Some people do not like different food for different reasons.....
He says...
''I don’t like Nigerian food because of the smell, it smells really bad all over the house when my Mother cooks it. The smell of goatmeat and cow skin makes me sick ....
We always have to open the windows to let the smell out and its very irritating.
Another reason why I don’t like Nigerian food is because It looks like it is vomit sometimes, especially the ones used in eating garri and the taste is not so good in my mouth cos of the spices .
One day I will brace up some courage and eat a full Nigerian meal because my mother is on my case every time she eats food from her country. She says a proper Nigerian person should eat Nigerian meals and i tell her the same when she buys Mac Donalds to eat.
If you like Nigerian food, please continue to enjoy it, I have nothing against anyone's choice of food,'' .
Piece of mind reporting by Marc.
Tell him that he is missing a lot!
ReplyDeleteHe dey miss ooo.
DeleteVegetable soup well prepared will do him good. Nsala, abi pepper soul..
try him with yam chips and some chicken stew dip
DeleteMy children love jollof rice and anything draw soup. They only like Eba but I dey try force Amala and poundo Yam down their throat.
DeleteDrinking Garri is like having Santa coming, it excites my kids, we usually drink Garri with steak or grilled chicken and I go come pour Suya pepper untop, dem like to they say mummy it's spicy.
Children are all different.
Beautiful write-up 👍🏾👌🏾
Stella I'm just reading this. Your bambino is so cute. Wish I had kids early on, but I thank God for everything. What does he think about jollof rice and egusi soup with semo?
DeleteStella,your bambino will try it someday just give him time.
ReplyDeleteNice write up from your bambino.
Ewooo
ReplyDeleteVomit ke.
Pls try and give him our jollof rice with chicken o Jeweluchi.
Was going to suggest that too
DeleteGreen vegetable soup, party Jollof rice or white Nsala soup will hook him. Marc, when one 9ja babe hooks your heart, 9ja food will hook your belle. Nothing do you so keep opening the windows when Mama cooks. One day na one day you will sing another song of which kind soup my Mama cook ohh Ogbono supe...Lol
DeleteAh I have really been absent. So this writer is SDk son?
DeleteWow! Kudos to him.
Well, don't force yourself, if you don't like it. I'm sure your mum had a lot of time to adjust to the food over there. Take your time Marc.
ReplyDeleteSide eyes @ Eka Joy 🙄🤪
Why u dey side eye me na. Their food sef dey smell horrible to me. And how person go dey put fruit like orange inside a 'swamp' of rice
DeleteLol 😁😁😌
DeleteLmao @Eka.Or the one when tomatoes go dey taste like sugar inside sauce.Oyibo food no be for me biko.
DeleteReminds me of when I just gave birth and they wanted to kill me with lasagna at the hospital, lunch and dinner, hian. Una no get rice and stew or amala ni? That hospital experience made me hate lasagna till today.
Delete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The part of "i tell her the same when she buys MacDonald's to eat." Stella your son has a good sense of humour and this piece just made my morning. Well written piece! Thumbs up to him.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha sdk stop to dey eat mac Donald's oh. Stick with naija snacks such as beans pie or fish roll lol
DeleteMarc has finished us o,how can our soups look like vomit to you🤔🤔😆😆.If you were in Nigeria,we would have suspended like Twitter 😆😆
ReplyDeletei love your son already!
ReplyDeleteStella, this son of yours is blunt like you o. Lols.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the same reason a person born an raised abroad will say lol
ReplyDeleteEven as Nigerian, there are still some foods that grosses me out
It's just the possible acceptance for me😁.
Well you really have not choice oo cos Stella is your mum I am sure she is still looking for ways to make you eat Nigerian food😁.
My advice is you should let your guard down abit and start embracing and allow yourself to love it. After all there is a Nigerian in you lol. Stella should make jollofrice and plantain for you, that should be a start from there, you can develop
Marc oooo. Be nice na. Our delicacies are the one best you can find in the world. I can't do without eating Nigerian food.
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Lol look at this one there. Have u tried our party jollof. Abeg when u see Ghana food I will change all this u said up there😂😆. First time I saw it, I thought they were prepping a bowl for sacrifice to welcome their new wife. I am sure if my mind could talk they could have killed me😆😆😆. But their food is amazingly delicious 😋 ooo
ReplyDeleteGhana food is crazy...you will see garri, avocado, uncooked blendedpepper, spaghetti , beans, boiled egg all on 1 plate🤣🤣🤣🤣. They must add boiled egg and avocado to anything thry are eating even egusi🤣
DeleteLol. She's on my case. He sounds so nigerian lol
ReplyDeleteDon't worry Marc, you will love it one day, let me send correct Afang soup to you😀
ReplyDelete😂😂😂 Well, that's because you didn't grow up eating them. That's understandable. But I thought your mum eats vegetable soup a lot? That one doesn't look like shit na. Lol. You can try that one.
ReplyDeleteStella na you cause am. How can you be eating bread and okro?😂😂
Okro wey face no kuku fine, you carry chop bread. Lol.
Marc o. Youbdin finish us o😂😂😂😂😂.
DeleteStella, try prepare correct Banga soup for am o.
Our orisiirisi delicacy looking like vomit 🙄🙄🙄that's rude pls. Stella, stop forcing him to eat what he doesn't like it's not by FORCE to eat a particular food.
ReplyDeleteAnd has he tried our Jollof rice? Will you mind I make an order from that Germany based food vendor for him? I'm sure he will have a change of mind.
😆😆😆 We love our Nigerian foods o..
ReplyDeleteLol, some landlords don't rent their apartments to Indians and Nigerians because they claim the smell of our food stays even after we have left the property. That Iru can smell ehhh. Our food is yummy though.
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@stays even after we have left the property.
DeleteWhen Stella too will be cooking goat meat with body odour
Lmao @ When Stella too will be cooking goat meat with body odour. 🤣🤣🤣
DeleteLoooool lmao
DeleteThe same way some of us don't like oyinbo food. It also looks like vomit to some of us especially their soup. So I guess its to each his own.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in the hospital, they kept bringing their soup to me. I pray make I touch am oh
DeleteAmin 14:03, thanks jare. It’s each to his own. You see some oyinbo combo like roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and you’d feel like puking. Eba and ila asepo is bae all day long
DeleteEka forget that hospital food oh, mine was lasagna, broccoli and yoghurt. Seeing the food alone kills my appetite.
DeleteLol...
ReplyDeleteI am 100% Nigerian but I do not cook Nigerian food and do not permit it to be cooked in my tiny London flat for exactly the same reasons. I just can’t deal with the stink and the excessive amount of time and effort required to cook it. If I’m desperate, I just go to the Nigerian restaurant. I can’t kill myself.
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason kitchen hoods have extractors.
DeleteAs if all kitchens have extractors
DeleteOkporoko smell is really bad.
ReplyDeleteThat being said , you write well though. You should consider being a writer. Kudos!
ReplyDeletePlease has he tried our sweet ewagoyin and agege bread, Marc please give it a try. You won't regret eating that food 😋😋😋
ReplyDeleteMarc, our food will make you strong and energetic, you can lift a 25kg bag if you eat garri.
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DeleteLol... Stella and her Bambino
ReplyDeletePretty Patience
😀 good write up..
ReplyDeleteEwoooo, Marc, our food doesn't look like vomit o. And it doesn't smell bad either. You are missing and you need to taste Nigerian food one day.
ReplyDeleteExactly. It's his view anyway. Same way I have no business with most oyinbo food (some are nice).
DeleteLet's be honest our food het strong smell, just burn candles while cooking
DeleteWell done Marc, he said his piece of mind.
ReplyDeleteMy mother is on my case😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my mother is on my case every time she eats food from her country
ReplyDeleteSuccinctly. Thumbs up jare
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣 Stella your bambino is really funny! Oh my days! Has he tried fried rice with shrimps or correct vegetable soup with fufu! Don't worry sooner or later his tastebuds will adjust! Marc you made my day young man! Goat meat without body odour is that one goat meat???
ReplyDeleteWith fufu? You want him to totally reject us? Even my Nigerian father hates the smell and doesn't eat it. I think semo will do.
DeleteThe way i hate goat meat ehn...i always wonder how people enjoy it. The way i like fufu ehn...people always wonder why i enjoy it. I hate goat meat because of the smell and i love fufu because of the smell. Irony of life.
ReplyDeletesame here about fufu.I can't eat fufu with no smell.
DeleteFufu from Ogun State has no smell. There's a way you can cook goat meat that the odour won't be detected.
DeletePlease eat good food and grow big n strong ooo,not Everytime chips and sugar, chicken and coke , spaghetti and sausage. All that one na appetizer even if I go anywhere else, I LL go to any hole to eat OUR NIGERIAN MEAL
ReplyDeleteMarc, you are missing o
ReplyDeleteLooool this piece is quite relatable, food presentation is also so important for me , but I have come to realise that most of these not so good looking food are actually tasty . I don't like spicy foods but I've noticed that most African dishes are quite spicy.
ReplyDeleteWell this actually made me laugh so much
He said it the way it is for him. Even me wey be naija bred, I no dey eat some naija food. May God have mercy on me, I'm married to an ibo man but I don't like ibo food especially the soups, I always like the aroma of the soup when it is prepared but putting it in my mouth is a big problem for me, I thank God for the kind of family I'm married into, not the type that will say our wife, oya goan prepare oha soup for the family let's us eat, just to force it on me, they cook their soups themselves and allow me to cook any soup of my choice. I don't eat chicken or turkey now, but goodness me I ate shege for their bodies when growing up, how I suddenly stopped eating them still baffles me till today.
ReplyDeleteNice write up Marc, you have a good sense of humor.
Dear writer it is IGBO NOT IBO.
DeleteChoi,he is so funny and blunt too🤣🤣.It's because he didn't grow up here that's why he doesn't like it.Some of my nephews and nieces that are biracial and partly grew up here love Nigerian food like there's no tomorrow.In fact one of them cannot do without pounded yam,(not poundo oo)and nsala soup at least twice a week but when he started growing a potbelly,nobody asked him to watch his calorie intake.
ReplyDeletewhen he started growing a potbelly 😂😂
Delete😂😂😂😊 @ pot belly
DeleteLol... This is indeed Stella's son. As blunt and straight to the point like his mother. No time to sugarcoat.
ReplyDeleteI swear down.her son indeed.i was just reading with smiles.
DeleteAs in....
DeleteVery blunt like Stella. I love him already.
DeleteWell done Marc👍 but our food is nice tho!try and see 😅😅😅😅 @ my mother is on my case! Jeweluchi this your Bambino is blunt like you sha! Monkey no fit born goat! E dey blood
ReplyDeleteLol
ReplyDeleteMarc with this your write up, I doubt if you will bring yourself to taste Banga Soup with Cat fish, Periwinkle and Starch🤔🤔🤔🤔
Personally i don't like banga it feels like i am swallowing oil
DeleteOh my!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
ReplyDeleteThis was all because she did not feed them with nigerian food when they were toddlers. What we were fed by our parents is it not what we are eating and still enjoying today? You cannot come and start forcing them to eat nigerian food when you didnt train them with the food.
ReplyDeleteExactly
DeleteStella try yam and egg, yamarita, akara, ojojo... he will love them.
ReplyDeleteFor those abroad, if you want your kids to eat Nig food you have to start from chilhood and continue all the way till their twenties. That's the only way. But that's only possible for those who have an African store in the cities they live in.
ReplyDeleteMe too didn't enjoy American food but now I've adjusted to the tasteless soup and uncooked meat called steak. It's a struggle.
😂 uncooked meat. It’s called medium rare 😂
DeleteOh dear, your bambino is been honest🤗. One day he might come to love it.
ReplyDeleteNot everything smells good when it is cooking. My mom always tried to fry fish outside so the smell would not stay in the house.
ReplyDeletePlus you have to introduce food in stages especially for children.
Abeg fried fish smells good. The ones that smell bad are like ogiri, akpu (white foofoo). Then Try chicken that has been killed and hot water poured on the body to remove the feathers. I can't stand that smell.
DeleteChoice
ReplyDeleteMarc 😀😀😀
ReplyDeleteI am a nigerian married to an American,he says our food has a funny smell,I have even stopped using curry and tyme to cook cos that one also makes your apartment have a funny smell after cooking.I remember when my brothers was cooking beans at our former apartment,i could perceive the smell from the staircase.American food does not smell like that.
ReplyDeletePlease who are you people? Beans, curry and thyme are smelly? Hian. What will you now say for ogiri, akpu, dawadawa and so on? He will just run and leave you for house 🤣🤣 one day when I was still fresh in the US I took ofada stew to office for lunch lol. They were polite though saying it smells good 🤣🤣
DeleteNice one but Marc u are missing o, naija food na bam.
ReplyDeleteJewelu u didn't introduce our food to ur Bambinos at early stage that's why. But let him try our jellof rice and he'll sing a new song
So there is this joke about a nigerian who keeps thinking he has covid, because he couldn't taste his food, then he realize he is visting his white friend😁😁😁😁😁
ReplyDeleteI was watching oyibo cooking show, he was making spag, he added olive oil, then garlic, then black pepper (sprinkle) and chopped parsely, then the spag chikena, they were eating and dping yummy yummy, and i was like yummy bawo? No salt or maggi and you are saying yummy😁😁
That is acquired taste for you!
Hahahaha 😂
DeleteMy niece and nephews that live in Canada dey eat Nigerian food like say tomorrow no dey. My sister introduced them to it early sha. Marc you’re a good writer and funny too🤗
ReplyDeleteStella it’s your fault na, if u want ur kids to like Nigerian food , u have to feed them with it from 6 months , it’s what u give to a child that he knows and eats ,except u get money for McDonald’s everyday
ReplyDeleteMarc I hope one day you truly eat a Nigerian meal like you said. May change your perception. You write well. One more thing, never desribe people's food like vomit.
ReplyDeleteHope u write back when you have fully tried a Nigerian meal.
And my 6yo is next to me telling me he wants semo and ewedu after school tomorrow buhahaha
ReplyDeleteHe was born in abroad o but I started feeding him naija food from 3 months old no time I can’t cook oyinbo food abeg
I have biracial kids, twins, now 10 years old. They love eating any type of swallow and okro soup. Also love jollof rice n dodo so much that even when they are having play dates with their friends over the weekend the friends would plead with me to cook jollof rice and "grilled bananas". I got to school one morning and his friends' mom asked what exactly was jollof rice. Lol.
ReplyDeleteStella, did you introduce them to naija foods earlier enough?
Probably them for no get choice. Have they been to naija?