Are Nigerians Adventurous With Food? Social Media Delivers Hilarious, Cheeky Answers

• For a section of Nigerians, consuming foreign food abroad implies having a cosmopolitan, suave and urbane taste, like being classy.

Citizens who stick to Nigerian food or other cultural elements are therefore deemed local and conservative food-wise. Part of this thinking, it can be argued, draws from inferiority complex: Europeans, Asians and others in Nigeria who don’t eat amala or oha are not called local.

Not only about food. At a time in Nigeria, playing Nigerian music or wearing Nigerian fashion was local. We have changed that in recent decades.

Don’t get me wrong: it’s great to try out foreign dishes. But those who don’t wish to, are not lacking in class—and that much was explained recently on a Twitter thread on the subject. Nigeria Abroad has brought together the conversation for you:

“We can be quite adventurous, as long we have our own food to fall back to. So we out, we can try whatever, some at its sight we bulge. We good as long as on getting back to the hotel or hosts home & Nigerian food is awaiting us, if not we can cry! But we can drink anything!” – @David Oyakilomeh

“With all the ways we were raised to never eat food in other people’s houses…mothers will flog you if they smell vegetable in your mouth. Most people are traumatized and don’t know.” – @Mujib Waziri

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“We had a Nigerian brother come our school in India. Brother did small survey via email about India’s food culture and…By the next week brother man arrived in India with one full big sack of gari, a gallon of palm oil, plenty crayfish, plenty egusi…name it..he saved us.” – @qw3jo

“Stop shaking this table. Yes, I will try elk in Alaska but if there is a Nigerian restaurant there too, I’ll visit. I don’t think this is peculiar to Nigerians; many Britons will go looking for fish and chips, the Chinese in Manchester are usually in their own restaurants.” – @forakin

“I remember when I travelled to Dubai in 2016, that first night I had to go to Deira where I could find a Nigerian restaurant and I had my amala and ewedu before trying out their own local dish the next day. I tell you, we will always switch after trying out a new food.” – @diekoloreanu

“I remember when I travelled to Dubai in 2016, that first night I had to go to Deira where I could find a Nigerian restaurant and I had my amala and ewedu before trying out their own local dish the next day. I tell you, we will always switch after trying out a new food.” – @diekoloreanu

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