FOOD POLITICS

I ALWAYS KILLED IT...

    I WAS NEVER ALWAYS A GREAT EATER WHEN I WAS QUITE LITTLE...I WAS SKINNY AND FRAGILE. I LOVED SWEETS AND CHOCOLATES BUT REAL FOOD WAS NEVER MY PASSION.

BEING FROM A NIGERIAN HOME, GARRI (EBA) WAS ALWAYS A CONSTANT FEATURE IN OUR MEALS AT HOME..,. AND I SOOO HATED IT, THE THOUGHT OF SWALLOWING WAS A BIG ISSUE FOR ME YUCKKK!!!! SOMETIMES I WOULD SQUEEZE MY FACE TIGHT JUST TO TAKE A SWALLOW...I TRIED AND TRIED AND TRIED UNTIL I DECIDED "THAT'S IT , NO MORE EBA SWALLOWING"  AND TILL TODAY I DON'T EAT EBA. NOTE THAT THIS APPLIES TO ALL FORMS OF SWALLOWING AGENTS E.G SEMOVITA AND 'LINA,POUNDED YAM, POUNDED RICE ETC

MY MUM TRIED TO SET UP A FOOD ROSTER THAT WE WOULD STRICTLY ADHERE TO BUT IT NEVER DID WORK BECAUSE WE HAD ONE FOOD OR THE OTHER WE DIDNT LIKE...I WOULD NEVER EAT EBA AND MY OTHER BROTHERS MIGHT NOT LIKE A CERTAIN FOOD,SO THE FOOD ROSTER WAS NEVER FOLLOWED.

SHE NEVER GAVE UP ON GETTING ME TO EAT IT..SHE WOULD SIT ME DOWN AND START A CHAT ABOUT HOW EBA MADE A GIRL BIG AND STRONG. SINCE THAT DIDN'T WORK, SHE INTENSIFIED....WHENEVER THERE WAS AN OUTING OR VISITATION OF SOME SORTS, SHE WOULD SAY, IT WAS EITHER I ATE EBA OR AM NOT GOING TO FOLLOW HER....ARRRGGGHH!!!  BUT IT STILL DIDNT WORK, I JUST WOULDNT EAT IT..LOLZZZ

GOOD THING IS THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR ME. THE GOOD "OL SPAGHETTI OR RICE, BREAD AND TEA, BISCUIT FLAKES (CABIN BISCUIT, MILK AND SUGAR MIXED WITH WATER) OR GO TO BED WITHOUT FOOD....(MOSTLY THE CASE THOUGH)

BUT ALAS WHILE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL I FORMED A BOND WITH AMALA....IT SEEMED REALLY EASY TO SWALLOW WITH THE EWEDU....WE HAD AN AMALA JOINT (POPULARLY KNOWN AS "A.J")

PREPARING A LOVELY POT OF SOUP THOUGH WAS NEVER AN ISSUE FOR ME AS I COULD DO SO WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. AFTERALL THIS IS AFRICA..HEHEHEHE...YOU MUST LEARN IT.

MOST PEOPLE STILL CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW I WOULD STAY MONTHS WITHOUT A TASTE OF EBA AND SOUP. THEY ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS FORMING AS MOST NAIJA GIRLS DO.

AS MUCH AS THEY RANT ABOUT IT,GIVE ME WEIRD LOOKS AND ALL,I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT SOME FOODS ARE JUST NOT MEANT TO BE EATEN....