KOTAS come in different variations. There’s the grilled chicken, shwarma, or boerie kota.
Then, there’s the kota with added bacon and the full house kota with steak.
Now, brace yourself for the Vaccinated Kota, which has a syringe for the sauce!
Two friends from Ga-Rankuwa, Lethabo Sebapo (23) and Bokamoso Mosweu (24), have got people talking over their kotas inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic.
They said they saw a gap in the kota industry and began a kota eatery, The EaterHub’ last month.
Lethabo said they decided to do kotas that will make people talk and used the pandemic as the theme.
“We knew that if our kotas circle around the virus and the vaccination, people would want to experience our food,” he said.
He said the most bought kota is the Vaccinated Kota.
“We use toasted bread, chips, jalapenos, peppers, patties and eggs. The cherry on top will be the sauce which we put inside a syringe then we put it on top of the bread which the customer will inject inside the bread,” he said.
Lethabo said they bought them in large quantities and every customer gets their own.
“We would not risk reusing it with the lives of our customers at stake,” he said.
Bokamoso said they get new clients daily.
He said even people who are not staying around their kasi come to taste their kotas.
“It’s like we are creating magic and our creativity is paying off,” he said.
Customer, Paballo Mojake, said: “They used something that we have all been suffering about and capitalised on it,” she said.
On Facebook, Boipelo Pelo Ntoane said: “I just hope those syringes are sterile and are not being reused.”
Koketso Hope Motau said: “You can only find that in Pretoria. They’d even call it medical sphatlho or vaccine sphatlho.”
Olebogeng Moatshe said: “Please tell me. This isn’t called the Johnson&Johnson kota, is it?”
