Bustamante backbone
English edit
Etymology edit
Named after Alexander Bustamante, Jamaican politician; the hard texture is supposed to symbolize his firmness of character.
Noun edit
Bustamante backbone (uncountable)
- (Jamaica) A hard confection made with grated coconut and ginger.
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
Refers to the resoluteness of Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante, Jamaica's first prime minister.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Bustamante backbone (plural Bustamante backbone dem, quantified Bustamante backbone)
- Bustamante backbone
- 1996, Honor Ford Smith, My Mother's Last Dance, page 80:
- Yuh see whentime you read it inna
Star seh stranger come in a district
And lickle more a pickney disappear?
Is Fallen Angel carry dem way
Fallen Angel love sweetie,
bulla cake or Bustamante backbone
and especially paradise plum.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2006, L. A. Augustin, Sound Awareness (in English), →ISBN, page 62:
- “The Bustamante Backbone was so very good, she remembered. They were a delicious jaw-breaking delight. The children called them "Busta". She could almost taste them, still. Verona wondered whether that particular candy was still being ... […] ”