Mandazi are fried dough, like fried up balls of flour, and they're cheap. They cost about 8 US cents each for your traditional African donut. John Defterios: As the price itself is inputs have gone up,. So basically like higher prices, but oil higher prices for flour, he's had to reduce the size of his beloved Mandazi. This is shrinkflation, consumer style, shrinkflation, Africa style.
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