bagol for calamay is the most practical and environment-friendly packaging for calamay since its inception due to the ff considerations: 1. bagol is available being the waste material of sunob/tuno/gata being the primary component of making calamay; 2. there were no plastic packaging materials at that time; 3. extensive use of bagol in the kitchen, as substitute for jahong/soup bowl, glass for drinking 1 bowl of bahal that is called "hungot" and there is "luwag"/ladle made of bagol; 4. bagol's aesthetic design is the most logical container for a calamay so that it will not spill-over
nowadays, bagol for calamay is being sourced primarily in misamis oriental or caraga region because one time i saw sacks of bagol unloaded from a boat arriving from butuan. why? it's not the size of bagol which was surmised in a previous thread, simply because of supply. we don't have the volume of bagol in jagna or in its neighboring towns or simply bohol province. why? boholanos do not utilize the full economic potential of the coconut when making copra, we simply break the whole coconut with an axe (batakon then lugion) but in mindanao buntan ang lubi unya ganggangon sugnuran sa bunot ug ang bagol ulingon (sorry gamay ra akong bawon iningles).
that's it. hope this helps but it is better if you go there and conduct an interview as advised by the wise guys here.
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