Don’t get too close to a Husband and a Wife who are in good terms with each other o. Konkonsa? Gossip? ‘They say they say’? Hmmm! They would gossip and say all kinds of things about you both positive and negative.
They don’t see it as gossiping o but they see it as singing of love songs to each other. Please who can tell me the Ayigbe name for ‘thermometer’? In my wife’s language, it is called ‘shhhhhhhh’. Is it true?
Anyway whether true or false, you don’t have the power to doubt what you don’t know so to the best of my knowledge, it is neither here nor there!
It is weekend again and last week, Jesus was betrayed and crucified again but He resurrected in order to save me and you, our lives. Amen! That is why you don’t need to bother yourself with people who pretend to like or hate you or choose others over you.
Where are the people who screamed “we want Barnabas” and Barnabas himself today? But the name Jesus is the one that we all scream to in joy and when we want to be saved!
It’s been one month of Ghana Month last month but the one I remember that excited me the most was the Ghana Month of 2023. JOY did justice to the month when it came to knowing more about Ghana with a lot of flagship discussions.
The one that intrigued me the most was the one concerning the Ghanaian dish / meal that can be identified and promoted internationally.
I was a bit surprised that a resource person settled on apapransa following some research bi that they had done. Do we even need a research into this exercise?
According to her, the research indicated that it is eaten everywhere. I have a variant opinion. Trust Kofi Winston and his Team; I was glad they subtly requested the possibility of doing another research again.
I personally don’t remember the last time I ate apapransa. Yes, it comprises most of the ingredients that go into its preparation. But apapransa can easily get you full in no time and the desire to have it again may not occur immediately. You eat a little and you are already ‘fed up’.
Lexis took it up later that afternoon and my personal favourite virtually won! Kris Brown (konkonte) is the big deal. It is the only meal my Mum told us when we were kids that it is good for the treatment of stomach ulcer though I know that was poverty talk (disclaimer: not scientifically proven).
I was surprised fufu was not really coming close to konkonte even though I personally eat fufu at least four times in a week. I just love fufu and when foreigners come to Ghana, they eat fufu with a lot of delight, sometimes with fork and knife and they go back with fond memories of the starchy meal!
Then a caller phoned in and said the food that should top is ‘fetri totto’. ‘Fetri what’? Lexis queried after he got dazed a bit by the mention of ‘totto’. I knew what he was thinking but it is what it is. Hahahaha! ‘Fetri detsi’ or okro soup is very popular across Ghana.
However, what it goes with determines who the torch-bearer is. If it is akple and fetri detsi, we all know where to drive towards.
But ‘fetri totto’? Ha! Don’t say this before my neighbor, Ataa Nikoi o! The difference is simple: whereas fetri detsi is typically characterized by the chopping / slicing of the okro into pieces with a knife before being cooked, ‘fetri totto’ is simply ‘grated okro’! It comes in different forms. Sometimes ‘fetri totto’ can be fresh okro put on fire and ground and prepared into soup and it can be really nice.
In some other parts of the country, ‘fetri totto’ has different means by which it is prepared. The dried okro is ground into a powdery form and prepared into soup. Having lived with my Kasena neighbours in Kisseman growing up, they called it ‘kuka’.
It is so nice and can go with tuo zaafi and anything prepared from grains! In my opinion, I think if there is any food that should be marketed internationally, fufu has the upper hand because it has already been marketed to some extent and leveraging on that will make it a big deal. Ghana fufui is great.
I don’t know of any part of the country where fufu is not eaten, generally! My last experience in Conakry, Guinea was where fufu made from pounded ripe plantain and eaten with thick palm nut soup. I feel like going back there again sef.
So now you know. It is not the kind of ‘totto’ as we know in Greek as ‘in tou-tou’ which means ‘in details’. If you are thinking something else, Jesus just resurrected last week.
But you know the desire for a particular meal is subjective. I may enjoy what another person may condemn.
Some people have probably not heard of my friend who went to stand on the ticket of MPT in the Vorta Region and voted against himself! The reality only dawned on him after he was done casting his vote.
My area? It is beyond the physical o. You vote in a certain way before you know you have ‘made a mistake’ by which time it would be too late. Vorta and you want to be MPT NP? Why don’t we fear the Bible and the Koran but fear the names Nogokpo and Antoa?
Food di333, don’t go there. I once used my pet goat for light soup and it was not be a bad idea at all but….Heyheyhey! Eeeeei! I invited only a few guys to chop my bachelor’s night on the eve of my wedding. I was not expecting more than 15 friends. Before I could say jack more than 150 cars had parked around.
One goat, 150 cars with their ‘contents’? How! Each car had an average of at least 2 human beings. Almost 300 adults with good appetite and only one goat! Alex, my paddy advised me to get the caterers to add more pepper, at least half a sack of chilli pepper (akwele waabi) pounded pepper into the soup and make available a lot of pure water.
In fact the good news was that the taps in my house were flowing that evening. This was to be a rendition of the miracle story Jesus feeding 5,000 people with two tilapia and aboolo. You won’t believe that everybody was served ‘satisfactorily’ that night. If you don’t use your head your body will suffer! Kai! Each person was served a piece of goat meat and some soup around it as a special 4G soup.
Believe me, most people couldn’t finish this one piece of meat after tasting and drinking the soup. The next thing was to ask for water. Some drunk almost one bucket of water just to ‘cool’ the effects of the pepper.
The pepper was really hot and probably only good for some type of smokers! Only 2 notorious friends of mine managed to finish their meat and soup and were still fine even though one could see that their eyes turned red. I don’t know what they smoke but I suspected them paaa! The rest drank water saaaaaaaaaa till their bladders were ready to explode!
My small goat and you people had plans and brought your girlfriends along to come and eat and go!
This my goat was so stubborn I often would go crazy anytime I see it trying to cough especially after having eaten beans the previous day. Not really about the coughing it coughs but the 3tuabo gas that it emits from behind anytime it does, in an attempt to compete with me.
It is perhaps the only animal that passes gas conspicuously as humans do – they don’t care. It coughs and then you can hear the sound. It sneezes and can walk shamelessly ahead of you, unconcerned.
Contrary to natural perceptions, did you know that men gossip more than women? Konkonsa? Give us the Grami award for it. I belong to one such gossip group and the things we can say about people er, you have no idea.
All we talk about are about women and how beautiful they are! Simple! Have a nice weekend and remember to ‘close the windows’ that hurt your eyes no matter how beautiful the view may be. This advice will help you save momo!
