To feel sleepy after eating is referred to in and around the Caribbean
as having "niggeritis", a direct allusion to the lazinessof Africans.
The dazed state of inactivity or sleep brought on by extensive over-eating, after the Trinidadian snake that devours small animals whole and lies in the same place for several days after, digesting; the politically correct or polite version is "Macajuel syndrome" of the more well-known but less socially acceptable "niggeritis"
An annoying disease u get after eating to much, stiting to long, smoking to much weed, or even drinking to much.
Symptoms are: Lazyness, Droussyness, and not wanting to work.
A term used back in the slave days.
A black man/woman would be beaten till bruised and bleeding or whipped till the skin breaks.
All because they at too much food and became a useless slave
Cletus- “ That damn boys got niggeritis, go give him some lashings!!”
George- “ Get over here you useless nigger!, Cletus done told me you got niggeritis!!!”