Snail is one of my favourite delicacies.
I love it in any type of soup or stew, I love it peppered too. Very nutritious and healthy food.As a married man i eat it a lot and my wife knows how to prepare it for me..
During my last child's naming ceremony, we added it to the vegetable soup (efo riro).I instructed that the soup be served to only important guests, my colleagues and friends.
I had a special table for them. As I stood monitoring how the food was served to my special people, a colleague jumped up and left the table. What happened?He said eating of snail is forbidden in his town in Delta State, including periwinkle. He was from Ukwani in Delta State, they speak a type of Igbo. He said he is not supposed to sit near where they are eating it, let alone touch it.
I offered him another seat elsewhere and served him another soup.
The incident made me to remember when I was young. In my compound, two neighbours used to fight regularly. One was Calabar, the other was Delta Igbo. The one from Delta used to complain that the Calabar woman dumped periwinkle shells in front of her apartment, that she wants to kill her and her family. Lmao.
Stella, do you forbid them too in your part of Delta State?
Stella, do you forbid them too in your part of Delta State?
Hmmm Sweet pepper snails!! Even in some places in Imo state no dey eat Snail too..Na wa oh a lot of forbidden foods in Delta state; na so I hear Ogbono soup too...
ReplyDeleteI like snails but it's not that special in my eyes. It's just there.
ReplyDeleteI know several people from Delta state who said they forbid it in their place but they still eat mainly because they don't believe in it or the repercussions
ReplyDeleteStella's part of Delta eat snail. It's the Delta Igbos that forbid it.
ReplyDeleteThank God in my place, we eat all and every food. I love food 🤸
Fidel my fellow foodie how far? Una dey forbid am too?
Lol @ she wants to kill her family. Those people don't go near snail shell shell at all.
ReplyDeleteThat's traditional/culture. In my place, we eat all but what we don't eat is "UNA" looks like yam.
ReplyDeleteMao Akuh
Wow!! Same as my place,we don't eat una.
DeleteAre you my sister 😂😂
Are you from Imo state? I remember my brother in law quarrelling with me that I'm eating una in his house.
DeleteI don’t like snails. I can mange it if it’s fried sha.
ReplyDeleteI hate eating snail now, but I remember vividly that I ate it while growing up.
ReplyDeleteI love snails in soup,stew or peppered.
ReplyDeleteThe other day my hair stylist brought plenty for me,said she got them from plantain plantations in her compound. I was so happy and cleaned washed them and used in making okazi soup.
I think the issue here is serving food without first finding out if your guests have any allergies or dietary restrictions. It’s a sign of maturity and social consciousnesses to ask these questions first before making the assumption that everyone eats the same thing.
ReplyDeleteFor my own part of Delta we dey chop snail and periwinkle, although some people who do gun charm forbid the snail.
ReplyDeleteMost times what people forbid is what their charm forbids them from doing.
So they are suspect of some form of charm.
How can you be a Christian and be keeping some cultural dos and donts?
ReplyDeleteEven if you point a gun to my head, I won't eat.
ReplyDeleteI think you have an ulterior motive serving snail and monitoring how it was served to your so called special people, so this your chronicle no follow. Eat what you like and don’t force people to eat what you like cos some people are naturally allergic to sea foods and certain kinds of food. You should have asked before serving people. You’re totally wrong and I wouldn’t want to be friends or eat from people like you.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the monitoring and two-tiered service was eye opening. All guests should be equal and have equal access to the same foods. One set getting the ‘rich’ food and the other set getting the ’poor’ food. Who does that to ppl? How would he feel if he went to support someone and saw two different tiers of meals being served and he got the lesser meal. If I ever tried this shyt my grandma would kick my ass from the grave, and my parents would finish up after.
DeleteHopefully, his eyes open up with some of the comments on how to make himself a better host. And always being conscious of those with allergies and dietary restrictions and not making assumptions.
Anon's , this is not new . Even in weddings, there are special tables or high tables. Guests on these tables are big wigs and sponsors who are served specially.
DeleteMake una rest abeg
I love the peppered one.
ReplyDeleteI love snails
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