Butterflyleo:


Another name for okro is OKRA. He is right.

Phut:

The original name is Okro. The eating of Okro was a tradition taken by enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to North America, South America and the Carribean. Because of the passage of time, loss of language etc. it came to be mispronounced as Okra. I say stick with the original especially as a Nigerian who knows better.

The English name of the vegetable is Lady Finger. Otherwise stick with the original pronunciation (Okro) and not a mispronunciation which arose as a result of time and circumstance

ITbomb:
The soup resemble Lagos bar beach

Butterflyleo:


You miss the point. Be it okro or okra both are right. Saying one is original is archaic right now. One may be indigenous to Nigeria as okro pronunciation but no longer so elsewhere and even if someone says okra you already know it to mean okro so both of you are right.

If the British call it lady finger or okra, when you get to the UK tell them you want to buy okro and not lady finger or okra and see how they would respond to you.

Elder001:


What do you mean by "you even tried being a man”?

See how primitive, uncivilized and patriarchal the Nigerian society is.

So men don't cook and shouldn't bother?

I still don't understand the rationale behind this you're man so you tried comment..

FraNKAPP:
I'm frustrated. This is the third time that I'm facing this issue. I don't know what I did to my village people. �

Why is it that anytime I cook Egwusi soup, the soup will divide itself into two? The egwusi/vegetables/ingredients will go one side and the water will go the other side. Out of frustrations, I have finished the meat and I'm about to get rid of the soup now. I don't know what else to do. I'm frustrated.

Please, my people, I need your help urgently. How can I make a good Egwusi soup that the ingredients doesn't quarrel with the water? If you have the step-by-step guide on how to make a good Egwusi soup, please send it to me because that's my favourite soup. Make me, *Frank Umeadi* happy, please.

Note: This does not mean that I'm not a good husband material o. I'm just preparing myself and I believe that no time is late.

Thank you so much as I await your positive response.

Phut:


I live in the U.S. I buy it all the time. I call it Okro and they totally understand what I am asking for. Wake with your “archaic” talk. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

BTW, this is a Nigerian forum. Nigerians always trying to be more British than the British

FraNKAPP:
I'm frustrated. This is the third time that I'm facing this issue. I don't know what I did to my village people. �

Why is it that anytime I cook Egwusi soup, the soup will divide itself into two? The egwusi/vegetables/ingredients will go one side and the water will go the other side. Out of frustrations, I have finished the meat and I'm about to get rid of the soup now. I don't know what else to do. I'm frustrated.

Please, my people, I need your help urgently. How can I make a good Egwusi soup that the ingredients doesn't quarrel with the water? If you have the step-by-step guide on how to make a good Egwusi soup, please send it to me because that's my favourite soup. Make me, *Frank Umeadi* happy, please.

Note: This does not mean that I'm not a good husband material o. I'm just preparing myself and I believe that no time is late.

Thank you so much as I await your positive response.

onlinetomola:
Lol... nothing wey you no go fit see finish for this nairaland...dis one wey Onion represent meat for your soup so Ha APC una don see wetin una cause and you still want Progress from una deceitful Change. E no go work !

Butterflyleo:


They may understand you because they sense you meant okra which they are used to calling it.

I am not trying to be more British than the Queen but simply letting you know that you need to get off your high horse and embrace the world and whatever they choose to "correctly" call a thing because even as okra it is also correct.

This being a Nigerian forum does not mean that only Nigerians are here and also does not mean that everyone must embrace our way of saying stuff.

Same way you insist on okro they can also insist on their okra or lady finger. The ability to be flexible with our understanding is key and that is what the Americans where you are are doing with you whenever you say okro rather than okra. Get it?

Elder001:


Okay..

Ingredients :
Shaki,meat,dried fish, egusi, fresh pepper, palm oil, tomatoes, onion, pumpkin (ugu) or bitter leaf, crayfish and Maggi.

Method :
Heat the oil on the fire. Grind and mix the melon with water into paste, grind the tomatoes, pepper, onion and fry in the already heated oil. Add salt and Maggi to taste, leave to summer for about 5-10minutes and add the mixed melon, add the boiled shaki ,meat ,dried fish and crayfish and add little water and vegetable leaf to allow to cook for sometime until it is ready to be served.

ev4real:

Your app is always crashing, i have uninstalled it.

ewa26:


pls, is there a difference between how Ibo and Yoruba tribes of nigeria cook jellof rice, which one too sweet pass

Phut:


Well you need to get off your low horse and grow some self esteem. Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans etc all propagate their culture with pride. All over the U.S. there are Chinatowns, Koreatowns etc. These towns grew because of the pride this people took in their culture and their desire to propagate said culture. And trust Americans and more than willing to learn such culture as long as you believe in self. Unfortunately, some of you are too beggarly to propagate anything. Always trying to fit in. Bunch of lemmings!

Butterflyleo:


[s]Nobody is stopping you from growing a naija town in the US and that is not even what I am on about.

I am simply saying that you were in error when you tried to correct an already correct expression for the word Okra by saying okro. I even said both are correct but you obviously have a blind spot when it comes to properly understanding what you are told or read.

Here you are drifting off to building cultural communities which is rather outlandish considering what I was trying to pass across to you as a message.

I could say that you are the one with an extremely low self esteem about yourself if you feel that by accepting a contrary yet correct pronunciation to what you know is a huge problem for you yet you feel totally comfy when you do the same and the Americans accept yours.

You were obviously too beggarly which was why you opted to move to the US to begin with. Learn not to sound so condesending when trying to say anything. You began that way and you are still continuing that way and that is totally wrong.

You know what you know and they know that they know but they will not change their already existing language for you and neither will you change yours for them so why not embrace what each says which is still very correct from each others perspective? THAT IS ALL I AM SAYING.

Its folks like you who say the British and Americans are wrong when they both express English and your vernacular is correct or you say the Americans are right while the British are wrong and vice versa. Language is simply for communication and what suites and is accepted by one and his or her culture is right from their point of view but that does not make others from other cultures wrong when they also have the same things in their own places but have to call it by their own names.

Perhaps the yorubas are wrong for calling plantain dodo knowing very well that is not what the igbos or hausas or even the Americans call it.

Heal and stop being bitter.[/s]

Phut:

Drivel!!! Didn’t read!

Butterflyleo:


[s]If you had read it, you still would have had a blind spot with understanding it any way so good thing you saved yourself the embarrassment. [/s]

FraNKAPP:
I'm frustrated. This is the third time that I'm facing this issue. I don't know what I did to my village people. �

Why is it that anytime I cook Egwusi soup, the soup will divide itself into two? The egwusi/vegetables/ingredients will go one side and the water will go the other side. Out of frustrations, I have finished the meat and I'm about to get rid of the soup now. I don't know what else to do. I'm frustrated.

Please, my people, I need your help urgently. How can I make a good Egwusi soup that the ingredients doesn't quarrel with the water? If you have the step-by-step guide on how to make a good Egwusi soup, please send it to me because that's my favourite soup. Make me, *Frank Umeadi* happy, please.

Note: This does not mean that I'm not a good husband material o. I'm just preparing myself and I believe that no time is late.

Thank you so much as I await your positive response.

FraNKAPP:
I'm frustrated. This is the third time that I'm facing this issue. I don't know what I did to my village people. �

Why is it that anytime I cook Egwusi soup, the soup will divide itself into two? The egwusi/vegetables/ingredients will go one side and the water will go the other side. Out of frustrations, I have finished the meat and I'm about to get rid of the soup now. I don't know what else to do. I'm frustrated.

Please, my people, I need your help urgently. How can I make a good Egwusi soup that the ingredients doesn't quarrel with the water? If you have the step-by-step guide on how to make a good Egwusi soup, please send it to me because that's my favourite soup. Make me, *Frank Umeadi* happy, please.

Note: This does not mean that I'm not a good husband material o. I'm just preparing myself and I believe that no time is late.

Thank you so much as I await your positive response.

Sijo01:


Is that why the ingredient is quarreling with the water

ITbomb:
The soup resemble Lagos bar beach