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| Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by chizgold80: 10:20pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
Last night, I honored a dinner invitation by a Nigerian family friend. On the table was a big bowl of pounded yam and a big bowl of egusi soup. After meal prayer was said by the daddy of the house, everybody but Kobe, their 12—year old son, proceeded to get a cut of the pounded yam and some scoops of egusi soup into their plates. Kobe did not go for the pounded yam; he went straight for the egusi soup; scooped quite a quantity into his bowl; and proceeded to drink and leak it with a spoon. It was then that this exchange ensued: Me: Hey, buddy, you are wasting the soup... Kobe: How? What do you mean? Me: You are drinking the soup without eating the pounded yam... Kobe: How is that a waste? What am I wasting, the soup or the garri? (he calls everything garri) Me: (already feeling boxed in) The soup Kobe: But I'm drinking it, how can that be wasting it? Me: Sorry, the garri... Kobe: How can I waste it when I don't eat it? If I don't eat it, doesn't that mean that I save enough for the rest of you to eat? Me: (not sure if it was me or the air was no longer working) Kobe, you eat the garri with the soup... Kobe: Why, Uncle? If egusi is a soup, as you say it is, then it does not have to be taken with anything. You drink it like you drink other soups...like chicken noodle soup, Chinese rice soup, creamy tortilla, carrot soup, broccoli and potato soup, gumbo soup.... Me: Will you stop listing soups, you are not a chef! (his smartness was becoming irritating) Kobe: Sorry, Uncle, but I'm just saying... What you are saying will make sense only if egusi were a sauce. You use a sauce to eat something else. Do you think egusi is a soup or a sauce, Uncle? Me: (eager to end the intellectual assault by a 12—year old) I think egusi is a sauce, not a soup... Kobe: So why do Nigerians call it a soup? Me: Kobe, will you stop bothering me! Pass me the... http://ikengachronicles.com/is-egusi-a-soup-or-a-sauce-how-i-lost-an-argument-to-a-12-year-old-vitus-ozoke/ 4 Likes
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| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by beetown(m): 10:21pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
nice write up.... maybe my children will call it sauce but as for me egusi soup sounds better...  #FTC |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by slash112: 10:25pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
lol |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by Cutehector(m): 10:25pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
Lol see as Kobe just finish ur life .... 1 Like |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by Elfree: 10:34pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
Lolzz!!!smart child..We Africans hate smart kids and yet complain when we have/meet dull kids 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by tempem: 10:46pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
Waoh.. Holidays are a good thing. Been long I came in. Back to the OP, my warm regards to kobe.. |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by giftedheart1(m): 11:02pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
is that the picture of the egusi? how on earth will u also call that a soup? that egusi has 7 lives 1 Like |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by Rubyventures: 11:12am On Mar 08, 2017 |
Technically it is a sauce, but you know Nigerians cant really tell the difference between a stew, sauce and soup, they are all the same.  |
| Re: Is Egusi A Soup Or A Sauce?: How I Lost An Argument To A 12-year Old by Nobody: 10:17pm On Mar 11, 2017 |
Lol...........d kid is very smart. I pray 2 av a very smart kid. Amen |
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