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  • What Your Favourite Swallow Says About You

    What Your Favourite Swallow Says About You

    Almost every week, you eat one type of swallow or the other. So over time, you’ve come to develop a favourite. Well, we’re here to tell you what your favourite swallow says about you.

    1) Amala

    People who have Amala as their favourite food act like die-hard music stans. At least the music stans can say they admire a real person. These people are ready to go to war over swallow????? They are not just lovers of it, they are a legion. If Amala is your favourite swallow, you need to rethink your life choices. What are you doing wrong? Who did you offend? Are your village people working overtime again?

    We at Zikoko want you to love yourself. Please.

    2) Starch

    King of enjoyment and good vibes. Starch lovers and beer drinkers are the same kind of people. Easy going and just trying to have a good time. They don’t insert themselves in unnecessary discourse because they’re not trying to prove anything to anyone. Overall best in best.

    3)Eba

    You are a very unappreciated and simple person. Life does not have to be hard for you, and everyone should adopt your style of life. People might call you lazy, but just tell them you are on energy-saving mode.

    4) Fufu

    Looks and smell don’t matter to you much. What matters to you is how something makes you feel on the inside. You are a very personality focused person, and more people should strive to be like you. You eat rubbish, but you don’t care. As long as you are happy, that’s what happens. You love your joy and don’t let anyone take that away from you.

    5) Pounded yam

    This might be the single most over-hyped swallow in all of existence. It is too selective, and as such doesn’t always slap. Pounded yam goes well with one soup (like some other brown swallow). If pounded yam is your favourite swallow, you act a lot like whiskey drinkers. You think you’re better than everyone, but you’re not.

    6) Lafun

    You did not obey the fanfare of Amala eaters, but instead took the road less travelled. I applaud your independence. You have a strong will. Also, people are always looking for your trouble by saying Amala and Lafun are the same things. They’re unclutured.

    7) Semo

    I think it is quite obvious what Zikoko thinks about semo, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be honest. If semo is your favourite swallow, you deserve respect. For you to be able to withstand insults and curses every day and continue to eat what is probably Nigeria’s most hated swallow, you deserve an award.

    You are resilient, steadfast, and not influenced by peer pressure. Unfortunately, your taste is also trash, so that kind of spoils all your amazing qualities.

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  • 7 Foods That Need To Really Step Up Their PR Game

    7 Foods That Need To Really Step Up Their PR Game

    PR is necessary — it is the only one thing that can make or mar a food’s reputation. And this is such a time where people can carry on a food slander without actually tasting the food itself. So, these foods need to do better if they don’t want to be wiped out of existence or become culinary pariahs.

    1. Avocado

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    The PR for this one is a cross between good and bad. Half the time, you see people who argue that it is the best thing and some others who fight for it to be cancelled. Girl, rise and defend yourself.

    2. Isi ewu

    Seven Easy Steps To Preparing Isi Ewu (Goat head) — Guardian Life — The  Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

    This one has good PR. But the wooden bowl they serve it in is a scam. It better change its game before the secret is discovered.

    3. Gbegiri

    Yoruba Gbegiri Soup Recipe - How to cook Yoruba Gbegiri Soup!

    This one is hiding under amala and ewedu to feel good. Weyrey dey disguise. Something that people will soon start abandoning when they see that it is a dependent soup.

    4. Starch

    How to make Starch – Usi (Swallow for Banga) | Dobby's Signature

    This sweetheart is not blowing its trumpet hard enough and it’s upsetting me and my homegurls.

    5. Bounty.

    Bounty (chocolate bar) - Wikipedia

    Personally, I love Bounty. I like how it is one thing on the outside and another thing on the inside. But the chocolate itself needs to hire itself a good PR manager so I don’t have to keep hiding my face when they ask Bounty eaters to come out.

    6. Semo.

    7 Nigerian Swallows With Bad PR

    This one’s reputation is in the trash already. It will take a miracle to revive it. Here’s our interview with it: Interview With Semo: “My Slander Is So Forced”

    7. Pupuru.

    There’s very little that is known about this Ondo delicacy and I don’t like how this information is being withheld from the public. I tried pupuru once and my life was never the same.

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  • 7 Nigerian Swallows With Bad PR

    7 Nigerian Swallows With Bad PR

    Popular Nigerian swallows are popular because a lot of people talk about them and try to paint them good so that everybody likes them. But what about the other swallows that don’t make it into the limelight? This is a list of them.

    1. Fufu (Akpu).

    Fufu is one of the wonderful Nigerian swallows we have and it’s sad that this bad beesh does not get enough credit. Some people think it smells (someone once called it a swallow with body odour), but it’s probably because you people are eating the wrong type.

    2. Wheat.

    Wheat is a bomb ass swallow and I wonder why a lot of people don’t like it. Wheat goes well with any soup. And it’s nutritious too. So, what exactly is happening? Why is she not popular?

    3. Pupuru.

    Do you even know what that is? Pupuru is a delicacy that Ondo people (and a few others who love good food) know. Here’s how it is sold in the market:

    You take it home, scrape off the back and get your flour out. Mad ass swallow.

    4. Starch.

    Photo: Dobby’s Signature

    I won’t lie, I once did a bad mouth of this swallow. I called it ‘semo with palm oil added’, so yes, maybe I deserve cane. But now I have seen the light, and I am here to tell you that starch is an amazing swallow that needs to be spoken about more.

    5. Tuwo.

    Tuwo shinkafa - Naija Chef

    Yes, it might be popular in the North and with northerners, but you do realize that a lot of people don’t exactly rate Tuwo, right?

    6. Amala.

    Amala (food) - Wikipedia

    I love Amala, and I know you do too. But I saw a tweet where someone said Amala should be returned to the dustbin where it belongs and I knew that we had to improve Amala’s PR.

    7. Semo.

    A lot of people slander semo. A whole lot. And yes, I am one of them. Here’s my official slander: 7 Annoying Things About Making Semovita. So yes, semo activists need to do a better job.

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  • All Urhobo People Are Tired Of Hearing These Things

    On behalf of all the Urhobo people in Nigeria, I’d like to make an appeal to our fellow Nigerians. For the love of God, stop telling us these things.

    Please please stop.

    “So you are Urhobo? I had a friend in primary two who was Urhobo, his name was Akpos.”

    So what am I supposed to do with this information?

    “You are Urhobo? Oghene-what is your name?”

    Not all Urhobo names have Oghene in it please.

    “Niger-Delta abi? You people are enjoying the oil money o.”

    Yes, this is what we are enjoying.

    “Your pidgin must be fire.”

    Yes it is, but I refused to be stereotyped.

    “Are you from Warri?”

    It’s like you people think Warri is the only town in Delta state sha.

    “Oya say something in that your funny language.”

    Don’t let me catch you on the streets. Ekpa.

    “Please what’s the difference between you and Igbo people?”

    Please don’t ask me stupid questions, go and ask your secondary school geography teacher.

    “Urhobo? Abeg which one is that again? Tribes too plenty for this Nigeria.”

    It’s like stupid people are plenty too.

    “Ah so you people are the ones who gave us Goodluck Jonathan abi?”

    He’s from Bayelsa and no we are not all the same. Evwe.

    “Why do you people always have strange and long names?”

    You name is ‘Powermustchangehands’ but you are here talking. Orhue.

    “Please where is Delta again?”

    You didn’t go to school abi?

    “Shebi you know how to make Banga, when will you make for me”

    Yes, I can and no I won’t because you clearly don’t deserve it.

    “It’s you people that eat the starch meant for clothes abi?”

    Just look at how you are displaying your ignorance shamelessly.

    “You people are militants”

    Yes now, every one of us in the whole of Delta, we are all militants.

    “Urhobo wayooooo, areaaaaaa”

    Say that one more time.

    “Oya tell me a joke, shebi all of you are comedians”

    Akpororo can you see what you’ve caused?

    Are you from a minority tribe? What stereotypes are you sick and tired of hearing from other Nigerians?