₦airaland Forum

Litmus:
I understand exactly what you mean; however, in this instance, the unspoken implication is about selling our foods to the world in order to encourage as much people as possible to visit Nigerian restaurants so that Nigerian restaurants thrive and Nigeria foods take their place among world dishes practiced and cooked by chefs and food writers.

Food makes money, it popularises Nations and encourages visits that in turn create employment and feeds the national coffers

Exactly, it's funny how many Indian, Chinese and Thai restaurants you will see dotted around any major city, even when a lot of them are racist against those people.

Food is power.

Litmus:
Eba and soup has great potential - competent hands can and do create great visual effect manipulating the contrast between the different garri colours and the myriad soups. Actually, I would argue that Nigerians should replace Senegalese rice (jellof is too basic) with either ebba and soup or yam portage as the national signature dish. In addition, ebba and soup has the unique selling point of being perhaps the only dish around the world where dinners have to swallow without chewing, thus forcing diners to experience the triggering of taste-buds rarely used by people in contemporary dining. In fact, Nigerians when presenting Eba and soup to foreigners should insist that they swallow and not chew. This swallowing without chewing is a marketing point Nigerians neglect.

Swallowing it is not too healthy actually, according to some recent medical advice. But another good selling point is the fact that its traditionally eaten with the hands.

The main aspects to market are the flavours, cooking methods and the aesthetics. Western cooking favours sharp angles, edges, daintiness and precision. A giant lump of Eba doesn't chime with those sensibilities.

Probably if you served it as small, bitesize Eba "packages" with the soup held inside (with some kind of sealing agent to stop them from leaking), it may appeal more than our usual method.

Of course, rice is a lot easier to market, if the ingredients are altered to taste. The crayfish/shrimp and brightly coloured vegetables would appeal to a lot of people. Yam pottage is very good too because of the muted colours and contrasting textures.

And we have a lot of cool snacks, especially sweet desserts from the north.

We have a lot to offer sha

Litmus:
They don’t cook in garage nattin, they cook in the house and it smells mightily like many good, cultural food with solid history should and whites love it. If Indians cooked them shit, the whites would jump in it and lap it all up. They Whites learned to appreciate all that comes with Indian food - smell, looks and texture. Nigerian foods are cultural too, good, healthy and with solid history. Nigerians just have to tolerate the snide and racist comments about their food, persist in cooking them in all their verity and glory - not silly Senegalese rice – but Nigerian ethnic foods and eventually the majority of people around the world adapt to it also. This is already happening and Nigerians should continue to revolutionise how the world perceive Africans and their foods.

You need to understand the difference between Indian food that has been changed and evolved to suit foreign taste and actual Indian curries that smell very strong and spicy.

Indians migrated to the UK a long time before Nigerians and have had the chance to perfect some fusion dishes that sit well with white audiences. And they're big in restaurant/take-away business.

You'd be surprised to know that some of those curries they sell to white people don't even exist in India, the same way "Italian food" in America has nothing to do with what they cook back in Italy. Italian people always complain that their food has been bastardised by their overseas cousins.

I agree though that eventually our foods will begin to filter through to mainstream audiences.

It's mostly a marketing problem. Eba and soup could look disgusting to some people in the way its presented even though they have no issue eating porridge, colcannon and other foods with similar texture.

salford:
yes. It's the same thing.

Okay

Vyolet:
Counter what I wrote, don't resort to being petty , you should know I probably rated you judging by your submission , reason I gave you a response.

Lol don't mind them! That's what they say when they know you've smashed them up hahaha

Were you "angry" when he was quoting you Lmao

salford:
Amala and ewedu do not even smell. If it's ewedu, then she will not have to rent to middle Eastern too as it's a common food in North Africa and the Mediterranean.

Ohhh...so ewedu and molokhiya are actually the same thing

OiOi:
it was just my opinion. It may truly not have a bearing factor on the actual account.
But the truth is no one will want to compromise their health

Your point is valid, it's just that she had no right to discriminate outwardly based on his nationality.

You don't have to accommodate anybody in your house if it's not what you want, she was just making a point of being spiteful to assert her racial superiority on the guy.

alexola20:
It's nothing new.Many pink/white Europeans share the same sentiment.
I am married with one them too.And she has the same stupid asss view.
I mean she hardly eats my food.

She complains of spicy/chilli in the food while my little daughter will eat effortlessly.

That always reminds me that you marry a woman doesn't make her your family or part of you.

Lol cook a separate stew without pepper na. Not everybody can cope with spices

AreaFada2:
I suspect the landlady is not British. Likely from Eastern Europe. They do not yet have the more sophisticated "coded" way the British use to discriminate.

A British person would have said "the viewer who came to see it yesterday has just confirmed by phone they will take the room. Sorry for the journey here". Or something along those lines.

Exactly. No native British person talks like that. They will code it very well

I strongly suspect the woman is from some Slavic country where there are very few people of colour and was feeling superior to utter that kind of illiterate statement.

Commentor:
Her statement from Facebook says only Europeans.

You can argue what you like in court but if it is found to be discriminatory she could wind up in jail.

Exactly. She has no right to assume what the fellow is going to cook, anyhow. How does she know the European she brings won't be a Dutch guy who once stayed in Port Harcourt and fell in love with native soup

There's nothing to argue here, the woman is very stupid. Maybe not even English but a peasant European from some racist country

lahizak:
Lolz. White people don suffer. Everytime dey said something about africans or blacks they are been termed racist. Her house, her rules. Come africa and see different rules made by landlord den u go change ur mind

That we practice stupidity in the name of "landlord" doesn't make it right.

We are supposed to have stronger tenancy laws here if we were civilised

SEGLIZ:
here we go, what has Indians got to do with this?
you just ended up practicing what you were condemning.

Indian food has a very distinct smell that can stick in the house, on your clothes or skin for days.

The enlightened ones among them try to cook in the garage

OiOi:
It's her home and she deserves good health... Although people might want to say it's racism

She shouldn't have said it like that...there are ways to reject somebody you don't want to live with for any particular reason.

Anyway you can close the door, turn on the extractor fan or open a window when cooking depending on the type of house.

It's true that we have very strong smelling foods that may turn her stomach if she's not used to them but there was no need to implicate herself with such a silly comment.

Gmajor:
The most shocking thing about this article is that someone left Gambia and went all the way to London just to study performing arts.
What a waste of time and money.

The article said he grew up in England. It's his parents who came from Gambia

That may be the same thing they said to him when he told them he was going for performing arts, though. We are a bit narrow-minded about these things

Lol, see bitter guys everywhere

The op asked a question; How can somebody else's honest answer be paining you to the extent that you quote them and start fighting

You think everybody is as dysfunctional as you are hahaha next time treat your woman better so that she will come here and write nice epistles about you!

funmisticqueen2:
why not.

All these desperate chicks can be funny

Lol. Very unfortunate

Ifyjos:
U can never be me because I’m far better than you and you will never have a man like mine I repeat never , someone like you who has a spiritual mask and spiritual husband not even a cripple will want to marry you because you are already married to your grandpa in the spiritual world just keep waiting on how soon you will reach 50 menopose and no man and people will humiliate you up and down and you will have no other option than to commit suicide . For now just wait for a Facebook post to come what do you need right now so you can beg as usual

Okay; have a nice day

Ifyjos:
if You were smart and mature for the fact that you didn’t like my post it wasn’t necessary for you to give stupid advice with insults you should have walk away without commenting and for the fact u comments it show that you are stupid and not mature

Lol thank you my sister...it's actually my aim in life to become as stupid as you are so that I will be able to attract a "crown" as great as yours.

It seems thats the only way I will stop my Facebook begging hahaha...I'm looking up to you o! You are my expert relationship guide.

Ifyjos:
Talk for yourself because you don’t have a man in your life and me being a concubine is better than you single for life , at least I have a man that makes me happy he keeps me from having stress but yourself you have been battling ulcer , konji, blood pressure and you don’t give people a rest begging for them to pray for you for marital settlement something you will never get and at your old age nobody will help you because u will have no child and you will die single

Lol anyway no problem dear, all the best.

I just wish you would be a bit smarter to avoid situations like this because it wasnt really necessary

"Let's see how it goes" lmao babe why did you tag me in this thing hahaha

funmisticqueen2:
She's a pickmesha, with Stockholm syndrome.

Lol! Quite apt, to be honest. Thats the only way to describe it smh

Ifyjos:
Yes begging is a crime and it’s for lazy
People like you who has turned Facebook into begging instead of going out and hustle , yeah continue your begging no body is stopping you and let me continue with my handsome husband to be the man of my youth anyway let me go to bed to sastify my crown instead of me wasting a time with a facebook beggar and single person like you no boyfriend no child and you will go on Facebook please admin hide my identity please pray for me for marital settlement all
My younger siblings are married I want to marry this year hahahaha that’s how u will be sending hide my id every year for prayer request for marital settlement till u reached 50 no husband no child

Lmao but 2 of us don't have any husband now, are we not supposed to be joining ourselves in prayer... I swear this is the funniest conversation of 2020

How can a concubine for life be bashing me for being single, is it not the difference between killing myself and suicide?

Don't you think you should pity your single sister and dash me some of the drinking money? Hahaha I can't stop laughing

CeterisXVII:
Please people should stop calling that smoker, drunkard and paedophile, her husband.

He is NOT. The guy did not pay her bride price and has not married her in any way.

That word ' husband' is what a lot of girls use to deceive and console themselves, when they are in a relationship, that is not heading anywhere.

Anyway, na she sabi. One day, agaracha go enter market, but e no go return....

Let her keep deceiving herself there.

Lmao what are you saying na, she said she doesn't need Mrs people wey dey answer Mrs dey facebook dey beg N100

Anyway I agree with her on that one because Mrs is not even her problem right now hahaha

Smoking and drinking money that cannot be gathered to pay for daughters school fees, you think it can get to even one small stout on your head?

Anyway I told you people this girl is just a scientific experiment sent from the government to make us forget the excesses of Buhari and Co. She is not real

Ifyjos:
It’s you that seek and need medical attention as soon as possible because if you were in the right state you wouldn’t come and chat shit , you are a so called graduate but u have nothing and all u do is spending time on social media begging and insulting people why not go sell cold pure water to make money instead of being here all the time and not getting paid.

Hahaha can't I beg you Is begging a crime?

Let me beg my beg in peace now, at least it's better than being a condemned building that has been marked for demolition like some people

Ifyjos:
If my own sister I never listened to her and do u think I will listen to you a stranger from nowhere someone you living another life on social media but reality you are beggar. I don’t regret the way I choose to open up at least I have feel relieved right now

Am not regretting being kicked out of the house , it just proved that am now a grown up so I have to hustle hard for my small family ( my guy and daughter ) and your cheap talk doesn’t bother me . Say whatever you like I don’t care , the time u are wasting following and comment thrush under my post it would have been better if you kneel down asking God for a life partner coz me I’m better I have a lovely caring husband to be and a beautiful princess and u will not when u reached menopose under your papa house and nobody to marry u by then u will know how stupid u were wasting your time chatting shit on someone who has better than you

See? You feel relief but was your relief the point? That's what they were trying to tell you but you wouldn't listen.

When you came back to report that your family had chased you away I decided to keep quiet because I couldn't honestly congratulate you for making what I thought was a wrong decision. I decided to allow people who told you to confess to advise you well, unfortunately you couldn't even listen to them either!

You spent days and weeks planning your sisters demise, instead of you to equally spend days and weeks planning how to solve it intelligently you vomited everything at once and came back to cry and wail about your daughter whom you should have thought about in the first place.

If you like you can keep insulting me, it doesn't mean that all I have predicted from the beginning did not come to pass. You are not smart, that's your problem. Wise up!

Anyway, let me release you. I don't want you to be late for your hot night sex hahaha please greet baba for us

Ifyjos:
yes she is our child we can bring her anywhere we are living we will sleep on the same bed and she won’t die because you yourself you are forming rich on social media but in reality u may be squatting with someone else and sleeping on the floor u can’t even afford a mattress not even to talk about foodstuffs u might be one of those Facebook beggars too , so our living condition it is none of your business and nobody forced you to follow a illerate person like me

Hahahaha you are sick babe! You need medical help. I can't stop laughing.

Anyway you're right, I'm also a Facebook beggar. Hope you can help me with a free hairstyle?

Hahaha gosh! Thank you for providing me with a laugh to warm me up this cold evening.

SmellingAnus:
ok good to know... I don't want anybody to use suya knife to slaughter me so I had to ask maybe you the wife of an Alhaji who knows...

Lol no o, you are safe..anyway you shouldn't categorise all of them that way

mrsteel:
Is Ben Murray Bruce a white guy?

I'm happy that you've shown everybody that you have no point whatsoever.

At least now that you've shown yourself, I no longer have to

Liposure:
i'm not gay.

Bro are you answering Baba Cork you better wrap yourself against the harmattan wind before you start that thing o

Tonymegabush1:
If they give you run down expense they use in mounting all those billboard, the shock allow fit push person enter coma...... All this people know is how to waste money.... Enugu state own even worst....

Abi...very useless set of people smh

The "widow-snatcher" is gone! Hahaha I hope he's okay sha

Amhappy:
Oh Babe you went too far and staying with your guy is not a solution. The hot sex you are enjoying may bring another belle. Do your parents go to church? If yes visit the pastor/Rev to handle this reconciliation. It will take wisdom to resolve this. It may take years for them to forgive you. I had it rough in 2019 and chopped insults even from children wey i fit born. It's not new nne. Next time reply insults with success. Prove you are not an efulefu.

We told her not to open up like that like that so that she wouldn't be forced to go and live with that guy, she kept replying everybody here that she must confess she is feeling guilty blah blah until she was ejected from her parents house.

Where do you want her to go na

She has to keep with the guy until she can go home. Or what do you suggest she does...?

In the first place she hasn't even explained to the man why she is staying with him...I hope her pastor can help her sha