Matoke AAA-EA), are known in the Bantu languages of Uganda as "matoke". Cooking bananas have long been and still are a common staple crop around the Lake Victoria area of Uganda, and in the West and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania. "Matoke" are peeled using a knife, wrapped in the plant's leaves (or plastic bags), and set in a cooking pot (Swahili: sufuria) atop the banana stalks. The pot is then placed on a charcoal or wood fire and the "matoke" is steamed for a couple of hours, water is poured into the bottom of the cooking pot multiple times. The stalks
Crop circle area, but they were never photographed. There are other pre-1970s reports of circular formations, especially in Australia and Canada, but they were always simple circles, which could have been caused by whirlwinds. In "Fortean Times" David Wood reported that in 1940 he had already made crop circles near Gloucestershire using ropes. In 1997, the "Oxford English Dictionary" recorded the earliest usage of the term "crop circles" in a 1988 issue of "Journal of Meteorology", referring to a BBC film. The coining of the term "crop circle" is attributed to Colin Andrews in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The majority