kellytuns:
Egusi soup is never yoruba

What then is the meaning of "egunsi"? Egusi as far as we know is a Yoruba word with a meaning.

I am beginning to think that the Yoruba foods you guys enjoy are probably those you try to dissociate with Yoruba. Egusi, Akara, Moimoi etc.

I still prefer South East/ south south foods. They are the best.

They look good but taste somehow.

All looks like sacrifice

ariesbull:
Akara
Moi Moi aren't Yoruba foods

Same Akara that's called a Yoruba food in Brazil.

SpatialKing:
All looks like sacrifice

Because there is not human fl×sh in it bah.

Tranquillity360:
I can't eat yoruba food.




No offense intended

KO ni da fu e.

Tranquillity360:
I can't eat yoruba food.




No offense intended

Why?

Exceed15:
I still prefer South East/ south south foods. They are the best.

Because you are from there

Ila alasepo

brainhgeek:


Sapala is not cooked dried maize and coconut. That is owowo.
Sapala is a type of vegetable soup from the flowers or a shrub

I think, what you are referring to is called Isapa which is totally different from Sapala.
There is another 🌽 meal, made from dehusked and broken corns, cooked and eaten like rice.

Dilijingsly:
Keep trying to upload the images

please add graphic next time to such pics

ElSudani:


What then is the meaning of "egunsi"? Egusi as far as we know is a Yoruba word with a meaning.

You dey mind those people. They are about to start their cultural misappropriation.

Paramount01:



Why?

You dey ask tribalist why 😂

Raskimonojendor:

You dey mind those people. They are about to start their cultural misappropriation.

So brazen and so ridiculous.

Paramount01:




Because you are from there

Not surprisingly not even close to it. I was born and bred in Lagos.

Sheggy13:


Learn to be respectful to people. If you don't have anything good to say, it's more dignifying to stay away from the thread.

They are tribalists from the east of the Niger.

ariesbull:
Akara
Moi Moi aren't Yoruba foods

It is called Akaraje, in Bahia. Guess where they got it from.

koning:
I did not see that "Green Algae" Hydraulic soup in the pictures.

Outside Moi Moi and Akara which i don't consider typical Yoruba foods, i have NOT eaten any Yoruba cuisine.

Yoruba don't have food except Amala.

wow oooh Oil soup....

Op, do you know Olu soup(mushroom)

alanto:
This is to bring Yoruba foods to the world, I have made a list of foods I know to be indigenous to the Yoruba, you are free to add yours.

1 Iyan Isu (Pounded Yam)
2 Iyan Gbere (Pounded African Bread Fruit)
3 Iyan Koko (Pounded Cocoyam)
4 Ebiripo (Grated Cocoyam)
5 Ifokore/Ikokore (Grated Water yam)
6 Ekuru (more like moi moi without the ingredients, to be eaten with fried stew)
7 Akara
8 Moi moi
9 Amala dudu (processed yam flour)
10 Amala funfun (processed Cassava)
11 Mon nu (like moi moi can't remember the main ingredient, ate it as a kid in the village)
12 Sapala (Cooked Dried Maze eaten with coconut)

Soups
Eforiro
Egusi Ijebu
Egusi elefo
Gbegiri
Omi Obe
Ata didin

Varieties of Vegetables indigenous to Yorubas.
Elegede
Odu
Tete
Soko
Igbo
Worowo
Ewuro
Ila
Ewedu
Gbure
Amunutu

I understand that different Yoruba villages have their varieties of foods, fruits and vegetables so you are free to add yours.

Picture 1 (Iyan)
Picture 2 (Ebiripo)
Picture 3 (Amala Isu AKA "Amala dudu" meaning black Amala.
Picture 4 (Amala Lafun, AKA "Amala fufun" meaning white Amala

ElSudani:


Moimoi and akara are not typical Yoruba foods? Really?
Brazen lies and misrepresentations.

Many of them got their parents lying to them out of hate. I read some comments and smile. Don't mind them.
Many Yoruba foods were adopted by their ancestors and they failed to tell the kids the truth.

kellytuns:
Egusi soup is never yoruba

So you think the word Egusi is Igbo or Hausa.

This reminds me of my first trip to the south west during NYSC.

My PPA came to pick me up from the secretariat straight for lunch.

Innocent an inexperienced me ordered Rice, which was served with a strange looking stew.

Long story short, I couldn't resume work for 2 straight weeks. I got dehydrated from frequent stooling and had to undergo treatment because I lost so much weight.


True Life Story.

Soknown:

I think, what you are referring to is called Isapa which is totally different from Sapala.
There is another 🌽 meal, made from dehusked and broken corns, cooked and eaten like rice.

Yes! Isapa is the vegetable soup made from the flower of the shrub.
Shapala is the pudding made from dried, powdered corn cooked with condiments.
Thanks!

Yes, those are Yoruba food but who 'invented' what is what may be open to debate.
Those food types are common among Yoruba descendants in Brazil (Salvador) and the ones along West African coastline.

viodemus:
Nothing wey we no go hear.

moi moi, akara, yoruba food? Igbos, they even claim corn and coconut.

out of that whole food, amala is the only yoruba food. Then soup with stew is a mostly yoruba thing.

No wonder many of them believe Tinubu invented and patented Lagos.

soon, before we know it, they might say they invented the air we breathe. Na wa o.

Those vegetables are also found and eaten elsewhere

And have their local names too

Exactly, some of those foods are present anywhere you see Yorubas, even those enslaved centuries ago.

AuthorMan:


Many of them got their parents lying to them out of hate. I read some comments and smile. Don't mind them.
Many Yoruba foods were adapted by their ancestors and they failed to tell the kids the truth.

ufotunang:
Their food and soup no pass stew...peppered stew ,🙄

That their pepper, hmm; they always stool because of pepper. Imagine someone that want to cook stew, she will buy tomatoes #200 and Cherry pepper and Ataorodo #800.

7upnigeria:


That's why they're hated everywhere. See the way people were happy as their shops were demolished in computer village. Everywhere they go, they will invite HATRED on themselves and they cant stay in their potopoto republic. Go to Ghana, South Africa even Pakistan and see the way they hate them. The issue I have is that some countries are MIXING THEM UP with other parts of Nigeria.

Na just envy and jealousy, no be Yoruba again?

Totally agree!

Many don't understand how cultures mixed over the ages. Yorubas have been trading and intermarrying from time immemorial. It happened in Ile-Ife with Moremi, and it happened with Oranmiyan in Oyo, who had a Nupe wife and his son also married a Nupe woman. With that comes expansion of knowledge in many basic things including food choices.

Different ethnic groups will come with their own variation and give it a local name. We should appreciate the diversity not make it an issue.

soccerlite:


Those vegetables are also found and eaten elsewhere

And have their local names too

luminouz:

You don marry?

yes na. 17yrs of marriage and counting