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boerewors 

A spicy beef and pork sausage from South Africa, typically cooked at a braai (SA BBQ). Invented by the boeres (farmers) of South Africa, it can be dried into droe wors(similar to beef jerky) which can last for a long treks. Boerewors is typically served in a bun with ketchup like a hotdog.

Sometimes the name is also given to the beef jerky-like sticks/slices of dried beef.
I had a jol at the braai on Saturday, the boerewors was lank!
boerewors by Fuzzba11 July 29, 2008
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Boerewors Curtain 

The Jukskei River in Gauteng, South Africa.

The name is taken from boerewors (Traditional South Africa sausage used as a reference to the Afrikaans language) and the Iron Curtain (The border between communist East and Capitalist West during the Cold War)

This river lies between Pretoria(largely Afrikaans speaking) and Johannesburg (largely english speaking).

Boerewors Curtain refers to the river that lies between them, You are going behind it when you cross the Juksei river from Johannesburg and emerging from it, crossing from Pretoria.

The language barrier between the two cities.
We just crossed the Boerewors Curtain, *Nou kan ons weer afrikaans praat.

*Now we kan speak afrikaans again.
Boerewors Curtain by afridaan February 28, 2011

boerewors curtain 

The invisible line separating English-speaking South Africa from Afrikaans South Africa. It is generally accepted have KZN, Joburg and the Cape on the English side and the Freestate, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northwest and Pretoria on the Dutch side.

The name is taken from boerewors and the Iron Curtain (The border between communist East and Capitalist West during the Cold War)
There goes Koos. Now there's a Dutchman from well behind the Boerewors Curtain
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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