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Frejon (From Feijão, which is the Portuguese word for beans) is a coconut milk and bean soup which is eaten especially during Holy Week by a selection of Christians, mostly Catholics, across the world.

Countries where Frejon is popular include Brazil and Nigeria (especially among Yoruba who returned to Nigeria from Brazil at the abolition of the slave trade, and settled in what is known as the "Brazilian Quarters" in Lagos Island), and also Sierra Leone on Good Friday, or for functions such as weddings.

Because dairy foods and flesh meat (beef, pork, goat) are strictly forbidden on Good Friday, this dish is a suitable accompaniment to non-dairy foods such as fried fish and peppered snail.

The frejons consumed in Nigeria and West Africa are puddings made of black beans cooked slowly overnight over a wood or charcoal fire, and then mixed with coconut milk to form a thick, sweet, smooth pudding. In certain countries, the dish is flavored with cocoa. Frejon is often served with fish stew, peppered snail and Garri Ijebu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frejon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J829OiM3JUc?si=bd3NLaEYfptUAXcb

Children create a stuffed effigy and drag it down the streets, while other children with sticks beat it.

Leader: "Judasi"!

Crowd of children: Ole!

Leader: "O pa Jesu je"!

Crowd of children: "Ole"!

Na person wey get money go observe. No choice for here ooo

Oo

naptu2:
Children create a stuffed effigy and drag it down the streets, while other children with sticks beat it.

i can bet, though i don't bet, that Inebong and Deji will take up case to defend Judas against these children if they could.

Sharp

Na lie jor 🤣😂🤣 Na Eba we chop

Attachee

Good friyay

Just Akamu and veggies

Growing up, we had one neighbor who is Roman Catholic that normally cooks this enmass on good Friday and she shares with neighbors.

When she brings for our family, the only person who eats it was my father because he had a catholic background ( A Muslim who attended catholic schools in his youth). For years I thought it was really a general catholic Easter food.( I assumed actually and never bothered to ask)

Now I know she cooks it because she's from one of the Brazilian returnee families of Lagos and also a catholic.

Ẹwà iku Jésù!

I prefer ewa agonyi and Agege bread!

Lovely bestie!

Noted.

Here is called Gbegiri

The food ain't popular....je prefere ewa agonyi

🌺

The thing look like akamu for my face 😅

Yummy.. (all these 'newbies' may not understand it), like they say, the taste of the "frejon" is in the eating.

Antichristian2:
Ẹwà iku Jésù!

I prefer ewa agonyi and Agege bread!

Lovely bestie!

See person wey sabi...

Someone once posted here that Yorubas are descendants of Brazilian slaves: there was nothing like Oduduwa.

I didn't believe it, but this post here is probably suggesting same thing the poster wrote though indirectly.


A thorough research into demographic history should be made.

Antichristian2:
Your pupsy dey chop food to commemorate Jesus's sufferings?

Which kind Muslim be that?

U know what to say than chosing " commensurate" u know d story too well.
Good Friday d church only avoids meat or dairy links. It's not mandatory but reverence, why? because those that witnesses d brushes and blood let on d cross started d reverence not to eat meat because eating meat reminds such of d divine nature of Jesus bruises

Asiri1991:
Someone once posted here that Yorubas are descendants of Brazilian slaves: there was nothing like Oduduwa.

I didn't believe it, but this post here is probably suggesting same thing the poster wrote though indirectly.


A thorough research into demographic history should be made.

🤣 Which simply shows that you don't know anything.

How can anybody be proud to display such ignorance?

Kai!

naptu2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frejon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J829OiM3JUc?si=bd3NLaEYfptUAXcb

We cook this over the course of 3 days max. There is nothing like adding coconut milk. After cooking the beans (which is exceptionally hard than the regular beans), you chop coconuts inside and take it to the grinders. Then use sieve to get the juice, which is then cooked to thickness, adding sugar and the major ingredients for taste is Clove. Nothing like flavored with cocoa (Well, like you said, 'in certain countries'.)

penearth:
U know what to say than chosing " commensurate" u know d story too well.
Good Friday d church only avoids meat or dairy links. It's not mandatory but reverence, why? because those that witnesses d brushes and blood let on d cross started d reverence not to eat meat because eating meat reminds such of d divine nature of Jesus bruises

So eating meat reminds you of Jesus's meaty body right?

Malikdking:
Just shut the fvck up mugu...
Holier than Muhammad...
That text that you believed in is nothing but a book written to justify war and Violence against people of contrary believe and opinion based on your so-called man made religion..
The Quran is a shitty book and your brain is dead too

Where are the mods o!

He said something about my brain o!