Boniwhite:
Dear nairalanders,i was having a conversation with a family friend last week.
and she said,she doesn like visitors remaining food served to them. then i told her there is nothing wrong in finishing the food served to you by your host! So am seeking your opinion,
is it wrong to finish food serve to you by your host? Like wont they (your host)look at you as a glutton? Lets hear from you guys.

Boniwhite:
Dear nairalanders,i was having a conversation with a family friend last week.
and she said,she doesn like visitors remaining food served to them. then i told her there is nothing wrong in finishing the food served to you by your host! So am seeking your opinion,
is it wrong to finish food serve to you by your host? Like wont they (your host)look at you as a glutton? Lets hear from you guys.

pocohantas:
First, Nigerians heap food too much!!!!

You guys don’t know portion control!

You tell them you want a little and they still heap the food. Swallow be looking like olumo rock on a plate.

No smart cook heaps a sweet food for people. They give you small, watch you rush it and allow you to ask for more. Then they swing their waist to the kitchen to give you more.

That is how stars do.

Boniwhite:
Dear nairalanders,i was having a conversation with a family friend last week.
and she said,she doesn like visitors remaining food served to them. then i told her there is nothing wrong in finishing the food served to you by your host! So am seeking your opinion,
is it wrong to finish food serve to you by your host? Like wont they (your host)look at you as a glutton? Lets hear from you guys.

Richy4:

I guess that some visitors remain just a little food so that it won't look like they came to your house with empty stomach...

Also they were trying to avoid kids/ the little ones telling each other on how that uncle came and finished the entire food served and would have requested for more assuming he/she was asked to take another helping..

Kobojunkie:
Respect the food... how long it took for all components to grow and the cost to get it from the farm to the kitchen and then prepared and placed in front of you. Then consider the many out there who are starving while you are busy debating in your mind whether you should finish food placed in front of you.

When you do that, you will maybe better understand why it matters not what your host may think but instead that you waste not.

Probz:

Respect is fine but any waste will just end up going in the bin and it’s more disrespectful for someone who gave you food to have to bin leftovers than for you to just eat the thing well. Who the hell are you saving 8 grains of rice and half-eaten anu ewu with all your saliva on it for?

Kobojunkie:
I am even willing to unfriend such a one myself. It is not acceptable behavior for me.

TarOrfeeek:


You cannot serve me Ofe-Akwu with salted, well cooked foreign rice and goat meat; then expect something to remain.



Infact one time my grandmother had to slap sense into me.

When we went to the house of her "enemy" on Easter Sunday. The devilish woman offered me freshly cooked Ofe-Akwu and White Rice with Big Fish.

Imagine my Granny thinking I would say NO.


I just did small sign of the cross, then proceeded to demolish the food in such a way, that my granny was so bitter looking at me.

On the road back to our house, she remove her koi-koi shoe use am reset my brain.

But it was worth it.

Probz:
What isn’t acceptable?

Kobojunkie:
Leaving half- finished or unfinished food. I would rather a person asks for a doggy bag or something but not waste it.

pocohantas:
First, Nigerians heap food too much!!!!

You guys don’t know portion control!

You tell them you want a little and they still heap the food. Swallow be looking like olumo rock on a plate.

No smart cook heaps a sweet food for people. They give you small, watch you rush it and allow you to ask for more. Then they swing their waist to the kitchen to give you more.

That is how stars do.

Boniwhite:
Dear nairalanders,i was having a conversation with a family friend last week.
and she said,she doesn like visitors remaining food served to them. then i told her there is nothing wrong in finishing the food served to you by your host! So am seeking your opinion,
is it wrong to finish food serve to you by your host? Like wont they (your host)look at you as a glutton? Lets hear from you guys.

Sonnobax15:

It is very important not to finish the meal you're served as a visitor . E get why . No go fall your hand because of say you dey hungry . Hunger at it's best can still be controlled...... Leave small thing for your ancestors . No be wetin dem talk for your presence nai matter,but na wetin dem go talk after you clean the plate finish and comot nai matter .


So my fellow visitors, always use your brains.

theForth:


At least we both agree that it's women duty to cook.

Probz:


No. If you’re past the age of 17/20 and you can’t cook at least a handful of decent meals you’re not okay. Cooking shouldn’t always rest on the woman’s shoulders.

Trust50:
Chai...You are even saying worse than the woman told me, na waoh