Great video! In belgium, we have a traditional kind of cookie called "speculaas" which is called biscoff in other countries. We eat them as is but my favorite way of having them is with my breakfast; we dip them in coffee and then put them on a slice of bread and eat it like a sandwich.
I have two main thoughts: first, props for digging up the original video when you found out the footage was stolen! there are many people who wouldn't bother checking, whether due to lack of character or motivation, and it's nice to see people willing to go the extra mile to make sure everything's properly credited. second, I don't drink coffee, so I think the closest experience I've had to dunking a biscuit in coffee is dunking a cookie in milk. it's a very common practice here in america (at least in the parts of america I've been to), and I do think that it improves many types of cookies. (as an aside, I maintain that british biscuits and american cookies are different. they may have convergently evolved, but british biscuits are descended from the same biscuits that became american biscuits, biscotti, and ships biscuits/hardtack, while american cookies are descended from small cakes baked by german immigrants to america, so they're from two different traditions. the word cookie is even descended from the german word kuchen, meaning cake. it may not be a practical position, but I am nothing if not a pedant.)
Biscotti dunked in coffee s a real treat. Biscotti is a hard, twice baked type of cookie. People not used to coffee usually prefer it with milk and sugar.
I found out that Super Malt was invented by the Nigerian military as a vitamin drink for soldiers in the 1970s, is it popular there or has no one heard of it?
We dunk biscuits as well ass cinnamon buns, and sandwiches in our coffee/tea/chocolate (hot or cold in the case of the chocolate drink). Sloppy, but fun and tasty! Sweden is fantastic :-D
Here in Finland we hold the title for the highest per capita coffee consumption globally, with an average Finnish individual consuming close to four cups of coffee each day. I drink coffee a lot. I also drink tea, or herbal teas, lika rooibos. Everything goes, as long as I get enough coffee. Sometimes I do dip biscuits is as well. - I was kind of worried, if you made that coffee a bit too strong. It is difficult to figure out the size of that spoon from the video. 😄
Dunking biscuits in tea or coffee is very common here - in fact I can't think of a time when I had coffee and a biscuit in my hand, and I *didn't* dunk. The trick is in the timing - too quick and the biscuit doesn't get a proper soak; too long and it breaks off and ruins the drink.
I'm from the UK - someone at my workplace from East Africa made a plantain based dish for Black History Month and brought it in for us to try. This may sound very strange, but it tasted VERY much like the roast potatoes we would get as part of a roast dinner when it was midweek roast day at school (traditionally roast dinners are had on Sunday, but having them on Wednesday is also common in workplaces). It was strangely nostalgic for me!
I had to google plantain. "A banana containing high levels of starch and little sugar, which is harvested green and widely used as a cooked vegetable in the tropics" Ok. - I think I have seen them once in a market here in Finland - so not too often. Guess I have to try them if I ever get to buy them.
Plantains are fairly common in the U.S., but they’re often used in recipes rather than eaten on their own. It really depends on the cultural background, as different cuisines incorporate them in various ways.
I've never tried plantain. I used to see it on the vegetable stalls in London but I usually bought breadfruit and enjoyed that boiled with some butter. Who are you calling "old people" by the way?? 🤔🤣
I'm British but I was thinking this is much more like a type of pie I'd cook, with chilli and sweet potato topping... then you put the chillis in the mashed potato, I would never have thought of doing that! It looks delicious.
Babatunde, Cheers from Oaxaca in Mexico. I'm originally from the US and retired here 37 years ago. I thought you might be interested in some parallels I see between life in Nigeria and Life in Oaxaca. First is your grinding stone. Oaxacans make the stone out of volcanic rock and call it a Metate. The smaller elongated stone is also volcanic rock. Women in the countryside grab both ends and do a swift jerking motion that I couldn't master but it was fun trying. The red chilies you ground looked delicious. We also suffer from power outages and have to work around them. But they don't last a week. a day or two at most. I myself never owned a toaster. Back in the 1960s we went to visit my godmother in Puerto Rico and she made us toast in a dry frying pan. And I've done it that way ever since. I share your pain and frustration at how greed ruins life for the majority and it's simply unfair and unnecessary. Be well my brother, justice and equality are coming slowly but surely. Gandhi said we should take heart that the evil in the world is slowly dissolving. What evil there is has been around a long time, but the positive things are increasing day by day. Wishing you all the best Jacques
What came of the protests? I followed along on the BBC as much as I could, but the war in Israel dominated everything. And I fear for you because your national telecommunications company, MTN, is becoming a bank. That will be disastrous.
Thanks Babatunde, it is always interesting seeing the differences between poor and rich foods in a culture. It's definitely a fascination of mine. I live in Canada but my family is Italian and we grew up eating more of the poor meals than the expensive meals.
Sugar doesn't cause directly hemorrhoids. A low fiber diet can contribute to hemorrhoids, so if sugar is replacing vegetables and whole grains in your diet, it could be a factor. Apparently, putting sugar directly on a hemorrhoid can help treat it, so maybe that's where the association started
Greetings from the northwestern United States as an Atomic Shrimp fan. Do keep up the good work, Babatunde, on your own RU-vid channel here. By the way, when are you and Shrimp going to make another recipe -Nigerian made British style or British made Nigerian style- collaboration video or just a general collaboration video?
In the US the poorest people eat alot of carbs like potatoes ,rice and pasta. Mostly Macaroni and Cheese and Spaghetti. Mac N Cheese meals can be bought very cheap, requiring only a little butter and milk to make while Spaghetti is usually eaten with red tomato sauce occasionally with ground beef .Processed meat in a can like Spam is also very cheap. Middle Class low to high there is more good quality meats and dishes like pizza, fancy pasta and some salads and vegetable dishes. These are the people who might cook a Thanksgiving Dinner while poor people eat charity plates from churches and other organizations for the holiday. The rich classes eat whatever they want, often prepared by trained chefs either at a restaurant or their own employee. Ironically rich people are probably the ones eating low calorie meals with vegetables and whole grain alternative carbs or no carbs and a meat heavy Keto diet, because they are too fat from too much access to food. Poor and Middle Class enjoy the unhealthy stuff like fast food because they cannot afford stuff like organic certified meat and fresh fruit and fast food is designed to be relatively cheap, easy to get and addictively tasty. Often both parents are working ,sometimes multiple jobs, and preparing food at home is too tiring and time-consuming. You can be poor yet have a job in places where the cost of living is very high due to many well paying jobs for elites like government employees.
Very true. When I was a broke college student, I lived off mac n cheese and cheap pasta. Now I’m fortunate enough to afford fresh fruits and veggies and generally less processed foods.
Garri (ultra processed casava)actually chelates nutrients from the body and will cause severe malnutrition if eaten on its own in just a few weeks. Instant noodles are generally considered carcinogenic here because they contain large amount of ultra processed fried seed oils, that all are rancid after a few days 'on the shelf'
LOL. Say am not well off and I have hungry kids at home. I can buy a multipack ramen or a head of lettuce and a few tomatoes for about the same price. Which do I buy ?
Assuming the multi pack costs £2 i would say get a bag of cheap pasta a block of butter and a tube of tomato puree. Look up garri malnutrition. A 'head' of lettuce is water and cellulose only (iceberg)
@@patricialavery8270 Ramen is never that cheap, it is a processed food there is always something cheaper like a bag of flour, assuming there is clean water I would buy flour and tomatoes
The research I've seen would indicate that gari in and of itself isn't unhealthy. But because of it's extremely low protein content (about a sixth the protein of white rice, which is itself the lowest protein way any cereal grain is commonly eaten), and lack of many micronutrients, eating gari as a staple without a source of sufficient protein in the diet can lead to severe malnutrition in the short term due to too little protein in the diet, both in absolute terms and relative to total calorie intake, and nutritional problems in the long term due to it not containing many essential vitamins and micronutrients. Instant noodles on the other hand definitely are an unhealthy food in and of themselves, though still better than nothing if you need the calories to survive.
@@patricialavery8270 Lettuce, particularly iceberg lettuce, should never be purchased in a situation where getting enough food is a concern. It has almost zero nutritional value. In the USA, using rice, flour for homemade bread, or a nixtamalized corn product plus dried beans or other legumes as your staple, with dairy or high nutrient density fruits and vegetables where you can afford them, is the way to go if your food budget is tight enough that going hungry is a concern and you have any means at all of cooking. Some combination of less-processed grain products and dried legumes is almost guaranteed to stretch your food budget further than instant ramen, and be much healthier as well. You can survive and even be fairly healthy more or less indefinitely on whole grains, legumes, and a source of vitamin C. I'd assume that a base of cereal grains and legumes, supplemented with some combination of vegetables and/or fruits and/or dairy is the best way to eat cheap most places in Europe or the Americas, though I can only speak from experience on the USA there, and the choice of grains and legumes will vary a fair bit on local availability.
The thing with PayPal is that they charge $15 in chargeback fees when someone does a chargeback, per chargeback. So someone can send $1, chargeback, and put you $16 on the red. Kofi accepts Paypal, and if someone chargebacks they chargeback kofi, which *will* go to court over it so PayPal know better and quit the bullshit.
