Some behaviour can’t leave us.
I cooked marugbo soup( known as eweta,black soup), a traditional soup we eat where I come from .It’s cooked with marugbo leaves and fresh water fish . I cooked mine with tilapia and catfish.
Where did I get my ingredients from?
I’m a daughter of the soil, I’ll always find my way out.
If you take me to Mars or Jupiter tomorrow,I go locate all the ingredients wey we dey use cook our native soup.
When I grow old and finally make it to heaven ehn, the first thing is to first cook ‘’Poun’’ (The pepper soup yam we eat in my place).
I’ll walk up to one angel wey sabi;
‘’Angel Gabu, jor ,we de funmi ni itabo die ati kposa? Ma worry mo nefirin. Mo fe hare he poun’’
(Angel Gabu, please give me small pepper and African nutmeg. I have scent leaves already. I want to quickly cook peppersoup yam) .
Angel suprised at my request :
‘’Ayah! Kubo wo tiri ke? ‘’ (Where did you see it?)
Oma apaka ule ,ubomiren ajo
(now hailing me).
‘’Oh I brought it from earth, I told St.Peters that I have Scent leaves with me and he allowed me,thinking I was another Saint.’’
So.
Back to my story:
I have used all my takeaway plates at home and It was time to pack it inside the freezer.
I have this ice cream I just finished taking. So I washed the plate and packed black soup inside and kept in the freezer.
By evening,I decided I would like to take some to eat rice at work.
I started laughing as soon as I brought it out.
What if I take this plate to work, won’t they be wondering what type of strawberry ice cream is black?