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Here's what this long blue sign says:

What's in these women's baskets? Feeling hungry?

"How about horn yams, bananas, coconut sugar cakes, glassies (transparent peanut cakes), or twisted peppermint sticks. Yum! And you must try a comfit, made of transparent boiled sugar stuck on the midrib of a coconut leaf. Get some of the triangular ginger cakes or the flat slabs of pone, and don't go away without tasting those conkies wrapped in banana leaves and steamed."

Still have room?

"Go for the flat-corn biscuits or the coconut bread and cakes. By the basketful."

Is it really good to eat? What do you think?

"Women hawkers have been a fixture in Barbados since the 18th century."

And what's pouring from the container?

"Why, mauby, of course. A slightly bitter drink made from the bark of the tree of the same name (or colubrina elliptica if you prefer the Latin name). Drink a glass, you'll see it chases all ills."