What's This Called In Your Dialect? - Food (3)

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by OwoukoUrua(m): 10:41pm On Mar 21, 2025

Mariangeles:
That's not water yam.
I don't know what it's called in English.

Sweet yam

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Bodydiialect57: 10:41pm On Mar 21, 2025

Pickieox:
Èsúrú...I enjoyed this when I was a teenager and cocoyam (we call it lámbó)🤣

If cocoyam is lambo, then that yam up there is ehuru. grin

Lẹ o .

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Mariangeles: 10:43pm On Mar 21, 2025

OwoukoUrua:
Sweet yam

Okay. Thanks.

Even though there's nothing sweet about it. undecided

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by LUAN(m): 10:44pm On Mar 21, 2025

FashionCookie:
😆🤣 mme tang nkan umiang owo.

are you man or woman

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by UkoAnnang(m): 10:45pm On Mar 21, 2025

Anem

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by highness25(m): 10:47pm On Mar 21, 2025

Zonefree:
Ona...

It's forbidden in my community.

Where's your community?

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by FashionCookie(f): 10:50pm On Mar 21, 2025

Anijay1212:
Ayin eka mmi your written Ibibio is quite ok.
Anem has numerous species and some are very soft and and sweet as the name implies.
It was food for kings and elders ke ini eset but i used to hate it as a child but now my sister mbenne anem mbre mbre at all.
😁😁😁

I don't like it, I don't even eat it all. My parents love it though.
As a kid, I watched them prepare pepper-soup ye nsat Iyak with it.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by FashionCookie(f): 10:50pm On Mar 21, 2025

LUAN:
are you man or woman

Awuwan.

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by hector: 10:53pm On Mar 21, 2025

callmemakaveli:
Mkpong

Taaaa!!! It’s not.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Anijay1212(m): 10:54pm On Mar 21, 2025

Mariangeles:
It's the mbre mbre at all for me.

In Ibibio mbre means "to play" but you have to say it twice for emphasis when driving home your point. So i was simply saying "i don't play at all. Cheers.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Sonofgod1990(m): 10:54pm On Mar 21, 2025

nlfpmod:
😂

Woman wrapper. You don dey eye dis small pikin. Na man him be just dat he changed his moniker. Nonsense

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by babtoundey(m): 10:56pm On Mar 21, 2025

kunleham:
That's a white lie!

Esuru is eaten in all parts of Yoruba lands, no spiritual attachments.

Dey play. I am never said it forbidden in any part of Yorubaland. I only said it has some unfounded myths around it. Ask what is onje awon agba and you will have your answer

Food like esuru, ekuru have symbolic meanings attached to them

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Anijay1212(m): 11:01pm On Mar 21, 2025

FashionCookie:
I don't like it, I don't even eat it all. My parents love it though.
As a kid, I watched them prepare pepper-soup ye nsat Iyak with it.

I guarantee you my sister that the day you taste the soft yellowish specie, you will fall in love with anem like i did some years ago.
Just like yam you can also eat it with stew, any type of sauce, with beans or as porridge.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by FashionCookie(f): 11:04pm On Mar 21, 2025

Anijay1212:
I guarantee you my sister that the day you taste the soft yellowish specie, you will fall in love with anem like i did some years ago.
Just like yam you can also eat it with stew, any type of sauce, with beans or as porridge.

Hmmmm...okay I'll try it soon.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Drsheddy(m): 11:05pm On Mar 21, 2025

Ulayè in IGALA KOGI STATE

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by HajiaNotu: 11:05pm On Mar 21, 2025

Cocoyam right?

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by 8starmember: 11:05pm On Mar 21, 2025

Zonefree:
Ona...

It's forbidden in my community.

why...which community is that

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by 8starmember: 11:10pm On Mar 21, 2025

Very nice food...

We call it ona

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by IyanAtiEgusi: 11:11pm On Mar 21, 2025

Mariangeles:
Shut up.

Customer go come steady so u no go hungry cool

where Boogyman557 make him come patronize u cool

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Anijay1212(m): 11:12pm On Mar 21, 2025

FashionCookie:
Hmmmm...okay I'll try it soon.

You are welcome ma'am.
Asiere.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Abs76: 11:12pm On Mar 21, 2025

Obiedun Gwaza:
Esuru

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by RISQUE: 11:18pm On Mar 21, 2025

[quote author=Morbeta11 post=134634201][/quote]Onunu

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by RISQUE: 11:18pm On Mar 21, 2025

[quote author=Morbeta11 post=134634201][/quote]Onunu

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Jagogin: 11:24pm On Mar 21, 2025

Obiedun:
Esuru

Esuru

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Forumites: 11:27pm On Mar 21, 2025

Judolisco:
why is it forbidden?

my dear na ancestral thing oh. Just like female dog, we don’t breed it and we don’t kill python. I have seen the reason they were rejected oh.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by adeiza4u(m): 11:44pm On Mar 21, 2025

It's called Esunu in Ebira.
It's actually delicious when it's well cooked, but a poison when it isn't well cooked or the wrong specie.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by ggood: 11:57pm On Mar 21, 2025

callmemakaveli:
Mkpong

Anem not Mkpong

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Chinny024(f): 12:07am On Mar 22, 2025

Ụna

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by fitinwell: 12:10am On Mar 22, 2025

[quote author=Morbeta11 post=134634201][/quote]Boole

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Karlosorji(m): 12:25am On Mar 22, 2025

Mariangeles:
Ona.

I used to not like this stuff because of its unusual taste, until the day hungry wayad me, and so I had to eat it with fresh palm oil.
No be person tell me say make I enjoy am.😀

where in Abia are you from?

Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by kaltonga: 12:36am On Mar 22, 2025

babtoundey:
Really?
Can you enlighten us on why it's forbidden.

Even in Yorubaland, it has some strange peculiarities around it. It's not considered to be an ordinary food. It's mean for certain people that belong to the spiritual realm.

Well we can't say for sure why the people of Owere forbide it's an age long norm passed down to us by our ancestors.
It's so strong to the point that the easiest way of dissolving a marriage no matter the age is when a wife prepires or even eat this in her husband's home, na your papa house one way ticket

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Re: What's This Called In Your Dialect? by Eagleways: 12:44am On Mar 22, 2025

Zonefree:
Ona...

It's forbidden in my community.

your community no know better thing.

Una ancestors shortchanged una

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