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Re: BBQ Area
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 4:42 pm
by Dominic
Wow, that's got to count as the fact of the day.
Thank you WHL and Max, for that.
Re: BBQ Area
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:38 pm
by PaphosAL
The absence of smoke from the kleftiko oven also concealed the location of the bandits or freedom fighters cooking it, up in them thar hills...
Making it nigh on impossible for the Cypriot authorities and/or the British Army to pinpoint them. I never realized the lambs were actually stolen, though.. I'm guessing that during the EOKA period, local farmers were happy to see a few lambs go missing, in order to help feed the brave young men living rough, fighting to throw off the shackles of British rule.
Is HIDDEN a better translation of 'kleftiko' rather than STOLEN, I wonder?
AL
Re: BBQ Area
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:03 pm
by WHL
PaphosAL wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:38 pm
The absence of smoke from the kleftiko oven also concealed the location of the bandits or freedom fighters cooking it, up in them thar hills...
Making it nigh on impossible for the Cypriot authorities and/or the British Army to pinpoint them. I never realized the lambs were actually stolen, though.. I'm guessing that during the EOKA period, local farmers were happy to see a few lambs go missing, in order to help feed the brave young men living rough, fighting to throw off the shackles of British rule.
Is HIDDEN a better translation of 'kleftiko' rather than STOLEN, I wonder?
AL
My neighbor told me this went way back in time , when food was scarce, before the fiftys...Klefto means I steal..so I think Kleftiko means stolen
Re: BBQ Area
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:47 am
by Iris 2
Thanks HIC...really appreciated.
Regards
Darrell