A rooster around Qera slated for slaughter over the holidays looks on in a comical quandary. As starting prices for chickens and fowls quiver around 650 Br in the holiday season, some households have unsurprisingly changed up their holiday culinary preferences towards inflation-friendly choices. While Ethiopian Christmas celebrations are not particularly marked by huge funds for culinary delights, a spicy chicken stew often adorned the festivities. Even though the country serves as home to the largest livestock population in the continent and one of the ten biggest in the world, everything from beef to chicken remains amongst the most expensive of meals.
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