yoged: If you see Ijesha lady, make una give am iyan( pounded yam), coz if u no give am iyan ooo she go run away. .... We Ijesha are known for Pounded Yam.

Clairette:

It appears you've never had someone prepare it nicely for u. I'm from Akwa Ibom n I can pound it gud n serve u right.It's not an everyday/week/month food. We have a special soup to go with it. Yamayama ke?

sigmundfreud:
Tah!...u mean my steamy hot aromated white iyan is yamayama?!
U must be the lagosized ara oke.
Abeg..help me find beta soup make i chop.

lekzy01: Hahahahhaha, bro,,I catch u..u are an ijesha man..abi??

Yes oh . . . Ijesha to the core oh(That was why i started to follow you, cos you be my brother from a good place), but wont eat that stuff, gimme some nice Eba with Ogbona . . . . Then, i can top it with palm wine

slimyem: ^ijesha ni ere!!

Fhemmmy:

Yes oh . . . Ijesha to the core oh(That was why i started to follow you, cos you be my brother from a good place), but wont eat that stuff, gimme some nice Eba with Ogbona . . . . Then, i can top it with palm wine

lekzy01:

That's awesome bro..just don't forget home o...ule ni ule eni o, home sweet home..peace be unto you, besides which part of ijesha do u belong to? I'm originated from Ilesha

Fhemmmy:

Ilesha/Ijebu - Jesha

lekzy01:

Still the same..opa kan, ijesha kan.. Iyaraagbe..obokun agbe o, ogedengbe a gbe o..peace be unto u.

Fhemmmy:

I just think if you wanna eat, go ahead, and if na water you feel like drinking, knock yourself out, how do you mix water and yam and then call it Pounded Yam . . . Yawkkkk

nl.official:


What are you saying? Have you been to Stella's kitchen before? In Computer village. All this your ranting of yamayama will just die.

nagoma:

I think Sokoto has one of the widest selection of foods and snacks in the country. Where are you in sokoto? In the prison ?

lekzy01:

Wow,, which part of ijesha do u belong to?...am originated from ilesha..ULESHA

rhymz: I am in Sabon Birnin, it is worse than a prison. If you claim that Sokoto has the highest selection of food and snacks then the other northern states are worst off. There is hardly any good food here both local or mainstream cuisines. I am yet to bring myself to taste any of the food here besides the ones I prepare. Thank God there are Igbo and Yoruba people here that bring food item from the south not planted in the north, I wonder how one would have survived on the awful food they eat here. Did I tell that the people are so very dirty? Geeez, these guys eat flies infested food, dont cover the food items they sell and drink Fura from thesame bowl they use in preparing it. Abeg, I would rather be in a prison walahi!

nagoma:

That can be arranged (the prison), if it will make you feel better. But what are those southerners you mentioned doing in such an environment if they are any better?

rhymz: Business and making the place livable for human beings that might be dragged there by work or some other important stuff. You think anyone with their clear eyes will want to live in Sokoto? Anyway, don't let us derail the thread, Sokoto is a facking boring place to live with very boring people that are obsessed with religious rights and rituals than to better their own lives. It is like the basis of their being, they are so facking docile to their own detriment. 80% of them are illiterate, they lack ambition and drive to succeed. I have never seen a people so at ease with poverty and lack in my life. Their politicians are even more corrupt, they exploit their "docile and foolish religious piety". Abeg don't get me started.

Fhemmmy:

I will wait till i see it, and be back here to say what i think, however, dont know when that will be.
But here is my question:
Do they still pound it in a mortar?
Do they still mix yam and water together in that mortar?
As long as they do, then, it is still yamayama

nagoma:

Obviously an issue of different values. You are applying your own definition of success to different culture. You said religion " is like the basis of their being " but if you ask them they will tell you - it is the basis of their lives. All the material pocessions you classify as success are secondary to them. You will be surprised that lots of them are happier and more contented than you. Happiness is a fundamental craving in life and you know very well that doesn't mean ownership of wealth even in the materialistic greed driven societies we take as yardsticks. Please don't let this cultural shock affect your life. My advise to you is - try by all means to travel around the world and meet a variety of people and cultures , that will educate you.

rhymz: well, I understand all that moral sermon but that does not negate the fact that there is rife unwanted poverty amongst. Don't delude yourself assuming they are contented in such a deplorable state. That is the excuse that their politicians have continued to use to keep them in bondage. How is not being able to provide for yourself and family a contented way of life in any culture? As much as I acknowledge the cultural difference, it still does not negate the facts that most of the poverty is self inflicted. A people that have little regards for education, marry many wives even when they don't have the financial wherewithal to cater for them, a culture that supports the bearing of uncountable childrien with no serious plans for them is retrogressive and should not be encouraged. Do you know how much suffferings will be reduced if those underaged girls they marry off to old Hot hausa men were allowed to go to school and get better education.
This goes beyond cultural shock and I am not claiming that there is no poverty down south, my contention is that a larger part of the poverty pattern in the north is self-inflicted occassioned by daft religiuos and retrogressive cultural practices that should be phased out in any society that wishes to progress and develope.
I have been to places outside of Nigeria, Northern Nigeria especially the far North is one of the worst places with high incidences of avoidable poverty.
May be it is you that needs to broaden your horizon and realize that people have gone past the stage of indiscrimate bearing of childrien and underage marriage and retrogressive polygamy in the face of poverty.
My problem with educated northerners like yourself is that you do nothing to better the system, instead you exploit them and when queried you resort to this sort of response that seem to suggest that they relish in their lack and want.

rhymz: @Nagoma
Obviously, I am on your last nerve and yeah, I am not apologetic. In fact, if it will take harsh repremand and the truth to make your likes stand up to the ugly facts and do something, so be it!
Like I said before, I am not taking the position that the south is eldorada or having it way better niether is this a contest of "who better pass".
However, the difference is very clear in all cadres of developments between the North and the South and it is worrying. Especially if one considers the fact that the North is a part of Nigeria, whatever affects this part of Nigeria will surely find its way to haunt parts that have taken the initiative to move.
I am more concerned about the dizzying level of poverty in the north than the hurting of your ego and pride because most of it are self-inflicted and to some extent avoidable.
I accused you of not doing anything because your earlier statement or attempt to defend the status quo seemed to suggest that these people are contented with being poor, a wrong impression many Northerners give when confronted with the truth.
You can't tell Me that Amina does not wish to go to school and get some good education. Apparently, she never bargained to be forced into marriage (being exposed to sex and child birth) at the tender age of 14 and 15 years.
Encouraging a young Aliyu that is poor to marry more than one wife with countless childrien he has no plans for is not a culture to be encouraged. I am not against polygamy but it should be practised by a person that is financially capable to do so.
A religion that does not promote self-reliance and skills aquisitions through education, instead relies heavily on abstract religious promises to cater for the harsh realities of life is not a religion or culture to be supported.
A religion that seeks to bar everyone from talking about the problems and does nothing to address it is useless to the adherents.
The difference between those girls that prostitute in Italy and those boys that courier drugs abroad from the south is that they have a choice, the decision to do so is theirs. No culture or religion forced them into doing such, thesame can not be said for those almajiri childrien that roam about en mass in Shinkafi, Gusau, Sabon-Birnin bus-stops and co begging for what to eat yet their parents are in far away having sex with little girls and bringing more childrien to replace them.
The north is in denial of its problems that is why they can't seem to make any serious headway, it is all politics to them even though they are the worst hit in the scheme of things. To think that they have ruled and basterdized leadership process in this country makes me shudder.
You should be honest enough to admit your failings, instead of letting your arrogance to impair your sense of justice and fairness, who knows, you could have been one of these childrien that have been caught up by the balls and chains fetters of retrogressive and inhibitive culture and religion.

freshcvv:

When you eat yam, don't you drink water?
the poundo you're talking about as being your best, don't they use water and yam to do it?

what's the main difference between locally processed pounded yam and mechanically processed poundo yam?

The difference is that i dont see the water being mixed into the poundo yam and the condition where it was made and processed, i dont see it, but when you see some people pouding and sweating and the people using hands to check if smooth or not, you will run.

And yes, i drink water after eating yam, but i dont mix them in my mouth . . .

mobf: Banga soup with starch.must be fish head. Kai kai to wash it down