Is Ghanaian food the best food in Africa?

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LOL at OP thinking Ghanians have the GOAT Afircan food . I have a Ghanian collegue, whenever he warms up his Ghanian launch, everyone gotta keep the windows open for atleast an hour after

 

[intruder]

Now I can’t help you if you don’t like collard greens or our yams tho

Truth is what Americans call yams is not what the rest of the world calls yams. What Americans call yams is a sweet potato.
On top of that they often add even more sugar to it when they make candy yams
What the rest of the world call "yam" arent sweet at all. There's white yam and yellow yam and neither are sweet. If anything yellow yam has a slight, barely detectable bitter after taste.

What americans call yams AKA sweet potato to the rest of us

Yellow yam (world)

White yam (world)

 

[UberEatsDriver]

That's because you're grew up here and/or got used to the foods here to the point that the threshold for sweets in your taste buds is much higher.

Even simple things here in the U.S. like peanut butter and regular bread have a certain amount of sugar in them. I love peanut butter and usually get mines when my aunt is coming from Haiti. Evey now i'll taste the ones here in comparison and they taste so sweet to me. That's because my tastebuds havent adapted to the sweetened ones here even tho it's supposed to be the plain ones.

The food industry here has ruined americans to the point where you;re used to it while others that arent get a sugar high from your plain bread.

That’s a fact my mom brought peanut butter from Haiti to the house one day and I hated it because it wasn’t sweet lmao.

It was also much more liquified than the peanut butter in America which for the most part is solid.

I’ve been to Guadeloupe to and I notice over there the only thing sweet people have for breakfast are the drinkable yogurts!

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Yea my dad makes Yams all the time and would be confused as hell if I brought home “candied Yams”.

My dad eats sweet potatoes but I don’t think he’s trusting a sweet yam lol

 

[intruder]

That’s a fact my mom brought peanut butter from Haiti to the house one day and I hated it because it wasn’t sweet lmao.

It was also much more liquified than the peanut butter in America which for the most part is solid.

I’ve been to Guadeloupe to and I notice over there the only thing sweet people have for breakfast are the drinkable yogurts!

Typical caribbean breakfast = plantains + fish (herring or cod)

THe american food industry is what mostly introduced all them sweet cereals to breakfast. Growing up i dont remember eating cereal often until i moved here

 

[im_sleep]

Truth is what Americans call yams is not what the rest of the world calls yams. What Americans call yams is a sweet potato.
On top of that they often add even more sugar to it when they make candy yams
What the rest of the world call "yam" arent sweet at all. There's white yam and yellow yam and neither are sweet. If anythingyellow yam has a slight, barely detectable bitter after taste.

What americans call yams AKA sweet potato to the rest of us

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Yellow yam (world)

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White yam (world)

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Oh I know, that’s why I said “our”.

Our ancestors basically got here, seen sweet potatoes and said fukk it, look like a yam, we gonna call it a yam.


Far as I know they don’t grow here, same with plantains, we’re the only part of the diaspora in a sub-tropical climate so certain fruits/vegetables didn’t carry over.

 

[intruder]

Yea my dad makes Yams all the time and would be confused as hell if I brought home “candied Yams”.

My dad eats sweet potatoes but I don’t think he’s trusting a sweet yam lol

I tried the american "candy yams" thing. It's okay. Not as bad as i thought it would be but still not a fan. I'll eat it if it's on my plate and it aint too sweet but you wont find me ordering it or anything

 

[intruder]

Oh I know, that’s why I said “our”.

Our ancestors basically got here, seen sweet potatoes and said fukk it, look like a yam, we gonna call it a yam.


Far as I know they don’t grow here, same with plantains, we’re the only part of the diaspora in a sub-tropical climate so certain fruits/vegetables didn’t carry over.

I mean... many cultures misname things

Haitians for example misnamed kalalou. You go to any other island and ask for kalaloo and you get this

Ask a Haitian for kalalou and you're gettng this which is Okra

 

[Apollo Creed]

 

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Ethiopian is ok. Although I can eat it, not a fan of the soury-ness of injera.

 

[Ya?]

Cutie patootie

 

[AB Ziggy]

I mean... many cultures misname things

Haitians for example misnamed kalalou. You go to any other island and ask for kalaloo and you get this

Ask a Haitian for kalalou and you're gettng this which is Okra

That kalalou you Haitians got is definitely imported from West African slaves. We have a lot of soup dishes similar to it.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I’m so used to american food when I first tried a Jamaican breakfast I asked my ex girl if this was dinner

 

[intruder]

That kalalou you Haitians got is definitely imported from West African slaves. We have a lot of soup dishes similar to it.

Haitians got that and tomtom which is the same as african fufu or gumbo

Haitian tomtom

 

[im_sleep]

I mean... many cultures misname things

Haitians for example misnamed kalalou. You go to any other island and ask for kalaloo and you get this

Ask a Haitian for kalalou and you're gettng this which is Okra

I’ve only had callaloo once with some salt fish, from a Jamaican spot, it kind of reminded me of mustard and turnip greens.


Salt fish has me like tho.

I’m on a mission to try some Haitian food. My wife had some at her cousins wedding a few years back in NYC(I couldn’t take off work) and said it was the truth.