ❤️."

Lowkey wrote:

“Hai hai yini manje le."

Fat-burning tea has Mzansi babe sleeping next to the toilet

In another story, Briefly News reported that a woman shared the hilarious reality of what drinking fat-burning tea does to you. Sis was sleeping next to the toilet, and people were defeated by her honesty.

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Weight loss products are extremely popular, and fat-burning tea is one of the oldest forms that has never lost popularity.

TikTok user @mwizukanji3 got real with people on her page. Sis is using fat-burning tea to get in shape, and it has had her camping out by the loo.

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