Compendium of fufu eating in Ghana - Part 2

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AZAA 8 years ago

Good researcher not Mensah Otabil who don't know african history on this subject.

Good researcher not Mensah Otabil who don't know african history on this subject.
Prince Abibirim 8 years ago

Yes his write up is in depth but he failed to mention that maggi cube and the like are foreign chemical poisons,it is monosodium glutamate which in the western world have been found to be the source of peptic ulcers leading t ...
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Yes his write up is in depth but he failed to mention that maggi cube and the like are foreign chemical poisons,it is monosodium glutamate which in the western world have been found to be the source of peptic ulcers leading to stomach ailments and eventual cancers.
Omslopogaas 8 years ago

Check his first article in which he mentioned monosodium glutamate.

Check his first article in which he mentioned monosodium glutamate.
Mike 8 years ago

Nice one. However, there's also the cousin of fufu; that is KKT (Kokonte) aka ABT (Abete3).
Unlike in the past that it was difficult to know it consumers, the story has now changed. Currently, Kokonte with groundnut soup has ...
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Nice one. However, there's also the cousin of fufu; that is KKT (Kokonte) aka ABT (Abete3).
Unlike in the past that it was difficult to know it consumers, the story has now changed. Currently, Kokonte with groundnut soup has overtaken omotuo, especially on Sundays.
Franklin Osei 8 years ago

Good piece enjoyed

Good piece enjoyed
Benbella 8 years ago

Good write up, in addition to all the nice things said about fufu,it also promote communal living. When kins and kinsmen sit beside a bowl of fufu it portrays the beauty of togetherness and brotherhood, interestingly there ar ...
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Good write up, in addition to all the nice things said about fufu,it also promote communal living. When kins and kinsmen sit beside a bowl of fufu it portrays the beauty of togetherness and brotherhood, interestingly there are some Ghanaian elite who look at our culture and tradition with disdain and contempt but they see nothing wrong with junk foods sold in restaurants by foreigners, they and their families partronise without shame.
Akosua K 8 years ago

Oh good one there! Good researcher, truly. Mensah Otabil thinks he's too big to eat fufu. Swine! He thinks he's bigger than the whole Ghana. How sad ? Low self esteem? Yes. Wants to be like the colonialist? He still hasn't s ...
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Oh good one there! Good researcher, truly. Mensah Otabil thinks he's too big to eat fufu. Swine! He thinks he's bigger than the whole Ghana. How sad ? Low self esteem? Yes. Wants to be like the colonialist? He still hasn't shaken it off. The same fufu eating people are your beloved congregations who have put you where you are now. Now you're on a pedastle looking down on them. Very shameful!!! Otabil is so shameful!!!!!
John ghanaba 8 years ago

Ei! Akosua my love,typical Ghanaian attitude you exhibit here .it is not by force to like fufu because you are Ghanaian.mensah otabil can exercise his democratic right not to like fufu and you can't hang him for that.one mans ...
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Ei! Akosua my love,typical Ghanaian attitude you exhibit here .it is not by force to like fufu because you are Ghanaian.mensah otabil can exercise his democratic right not to like fufu and you can't hang him for that.one mans meat is another man's poison my dear.chill.I love you all the same Akos
Kweku trouble 8 years ago

He should also not try to scare others from eating fufu.

He should also not try to scare others from eating fufu.
Avudrinyaga.. avudortor mekpoa avutef 8 years ago

The piece may sound nice but the author missed the discussion. I am an Ewe who likes fufu so much but I do not eat it outside my home.
Firstly, I take into consideration the type of mortar and pestle used and its neatness. ...
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The piece may sound nice but the author missed the discussion. I am an Ewe who likes fufu so much but I do not eat it outside my home.
Firstly, I take into consideration the type of mortar and pestle used and its neatness. For instance, I will not eat fufu prepared in the Akan mortar with the flat bottom and hairy pestle.....NO! My Akan wife uses the mortar for palmnut: yes the one with the round oval pit bottom and the non hairy pestle for preparing fufu like the Dagombas, Konkonbas, Bassaress and Ewes do in prearing their fufu. Fufu is pounded warm with hot water from the boiled yam, plantain, cocoyam but not with cassava water because of its bitterness. Our wives add some fufu to the soup to make it thick but not cassava fufu.
Secondly, I will eat fufu pounded in a hygenic condiction since pounding demands a lot of exercise and sometimes sweat may slip into it. Not a foreign sweat but please, that of our clise relatives. There shouldn't be too much handling of the as our Akan sisters do. Fufu should be touched when removing it from the mortar and sharing it to the 'convive' (kindly allow me the French word) Kindly watch the fufu pounding by Dagomba three beautiful ladies in Tamale market, or Akposso ladies in Badou market as well as three of them in Asigame (Lome). Fufu is pounded in hygenic manner by these groups in the rounded bottom pit mortars. Fufu is warm among these groups. The Akan commercial fufu lives much to be desired: with a sweating man handling a big hairy pestle and a lady 'washing' her hand in the fufu all along the pounding scenario.
Thidly and finally, fufu should be eaten by only onne person at a time and not two people putting their hands into their mouths and dipping it into the same soup as done in the oldern days when we all share fufu from the same bowl.
We are not conderming fufu eating in toto but care and absolute care ought to be taken in its preparation. That is the reason why I avoid earing fufu outside my home. To get rid of being tagged as such, I become a vegetarian since 1988.

John ghanaba 8 years ago

I can't believe there is this indept expertise on fufu out there.some can write a phd on it and open a fufu parlour,they could make a fortune.great stuff.

I can't believe there is this indept expertise on fufu out there.some can write a phd on it and open a fufu parlour,they could make a fortune.great stuff.
Kwami US 8 years ago

Hahaha, I laugh papapapa. At least the article is devoid of political insults together with its comments

Hahaha, I laugh papapapa. At least the article is devoid of political insults together with its comments
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Interesting piece Brother Kwesi.

Thanks.

Interesting piece Brother Kwesi.

Thanks.
Pelicles 8 years ago

Thanks for not being part of those who are trying to demonize fufu. I hope Mensa Otabil will read this piece and stop his rantings that fufu is not healthy.

I am in my 60s and have been eating fufu since without any heal ...
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Thanks for not being part of those who are trying to demonize fufu. I hope Mensa Otabil will read this piece and stop his rantings that fufu is not healthy.

I am in my 60s and have been eating fufu since without any health problems. We cannot follow some fools and throw away what we have.
Kwadwo 8 years ago

Sometimes I just have a taste for cocoyam fufu, snails and nkontomere soup with dry fish. A porterhouse stake at Mortons is great but does not beat beat obayaa's fufu in Sunyani.

Sometimes I just have a taste for cocoyam fufu, snails and nkontomere soup with dry fish. A porterhouse stake at Mortons is great but does not beat beat obayaa's fufu in Sunyani.
John ghanaba 8 years ago

Ei brother kwadwo! I can see you are enjoying life paa! "Have dined at fine places"? Snails and nkontomere soup? No kidding.super enjoyment paa!

Ei brother kwadwo! I can see you are enjoying life paa! "Have dined at fine places"? Snails and nkontomere soup? No kidding.super enjoyment paa!
Mr Bond 8 years ago

Congratulation,that a brilliant article you have written.I think ministry of education should create office for you lecture on fufu at the university level.

Congratulation,that a brilliant article you have written.I think ministry of education should create office for you lecture on fufu at the university level.
Omslopogaas 8 years ago

Ghana is endowed with many cultural artefacts and quintissential cultural practices which are unique and enviable. Our delicious foods form part of our cultural heritage and we should guard them jealously. Congrats, writer f ...
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Ghana is endowed with many cultural artefacts and quintissential cultural practices which are unique and enviable. Our delicious foods form part of our cultural heritage and we should guard them jealously. Congrats, writer for a beautiful article.
John ghanaba 8 years ago

I love most Ghanaian foods like the patriot that I am,but i have never been able to handle fufu or anything that is like fufu, kokonte for example.I like the soups and stuff that go with them.but swallowing fufu or things si ...
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I love most Ghanaian foods like the patriot that I am,but i have never been able to handle fufu or anything that is like fufu, kokonte for example.I like the soups and stuff that go with them.but swallowing fufu or things similar is a major problem for me because- I no like am at all,to be honest.
FOYOOSIS 8 years ago

Good article, insightful and educative for those of us who prey on the indigenous dish, lol.

As painful as it is, i must admit sincerely that it's unfortunate that your cousin, Nenyi Paa Kwesi Mintah, who is your ardent cr ...
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Good article, insightful and educative for those of us who prey on the indigenous dish, lol.

As painful as it is, i must admit sincerely that it's unfortunate that your cousin, Nenyi Paa Kwesi Mintah, who is your ardent critic has disappeared into thin air for some time now.

He would have published your score for this online for all forumers to see, which probably is not allowed. He'll claim to know what it takes to get the best fufu prepared in his Bronx restaurant, where he plies his part-time job when he is out of the theatre room.

You Kwesi, have been away from home for long as you honestly said and as such must have lost it a bit, but as usual, typical as you are tried to add some "Zambian blend" to it by naming some wood species ideal or not for the production of mortar and pestle, knowing well that this time around Nenyi Mintah would not be available to mark your exams and tell you whamm, whamm what your score is.

I salut, Nenyin!

Kwesi Sakyi 8 years ago

Thanks a million FOYOOSIS. Without Nenyi to give me a critical analysis with his razor sharp mind, ghanaweb cannot be the same and I surely and sourly miss his acerbic and acidic critcism which were always full of humour. FOY ...
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Thanks a million FOYOOSIS. Without Nenyi to give me a critical analysis with his razor sharp mind, ghanaweb cannot be the same and I surely and sourly miss his acerbic and acidic critcism which were always full of humour. FOYOOSIS, you
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Kotey 8 years ago

Fufu being a delicious meal is not at all in doubt.But everything must be done in moderation.If you pay a visit to a typical fufu joint,the goats soup is always full of fat and incidentally it is what attracts clients.

If ...
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Fufu being a delicious meal is not at all in doubt.But everything must be done in moderation.If you pay a visit to a typical fufu joint,the goats soup is always full of fat and incidentally it is what attracts clients.

If we should talk about the qualities of fufu then the question of carbohydrates and its effects on health must be addressed.Fatty meat and oily soup with fufu is bad and that informed our mortality rate in the pass.With the advancement of science we now know that carb is bad and oily food is also bad for our health.

The preparation of fufu as we know it has changed with powder fufu prepared the banku way.The problem is with the carb and many of our friends though still in love the delicious and precious fufu eat it sparingly.
Kutsii 8 years ago

Thank u, Kwesi Atta. Fufunization, fufuntology and fufulous fufunism continues unabated. Don't mind 'krachie' Dr. Mensah Otabil. For husbands no matter the size of the fufu, it is divided into two equal parts to resemble a wo ...
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Thank u, Kwesi Atta. Fufunization, fufuntology and fufulous fufunism continues unabated. Don't mind 'krachie' Dr. Mensah Otabil. For husbands no matter the size of the fufu, it is divided into two equal parts to resemble a woman's buttocks, to remind the husband of the pounding which needs to be reciprocated in bed.
Tiger bay 8 years ago

You hit it right there on the buttocks bit. Actually this should have been in the original article under subhead fufuromantics. What a beautiful piece.

You hit it right there on the buttocks bit. Actually this should have been in the original article under subhead fufuromantics. What a beautiful piece.
A c 8 years ago

Refuse advice and die young . idiots

Refuse advice and die young . idiots
dumevi 8 years ago

kutsii uve made my day. I can see you like buttocks paaaa

kutsii uve made my day. I can see you like buttocks paaaa
JH New York. 8 years ago

"Oooh,you're from Ghana!.They make the best fufu";was the compliment from a indigene I met on the job.

"Oooh,you're from Ghana!.They make the best fufu";was the compliment from a indigene I met on the job.
Spartacus 8 years ago

Should everything be Akan in Ghana? I think all tribes in Ghana have their version of fufu
Fufu is even in Nigeria, Togo and Benin.
Very soon we will wake up one day to be told Akans taught other Ghanaians how to bath

Should everything be Akan in Ghana? I think all tribes in Ghana have their version of fufu
Fufu is even in Nigeria, Togo and Benin.
Very soon we will wake up one day to be told Akans taught other Ghanaians how to bath

Adwoah Osaah Piesie 8 years ago

Good work done some Ghanaians now see no use of local foods.They are busily consuming foreign foods which is the root of some diseases nowadays . How many akan women know how to prepare mpotompoto ,apreprensa, nuhuu,and even ...
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Good work done some Ghanaians now see no use of local foods.They are busily consuming foreign foods which is the root of some diseases nowadays . How many akan women know how to prepare mpotompoto ,apreprensa, nuhuu,and even 3to. Is very sad some people even see these foods as wichtcrapt foods n condemn it.God bless you paaa
Akuffo Bawumia 8 years ago

Why do people like political Otabil confuse us as Ghanaians. He should shut his mouth and allow us to think

Why do people like political Otabil confuse us as Ghanaians. He should shut his mouth and allow us to think

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