The pot is a natural refrigerator. I grew up to see my grand peeps using it and ai naturally indulged. It keeps water cool all year long. There is this clayish flavour that comes with the drinking water after it has been heated with coal. The aroma is best known to those who know what am talking about Good old days...
Lest ai forget, the pot is also a very significant item that must be added to the bride-price of a woman by the man that marries her. It symbolizes unity and homeliness. If in case of a quarrel, the woman decides to leave her husband's house and she leaves the pot behind after packing her belongings, the husband will know its IGG she is doing meaning that she will eventually return to her husband but if she carries the pot along na seriuos gobe be dat o. It means the marriage has been terminated.
It is called ABANG-ITIE in my dialect.
Can I get a witness

Lagusta: Its only once i drank from that pot..... While i was doing my COBES in UNILORIN...

The water was always sweet, cold and refreshing!!!

lol. you ONCE drank from it. How do you know that it's ALWAYS sweet and cold. Liar.

I did drink from it and once i go to d villa i will still drink from it, it has dis unique and refreshing taste

bunmioguns: what do you call it in your native language?

Yoruba (Egba) call it Aamu (inside) or Ikoko (outside)



hope am correct?

That's our 4fathers refridgerator

Right from day one l was born till when l passed my secondary school,till l left 4 town..

Some people in Ajegunle are still using it since NEPA refused to change. LG fridge!

Where are the science guys, can they explain while that pot is a coolant?

Is it naturally safe to drink from the pot as to drinking from the fridge.

I did, in my country home.

Youngsage:
Pple who have drank from that definitely do not belong to the 'indomie generation'! lol

omo leave that 1 oooo, if we don't belong to the indomie generation, we are part of the PAKOish generation

Ahhhhh. I remember this. If you did not drink from this Pot then you must be an 80s child or a city pikin. ..
with this you dont need fridge...sooo cold n actually sweet water from this pot

jennykadry: My maternal grandma made me drink from that whenever I visited her in the village and shocking the water was always so cold and annoyingly refreshing.....ewwww. Mama loved her life in the village this woman was a so no nonsense kind, like her daughter my mother.

My paternal grandma lives in my fathers house in the village so she got used to civilization very quickly seeing that we spent more time there....so nope she served us bottled water this grandma is so sweet and kind like her son my father.

To survive that, your immune system must be strong. Just looking at that pot sends my spine coiling.

I drank from it when I visited my grandma in the village and it was always cool n refreshing.

joebases: Can't forget my days in my south eastern village where we call it ite

Udu!

i didnt drink water frm dat calabash.mayb my ancestors did.

There must be a science behind its cooling [& filtering] capacity.
It would be interesting to find out through continuous research that can lead to its modern adaptation.

Abang itie

still did this yr

I used it during my NYSC in Maiha lgea in Adamawa state. I never saw PHCN light. I resorted to this pot. I bet you, u'll enjoy the water from it. It's ok

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dats where i drink water from whenever i visit my mum. Its always cool, u'l always want more.

I always drank from this pot whenever i visited my grandmother

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oyesiju: my parent own is bigger than that one,anyways they are still using it,interestingly my dad buy it b4 he marry my mum about 40 years ago.

MY DAD BUY IT

360command: Where are the science guys, can they explain while that pot is a coolant?

Is it naturally safe to drink from the pot as to drinking from the fridge.

The pot is semi-porous. Minute amounts of water percolate through the pot and evaporate taking away heat of evaporation from the water left in the pot.
Happens continuously so the water left in the pot cools over time.
And besides, the pot is usually kept in a cool, shaded place.

DickDastardly: Whats that? Some fettish pot? I only take chilled boddle warrer

warrer indeed! Nor be well water u dey drink for house? Na people like u dey form say dem eat fried rice and salad, at the end of the day u go come dey vomit eba and waterleaf soup.
Back to topic i drank water from that ancient fridge;very chilled

Whats that please? you mean people drink water from that shiit?

jennykadry: My maternal grandma made me drink from that whenever I visited her in the village and shocking the water was always so cold and annoyingly refreshing.....ewwww. Mama loved her life in the village this woman was a so no nonsense kind, like her daughter my mother.

My paternal grandma lives in my fathers house in the village so she got used to civilization very quickly seeing that we spent more time there....so nope she served us bottled water this grandma is so sweet and kind like her son my father.

biography

No. I didn't enjoy the privilege.

Na Ancient deep freezer be this. Sure I have.

Kuku in Nkoro-kirika

I drank from it when I visited my grandma in the village and it was always cool n refreshing. .
it's called "ongu " in izon