“we had it on a cake. Keik. Or more properly, in that relaxed, African Spanish of Cuba, kei. That’s what we called them, keikes, or keiis, in the plural. Not tortas or pasteles, the proper Spanish names. Never, ever, ever did we call a cake a bollo, as in other Spanish-speaking countries. In Cuba bollo had somehow evolved into the swear word for a woman’s”
― Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
― Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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