In all(okay, maybe most) of us Nigerian's homes, a whole lot of our activities are common. Be you high class, middle class, low class, educated or not, whatever you be, it seems as though we all use same manual. Our parents too, especially our mothers all serve the characteristics of a typical Naija mother. You cannot miss it. They're always representing.
The kitchen activities are not excluded. They may not all happen in every home/kitchen. But most do. Okay just see for yourself. And for those of you who are unaware, I welcome you to the Nigerian kitchen
• Where we eat breakfast too late, sometimes in the afternoon. This is a way to reduce cost of living. In this Tinubu era, it's getting worse.
• Where whoever is cooking, mothers especially, makes sure to empty the palm oil bottle by placing it on top of a cooking pot, so that the palm oil will melt, making it easy for them to empty every drop in it. We don't like waste.
• Where the cook washes the fingers he/she used in pressing maggi inside food
• Where the top of the deep freezer is mostly used as chair and sometimes as dining table for eating.
•Where, once you no longer have use for a clothe, it automatically becomes a rag for mopping the kitchen floor.
•Where Rice and stew is the official food for Sunday. Till date, no other food is as eaten better as rice on Sunday. A long standing tradition.
• Where broom and parker is always kept behind the kitchen door and till date, no one knows the origin of this practice.
• Where garri and soup is preferred as breakfast because it is a heavy/filling meal.
• Where Maggi, salt and ground pepper is kept inside empty cream or bama containers.
• Where all plates used during the day are washed the next morning.
• Where yam and potatoes are kept on the kitchen floor.
• Where the fridge is lined and decorated with bottled water but inside the bottles are water from tapa.
• Where there are at least three knives but you must use only one, while the others are hardly used.
• Where fast-food takeaway plates are stored one inside another. They are hardly thrown out.
• Where pots are put inside bigger pots and even bigger pots. That way, it's a long pile of pots in order of size.
• Where staurday main meals ia moin-moin or akara.
• Where Saturdays are for cleanup.
They are far more than these but this is just the few I can remember. If you know any more, please add.
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