When it comes to food, I am a lover of food. Okay, not just any food but good food. I am not the picky type I eat anything edible that is me for you. When I saw this week's prompt, I had to do a soul-searching to find out that one food I don't like.
While soul searching, for a second I said to myself hmm there's nothing to write oo cause it seems as if I love anything called food. Even when food tastes bad, I convince myself it tastes good and that is all. At first, I might not like it (which is a rare situation. I always love food at first lolz), but when I get to eat it again and again, I find a way of falling in love with it.
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But there is this particular native dish of ours that I don't just like. I have tried and tried and tried, but it's not working. Okoho soup.
Okoho is a native soup by the Idoma people of Benue State. It is made from the stem of a plant. The botanical name is cissus populnea belonging to the family of Amplidanceae. The Yoruba people call it Orogbolo while the Hausa call it Dafara. It is usually serve with pounded yam, semovita or amala.
Why I dislike the soup.
Now when it comes to taste, Okoho tastes amazing especially when prepared with dried fish and bush meat. My only problem with the soup is that, it is very slimy. My grandpa loves it so well and I would have loved it too if not for its slimy nature and the stress that comes with eating it.
Okoho soup is so slimy that when fetching it from the pot, everything goes into your plate. It feels as if the bond the soup share is unbreakable. The viscosity is too high.
I hate okoho because of the stress that comes with eating it. What I mean by the stress is that one can hardly fetch okoho soup from a plate successfully because of its slimy nature. The soup always falls back to the plate leaving your swallow empty and if you try taking out the soup, the whole soup goes with your swallow leaving your plate empty.
The first day I ate okoho soup with pounded yam, I ended up leaving the dining angry. My mum was complaining of how I was littering the whole place with soup. I was embarrassed and pained at the same time because it was not my fault that the dining table was littered. The soup was not just cooperating at all. I thought the only problem I had was with okra soup and ogbono soup but okoho is worst.
The issue of slimy soup making maps on the table is why I am not a big fan of okra soup and ogbono soup. I eat them at home very well when eating alone. But the mistake I promise myself never to make is eating okra or ogbono in a restaurant. I can't embarrass myself.
As for okoho, it will never cook it. The slimy nature of the soup is why I dislike it and don't enjoy eating it.
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This one ehh,
I can't laugh finished oo
Because i can't really see the genuine reason for your disliked
OMG. Where do you live? Let me prepare it and bring it for you.
Maybe, you'll understand my fraustration.
Hahhahahaha
Oh my God, i would have love to have the taste ooo....Maybe i should send you my Bluetooth account so that some can prepared it for me here
lolz
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I laughed here ehn🤣
I have never heard of this soup but it sure sounds like a really troublesome one. I would love to try it though, just to have the experience.
Are you sure of this one?
Lol, I am. I am quite the explorer, I'd rather try it and be traumatized than not try it at all.
Wow. This is new
I have never heard of this soup but if you eat okro soup or ogbono soup, can't you pretend it's just like that and eat it? Or is Okoho soup even more slimy than Okro?
This cracked me up.😂
My dear, it's more slimy than the both of them. In fact, I'd say okro and ogbono is learning work
Ahhhh, that's something else. God will help us.😄
God will help us oo
Eating this soup sounds like a struggle 😂
I can't imagine a soup that is more slimy than ogbono and/or okra. I'm excited to see what it looks like though
It's a serious struggle dear friend
If you try it , the whole soup follows the swallow? I don’t know but this is funny 🤣
My dear, that soup is just too dramatic