Meaning
A hard, crunchy sweet made from peanuts ('pinda') set in melted sugar or syrup, broken or cut into pieces. 'Pinda' is the African-derived Jamaican word for the peanut, and pinda cake is the local peanut brittle — a cheap, well-loved treat from the higgler's tray and the corner shop. The word 'pinda' itself, from Kongo, is one of the clearest African survivals in Jamaican food talk.
Examples
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Buy a pinda cake fi di journey.
Buy a peanut brittle for the journey.
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Di pinda cake hard, mind yuh teet.
The peanut brittle is hard, mind your teeth.
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Pinda cake full a peanut an sugar.
Peanut brittle is full of peanuts and sugar.
Origin
From 'pinda' (Kongo-derived word for peanut) + 'cake'; peanut brittle. See [[wangla]], [[cut-cake]].
How it’s used
Peanut brittle ('pinda' = peanut, African-derived). See [[wangla]], [[cut-cake]].