since you all asked for food....here it goes

there is an obsession with carbs here, but people dont really realize they are carbs. they are staples if anything.


they are rice, jollof rice (which is rice with a red tomato like sauce mixed into it. very spicy and very yummy,) this beans and rice thing (which is rice and black eyed peas no sauce but very tasty,) fried plantains, yams (in many styles, but they taste and look more like potatoes rather than american yams, except that they are in raw form as big as my leg,) a variety of spagetti things yumm,

and then the things that i am still having a hard time eatting:

fufu, which tastes like nothing and is the texture of un cooked bread dough, banku which tastes like sourdough bread dough, and kenka which i havent tried yet. these are all eatten with soups like groundnut soup, okra soup, palmnut soup etc. each of these are also served with a hunk of meat or fish in them and are all slightly slimy. groundnut tasts like fishy peanutbutter, orka is just slimy and palmnut i dont know about. you eat all of this by the way with your hands. there is an art to it i guess but to me it just looks messy and strange.

there are then those things that i put on rice and yams etc. that i really enjoy, that is spicey cabbage, this spinach thing, curried veggies, veggie stew, red red (black eyed peas in a red spicey sauce with onions and peppers. tasty.


all for now.