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Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by blackjack21(m): 10:47pm On Feb 01, 2016
9jasinglegirl = werey 100000000% gringringrin
though this is fiction but it's not much a lie.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Galaxydon1(m): 10:01pm On Feb 16, 2016
Naijasinglegirl:
I was in traffic along Iyana Ipaja and I saw a pawpaw hawker offload his pawpaw, walked over to one side of the road, pulled down his zipper, brought out this wiwi and began scattering urine on the concrete.
He didn’t even care that it was daylight and people were passing. I was seated by the window and I could see his thing in full view. What infuriated me was the manner he held it as though he was potty training.

The urine had rolled towards his fingers and was dripping from his thumb. When he had relieved himself, he shook it a few times as tiny droplets splattered on his trousers before he picked up his tray of freshly peeled pawpaw from the road.
My microscopic eyes were still on him when our vehicle started to move as soon as the traffic gave way. Another vehicle maneuvered to where we once parked and an unsuspecting lady in the front seat called the hawker for pawpaw. I slowly turned away.

If you follow my Twitter or my Facebook page, you must have read the post I made on the dirty iya basira I met.
For those who didn’t read it, I went to buy food one early morning and beside where the food was, a woman was brushing her teeth vigorously and making those ‘crogggggg crogggg’ noise. That froggy noise of trying to gag mucus from the pit of the belly. I was so disgusted!
I took my food flask and ran as fast as my legs could carry me. The dirty woman was holding her brush in one hand with toothpaste foam that had formed moustache and beards, shouting.
“Sister! Come back na”
Because what she was doing was perfectly normal. After all, I was the hungry one that wanted N250 rice, not her.

I don’t even want to go into details of market women that will be selling ewedu in a stainless pot and beneath the table, their kids/toddlers are shitting ewedu on the floor. And they think its cute!!!
Because both colours match.

There is also an aboki next door that makes bread and egg every morning.
6:45am, you would see him putting one hand on the waist and using the other hand to scratch his penis like recharge card.
6:50am, he is beating an egg for an unsuspecting customer. You’ll ask for only salt and pepper in your fried egg but end up getting fried eggs with spices like a drop of sperm, dried urine and one or two strands pubic hair.
I wasn’t surprised when I heard someone purge for two days after having his bread and egg.
It’s now a crime to eat bread and egg outside. Common agege bread.

My brother has sworn never to buy sachet fanice yoghurt/ice-cream ever since he saw an aboki using the scissors to shave his beards under a mango tree.
Probably the same scissors he uses to trim armpit hair.
And he thinks it’s okay.
Unlike my brother, I don’t have the willpower to stop patronising them. Cos N100 fanice is my on-the-go-icecream, until coldstone Ice-Cream or sweet kiwi yoghurt is slashed to N200 per cup.
I am patiently waiting.

These are my most recent encounters with food vendors and road side hawkers. Eighty percent of the time, I eat out. (for personal & complicated reasons)
It’s not Eko Hotel Buffet, KFC, Chicken Republic or Sweet Sensation cos I don’t wash Eko Hotel toilet after eating. I cut my coat according to my size and go for the Iya Basira at your backyard and it’s frightening I would never know what goes on among these food vendors behind closed doors.

“Stir the jollof rice oh, add five teaspoon of thyme, add pepper, add one basin of well water, add the meat from yesterday’s gbegeri, add three cubes of white maggi, one cube of knor, oya add two spoons of lassa fever…”

Pause.

I spent a lot of money on medication from food poisoning in December. Twice.
Anyway, I can’t wait to make money so I can ‘manage’ KFC for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

http://www.naijasinglegirl.com/before-they-kill-me/
are you angela nwosu
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by maestroz: 10:01pm On Feb 16, 2016
Atk01:
Add two spoons of lassa fever! cheesy

Those mallams don't pee normally, they stoop down to pee. Some years ago my brother and I saw this one selling those nuts- I can't remember the name now- they push on wheelbarrow. After stooping on a gutter to do his business and using his hands to clean up, he still used those same hands to put fisi for an innocent, unsuspecting customer.

My mum has told me severally that if I watch the preparation of Kilishi with all the dirtiness of the mallams and the flies perching, I'd never eat it again.

no wonder you are still single. na only u dey see person wey dey hold konji and another dey scratch am. with the way you dey do street journalism. I pray make d thing no hungry you for street
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Onegai(f): 10:04pm On Feb 16, 2016
And just like that, I've been cured of my buying plantain chips in traffic craze.

ewwwwwww!!

I remember in uni, we all loved that ice cream that came in a pyramid pack. Only for people to say they saw the seller use the same scissors he used to cut it open to groom his armpit hairs.


Or the food vendors, that we were told rinse out used straws and give it to new customers. Till now I bend and destroy my straws after drinking.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Nobody: 10:06pm On Feb 16, 2016
I fvcking hate buying food outside even the so called Mr Biggs and tantis, no be human being dey prepare am undecided. I will kuku but fruits till I get strength to cook anything. Some peeps are just fvcking dirty undecided undecided
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by MyNose: 10:08pm On Feb 16, 2016
@Op Tiger nuts.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by sukkot: 10:15pm On Feb 16, 2016
Omotayor123:
Chai NSG... I am already feeling disgust by reading this.undecided I get irritated easily, that's why I don't eat other food other than the one from my pot cheesy

Although I eat food from certified eateries like S.s., Tantis and othersgrin ... May God help us.
arent you the same person who ate rat that fell inside gutter ? abi you think we have forgotten that your thread ? gerrarrahere with this lie angry

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Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by BUSHHUNTER: 10:19pm On Feb 16, 2016
They thre...all those shitty foods keep us going btw am healthy as rock



Msteew wetin consign agbero with overload
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by sukkot: 10:20pm On Feb 16, 2016
Chrisx1x:
When is this girl getting married self?
She will get married as soon as you show us one, just one, happily married person after 10 years of marriage. abi you think say marriage na amusement park ? angry
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Melsan: 10:27pm On Feb 16, 2016
Smartsyn:
Omg, why did I read this, I'll now always have this dirty thoughts whenever I eat out. But wetin man go do naa.


My thought be like" Egbon Smart, if you want to eat good food at home, go and marry"
cheesy cheesy
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by pato405(m): 10:36pm On Feb 16, 2016
sukkot:
She will get married as soon as you show us one, just one, happily married person after 10 years of marriage. abi you think say marriage na amusement park ? angry

true talk bro. not worth it innit?
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by sukkot: 10:38pm On Feb 16, 2016
pato405:


true talk bro. not worth it innit?
its worth it for less than 1 percent. just pray and hope you are that one percent. for ninety nine percent ? it is a nightmare and hell on earth grin
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by pato405(m): 10:39pm On Feb 16, 2016
sukkot:
its worth it for less than 1 percent. just pray and hope you are that one percent. for ninety nine percent ? it is a nightmare and hell on earth grin

feel u bro.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by thundafire: 10:40pm On Feb 16, 2016
so u turn FBI with food vendors lol
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by chibykem(m): 10:47pm On Feb 16, 2016
One thing must Kill a man!!!
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Abiagirl777(f): 10:48pm On Feb 16, 2016
my husband got cured of his addiction to suya the day he saw the malam slice his fingers mistakenly,blood trickled in with the onion he was slicing.he went on to package his bloodied suya for the person before my husband. naso my husband run.
that's one way HIV could be transmitted, the guy doesn't look at suya again
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by SilvanusII(m): 10:50pm On Feb 16, 2016
Na to dey sanitize, scrub and wash all these fruits o. Hian!!! The only thing I love to buy outside my home is pastries and ice cream. Those hot, freshly fried roadside puff-puff and crunchy buns are bae. Since the day one girl said she saw cockroach in a Mr Bigg's pie and the rotten beef in one pie I ate at that Iwo Rd tantalizers, I av decided to take it easy on meat pies. I will only buy them if they are an oven fresh batch.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Nobody: 10:50pm On Feb 16, 2016
How sure are you that the one of KFC or any of the high and mighty eatries ain't worse? They prepare their food where you can't even see them so they are liable to as much rubbish as they like. Even their sweat i hear drips inside d food
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Dexema(m): 10:54pm On Feb 16, 2016
Abiagirl777:
my husband got cured of his addiction to suya the day he saw the malam slice his fingers mistakenly,blood trickled in with the onion he was slicing.he went on to package his bloodied suya for the person before my husband. naso my husband run.
that's his Aids is spread, the guy doesn't look at suya again
don't worry I'm sure the suya was bought as props for vampire diaries grin
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by SilvanusII(m): 11:14pm On Feb 16, 2016
Abiagirl777:
my husband got cured of his addiction to suya the day he saw the malam slice his fingers mistakenly,blood trickled in with the onion he was slicing.he went on to package his bloodied suya for the person before my husband. naso my husband run.
that's his Aids is spread, the guy doesn't look at suya again

Ehen That's how AIDS is spread?? SMH Good grammar evidently is not a license to common sense.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Oyindaberry(f): 11:14pm On Feb 16, 2016
sad sad
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Nobody: 11:15pm On Feb 16, 2016
Always making sense...... Kudos! I don't really eat out sha
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by naijacentric(m): 11:31pm On Feb 16, 2016
Those are d ones u see wat about the high class eateries dat u dont get to see how their food is prepared all becos of packaging my people na God dey protect person
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Abiagirl777(f): 11:43pm On Feb 16, 2016
SilvanusII:


Ehen That's how AIDS is spread?? SMH Good grammar evidently is not a license to common sense.

At least you got my message Mr. perfect
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by SilvanusII(m): 12:05am On Feb 17, 2016
Abiagirl777:


At least you got my message Mr. perfect

No, I actually didn't. You and your ilk spread unnecessary fear with ur half baked knowledge about the disease. We are talking about unsanitary conditions and I don't recollect where HIV can be contracted by eating blood contaminated food. When no be Lassa or Ebola.
While nobody is asking u to go and be eating bloodied food upandan, HIV is NOT contracted through eating blood contaminated food.
Better to be quiet and look stu..pid than open your mouth to confirm your stup..idity

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Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by airsaylongcon: 12:29am On Feb 17, 2016
Onegai:
And just like that, I've been cured of my buying plantain chips in traffic craze.

ewwwwwww!!

I remember in uni, we all loved that ice cream that came in a pyramid pack. Only for people to say they saw the seller use the same scissors he used to cut it open to groom his armpit hairs.


Or the food vendors, that we were told rinse out used straws and give it to new customers. Till now I bend and destroy my straws after drinking.

I rip my straw apart with my teeth. Into small useless pieces
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Chicagoesontop: 1:00am On Feb 17, 2016
OP, but why you no dey cook for your house sef? you are proud telling us that a girl like you likes outing outside your house all the time, even to go and cook at your boyfriend's house you no fit .. Ok ooo if your religion permits and commends you to eat outside all the time then CONTINUE till you contact HIV through food vendors !! not only lasa fever.
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by DedeNkem: 1:07am On Feb 17, 2016
Why not f*ucking cook at home?! The food you cook at home is far more healthier and you can still cook cheap and healthy food!

You know how unhealthy the street food is, and yet you continued patronising them!

Stop complaining!!
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Niyinficient(m): 1:10am On Feb 17, 2016
Na only u and ur family dey see all d dirty dirty things dem? Nawa o.......u sure say ur star and dirty food n tins no go togeda like dis?
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by armyofone(m): 2:54am On Feb 17, 2016
grin lol

Abiagirl777:
my husband got cured of his addiction to suya the day he saw the malam slice his fingers mistakenly,blood trickled in with the onion he was slicing.he went on to package his bloodied suya for the person before my husband. naso my husband run.
that's one way HIV could be transmitted, the guy doesn't look at suya again
Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by Nobody: 3:10am On Feb 17, 2016
Atk01:
Some years ago my brother and I saw this one selling those nuts- I can't remember the name now- they push on wheelbarrow.

Its called Tiger Nuts or Aki Awusa in Igbo.

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Re: My Horrible Experiences With Food Sellers In Lagos by MztrChukwu(m): 4:39am On Feb 17, 2016
Naijasinglegirl:
I was in traffic along Iyana Ipaja and I saw a pawpaw hawker offload his pawpaw, walked over to one side of the road, pulled down his zipper, brought out this wiwi and began scattering urine on the concrete.
He didn’t even care that it was daylight and people were passing. I was seated by the window and I could see his thing in full view. What infuriated me was the manner he held it as though he was potty training.

The urine had rolled towards his fingers and was dripping from his thumb. When he had relieved himself, he shook it a few times as tiny droplets splattered on his trousers before he picked up his tray of freshly peeled pawpaw from the road.
My microscopic eyes were still on him when our vehicle started to move as soon as the traffic gave way. Another vehicle maneuvered to where we once parked and an unsuspecting lady in the front seat called the hawker for pawpaw. I slowly turned away.

If you follow my Twitter or my Facebook page, you must have read the post I made on the dirty iya basira I met.
For those who didn’t read it, I went to buy food one early morning and beside where the food was, a woman was brushing her teeth vigorously and making those ‘crogggggg crogggg’ noise. That froggy noise of trying to gag mucus from the pit of the belly. I was so disgusted!
I took my food flask and ran as fast as my legs could carry me. The dirty woman was holding her brush in one hand with toothpaste foam that had formed moustache and beards, shouting.
“Sister! Come back na”
Because what she was doing was perfectly normal. After all, I was the hungry one that wanted N250 rice, not her.

I don’t even want to go into details of market women that will be selling ewedu in a stainless pot and beneath the table, their kids/toddlers are shitting ewedu on the floor. And they think its cute!!!
Because both colours match.

There is also an aboki next door that makes bread and egg every morning.
6:45am, you would see him putting one hand on the waist and using the other hand to scratch his penis like recharge card.
6:50am, he is beating an egg for an unsuspecting customer. You’ll ask for only salt and pepper in your fried egg but end up getting fried eggs with spices like a drop of sperm, dried urine and one or two strands pubic hair.
I wasn’t surprised when I heard someone purge for two days after having his bread and egg.
It’s now a crime to eat bread and egg outside. Common agege bread.

My brother has sworn never to buy sachet fanice yoghurt/ice-cream ever since he saw an aboki using the scissors to shave his beards under a mango tree.
Probably the same scissors he uses to trim armpit hair.
And he thinks it’s okay.
Unlike my brother, I don’t have the willpower to stop patronising them. Cos N100 fanice is my on-the-go-icecream, until coldstone Ice-Cream or sweet kiwi yoghurt is slashed to N200 per cup.
I am patiently waiting.

These are my most recent encounters with food vendors and road side hawkers. Eighty percent of the time, I eat out. (for personal & complicated reasons)
It’s not Eko Hotel Buffet, KFC, Chicken Republic or Sweet Sensation cos I don’t wash Eko Hotel toilet after eating. I cut my coat according to my size and go for the Iya Basira at your backyard and it’s frightening I would never know what goes on among these food vendors behind closed doors.

“Stir the jollof rice oh, add five teaspoon of thyme, add pepper, add one basin of well water, add the meat from yesterday’s gbegeri, add three cubes of white maggi, one cube of knor, oya add two spoons of lassa fever…”

Pause.

I spent a lot of money on medication from food poisoning in December. Twice.
Anyway, I can’t wait to make money so I can ‘manage’ KFC for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

http://www.naijasinglegirl.com/before-they-kill-me/

It's quite easy to condemn the roadside food vendors and street hawkers for their unhygienic practices but let's not forget that even the major companies produce their packaged foods under the most hygienic conditions. We ever really know what goes on behind closed doors in the KFCs, Sweets sensations and Eko hotels you mentioned. I once bought a spoilt and rotten chicken pie from tantalizers in my area. When I returned to complain, the manager pleaded that I do not make noise of the experience to the extent of giving me an extra chicken pie as compensation.

Take a tour of our food processing factories and see how badly standards have fallen. How Lives are being endangered every passing day. I once walked into a bakery and saw one of the workers snoring heavily on a heap of bread meant to be sold to consumers. Even with that thought, I still find my 'agege' bread irresistable and irreplaceable. Truth is, we can't be too careful. Only God will save Nigerians

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