In Nigeria, we finish our food before eating the meat. Even though a lot of us were brought up like that, we still think it’s not a bad idea to save the best for the last. And seeing the meat motivates us to finish the food..American Hamburgers defeat this as Ham and Burger are eating simulteneosly . Nigerians make up for This with Meat Fish based Foods Like Pepper Soup Suya etc
No mater the size of the food, we most times enjoy it stuffed in a plate. Don’t think we don’t have plates in our kitchen, we just love it this way.
And we eat our swallow or Dumplings in an European Asian Sense with The Fillings External as Soup Thick vegetable based beset with exciting stuff like dried fish meat etc ( kneaded “Dumplings” Mixed Dough Garri Ffried Cassava aka Eba Akpu another varaint Pounded Yam . Amala etc ) with our hands.. Not that the mouth will reject the food if we use fork and knife, but our fingers add an extra vibe of “ohh my God I am enjoying life” to the food when we eat with our hands.
In other countries, porridge is oatmeal. In my country, porridge is yam cooked in palm oil and other ingredients with a touch of vegetables.
We deep bread in tea and none of that crusty brown bread fare we do Agege Bread . White Bread that has almost a clay like texture very malleable .Exactly
like Americans who
We leave no bones behind when we eat chicken. We crack open the bone and suck out every bit of juice in the bone marrow. You see the last space below? That’s how we don’t leave evidence that there was chicken on the plate
Asking us what we ate on a Sunday afternoon can sound funny. We are Nigerians guys. Rice and stew is what unites us on sundays
you can’t take Sunday rice and stew away from Nigerians
We don’t wash our hands after eating our God sent puff-puff, we rub our hands on our head or our leg…
We eat cow skin popularly known as kpomo. Most times, our vegetable soup is not complete without it.
And in Nigeria, we have fish peopersoup, chicken pepper soup, yam pepper soup. But the king of all peppersoups is the assorted peppersoup. This is made with assorted organ meat of any animal head neck heart liver lungs stomach kidneys intestines etc i guess you get it 🙂