Prompt/Contest: Forbidden Foods

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After writing this, I realized that it will serve as a good prompt for us and will also help us learn about various traditions around the world. Let's make it a prompt✌️.

Write an article about the foods(animals & plants) that are forbidden in your region

• Let it be original

• Add photos

• It should be at least 600words

• Use the tag #Forbiddenfoods

• And tag/mention me @Kacy01

• Submit to any community

Shouldn't this be a contest? Let's see how it goes🏋️🏋️

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Yesterday I wrote about a a particular community that forbids mushroom and that's because of the gods of the land.

I want to share with you the things that are forbidden in my home town.

• ✨Fish from river✨

We have rivers surrounding us, infact the extension of my community harbours the source of RIVER ETHIOPE. We were told that the water is spirited and as such, people worship the river. People from different places come to the rivers to pay homage to the goddess of the river and sacrifice some food items.

We were told that the fishes from the rivers are not to be eaten because they're are children of the river goddess🤣.

From what I noticed, the law is only applicable to the indigenes and has no effect on non indigenes because I've seen where these people(non indigenes) set traps and catch plenty of fishes.

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These rivers have a lot of fishes, we see them come out from their hidding places to play when the river is calm, and each time I see them, my 'long throat' becomes longer and want to catch some but no way🤭.

One day I had to ask my father to tell me the reason why non indigenes are enjoying fishes from the rivers while indigenes are not allowed to eat it and my father couldn't give a reasonable reason.

So I made up my mind to enjoy those fishes too because I don't see any reason why non indigenes are enjoying that alone. I and my immediate younger brother went to buy fish hook and went for fishing. That was the day that I knew that fishes are stubborn to catch, we didn't catch a single fish, maybe it's because we are not professionals.

Asking what we would have done with the fish had it been that we caught one? It's food of course! I don't believe in all those Superstitious.

• ✨Coco Yam✨

Till today, eating Coco Yam is still seen as a taboo in my community. I don't actually know the reason behind this.

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I don't eat coco Yam because I don't like yam itself (and that's because we produce yam in our farms), if it were something I like, I would have be enjoying myself because we have it in surplus in my place.

• ✨Tortoise✨

I still don't know the main reason or story why it's not eaten in my place. If we see or catches it, we sell it off to people that eat. We have some Westerners in my town that talk how sweet tortoise meat is.

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During my school days, I and my friend once caught a tortoise in our fish trap, we threw it back to the river. When we got home, I told my course mate about the tortoise we caught and he screamed at me and blamed me for throwing such delicious meat away why he eats. Hahah🤣

I haven't eaten tortoise because it looks scary and not because I'm forbidden to eat it.

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We have many things that we eat in my community, I mean a lot of anyhow things.

Disclaimer: The content below might be disgusting and annoying to you. Feel free to skip

I haven't tasted snake once but some people in my community eat it. According to them, snake is very delicious. During NYSC, I met Yoruba friends that eat snake and ....😂😂😂. I didn't joined them. I found it weird and not because I forbids, no!

Some part of my region don't eat snail, but I eat it. It's very delicious.

In my community, we have a large percentage of people that don't eat dog and I'm one of them. It's not like I forbids, no. I finds it more domesticated and so it's somehow for me to eat.

We eat bush rabbit and other many bush meats like grass cutter, antelope etc in my community. I know of some people that don't eat these too.

I made a google search about this subject and I was directed to nairaland. Mehn, I laughed a lot at the things I saw. This life is not balanced 🤣. One man's food is another man's poison.

Thanks for reading💝💝💝

12th October 2022