Food is a universal language and all over the world, people eat foods known to their culture. Overtime however, foods and food cultures have been exported into otherwise foreign territories and have ended up being loved by the newbies. An example would be the pizza that was foreign to Nigeria but is arguably now as common as akara.
Some foods like bread and butter, beans and garri go hand in hand and sound ok and fine to most people. But there are some food combinations that you hear of and you go, “WTF?” or “eewww” or you might even become instantly horrified. I’m going to share 5 weird food combos that I’ve heard people say they eat. Bear in mind that what may sound far fetched to one person, may be totally relatable to another. Please don’t be shy to share your weird food combos. In the meantime, brace yourselves ladies...and guys.
1. NOODLES WITH BREAD
This was popular among male students back then in school. I could never understand the relation. How do you take a forkful of noodles and then gleefully “bite bread”? I remember asking why and was told it filled them up nicely, because eating just noodles (I almost typed needles hahaha) never really satisfied the depth of a Nigerian man’s stomach.
2. OKRO/OGBOLOR SOUP WITH RICE
At this juncture, you can go “eeewwwww”. You can “eewww” a bit longer, I’ll allow that because I totally understand. Okro or Ogbolor soup with RICE????? I know I like to try out foods but this, I’m NEVER trying. Well, scratch that: never say never sha. I might try it once; just once! But really though, who are the people that actually thought it might be a good idea to combine these strange bedfellows? Show yourselves so you can be sent on exile.
3. CABIN BISCUITS WITH BEANS
Okay okay, I’ll admit it. I came up with this. I was never a lover of eating beans and that day I thought to try breaking the cabin biscuits (we know these biscuits abi? Ehen) into the beans. I took a spoonful and the crunch of the biscuits combined with the softness of the beans was for lack of a better adjective, DIVINE. Aaahhhh! I was shocked at the discovery. It made eating beans enjoyable finally. See, just try it and give me your feedback. You would love it.
4. FRIED POTATOES WITH PAP (AKAMU)
Back then in Kaduna, this was one of the regulars in our home. We were trying to adjust to a new city and money was little. Luckily for us, potatoes were cheap. Then a sack of sweet potatoes was sold at N500. So we ate it a lot. I ate the potatoes but not the pap. Me and pap have never been good friends, but that is a story for another day. So like I was saying, mumsy would fry potatoes and they (minus myself that is) would eat it with pap aka akamu. Potatoes on their own are very filling and so that combo was “chop and quench”.
5. MEAT WITH GARRI
I see some of you protesting already saying meat with garri is a mad combo. Who are you guys??? How do you eat MEAT with GARRI. Not fish o, MEAT!! Meat that needs chewing and chewing before swallowing. How do you combine it with garri. If I attempt it, my garri go rise finish o. Me that likes to drink my garri as quickly as possible to avoid the “rising palava”. I’m blocking my ears to you all that think this is a combination “toh bad”, it’s weird to me as far as I’m concerned. La la la la la *ears blocked*.
6. GARRI WITH PINEAPPLE
According to Nigerians, “this one off me”. Whaaaatttt???? I heard about this from a friend. She told me her brother ate this. This might actually taste nice. I imagine he cuts the pineapple into bite sized pieces and drops them into the garri. Hmmm. This might actually taste yummy.
There are definitely more food combos and these ones barely scratch the surface. Chai, I feel dizzy imagining the okro/ogbolor with rice combo.
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