Bammy Bammy Bammy or bami is a traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread descended from the simple flatbread eaten by the Arawaks, Jamaica's original inhabitants. Today, it is produced in many rural communities and sold in stores and by street vendors in Jamaica and abroad. Bammies have been consumed since pre-Columbian times and is believed to have originated with the native Arawak people. For centuries, it was the bread staple for rural Jamaicans until the cheaper, imported wheat flour breads became popular in the post-World War II era. In the 1990s, the United Nations and the Jamaican government established a program to revive
Bublik generic designation for any ring-shaped product of this class. Widely believed that making bubliks first started in Smorgon (the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now in Belarus). The "beigl" (or bagel) spread through Poland across all areas with significant Jewish population, soon reaching Ukraine, where it was influenced by similar products and where it got its current form. These products are Russian "baranki", Greek "koulouri" (κουλούρι) or Turkish "simit". They form a dough ring about twice as big as a common bagel, usually with a denser and drier texture. Its name was also heavily russified to the current form —"bublik".