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If You Don’t Like Any of These 10 Foods, You’re Bad Vibes

Every day, people just wake up and expose their lack of taste to the whole world unprovoked by slandering great-tasting, perfectly fine food. Today, I’m taking a stand: I’m here to tell you that if you don’t like any of these ten foods, we need to question your taste buds.

Oats

If you don’t like oats, you simply lack imagination. Oats are such bad bitches that you can do so much with them. You can make oatmeal and throw in nuts, seeds or even fruits. You can make oat cookies. You can even blend oats to make smoothies with bananas, peanut butter, and milk, or add oats to yogurt to taste the good side of life. Enjoyment!

Avocado

Maybe avocado slander was once cool, but now it’s just forced, please. There are so many ways to enjoy avocado: on its own, with bread, in dips like guacamole, etc. It’s so multi-talented that it’s great for your belly, your hair and your skin. Never take food suggestions from anyone that doesn’t like avocado.

Greek Yoghurt

Thicker and creamier than regular yogurt and slaps your mouth even harder than agbalumo. If Yoruba Demon were to be a snack!

Pap

I can draw a straight line from people who dislike pap to people who don’t know how to prepare it.

Golden Morn

The closest meal to Cerelac that we had back in the day when life was easier and we had no worries. How can you hate nostalgia?

Amala

I’m saying this as someone who once hated amala. I now realized that I only disliked it because I was eating it with abula (ew, because what is beans doing with swallow?). Amala with good old ewedu and that pepper stew is life. You need to open your mind.

Dodo

Why? How can you even hate the king of sides?

Wheat Bread

See, this is the only food on this list I can entertain skepticism about. I too have mixed feelings because very many bakeries get it wrong. It’s kind of like agbalumo — you need luck to find a good one. And once you find it, never let that brand go. Wheat bread typically takes some getting used to, but once you do, you’re in for the good life.

Zobo

Zobo saved our lives back in university — along with egg rolls. But now you people graduated and you think you’ve outgrown Zobo? Smh.

Boiled yam

People who slander boiled yam stress me out. How can you boldly proclaim to the world that you don’t have taste? Please, check out these 10 things you can do with yam and uplift your taste buds please.

Ama Udofa

February 13, 2022

Chopist

akamu, amala, avocado, Bad vibes, Dodo, Food, golden morn, greek yoghurt, Oats, pap, wheat bread, zobo
Ranked: Yellow, Brown, Or White Pap?

For today’s Ranked, I decided to go for a common Nigerian staple: Ogi. This dish (our local custard, if you may), has been repping from the beginning of time. Right from being the main dish on Saturday mornings, to being combined with beans, Ogi has come a long way. And now, we rank the variants to pick the best of all.

3. Brown (Ogi baba)

This is highly nutritious, especially for babies. But for me, it doesn’t exactly fall within my range of preference. I wonder if there are actual adults who enjoy this variant.

2. White

I don’t know if it’s just me, but there’s something about white ogi that reminds me of a strict and wicked teacher. No attempt to disguise, just plain “what you see is what you get.” I like it all the same sha, at least for the fact that you can add other orisirisi to make it taste even better.

1. Yellow

This variant made me love pap. If there was no yellow pap, I wonder what would have become of my relationship with pap. I like how the look changes when you add milk, either powder or evaporated one. Yellow ogi is really top-tier.

Last week’s ranking:

Ranked: What’s The Best Fish Ever?

Kunle Ologunro

December 18, 2020

Chopist, Ranked

ogi, ogi baba, pap, saturday breakfast, white pap, yellow pap
10 South African Dishes Nigerians Will Fall In Love With

We know it’s hard to convince Nigerians to try any food that isn’t theirs. But forget about our awesome jollof rice for a bit and get lost in these tasty South African dishes.
Bobotie

Bobotie is to South Africa as Jollof is to Nigeria. It’s basically considered their national food and you might denounce Jollof (jokes) when you have a taste of it.
Biltong

Biltong is described as dried cured meat. We’ve figured that this is the South African version of our suya.
Boerewors

Boerewors is local sausage made from mince beef. Rumor has it that South Africans love their boerewors as much as we love our suya.
Chakalaka

The easiest way to describe this dish to a Nigerian is as beans porridge with international exposure. The main ingredients of Chakalaka are beans, cabbage, carrots and tomatoes cooked with spices.
Malva Pudding

The closest thing Nigerians have to a dessert dish is puff puff which is why you need to try this deliciously decadent South African baked dessert.
Bunny chow

If we had to describe Bunny chow in strictly Nigerian terms, then we’ll describe it as agege bread and beans except with bunny chow the beans is replaced by a delicious curry sauce.
Potjiekos

Potjiekos is basically stew like you’ve never seen it. Cooked with meat and tomatoes and vegetables you might never want your regular Nigerian stew again after trying it.
Bredie

Bredie is another traditional South African stew that is guaranteed to make you lose your home training.
Pap

Yes, the same pap we all know and love, the only difference is while we process our pap from corn South Africans process their pap from sorghum millet or rapoko.
Koeksisters

Koekisister is another South African desert we need to get on the streets of Nigeria. Not everyday puff puff and donut.
To our South African readers did we leave any out? What other awesome South African dishes are we sleeping on.

Toketemu Ohwovoriole

September 7, 2018

General

biltong, bobotie, Boerewors, bredie, bunny chow, Chakalaka, jollof, Koeksisters, Malva Pudding, pap, Potjiekos, South african, South African food
Mikel Obi’s Girlfriend Olga Tried Pounded Yam and Egusi, Here Are 10 Other Nigerian Foods We Think She Should Try

Odunayo

August 12, 2015

Chopist, Pop

afang, akara, akpu, amala, banga, bitter leaf, catfish pepper soup, edikaikong, edikang ikong, ewa agoyin, Food, gbegiri, goat meat pepper soup, Jollof RIce, Mikel Obi, Nigerian Food, nkwobi, Olga Diyachenko, pap, starch