Have you ever eaten a spaghetti omelette sandwhich? If not, it is a must try. Cameroon has discovered that if you take last night's left over spaghetti, mix it with eggs, tomatoes, onions, peppers, a bit of piment (and a little bit of Maggi MSG Cube), cook it up into an omelette and fold it into some fresh baguette, you have yourself a masterpiece.
I'm not sure why I never thought of this before. I've eaten eggs with bread for years. I'd sometimes eat eggs with pasta even. But never did I think of mixing it all together. I like to imagine the first person in Cameroon who came up with this idea and what they were thinking as they bit into one of the finest sandwiches we can find in the world today. And no, that is not an overstatement.
Every time that I come to the big city of Ngaoundere to do my banking and big city shopping, I seek out the omelette man. He has an spaghetti omelette sandwich making cart that he rolls around the neigborhood - feeding hungry Cameroonians along the way. The problem is, he's kinda like the icecream truck. You never know where he is - you just have to hope that when you walk out of the Peace Corps house, looking for your morning meal, that you'll look both ways down the street and see his little cart rolling in your direction.
This trip to Ngaoundere, I had three morning meal opportunities to eat a spaghetti omelette sandwich. Every morning, I crossed my fingers as I headed out in search of the perfect breakfast. I looked both ways, I circled the neighborhood and I even considered jumping on a moto to speed up my search for the omelette man. But I was sadly defeated three times, and will return to village looking forward to my next chance at an omelette sandwich come July.
