What kind of food do people in Sub-Saharan Africa eat? Have you ever eaten African food? Why are there basically no famous dishes from here?

>>211693398 (OP)
White women pussy and Timmy pays for it

>>211693398 (OP)

they eat stuff like cassava rice and chicken

>>211693551
corrrrrrrr

>>211693398 (OP)
Ethiopians eat injera (sponge-like flatbread). It can be pretty good.

>>211693911
When is it not good?

>>211693960
Sometimes it's just okay. I suppose it depends on who makes it.

i can confirm ethiopian food is very good it kinda reminds me of indian food

>>211693398 (OP)
i've been to tanzania (specifically in zanzibar) and i ate octopus soup

>>211693551
lil wok time with the lads

>>211693398 (OP)
I used to eat it all the time because there was a dope Nigerian restaurant in the same plaza as my office but they relocated to a black neighborhood so I don't go anymore.
>No famous foods
Jollof, fufu? They're a pretty big influence on ex-slave cuisine like Jamaican food. It's just not that popular outside of diaspora communities because it doesn't get Americanized.

>>211695208
What does eating fufu feel like

>>211693398 (OP)
i like peri peri chicken

>>211693398 (OP)
They smell like their food and their food smells like a weird bland of gamy spices
What i got from it is that it's a meat and grain diet (mainly stews) pretty much like most of the world but god it fucking violates the nose, not in a "smelling like shit" way but in a weird "fishy" way

>>211693398 (OP)
Ethiopian food is delicious. Almost all of their dishes come with injera—soft, thin sourdough bread. The food tastes very rich and hearty.

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>>211693911
we make a lot more than injera, injera is simply an edible utensil to us. we have many other classics like kitfo, gomen, wats (chicken, beef, lamb), tibs with shiro, beyaynet’, and a lot more. all of our food is halal, kosher, can be eaten vegan, can be eaten as meat only, low carb, etc.
it is specifically made with ancient Jewish-converts in mind as when Axum (the ancient ethiopian kingdom) converted from Judaism to Christianity, we never lost our dietary restrictions regarding pork, shellfish, and fasting for holidays

i also recommend our numerous types of alcohols, we have a honey wine (proto-mead) call Tej, many great beers (like Habesh, St. George’s beer, Abyssinian, etc.)

>>211693398 (OP)
they eat a lot of cassava in all its forms, they also eat fufu or podding or something like that which is a cooked dough that is made of corn flour or normal flour, all of these ingredients were brought to africa by the european settlers that brought them from the americas, fufu was made with different ingredients in the past, some local roots that aren't as high on starch as corn or cassava but they also used the root of the banana plant to make it

in fact because african food is so cassava centric a lot of their dishes are similar to those the guarani people eat

we make a lot more than injera, injera is simply an edible utensil to us. we have many other classics like kitfo, gomen, wats (chicken, beef, lamb), tibs with shiro, beyaynet’, and a lot more. all of our food is halal, kosher, can be eaten vegan, can be eaten as meat only, low carb, etc.
it is specifically made with ancient Jewish-converts in mind as when Axum (the ancient ethiopian kingdom) converted from Judaism to Christianity, we never lost our dietary restrictions regarding pork, shellfish, and fasting for holidays

i also recommend our numerous types of alcohols, we have a honey wine (proto-mead) call Tej, many great beers (like Habesh, St. George’s beer, Abyssinian, etc.)

>>211693398 (OP)
Nigerian jolof rice is super popular

>>211695590
meant for >>211693911

>>211695581
or they also straight up made the fufu with the green plantain fruit, but modern fufu all over subsaharian africa is a creation of european colonialism and it is often made with corn, weath, or cassava today

>>211695273
On its own it's like eating pasty soft bread and kinda gross but it's meant to be dipped into stew, and while that doesn't make the texture better it does absorb the flavor really well.

>>211695273
it is like eating the cooked tamal dough but without flavor because the africans only throw salt on it

>>211696066
and by tamal dough I mean the banana leaf tamales the venecos and other chibcha cultural sphere eat, not the Aztec-Inca ones which have a sweet flavor

>>211695590
>i also recommend our numerous types of alcohols, we have a honey wine (proto-mead) call Tej, many great beers (like Habesh, St. George’s beer, Abyssinian, etc.)
I sometimes go to an Ethiopian restaurant, but it's run by Muslims (I don't know which ethnicity) so I don't think they sell alcohol. I'll try to find some.

>>211696293
>so I don't think they sell alcohol
believe it or not, it’s actually worth a try. i don’t like islam or oromos/somalis very much, but i can say our muslims are pretty chill. most of them secretly chew khat and drink occasionally.

>>211693398 (OP)
it's literally dogshit

>>211693551
Can you really blame Arabs and Europeans for thinking that these people are subhuman? that's just the natural, obvious conclusion.
Even if you took one of these people as a baby and raised them in a white family, they'd be better but they'd still be different.

Family makes Zanzibar Pizza when I go and visit. I honestly like it more than regular pizza. It's like a superior quesadilla.

>>211696709
>subhuman
bit too mean imo
a different species? maybe. but i’d posit that having different biological adaptations given our environments and climates makes us equally if not just as evolved in our respective ways. europeans and east asians evolved higher intelligence given the scarcity of resources and harsher climates, africans evolved greater physical capabilities and didnt need as much intelligence as their environments are fairly straughtforward—many flat plains, big game, relatively stable climate. they didnt NEED higher intelligence like how we did. an african does best in africa because he is literally the peak biological human creature for that environment, just like how a nepali is better set in tall mountains or polynesians have adaptations to hold their breath underwater for long periods

>>211696907
What the fuck are you on about? Scarcer resources in Europe and Asia compared to Africa? We didn't need cobolt back then we needed arable land.
Nigga the reason civilization is so scarce in Africa is because they have near Australian-tier wildlife, and disease that kills any large gathering of cattle. And you NEED cattle for civilization.

>>211697026
let me ask you: why didn’t africans (aside from ethiopians) ever need to build large fortifications, practice agriculture, or domesticate many animals? africa is the one continent that, for the majority of its history, had more large fauna than it did humans. yes, it was sparsely populated because they never NEEDED cities, they never formed those things because cities themselves came out of resource scarcity.

>>211696907
>a different species? maybe.
Speciation takes millions of years tk actually form at all.

>>211696709
So you watched a guy prepare food and you call him subhuman? The fuck is wrong with you?

>>211697204
>Ever need to
That's not the point. It's a matter of COULD rather than a NEED. Humanity never NEEDED to develop any of those things, but doing so produced civilization. And the reason Ethiopia did it is because they have the mountainous regions that protect them from the harshness of the rest of Africa, and produce fertile valleys for agriculture. To top it off they were close enough to Eurasia to share in developments here and there, where the rest of Africa wasn't sans West Africa during the Islamic period.
And there were agriculture, large fortifications, and domesticated animals in various other regions such as the niger delta, the great lakes region, etc. They just never lasted due to isolation.

>>211697570
Or actually let me correct. Some lasted, but were fucked apart during colonial times and the in-fighting and warlording that the slave trade started.

>>211697570
>where the rest of Africa wasn't sans West Africa during the Islamic period.
Easy Africa was pretty organized, central Africa also had pretty centralized states too as well as level of control and states competing for trade, labour etc.

>>211693398 (OP)
Full of fat. They were starving for ages so the fatter the better. Same reason they love fat women and why they are all so fat past 30.
Basically they take rice, add fish vegetables and so on, it's ok, and then they go and pour a gallon of oil all over it. Usually peanut oil. One of their most famous dishes is called "rice with fat" (jollof rice in english) and even though in theory they could do without most of the time it is exactly that, a liter of cooking oil with some rice inside and maggi cubes for flavour.

>>211697737
Yes, that was part of my point that I maybe didn't discuss fully. The main issue was the geography, and lack of sustainability of cattle anywhere south of the Sehel. People underestimate how important farm animals were for most of human history simply because we replaced them with machines now days.

>>211696823
>It's like a superior quesadilla.
They're not similar

>>211698364
Depends if you make it the correct way or try to copy an actual pizza.

>>211697204
Um, Africans had agriculture, domestic animals and large fortifications when Europeans partitioned the continent.