How did it turn out?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40JcOFmL3k

Happy couple

Make una stop this nonsense. There is nothing like cauliflower fufu. Why want to adulterated the name, fufu can never be replaced. It has this aroma that is distinctive.

Kingpin1000:
Make una stop this nonsense. There is nothing like cauliflower fufu. Why want to adulterated the name, fufu can never be replaced. It has this aroma that is distinctive.

Does it matter what the swallow meal is made of?
Can one tell the difference?
What should matter should be the soup right?
It’s not like the smell of the cassava fufu is pleasant sef.

Mariangeles:


Does it matter what the swallow meal is made of?
Can one tell the difference?
What should matter should be the soup right?
It’s not like the smell of the cassava fufu is pleasant sef.

Thank you. The person probably never watched the video

Flahyuq:
Happy couple

Thank you.

Kingpin1000:
Make una stop this nonsense. There is nothing like cauliflower fufu. Why want to adulterated the name, fufu can never be replaced. It has this aroma that is distinctive.

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Kingpin1000:
Make una stop this nonsense. There is nothing like cauliflower fufu. Why want to adulterated the name, fufu can never be replaced. It has this aroma that is distinctive.

Really, it's an issue when when a Nigerian meal is given a foreign name based on the foreign food it looks like the most. For example, calling akara bean cake. But it seems the reverse is the case here. Some cauliflower flour meal is given a Nigerian name (fufu) simply because it has a similar look and feel.

If this cauliflower meal is new and doesn't have a distinct name yet, I don't really have any issue with the name "cauliflower fufu". The truth is, naming food based on the country of origin or another food it looks like has always been the norm. Shortbread is not bread, head cheese is not cheese, there's no turkey in cape cod turkey, black pudding is pig's blood but called pudding cause it looks like it, etc. So cauliflower fufu and fufu can actually coexist, each with its own distinctive features.

The real problem is trying to change the well established name of your local food to sound more "mainstream" and thereby making the food to lose its identity. Moi moi is moi moi and not bean pudding. Lol.

WoundedLamb:


But it seems the reverse is the case here. Some cauliflower flour meal is given a Nigerian name (fufu) simply because it has a similar look and feel.

Thank you. It's made from cauliflower, made to look like fufu and eaten with fufu soup

PastorMIsBack:


Thank you. It's made from cauliflower, made to look like fufu and eaten with fufu soup

Cool. You've got a nice family! J’adore !

PastorMIsBack:


Thank you. The person probably never watched the video

Who was making the video? Your daughter?
She sounded sweet.
Your husband is dark and handsome too, with a pleasant smile.

WoundedLamb:


Cool. You've got a nice family! J’adore !

Thank you.

Mariangeles:


Who was making the video? Your daughter?
She sounded sweet.
Your husband is dark and handsome too, with a pleasant smile.

Prepubescent son Thank you.

PastorMIsBack:


Prepubescent son Thank you.

Oh! Ok. Sorry.

Tell him a fan from Nigeria said hi.

Mariangeles:


Oh! Ok. Sorry.

Tell him a fan from Nigeria said hi.

He said, 'Good Morning'

Kingpin1000:
Make una stop this nonsense. There is nothing like cauliflower fufu. Why want to adulterated the name, fufu can never be replaced. It has this aroma that is distinctive.

WoundedLamb:


Really, it's an issue when when a Nigerian meal is given a foreign name based on the foreign food it looks like the most. For example, calling akara bean cake. But it seems the reverse is the case here. Some cauliflower flour meal is given a Nigerian name (fufu) simply because it has a similar look and feel.

If this cauliflower meal is new and doesn't have a distinct name yet, I don't really have any issue with the name "cauliflower fufu". The truth is, naming food based on the country of origin or another food it looks like has always been the norm. Shortbread is not bread, head cheese is not cheese, there's no turkey in cape cod turkey, black pudding is pig's blood but called pudding cause it looks like it, etc. So cauliflower fufu and fufu can actually coexist, each with its own distinctive features.

The real problem is trying to change the well established name of your local food to sound more "mainstream" and thereby making the food to lose its identity. Moi moi is moi moi and not bean pudding. Lol.

Actually any starchy thing formed into a smooth thick consistency is called a fufu in Western circles.

LordReed:


Actually any starchy thing formed into a smooth thick consistency is called a fufu in Western circles.

Oh yes. We have plantain fufu, cocoyam fufu and now cauliflower fufu

LordReed:


Actually any starchy thing formed into a smooth thick consistency is called a fufu in Western circles.

I see.

But working with what the western world calls our food is not ideal. Thier nomenclature shouldn't even play a role when two locals are chatting about food names. I mean, I don't think we as Nigerians need to pull up articles written by the western world to define our food. They can call it whatever they want to call it, we know our food.

Isn't that more of a Ghanaian definition than Oyinbo one? They are the one that use fufu at the end of sins of their swallow.

LordReed:


Actually any starchy thing formed into a smooth thick consistency is called a fufu in Western circles.

WoundedLamb:


I see.

But working with what the western world calls our food is not ideal. Thier nomenclature shouldn't even play a role when two locals are chatting about food names. I mean, I don't think we as Nigerians need to pull up articles written by the western world to define our food. They can call it whatever they want to call it, we know our food.

It's we Africans in the West who eat Cauliflower fufu as an alternative. We tend to eat a lot of starch which starts telling on the body as we get older but we still prefer our foods, hence the mix and mash. We can even make fufu from aubergine or broccoli or some vegetables etc.

If you can come up with another name for Cauliflower fufu, I'd call it that

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WoundedLamb:


I see.

But working with what the western world calls our food is not ideal. Thier nomenclature shouldn't even play a role when two locals are chatting about food names. I mean, I don't think we as Nigerians need to pull up articles written by the western world to define our food. They can call it whatever they want to call it, we know our food.

But the OP is in a Western Society so one should see where she's coming from.

LordReed:


But the OP is in a Western Society so one should see where she's coming from.

But I never said I had any issue with OP's name, if you read my first post, you'd see I clearly explained to the first guy why the name isn't really an issue since new food names are usually borrowed from pre-existing ones.

I'm particularly referring to your post. I don't think calling up an article writing by a white man to support a discussion about African food names is ideal regardless of where one is. A French man wouldn't change his food name because he's in Africa. So if they get it wrong, we correct them; not the other way round. I am in the so-called western world myself, I've never really lived in Africa but I know it's up to us as Africans to define our stuff.

PastorMIsBack:


It's we Africans in the West who eat Cauliflower fufu as an alternative. We tend to eat a lot of starch which starts telling on the body as we get older but we still prefer our foods, hence the mix and mash. We can even make fufu from aubergine or broccoli or some vegetables etc.

If you can come up with another name for Cauliflower fufu, I'd call it that

Ps. Now, go and enter my giveaway. 4 hours left: https://www.nairaland.com/6974352/10-giveaway-most-liked-story

Your name is perfect, ma. And yes, I know we are the ones creating the alternatives cause I live in North America. I never had a problem with your name.

WoundedLamb:


But I never said I had any issue with OP's name, if you read my first post, you'd see I clearly explained to the first guy why the name isn't really an issue since new food names are usually borrowed from pre-existing ones.

I'm particularly referring to your post. I don't think calling up an article writing by a white man to support a discussion about African food names is ideal regardless of where one is. A French man wouldn't change his food name because he's in Africa. So if they get it wrong, we correct them; not the other way round. I am in the so-called western world myself, I've never really lived in Africa but I know it's up to us as Africans to define our stuff.

You misunderstand. I attached the article so that it is clear what I mean, it is not to insist that the Western perception is correct.

Sterope:
Isn't that more of a Ghanaian definition than Oyinbo one? They are the one that use fufu at the end of sins of their swallow.

Not sure about that but I normal hear Americans and the British call any swallow a fufu.

Yes because that is the same word I hear from other Africans when they refer to any kinda of swallow.

LordReed:


Not sure about that but I normal hear Americans and the British call any swallow a fufu.

WoundedLamb:


Your name is perfect, ma. And yes, I know we are the ones creating the alternatives cause I live in North America. I never had a problem with your name.

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This thread went off on a tangent

I just wanted y'all to see our cooking