Forget Osama! We found more Keebler Elves!

I know I said the other day I wouldn't talk about Qalat and all the desert stuff but when I downloaded the pictures I was reminded of the bakery at the provincial headquarters. SGM and I started wandering, as always and usually with the intent to procure items of interest, and came across a 10X20 room full of guys making dough and baking bread. I'd heard about it and reaped the benefit of the warm bread before but never seen it made. So, here we go........First, the guys on one side of the room throw dough to the other side of the room. That guy needs more flour into the dough and then flattens it out and pierces the dough with his fingers to make little slits in the dough.

Next, he throws it to the baker, kind of like a pizza kitchen. The baker, stretches and shapes the dough into about 8X20 inch slabs.
Then he moistens one side of the dough with salt water and then literally slaps it on the side of an underground oven.
The oven is heated by open wood fire.

It takes about 5 minutes for the bread to bake and then the baker slings the bread out of the oven with this fire poker looking thing. In one stroke he snatches it out and launches it about 8 feet across the room to the guy that cuts it into portions. Meanwhile, the little "kid" helper is walking all over the floor with his bare feet. YUM! The bread actually tastes very good despite the added "nutrition" from the feet walking all over the preparation floor. The bread tastes much like a thin, 1/4 inch pizza crust.
So, there you go.....something new and not about a desert trip.