Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the wordpress-seo domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/bcm/src/dev/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
5 Boarding School Meals That Prove Nigerians Are Great Inventors | Zikoko!

1) Garri Cake

This was made by mixing powdered milk and garri in cold water, soaking the mixture in just enough cold water for it to swell and solidify. For extra flavour, people tossed groundnuts into the mixture. Sure, it was strong as shit and made people constipated, but it was delicious.

2) Homemade Chocolate Bars

This creation almost put Willy Wonka out of business. It was made in 2 ways:

  • Putting milo/bournvita in a paper and placing something heavy on it for days until it congealed.
  • Putting milo/bournvita in a paper and ironing it till it became choco milo-like.

3) Concoction spaghetti made with with a boiling ring.

Because of the insanely volatile nature of boiling rings, it’s safe to say that boarding school students basically risked their lives just to eat something that wasn’t the school’s kitchen food.

4) Cold water eba with Geisha tomato sauce as soup.

Coming from someone who did this when things were hard in boarding school (me), this thing is VILE. You don’t know true horror until you’ve spent a few hours releasing raw tomato-flavoured burps into the world.

5) Making toast bread with an iron.

It will always kill me that people somehow made toast with agege bread.

OUR MISSION

Zikoko amplifies African youth culture by curating and creating smart and joyful content for young Africans and the world.

// Tally survey