Why I sell Suka (Vinegar)

Before I tell you the reason, let me tell you that "suka" in Malaysia means "love" and in Indonesia "like". Meaning you gotta love or like suka especially the one I sell. :-) I learned about suka or suka was introduced to me when I was about 7 years old, like a hundred years ago. My late grandmother used to make her own spicy kitchen vinegar. The vinegar or "tuba" was harvested from my grandfather's piece of land with houses built by renters of the land and coconut trees were like neighbors to the place. A manunuba or manananggot (a person who climbs the coconut tree to get the coconut sap's juice) tagging along a container made of bamboo will then climb the coconut tree to gather the coconut sap's juice (tuba) daily.

One evening my grandmother ask me to help her peel off some garlic skin and later place the peeled garlic inside a bottle of suka. This I would say was the start of my affiliation to suka even though I only helped my grandmother once as far as I can perceive.

Native suka makes food tastier and giving it a special kick that awakens the mouth to salivate. Suka has a lot of perfect fit. Native suka is believed to be healthier than apple cider vinegar and cheaper too.

I sell suka not just to increase my purchasing power. I sell suka not just because I want to make use of what facebook is really all about from the start. I sell suka not just to make my room's aroma mix and hide the truth of how I really smell. Lol. Really sometimes, when I enter my room, I ask myself is this the smell of my sweat? Or just the suka I sell? Lol again. I sell suka not just because my facebook friends like it. I sell suka not just because it is undoubtedly pure.

I sell suka because of our mother, the place we live, the Earth. I sell suka because I am passionate about repurposing. I have a lot of other plans in my head to repurpose. And selling suka is one of those that came to be a reality once more. Suka is sourer the 2nd time around because 5 years ago I was selling suka but my supplier tricked me. So I stopped selling because I could no longer find an authentic source of native suka. Now I'm back! Cos I have moved on from my painful past (lol) and finally found someone who supplies pure and fresh harvest of tuba in Balamban. Repurposing is the main reason why I sell suka because it is my simple little act of caring for the environment and finding purpose of the things thrown away after being used (hugot pa more!). A lot of bottles and brown paper bags end up in the trash that eventually transformed into mountains of which climbers are not interested to trek.

I like to sell suka and I love what I am doing. I buy bottles too, by the way. :-)

Detour: Ikaw, anong hugot mo sa buhay?