Cultural Dishes You Don't Think You will Ever Get Used To

[discerned1 0]

I thought bush meat was just that... any meat that they could find... in the bush!!!

I know, right!?

[discerned1 0]

When I was in Africa, I thought I could never get used to eating any of the stuff down there, but I loved the things my fiance family served, never turned one dish down. However, I never eaten bush meat. I always wondered what type of meat it was. Anyway, I could never eat goat meat or anything wild like that. sorry. Thankfully, my fiance always made sure goat meat wasn't on the menu.

Goat can be really good if prepared properly. Just had it Monday.

I still don't think I can eat goat comfortably. I wouldn't care if goat was braised with a gourmet sauce. I just wouldn't be able to get past that dreaded acquired tasted.

[LadyVictor 0]

Well I surely can not eat fish heads, fufu or fish soup. lol..lol

[discerned1 0]

Well I surely can not eat fish heads, fufu or fish soup. lol..lol

I know exactly what you mean. I can't stand fish at all let alone fish soup???Omigoodness! Fufu smells really bad. I don't think I can get with that. I'm glad my fiance doesn't like it because I will not have to cook it.

[Queen Jenn 0]

Well I surely can not eat fish heads, fufu or fish soup. lol..lol

I haven't had fufu yet. But I agree with the fishy stuff. I OCCASIONALLY eat some tuna fish. And I will eat fish in Hawaii (there is one called Ono) but it has to have been caught that morning. BUT NO FISH HEADS, and as a general rule, no fish in soup. blech!!

[safitu 0]

That could definitely be it--you've gotta try it with 'sauce gumbo" - okra sauce. I'll admit, it looks a little like snot, but tastes delicious. Fufu really isn't bad with any other sauces, but you're right, anything with eru tastes bad!!!

This post made me hungry. I first traveled to Ghana when I was 17 and lived with a family there. I fell in love with the food...so flavorable and spicy. Shito, Banku, Kenkey, wakye, contomere greens, kelewele, gari, all the soups - groundnut, okru, palmnut oh my goodness its so good. Fufu is ok, not my foavorite but I'll eat it. Fufu and ugali are very different...fufu is pounded cassava and plaintain, ugali is corn flour cooked to a stiff porridge, which is also eaten in west africa but usually they make it more flavorful by adding fermented cassava flour. Im not a fan of fish heads and I dont eat meat but I dont think I would like goat or any kind of organs, even if I did. East African food is good, but I think I like West African better.

[Kanyiri 0]

Bush meat is anything you find in the bush: rabbit, squirrels, etc. There is one particular large rat - called the grasscutter - that is most likely the one everyone is referring to. I've had it, and it wasn't too bad. It tasted kinda like goat meat to me.

[zetku 0]

This post made me hungry. I first traveled to Ghana when I was 17 and lived with a family there. I fell in love with the food...so flavorable and spicy. Shito, Banku, Kenkey, wakye, contomere greens, kelewele, gari, all the soups - groundnut, okru, palmnut oh my goodness its so good. Fufu is ok, not my foavorite but I'll eat it. Fufu and ugali are very different...fufu is pounded cassava and plaintain, ugali is corn flour cooked to a stiff porridge, which is also eaten in west africa but usually they make it more flavorful by adding fermented cassava flour. Im not a fan of fish heads and I dont eat meat but I dont think I would like goat or any kind of organs, even if I did. East African food is good, but I think I like West African better.

i too LOVE West African food! i'm from the Caribbean so much of our food is similar to/based on African dishes. so if its meatless bring it on, Ghanaian, Nigerian, Gambian, Senegalese soups, stews, jollof rice, fufu, conomere, kenkey, plantain, gari, wackye, fried yam, boiled yam....all this week, i've been craving banku, pepper and fish! i love eating with my hands and sharing the same dish as my beloved. and my Ghanaian crew/family is always so pleasantly surprised with how enthusiastically and comfortably i dig in at mealtime!! i've been known to gain a few pounds with every visit actually!! i must say however i had an interesting experience pretending to eat a not so lovely snail soup offered by a lovely hostess, lol. but overall, i think its a wonderful and important way to really get to know a place, a people, the language and a culture by eating the traditional dishes with folks everyday. i've also shared in some of the cooking too. these days, food culture has also become a way for mylove and i to bond over the distance, i always i ask him "baby, what did you eat today?" and he's like "oh your favorite---fish and banku!" or "i'm about to get some wackye from such and such place, remember that spot?" or "the lady who sells roast fish on the main road was asking about you." and of course we've already discussed that he's to bring as much Fante kenkey and black pepper as he can carry when he gets that visa!

peace and smiling fish-heads to all!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Gumfu (whatever way that is spelled) ain't for me. Other than that, I liked most of the Ethiopian dishes I've tried thus far. Well, I have reservations on this intestines stew. Not so much the taste - that's quite alright - but the texture doesn't sit well with me.

[LovinLiberia 0]

Yes, something about the texture of intestines that throw me off, too. lol.

[We_Destiny 1]

Ogbono (not sure of spelling) YUCK !!! It tastes like soap. I call it soap soup .

[Otto 83]

hmmm..I think I'll eat most any German food...

[southernchic 0]

I eat this food alittle but I'm not 100% used to it.....its call Kitfo.....basically beef tartare......rare ground beef and very popular in Ethiopia. The first time I tasted and I said, "Are you sure this is cooked." My husband said, "yes, its cooked." But when I looked at it and tasted it it just seemed like raw meat to me. Later I realized it REALLY was rare ground beef.

Lord the foods we eat for love and relationships.

Sonya

Fufu... and how he likes to eat the WHOLE chicken, fish, whatever.... (although not as bad as some I have seen in Cameroon)

[JelloShotGirl 0]

PUSIT.............dried squid ! ewwww!

[LovinLiberia 0]

lol, I definately wouldn't be able to get used to that!