The Ugandan town selling rolex for 40p

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Nasaka making Rolex

In the shade of a tree, on the Uhuru Road out of Tororo town, Nasaka is selling Rolexes for 2000 Ugandan Shillings, or about 40p.

But we're not talking knockoff watches.

A Rolex is Uganda's most popular street food and we stop off to find out how they're made and how they got their name.

Like most of the people we've been talking to this week, Nasaka is pretty relaxed about having a microphone thrust at her.

But she has trouble with the concept of explaining what she's up to.

"Please explain what you're doing so people on the radio can understand," we keep asking.

"I'm making rolex," she replies, as if we're naughty children.

In front of her on her makeshift wooden stall are balls of dough, neatly lined up in rows.

Beside them, a few plastic cups, an onion, some oil and a bag of salt.

On a shelf underneath, a box of eggs. And beside her, a smoking hot, blackened brazier with a wide, flat top.

So - how do you make a rolex?

First the dough is flattened and fried on the hot plate to make a chapatti.

While that's cooking, Nasaka breaks two eggs into one of her cups.

She deftly slices in some onion and uses the tip of her knife to add salt before whisking the eggs together.

Once the chapatti is hot, it comes off the brazier. Oil is sloshed on, then the eggs with a huge sizzle.

The temperature's in the high thirties this afternoon, and a few curious passers-by exchange jokes with her as the eggs fry up.

Once they've been flipped and cooked - the chapatti goes back on top. Then the whole thing is rolled into a long tube. Rolled eggs. Rolex.

It's not the most elegant snack you've ever had, but after a long day in the sun it's delicious - a big hit of carbs and protein for hard-working people.

We buy one each for our driver and security guard, Moses and Joseph, and try and explain that Rolex means something different in the UK: "it's a watch - a really, really expensive watch."

They shake their heads and smile, enjoying learning about another country just as much as we do, peering over our shoulders at our phones and the photos we're being sent of the snowy streets back home.

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