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Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by jacq(f): 6:49pm On May 30, 2006
For those of you Abroad: which Nigerian fruits and veggies do you miss very much ?
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by Rhodalyn(f): 6:49pm On May 30, 2006
none! smiley

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Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by my2cents(m): 9:10pm On May 30, 2006
Don't bring back memories o! My mouth don dey water LOL

[list]
[li]Agbalomo (aka star apple)[/li]
[li]Manpower (roasted dry maize - until someone brought for me last week, I hadn't had any since 1993!!) When I go, maize is usually out of season (note I call it maize and not corn, which is what many pple from my experience back in naija are calling it, like oyibo grin)[/li]
[li]Grade 1 mango[/li]
[li]Guava[/li]
[li]Periwinkle in the shell (that de-shelled stuff isn't the same)[/li]
[li]Pounded yam prepared in a mortar[/li]
[li]Grapefruit with husk so thick and sweet, u can eat it too grin[/li]
[/list]

I will stop for now. Most of these, sure, are in the states, but nothing beats that home flavor (dust, look, feel etc), sho gbo? smiley
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by bolex(m): 9:12pm On May 30, 2006
agbalumo

hey

the apple here is whack

I love ma pink naija apple

mango

tangalo
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by aloib(f): 4:16am On May 31, 2006
agbalumo
monkey blukus
tangalo
those small pink apples
roasted cor(mouth organ)
efo riri
ewedu
shoko
bitter leaf
dankwa
elekute
puffpuff
fried alaran
pumo
ugu
and so obn, lol
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by Badman888(m): 4:56am On May 31, 2006
mango
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by damygurl(f): 5:22am On May 31, 2006
Agbalumo. i luv it and i miss it so much.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by hotangel2(f): 6:14am On May 31, 2006
Biola, na wa for u oo. U don list everything now.

I miss guava too
And Fruit (u know fruit? That's the name ooo, the fruit no get name, na just fruit. We climb tree to plucck am).
Agbalumo for sure
Bitterleaf (i love the stew).
This hausa thing called goruva. (im sure i got the spelling wrong).
I miss[b] IGBA[/b]!!! I love igba stew, then u eat it with YAM. (Anyone tried that?) Igba stew and yam. kai.
Agbado (maize). lol


In fact i miss to many stuffs.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by aloib(f): 7:58am On May 31, 2006
hot a, yes now, that fruit, wen u finish eating the shege there, u now c4rack the seed, me too dey climb the tree o, kai, them naija days sha,
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by mamaput(f): 2:53pm On May 31, 2006
What of ube or peer its purple and you soak it in hot water or roast it but if you leave it too long it will bust out of the skin. you cannot buy it the whole year its seasonal.
Then Abatsch. that cassava salad.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by bolex(m): 11:48pm On May 31, 2006
cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry cry

someone please take me home


cry cry cry cry cry cry cry
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by jacq(f): 9:26pm On Jun 01, 2006
Which one be periwinkel ?
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by Badman888(m): 9:28pm On Jun 01, 2006
one kinda small stuff like this, forgotten how to describe it
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by mamaput(f): 9:29pm On Jun 01, 2006
even common yam with palm oil and pepper am missing it the palm oil here is so fake.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by dominobaby(f): 2:41pm On Jun 03, 2006
@mamaput, that cassava salad is called african salad or abatcha.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by mamaput(f): 2:49pm On Jun 03, 2006
i just love it . The one with oil not coconut?
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by dominobaby(f): 6:15pm On Jun 03, 2006
Yes. It is prepared with palm oil.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by shawna(f): 1:15am On Jun 19, 2006
agbalumo tongue  wink tonguei am sure if this is how its spelt LOL
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by ikamefa(f): 2:36am On Jun 19, 2006
bitter leaf
ugu leaves
guaver
palm kernels( u make palm oil from it)
white sorrel
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by soulpatrol(f): 3:26pm On Jul 26, 2006
for those of you that lived in the north, remember

tsamiya (was sour and sweet kinda)
goruva (had a big seed and you had to scrape off and eat the flesh) gave me major tooth ache!
kerosene mango (was gross but what the hell)
dakwa
this other fruit that was small and white on the outside and had black seeds. usually plucked it from trees
reke (sugarcane) is that a fruit?

there are so many others i forget the names!
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by dollypee1(f): 6:12pm On Jul 26, 2006
MISSED D NIGERIA TANGERINE AND TANGERLO SO MUCH,"ORO", DONT NO WHATS CALLED IN ENGLISH AND OF COURSE SUGAR CANE,D ONE THICK ONES 4RM D NOHRN PART
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by soulpatrol(f): 6:29pm On Jul 26, 2006
yes, the small white fruit while black seed inside was called "kuka" grin
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by Oracle(m): 7:00pm On Sep 24, 2006
Well' i love fruits a lot but the common ones are mango, orange, bananas, apples and pineapples

Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by akamihe(m): 5:08pm On Oct 09, 2006
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Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by lizzy(f): 7:46pm On Jan 04, 2007
hmnnn, lemme tryna rememba dem ooo.
1.agbalumo
2.tangalo
3. mango( d naija one cuz ova ere, dere mango and deir pineapples are wack!)
and dis thingy (i fink its ORO) sum'in lyk dat.
alot of dem sha
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by Multitask(m): 2:13pm On Jan 05, 2007
Haba, se una don forget cashew?
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by soulpatrol(f): 3:24pm On Jan 06, 2007
sorry to go off topic, but i miss kuli kuli and garri! grin
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by lolabaloo(f): 1:43pm On Feb 22, 2007
still in niger enjoying those fruits. we are now in the season of agbalumo, cashew and friuit[i mean d one with nut in it]. sorry u'r missing alot those of u over there.
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by lizzy(f): 12:01am On Mar 07, 2007
who miss "boli ati epa"?, gush, i miss d one dat woman makes at our junction bck in 9ja man!!!!
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by CrazyMan(m): 12:47am On Mar 07, 2007
Observing
Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by omoge(f): 2:05am On Mar 07, 2007
do you remember the Dinyan too? Greenish small like and turns very black when ripe. Common in the north. I love that fruit.
i love samiya and that KWARURU, lol

how abt the sour leaf that is used in Pete and the one other vegetable used in making ''hausa salad'' (boiled the vegetable, add yaji, sliced onion and eaten like that, oh i miss that hausa vegetable a lot, yummy.


soulpatrol:

for those of you that lived in the north, remember

tsamiya (was sour and sweet kind of)
goruva (had a big seed and you had to scrape off and eat the flesh) gave me major tooth ache!
kerosene mango (was gross but what the hell)
dakwa
this other fruit that was small and white on the outside and had black seeds. usually plucked it from trees
reke (sugarcane) is that a fruit?

there are so many others i forget the names!

Re: Nigerian Fruits And Veggies! by spoilt(f): 11:02pm On Mar 13, 2007
their fruits here are so chemicalized and fake. too many growth hormones. i miss udara (agbalumo), sherry mango,  sour sop, ugu , omigosh im salivating like a pavlov dog already.  tongue tongue tongue.

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