devils in trinidad

{Sheena}

Now that we know a little more about Trinidad, I thought it’d be fitting to give a little rundown of Trini culture and life from an American perspective. This post: food, and in particular, fast food.

Some of the other group members have already talked about roti and doubles so I won’t go too much into that except to say that they are delicious, cheap, and undoubtedly terrible for you.
Roti: about $2-$3 US, a little (and by little I really mean huge) handheld pocket of savory goodness that can be filled with chicken or potatoes, and sold at almost every corner in busier neighborhoods during the a.m. hours.
Doubles: 50 CENTS, two little layers of fried dough topped with curried chickpeas, and also sold almost everywhere, usually in the morning.

Moving on…the key three of Trini fast food consists of three American staples: KFC, Pizza Hut, and Subway, with Burger King coming in as a respectable fourth contender. In any downtown area, you can definitely find one, if not all, of these fast food joints, and they’re usually much busier than their local counterparts. I’m not sure what it is since they all taste like they do in America (save the seafood salad at Subway, haven’t tried that one yet), but the Trinis seem to really love it and the numbers show; apparently, the KFC in Port of Spain has the highest traffic of any KFC in the world, and Trinidad in general has the highest density of KFC restaurants. The weirdest part about this is that McDonald’s attempted to establish themselves in Trinidad and failed, a rare example of fallibility in McDonald’s normally unchallenged level of success.