Meaning
A sweet Jamaican dessert of grated sweet potato or cornmeal blended with coconut, sugar, and spices, tied up in a banana leaf and boiled — also called duckunoo or tie-a-leaf. The parcel takes on a bluish tint from the leaf, giving it the playful name.
Examples
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Granny mek blue drawz wrap up inna banana leaf.
Granny made blue drawers wrapped in banana leaf.
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Di blue drawz sweet an spicy wid nutmeg.
The blue drawers are sweet and spicy with nutmeg.
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Wi call it blue drawz, some call it duckunoo.
We call it blue drawers, some call it duckunoo.
Origin
The banana-leaf parcel gives the pudding a bluish tinge, and its shape recalls a pair of drawers — hence the playful 'blue drawz'; also known by its African-derived name duckunoo (dukunu). See [[dukunu]].
How it’s used
A traditional boiled-in-leaf dessert; the name is playful. Same food as duckunoo / tie-a-leaf.