I had first seen reference to this on a Disney movie called The Color Of Friendship, a drama dealing with an African-American congressman and his family taking in a caucasian South African girl—an exchange student—during Apartheid in the seventies.
The student, at the breakfast table one morning, rather assertively requests what she would like for breakfast—among the other, more familliar foods that were rattled off, something was requested that sounded like “brindle”. Now, I cannot find anything dealing with food when I search upon this word, so I’m sure I heard it wrong—it was a rather quickly-spoken passage. Might anyone help me with identifying what I refer to, and what exactly it is?
Maybe biltong (a dried meat, as far as I can understand)?
I remember the scene, and I remember thinking the item she asked for was some kind of bread. However, the only kind of South African bread I can remember the name of is something like “potbrod” and that doesn’t sound like “brindle”.
There’s also something that sounds like “boraywor” that is a kind of sausage - maybe that was it?
(ALL my knowledge of South African cuisine comes from brief phone calls from a friend in SA about three times a year, and her accent’s a bit difficult for me sometimes, so take anything I say about with a healthy dose of “she might not know what she’s talking about.”)
A South African colleage in the office has suggested vetkoek, a type of deep-fried bread that they often have at breakfast. Doesn’t sound much like brindle, though, I know.
I think the sausage is Boerewors (look at me, all South African cuisine expert because I went to a South African restaurant once, and can google! 
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Wait a minute—I was googling variations of “brindle” ,and I happened along—is brinjal (seems to be ‘eggplant’) a possibility? Is this served at breakfast there or elsewhere?
Brinjal is an Indian word for what we call an aubergine and you call an eggplant. I have never though (in SA or anywhere else) encountered it at breakfast time.
Makes a lovely curry though and there is certainly a substantial Indian population there.