This article examines changing attitudes to afternoon and evening meals during the Zimbabwean crisis between 1997 and 2020. It uses household food economics in Harare’s high-density suburbs as an entry point into the historiography of the Zimbabwean crisis. By focusing on the management of household economics, the article analyses the affordability, typologies and naming of some meals or relishes that were eaten during the crisis period. It examines the vernacular concepts of tsaona meals that came to dominate afternoon and evening meals. It further analyses the ZANU(PF) government’s authoritarian vegetarianism – in which it took a pseudo-decolonial stance as it attempted to re-teach Zimbabwean palates and bowels to consume traditional small grains and vegetables in the context of food shortages and the crisis. Overall, the article provides a sensorial history of meals in Harare’s high-density suburbs during the Zimbabwean crisis.

本文考察了 1997 年至 2020 年津巴布韦危机期间人们对下午和晚餐态度的变化。它使用哈拉雷高密度郊区的家庭食品经济学作为津巴布韦危机史学的切入点。通过关注家庭经济的管理，本文分析了在危机期间食用的一些食物或菜肴的负担能力、类型和命名。它检查了tsaona的白话概念主宰下午和晚餐的饭菜。它进一步分析了 ZANU(PF) 政府的专制素食主义——它采取了一种伪去殖民主义的立场，试图在食物短缺和危机的背景下重新教导津巴布韦人的味觉和肠胃来食用传统的小谷物和蔬菜。总的来说，这篇文章提供了津巴布韦危机期间哈拉雷高密度郊区的用餐感官历史。