annexes: u can try the thick dark bole, its quiet delicious

take my 'banana' till you go yo..

how many restaurants cook hygienic foods or cook under hygienic conditions? You are asking of roadside boli? come on.

Nairaland people can form.If una no dey chop bole,then I wonder who come dey buy everything.Una don ever enter any fast food joint kitchen before?

aaidel:

isn't bole a southern food what has the average northerner got to do with it

So plantain should not be roasted in the North because it is a southern food?

Hygienic my foot! I swear you're missing a lot of things if you're not eating those Boles.

@op, your write up isn't good enough for a guy like you. There is nothing like Bacterials, we have bacterium(singular) or Bacteria(plural). And other silly mistakes.

WackyJ1:
Why are you being sarcastic? Did my post not strike you as a serious question?
You must have read the 'Roadside' in the topic heading.. Mtcheww

Males that hiss ...... SMH! #OutOfOrder

Really, whats the worst that could happen? I think Jesus protects Africans from small small hygiene risks like this!

If you know you like eating Roadside Plantain: Bole click on the like button

BOLE r BOLI... Haha una matter tire me oo as if no b naija all of una go skool... Mtchew

kofsy: It's "boli" not "bole".

in Delta we call it ''Bole'' nt ''Boli''

the only bole I know is the bole international airport in Addis Ababa ....

Except there is an epidemic or the eater is seriously immuno-compromised, the bacterial or viral load from touching/eating boli is very unlikely to cause any harm.

You see, the bacteria that she would transfer to the food is already probably part of your own commensal flora, i.e harmless microbes in your mouth, nose, gut, skin etc. Staph aureus comes to mind.

However, it can be contagious if faecal-oral pathogens come in. Someone suffering from bacterial/viral enteritis or dysentery uses the toilet and doesn't wash hands with soap properly, dirty water etc, it can enter your food. E.coli and salmonella, cholera, typhoid are prime examples.

@OP, I hope you don't have OCD. Lol.

You guys just gave me what to bake this afternoon or evening, I'm not forgetting Palm oil and groundnut

We call it booli.

Until the ministry of health cares enough to register boli sellers and teach them how to be hygienic about it, some of us will continue to eat it like that!

The heat will kill them back u teria

I think risky burger is more dangerous. i.e bread and fried egg by mallams

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kevoh: Go ahead and eat the 'Bole', nothing wrong.Do you know that you need minute dose of bacteria sometimes to boost your immune system? It's the same way a vaccine works.
Not every time every thing has to be 100% clean. You need your immune system to be able to record these so called bacteria as bad, when in minute dose, so that you can have a strong defence when there's a major attack of the same bacteria to your body. It's like the american CIA gathering Intel to use for future purpose.
Oya medical personnels, make una help me out here.

Didn't know we still have some knowledgeable people on Nairaland, kudos

@OP You are missing a big time,,cuz Bole is my favourite food,,,Bole+Oil Beans+Roasted Oil Fish=DELICIOUSNALISM,,,lol,,dey there dy think hygiene

OP prolly keeps up with "1000 Ways To Die"; enough to induce this kinda paranoia.

Its really not hygienic...


Let me go get mine right now!

Na God dey save us

All ye Bole haters.. Na ona sabi ooo

Very nice & sumptuous

Ask Timaya, he should be in a better position to answer the question.

Op I tink u shuld take a break from urself and step out of ur comfort zone and try it out cos d same way it's being handled is d same way roasted corn is and be tru wif urself if it had any serz hygienic problems it wuld hv bin highlighted a long time ago........dn't u tink

Well, my aunt had her own concerns about the roadside roast plantain as well and decided to do something about it. She would peel the plantain, make 4 cuts along the length of the plantain and stick it in her micro-wave oven. She'd allow it 2 roast 4 7mins and VOILA!!! She has her boli. Which, I must confess, is almost as good as the roadside's.
But forget, na dat 'idoti' dey make am sweet well well.

chykmoni: @op, your write up isn't good enough for a guy like you. There is nothing like Bacterials, we have bacterium(singular) or Bacteria(plural). And other silly mistakes.

Yes sir. So, is the boli safe to eat?

So what do you eat, manna from heaven a.k.a angels food cos I thought all your co-workers will be dead from cholera. Didn't know they are alive to poison you.

OP! try the bole in portharcourt......dline area to be exact.....trust me d combination of fish and roasted plantains with sauce will send sensational signals to ur taste buds. u will 4get about bacteria nd germs

Bole(roasted plantain, yam n fish) is Port Harcourt food, and it's served hot wt a pepper source. We dnt eat it wt groundnut here in south. Talk abt d hygiene nature. It depends on seller, whr I usually go 4 mine, she doesn't handle wt her bare hands coz she receive money wt her hand n secondly it so hot to handle wen it's ready. Pls stop criticizing Bole