So I open youtube and am greeted with this:
Neurons start firing. Of course, it's our beloved Kay's culinary genius, but that's not it.
My sides start launching into orbit as I remember my attempt at cultural research and the okra soup of Nigeria.
So this particular beauty of an image that looks like an actual corpse pot comes from this
video.
It's a guy from Nigeria sharing his nations "traditional" dish with his internet friend from Britain,
Atomic Shrimp (Nothing wrong with him, just a wholesome gardener/scambaiter).
Now yes the slime pot filled with the corpses of fish imported from Norway apparently is part of a video in which the Nigerian man also attempts to elucidate on the various cultures of his country and in particular the superiority of his native tribe from the southern jungles compared to them filthy Muslims of the north that use cutlery, unlike his illuminated brethren who worship the queen (Anglicans sect) and use their HANDS to eat sludge from the corpse pot. And it actually is sludge, that filthy okra plant excretes a viscous green slime that really gives you some interesting associations.
To demonstrate the slime I'm talking about here:
Big thombs up on the taste test:
Of course the constant rumbling of a diesel power generator that is his and most of Nigerians only power supply enriches the quality of the video immensely. It's genuine quality comedy on a sublime level.
Now naturally I want to learn more about this rich and wonderful culture so I start searching about and luck out immediately with
this.
A video about the stockfish economy in Nigeria. Now originally I assumed that they just sun dry their own domestic fish and put it in the above familiar corpse pot, but no, I was very wrong. It's much funnier than that.
In the video, a "high quality" chef from Lagos or something regales us of their ancient traditional dish that dates back dozens of years to their civil war when Norway was delivering first aid packets that contained YES the same stock fish.
Of course the chef then proceeds to craft a masterful okra corpse pot:
That of course contains a massive fish bone in the first bite, as is tradition after all
Now, the rest of the video is just explaining how Norways stockfish economy is completely dependent on exports to Nigeria who is symbiotically completely dependent on imports from Norway as their tradition demands first aid fish for their national dishes.
Unrelated bonus yt thumbnail from my saga of cultural exploration of the dark continent:
Genuinely feel Africa is a content mine on so many levels. Like random yt documentaries narrated by omni-inclusive la creaturas have made me genuinely have such great laughs it's unreal. Sometimes I feel they know what they're doing and are doing it on purpose.
