US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List - Politics (3)

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by Amalekki: 3:59pm On Jul 19, 2025

To those who don't understand the importance of topics/threads like this one, let's see if we can set your brain in motion in the right direction grin

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- Economy is directly related to numbers (demand/supply).
- Economy is directly related to products.
- Amala is directly related to yam production.
- Nigeria and yam are directly related.
- Amala with Gbegiri, Ewedu and Red Soup are directly related to several agricultural products including palm oil.
- The more people are familiar with the end product and are actual consumers, the bigger the impact on the entire supply chain.
- A vibrant supply chain supports a vibrant economy.
*This applies to all our traditional Nigerian food. Topics like this are very important to our economy.

You went to school. Start looking at issues a bit more deeply and stop being a peripheral thinker.

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by maasoap(m): 4:00pm On Jul 19, 2025

Mabuggi88:
It may be sweet and yummy. The only thing about it is dirtiness. It scares to see it.
Whatever you have to say concern you. That's my experience.

Amala and dirtiness have nothing in common

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by Nobody: 4:01pm On Jul 19, 2025

[quote author=chopnaira post=136154893]Source: US Mission Nigeria on X.

Ibadan, kini so? 🇺🇸🇳🇬

U.S. Consulate Public Affairs Officer Julie McKay ticked Amala Skye off her bucket list of things to do in Ibadan.

Where should she visit next time she’s in the city? Drop your suggestions in the comment section!#USinNigeria #FoodDiplomacy pic.twitter.com/th5cBv7rEK
— U.S. Mission Nigeria (@USinNigeria) July 19, 2025

in Lagos for over 20 years. Could not eat Amala because I don't like brown colour food.

I ate the green, nature inspiring ewedu soup laced with stew but without Gbegiri. Semo to the rescue..

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by AlabiKILLER2023: 4:01pm On Jul 19, 2025

Amala looks like cow dung

Spits

Amala looks like cow dung

Spits

Amala looks like cow dung

Spits

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by rinzaugustine: 4:07pm On Jul 19, 2025

I don’t understand how somebody will tell you in clear terms they don’t want you in their country but come to your country to eat amala and you celebrate it. Is that a slavery or inferiority complex mentality?

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by porthouse7(f): 4:08pm On Jul 19, 2025

Basicend:
Amala is a very sweat delicacy with ewedu ,cow meat plus goat meat. Then put small pepper on top. Lol.

amala with goat meat is the goal of every living human on earth

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by Thunderfayamods: 4:09pm On Jul 19, 2025

This is food that our brothers from that side are condemnig. Meanwhile they eat elephant grass ACHARA...!

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by AdolfHitlerxXx: 4:11pm On Jul 19, 2025

Charlchuks:
There we go again..... The validation needed from the white race as always to feel useful

There we go again. Not acknowledging my comment is in every way right. And it includes even you.

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by JuanDeDios: 4:12pm On Jul 19, 2025

DenreleDave:
What is amala without dirtiness...

The best amala is the one with a touch of dirtiness and rudeness

Lol. Una dey crase for this app. Nothing dirty about amala.

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by wowcatty: 4:13pm On Jul 19, 2025

It’s because they have no real food that’s culturally theirs.

maasoap:
And yet, our brothers from the East are still using amala to abuse and insult us

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by JuanDeDios: 4:15pm On Jul 19, 2025

Charlchuks:
The typical black race always looking for validation from there slave masters just so they could feel relevant to the grand scheme of things

Foreigners eating amala and talking about it on SM can have economic implications. If people in rich countries start ordering amala to their homes the way they order Chinese food, it will boost our export earnings.

Besides, there's nothing wrong in being happy that your culture is being appreciated. So let people be.

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by gadgethead: 4:20pm On Jul 19, 2025

nurez305:
Overrated food

That's all I have to say, thank youu

Overrated? Amala was the exclusive of Southwest. Other tribes, especially the Igbos ridiculed and called it dirty food. Amala and ewedu gained worldwide popularity due to its taste and texture, if anything, it was UNDERRATED

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by wowcatty: 4:24pm On Jul 19, 2025

They’re not.
Fufu is Yoruba’s and made from cassava paste, stirred in pot over the stove, very soft to the touch and tongue.

Akpu is ibos and made from cassava paste, formed into balls, boiled and pounded in mortar, very hard to the to the touch and tongue.

I’ve noticed that they have started selling theirs too like we do by foodstuff.

FreeSpirited:
Is Akpu and fufu not same?

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by Camaro5: 4:26pm On Jul 19, 2025

Factcheck0001:
Amala to the world

Na Wetin I just chop finish now with better ewedu with ogunfe.

Haters will come n cry, I pray they don't claim it as their own someday same way they are claiming egusi today

The same egusi those child of hate would cook whitish without pepper ?

Yoruba food is the best jare 🙌

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by FreeSpirited: 4:29pm On Jul 19, 2025

wowcatty:
They’re not.
Fufu is Yoruba’s and made from cassava paste, stirred in pot over the stove, very soft to the touch and tongue.

Akpu is ibos and made from cassava paste, formed into balls, boiled and pounded in mortar, very hard to the to the touch and tongue.

I’ve noticed that they have started selling theirs too like we do by foodstuff.

I never knew though
This explains my new disinterest in fufu, while I din't know it's AKPu because it's too hard for my liking.
While growing up, it's definitely fufu my mom used to make by making it on fire as u described, and I used to enjoy the soft slippery texture and mild taste. But the once being sold around now is something else... Too hard, and the texture isn't as smooth and slippery. So na AKPu i dey chop thinking it's fufu....

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by planetx: 4:32pm On Jul 19, 2025

rinzaugustine:
I don’t understand how somebody will tell you in clear terms they don’t want you in their country but come to your country to eat amala and you celebrate it. Is that a slavery or inferiority complex mentality?

She is just lowly civil servant and have no power to determine who comes into the US, that determination is from Washington DC. Let her enjoy her amala.

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by foleskay(m): 4:38pm On Jul 19, 2025

chopnaira:
Anytime I travel to USA, Canada or UK, that's how I always hunt for Nigerian restaurants where Amala is on the menu. I am off to Atlanta at month end, and Amala is on my bucket list

Egbon e jor e send change die simi. God no go shame you

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by perestroika19: 4:45pm On Jul 19, 2025

Whobedatte:
Amala skye at BODIJA is overrated to me , emphasis on the new outlet.
no soup and protein varieties and its damn expensive.
IYA META and AMALA OLUYOLE to me is the real deal in Ibadan

I even prefer the Bodija Ojurin own. Amala Skye na influencers dem take package am

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by wowcatty: 4:46pm On Jul 19, 2025

If you buy from Yoruba, you will be eating fufu, but if you buy from non Yoruba, you will be eating Akpu.
There’s an attempt to blur traditional lines in Nigeria. It used to be only fufu that are sold on the street markets with foodstuff, Yoruba consider it as fast food along side ‘Tiolobe’ (Eba wrapped in leaves without soup)which is now almost nonexistent except in some rural areas.

FreeSpirited:
I never knew though
This explains my new disinterest in fufu, while I din't know it's AKPu because it's too hard for my liking.
While growing up, it's definitely fufu my mom used to make by making it on fire as u described, and I used to enjoy the soft slippery texture and mild taste. But the once being sold around now is something else... Too hard, and the texture isn't as smooth and slippery. So na AKPu i dey chop thinking it's fufu....

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by dheilaw1(m): 4:49pm On Jul 19, 2025*

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by foleskay(m): 4:50pm On Jul 19, 2025

Exceed15:
Inspite born and bred in Lagos I never liked this food .. nah!!!!

Kuku tell us u be iboo

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by Idaytesj29(m): 5:05pm On Jul 19, 2025

NOC1:
Amala na better food, the one I had in Canada was yuck

By their fruit we shall know them.

Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by Bluntemperor: 5:20pm On Jul 19, 2025

ElSudani:
Amala to the world. Yoruba and Nigerian cuisines are becoming the rave across the planet. God bless all the people who project the positive image of the country.

You can say that again 👍🙏.
You need to enjoy the Amala + Gbegiri- with ORISIRISI ( Assorted Meat).
You will always love to go back there for you Enjoyment and Relaxation.
Please,Amala Skye- Should Have Lagos Branches for Maximum Branding.

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by ORIAYO70(m): 5:22pm On Jul 19, 2025

ElSudani:
Amala to the world. Yoruba and Nigerian cuisines are becoming the rave across the planet. God bless all the people who project the positive image of the country.

Some inconsequential goat here will criticize Amala n compare it with their horrible meal

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Re: US Consulate Public Affairs Officer Ticks Amala Skye Off Her Bucket List by chiagozien(m): 5:25pm On Jul 19, 2025

FreeSpirited:
But igbos don't like Amala and Ewedu
They used to talk down on amala + ewedu as a shitty combination.
They rather hail fufu + abacha
While Oyinbo just appreciated Amala and Ewedu as a great culinary discovery. This is surprising

But Igbos are not wrong in that