A FOOD I THINK IS OVER HYPED

Food! Food!! Food!!!
Food is an essential part of our everyday life and it comes in different packages and varies from one culture to another. Every culture or locality is known mainly by their language, food or dressing. My dwelling here today is on food. Like I said before food is an essential part of our everyday life and different tribes have different dishes they are all unique in their own ways like the Hausa’s they are known for tuwo shinkafa, the calabars are known to own edikainkong while the yorubas are known for Ewedu,gbegiri and Amala efo riro( Vegetable soup),the urhobos are known for who and starch (yellow yellow) banga soup. The igbos are known to have the egusi (ofe iroro), pepper soup(ofe nsala), Abacha e.t.c

I'm from Delta state, agbor to be precise, we are classified as the Delta igbos, therefore majority of our foods are similar to that of the Igbos . Although different tribes do cook and eat food from other tribes which makes inter communication easier. I love all the dishes in my culture. It is hard to choose from one. My Dad once said no matter how the food is rated high, if someone not experienced cooks that particular food it might come out as a disaster, of which I kind of agree with him.

I'm saying all these because of the popular food of the East ABACHA. The first day I ate Abacha I vowed never to eat Abacha ever again. Abacha, also known as African salad, is a type of food originating with the Igbos in the south east part of Nigeria.Abacha is a product of cassava tubers. I don't really know how to prepare it but I know it's made from cassava. My reason for saying I don't like Abacha is this: I saw a lady selling it and in my mind I said today is that day let's eat this highly rated Abacha so I called her, I purchased some amount of Abacha from her and decided to dig into it as i have heard people rate it as one of the best if not the best of the side dish of the East.

My dear I was disappointed, you know that kind of a feeling that comes after a movie or something is hyped and you see the movie or you but that thing, the feeling of disappointment that's what I felt. It came out bad, very bad that I couldn't finish it and then I remembered what my dad said no matter how the food is rated high, if someone not experienced cooks that particular food it might come out as a disaster, the Igbos in my Honorable community I'm sorry but the Abacha came out very bad I had to throw it away. Till this day I dread Abacha a friend of mine said the person who prepared it is not experienced in preparing Abacha and I agree with her but I'm not sure I'm eating Abacha anytime soon, because it was a bad experience