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What?? How could a spoon be filled with a meal? This doesn't make sense at all.
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I know it can, but that translation was not accepted, and "The spoon is filled with meal" was the suggested translation.
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Does this refer to a spoon that you eat with, or a measuring spoon? Or could it be either?
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It's not a big one. Kijiko is the diminutive form of the word mwiko, which is a large spoon used for cooking. Kijiko is for eating.
Hey guys, I think that I may have gotten it... You know how there's a Tablespoon, and a Teaspoon. And we usually use the Tablespoon for eating food, and the Teaspoon for the sugar that goes in our tea.
Well, perhaps here they were implying..."The spoon for food".
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Just like in English. You usually just say spoon, except for when you need to be precise. In cooking, for example, when you need to know for measurements; or if you got a teaspoon, but what you really needed was a tablespoon.
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In an Tanzanian context, "kijiko" means a spoon you use to eat with or to stir your tea with. I'm sure the most sensible correct translation for "kijiko cha chakula" is "(a/the) spoonful of food".
