Burger king has always been my fav whenever I've been out of the country..I've always preferred it to Mcdonalds and the others. I visited a few days back in V.I and was really impressed. I jus can't wait to see how their menu evolves to cater for the Nigerian market

Dem don cum with their fat...

Hope it will not be a low budget Burger King

ItsGoodToBeGood:
Hope it will not be a low budget Burger King

It will most definitely!

Hmm. Nice.

I see more people coming down with obesity coupled with diabetes and hypertension.

BigShishi:
Burger king has always been my fav whenever I've been out of the country..I've always preferred it to Mcdonalds and the others. I visited a few days back in V.I and was really impressed. I jus can't wait to see how their menu evolves to cater for the Nigerian market

I think Moimoi and akara will make this menu.

LIVINGICON:
I see more people coming down with obesity coupled with diabetes and hypertension.

Our local cuisines already do that enough to our people... no try to pin that one them alone abeg!

daddytime:
Dem don cum with their fat...

The fat wey thick us finish better pass?

For Pete's sake we still bake cakes using shortening and we deep fry most everything we can. No be dem do that. Rather we should collectively work towards better fat content management instead.

Kobojunkie:
Our local cuisines already do that enough to our people... no try to pin that one them alone abeg!

That is where you get it wrong. You see those Western junks, they come with empty calories and no nutrients.

LIVINGICON:
That is where you get it wrong. You see those Western junks, they come with empty calories and no nutrients.

Please stop. We have similar foods in our local diets, the most common of which are garri,fufu etc.

Kobojunkie:
Please stop. We have similar foods in our local diets, the most common of which are garri,fufu etc.

You are kidding right?? Garri in water and beans or my fufu and vegetable soup with lots of protein. Perfect combos.

LIVINGICON:
You are kidding right?? Garri in water and beans or my fufu and vegetable soup with lots of protein. Perfect combos.

Lots? You actually think here you are talking to an slowpoke or something?

Kobojunkie:
Please stop. We have similar foods in our local diets, the most common of which are garri,fufu etc.

Seriously?
Do you eat garri or fufu alone?

LIVINGICON:
That is where you get it wrong. You see those Western junks, they come with empty calories and no nutrients.

Ok. Be specific, what Western "junk" are you here referring to and what equivalent Nigerian "junk" do you consider better?

Mariangeles:
Seriously?
Do you eat garri or fufu alone?

Does not eating garri and fufu alone somehow remove from the fact that their nutritious values are near zilch?

A person who for example only drinks soup alone, or maybe with one potato or two, benefits a great deal more in terms of nutrients from eating that than from eating fufu and garri with the same soup.

Kobojunkie:
Does not eating garri and fufu alone somehow remove from the fact that there nutritious values are near zilch?

The truth is they’re hardly eaten alone.

Mariangeles:
The truth is they’re hardly eaten alone.

Please, you say that as if our soups are darn so nutritional to begin with.

Anyways, the point isn't a western thing at all. Many of our local foods also provide us no real nutritional value- they are empty calories - but we eat them anyways.

There is a place for all those so-called empty calories in our diets.

They are fermented, that is consolation itself

Kobojunkie:
Does not eating garri and fufu alone somehow remove from the fact that their nutritious values are near zilch?

A person who for example only drinks soup alone, or maybe with one potato or two, benefits a great deal more in terms of nutrients from eating that than from eating fufu and garri with the same soup.

Sterope:
They are fermented, that is consolation itself

Um.. fermentation is what in fact further strips them of nutrients.

Cassava that is newly harvested is more nutrients laden than the garri finished product.

Kobojunkie:
Please, you say that as if our soups are darn so nutritional to begin with.

Anyways, the point isn't a western thing at all. Many of our local foods also provide us no real nutritional value- they are empty calories - but we eat them anyways.

There is a place for all those so-called empty calories in our diets.

Really? What soups have you been eating?

Mariangeles:
Really? What soups have you been eating?

Which of your soups guarantees this high nutritional content you tout?

See, I am not against our foods in anyway... I just like us to be honest about these things is all.

Kobojunkie:
Which of your souls guarantees this high nutritional content you tout?

See, I am not against our foods in anyway... I just like us to be honest about these things is all.

Kobo, abeg try edikangikong soup, afang soup, or waterleaf soup, then come back make we talk.

Let's look at the possible nutritional content of ewedu soup for instance.

The ewedu portion looks like it still has life in it, but the nutrients in the stew have had the life deep fried and cooked out of it.

So apart from the small meat portion, which serves as source of protein, and the green of the ewedu, everything else is probably just empty calories in the plate.

Mariangeles:
Kobo, abeg try edikangikong soup, afang soup, or waterleaf soup, then come back make we talk.

waterleaf soup ke?
Waterleaf wey you no fit cook 3 minutes before it begins to look dead and all the water and nutrients don vamoose the leaf finish?

Kobojunkie:
waterleaf soup ke?
Waterleaf wey you no fit cook 3 minutes before it begins to look dead and all the water and nutrients don vamoose the leaf finish?

It depends on how you cook it.

Edikangikong and afang nko?

Mariangeles:
It depends on how you cook it.
Edikangikong and afang nko?

You are right that it depends on how you cook it, but let's also be honest here, we typically cook our soups almost an hour, right? And in time, all water soluble nutrients have pretty much escaped the soup leaving mostly the non-water soluble nutrients.

Kobojunkie:
You are right that it depends on how you cook it, but let's also be honest here, we typically cook our soups almost an hour, right? And in time, all water soluble nutrients have pretty much escaped the soup leaving mostly the non-water soluble nutrients.

Whenever you’re ready and I have the time, I’ll teach you how to cook vegetable soups the proper way.

Mariangeles:
Whenever you’re ready and I have the time, I’ll teach you how to cook vegetable soups the proper way.

Abegi!

Kobojunkie:
Abegi!

I’m serious.

As a person who’s passionate about Nigerian foods, it is my duty to change your misconception about Nigerian food.

Mariangeles:
I’m serious.

As a person who’s passionate about Nigerian foods, it is my duty to change your misconception about Nigerian food.

You misunderstand me. I don't have a misconception about Nigerian food, and be sure I know not to cook my soup for 1 hour abeg... in fact, my green leaves go in as I turn the stove off.

However, the vast majority of Nigerians do not cook there foods with a nutrition conscious mindset neither do they properly understand these things enough for you or I to claim all out soups are nutrient laden.