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Tjappies - Fun Facts About Cape Town

• Cape Town has the greatest Gatsby which no one has read
• A vegetarian Gatsby is also known as a big chip roll
• Cape Town has the biggest copper mine according to the local scrap yard
• The most employed tooth fairies in the world usually collecting four teeth at a time
• Zee snoek ( sea snoek) named by Dutch colonists who arrived in the Cape in 1652
• The great Sierra/ Skyline debate were settled at ‘Indiana’ and ‘Pavi’ ( Strandfontein Pavilion) on a weekly basis in the late 80’s
• Cape Town has the biggest one-legged pantyhose sales annually
• Smokkie has nothing to do with meat or wood, derived from the word smokkel (smuggle) where one goes to get the adult beverages after hours
• Local shellfish ‘walks’ straight into your freezer without you knowing about it
• Everyone has abalone ashtrays from the ‘70’s’
• Everyone is ‘aware’ (awe) when they greet each other.
• You can actually see where the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean ‘touch cloth’
• Our sharks jump (breach) out of the ocean to greet you.
• You can spend a week in Cape Town one night
• Our weather is like a four season pizza in a day