NewStats: 3,262,345 , 8,176,880 topics. Date: Sunday, 01 June 2025 at 09:17 PM 4w6947

remsonik:
I went home to celebrate Easter and grandma prepared egusi soup for me,see let me tell you egusi belongs to the yoruba people. It originated from the SW states and I can tell you egusi can be used to make many stuffs by us
Now let me ask you can igbos make ewedu elegusi,robo elegusi,alapa. Even all this talk talk that igbos make soup most in nigeria I don't believe, go to calabar and all the SS states and see many of their precious delicacies that igbo people copied.
I wish to visit calabar soon honestly, their soups are the best

Aside alapa, robo elegusi etc, there's even Egusi funfun, Egusi oshiki etc. Yoruba's have several varieties of cooking Egusi as a matter of fact, even as the name egusi is a Yoruba name.

Raf4:


They will soon start to claim the ownership of jollof rice, ofada rice, ẹwa & dodo, moi moi, akara, aṣọ-ẹbi etc

Actually, one of them once told me that "aso-ebi" and "wahala" are not Yoruba words but general Nigerian slang cum broken English.

Laugh wan kill me 🤣

Where in the SE are the main ingredients for Egusi , Ogbono and Okro soup found or cultivated ?

How can you claim ownership of a delicacy as your ancestral meal when none of the main ingredients are cultivated or found growing wild in your region.


Lies has become you people's benchmark now abi?

Dsimmer:


Aside alapa, robo etc, there's even Egusi funfun, Egusi oshiki etc. Yoruba's have several varieties of cooking Egusi as a matter of fact, even as the name egusi is a Yoruba name.

AFTER CLAIMING SOUP, U STILL NO SABI COOK AM.


I TRYING EDIKAIKONG SOUP IN YORUBA RESTURANT, I VOMIT.

IF IGBO WOMAN COOK EGUSI FOR YOU, U WILL KNOW THE DIFFERNCE.

Dsimmer:


Aside alapa, robo elegusi etc, there's even Egusi funfun, Egusi oshiki etc. Yoruba's have several varieties of cooking Egusi as a matter of fact, even as the name egusi is a Yoruba name.

Yes o

DeepThroater:


You people have now added cultural appropriation into your long list of thievery .


Ogbono is Edo delicacy made from the seeds of bush mangos.

Okro is farmed mostly in the north and was introduced by Europeans into Nigeria. In the US they refer to it as lady's fingers.

Egusi that some of you are lying through your teeth here claiming it's your delicacy is from the middlebelt with the Igala , Ebira, Idoma and Tiv people who cultivate the melon plant . Can you barefacedly lie that you guys own any of these delicacies when not one of the main ingredients of Egusi , Okro and Ogbono is not found or farmed in your SE?

Jesus you people are really something else

Don't have time for unintelligent clowns.

Cosbyrich:


Wonders shall never end.
Igbos that started eating Egusi When they tasted it in Yorubaland are trying to claim it.
Na wah o.

Simply ask them which part of their SE is Egusi cultivated .

Alexis11:


Igbos will copy from Calabar, copy from Yoruba, copy from Bini etc and later claim ownership or the best at it lol

Don't mind them jare,that's how they always do

leathalbeast:
oya bring your version of the soup na!

This is what my tribe's version of egusi soup looks like.

waternogetememy:



Your stupid, when your caught, u start to be silly.


y not just tell the truth or it it?


Egusi is an Igbo word. Egwusi or Egusi.


Ogbono is also Igbo.

Does that make me stupid?

In my hometown in anambra we it's called ogwusi/egwusi.

Holluwhakemmy:
stop claiming other tribe egusi not an igbo soup

Bulldozer90:
Don't have time for unintelligent clowns.

Where in your SE are any of the main ingredients of these foods you are claiming are cultivated ?


Bloody liars.


I don't blame you at all.

DeepThroater:


Simply ask them which part of their SE is Egusi cultivated .

All states in Southeast it's very common to cultivate

Bestmanfornow:

Is it cultivated in your SE?

The name Egusi was popularised by Yorubas but it is farmed mostly in the middlebelt areas up to Kebbi



Stop claiming what isn't yours .

Soon you guys will claim you invented ice cream and pizza

Bestmanfornow:

All states in Southeast it's very common to cultivate

Liar.
The middle belt remains the region where melon plant is cultivated .

Why do you guys lie like this,?

Bulldozer90:
Don't have time for unintelligent clowns.

Claim Jew

Claim all soup for Nigeria

Lolz

DeepThroater:


Liar.
The middle belt remains the region where melon plant is cultivated .

Why do you guys lie like this,?

LISTEN, EVERY FAMILY IN IGBOLAND HAVE AN AREA IN THE COMPOUND FOR PLANTING.

THEY STILL HAVE THEIR FARM IN ADDITION.

WHEN YOU CRY EBI KPA MI, DID YOU HERE IGBOS SAY A WORD?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEY HAVE EGUSI GROWING THERE.

MAY NOT BE AS MUCH AS IN THE NORTH BUT THE FARMS ARE THERE.

Bestmanfornow:

All states in Southeast it's very common to cultivate

I know your SE well.

You are not talking to someone you can easily decieve.


The highest cultivated foodstuff in the SE is cassava , cocoa yam and water yam then Ugwu and bitterleaf.


You can add Ebonyi rice and sweet potatoes and other beans varieties but this Egusi , pls no lie abeg.

waternogetememy:



YOU DON GO CHANGE AM FOR WIKIPEDIA NOW?


YORUBA IS THE BOTTOM IN NIGERIA WHEN IT COMES TO SOUP.

OIL IS USUALLY TOO MUCH.


EGWUSI IS DEFINATELY NOT A YORUBA WORD.

I'm very sure there are still some old people in your village that can still tell the story of how and when cassava, corn, egusi and some other staple food items were introduced to igboland.

waternogetememy:



AFTER CLAIMING SOUP, U STILL NO SABI COOK AM.


I TRYING EDIKAIKONG SOUP IN YORUBA RESTURANT, I VOMIT.

IF IGBO WOMAN COOK EGUSI FOR YOU, U WILL KNOW THE DIFFERNCE.

AmuDimpka:
Yoruba no Sabi cook anything apart from Amala ati Ewedu

No be only cook. Lol. The lie you tell yourself. Egusi even has several delicacy varieties cooked by the Yoruba to start with.

It's Igbo who claim other people's delicacies.

Yoruba simply cook their own delicacies which are several, as mentioned below. In fact, Yoruba have got these several delicacies because that was what was required whenever a sick person was brought to an IFA man in the old time. The first thing required was to cook several delicacies for the sick person to eat because it could be hunger that got the person sick in the first place. That was how Yoruba got their several delicacies. Through IFA creative ideas and principles. Egusi which is a Yoruba word is an Orunmila's soup as a matter of fact.

Egusi has got several delicious delicacy varieties cooked by the Yoruba.

Dsimmer:


I thought Oka was Amala. People learn everyday though.

That's some good list.

Yoruba have got lots of cuisines tbh.

They've even got several varieties for each.

For example, there are several varieties for Iyan which includes :
Iyan gbere
Iyan ikoko.
Iyan isu

Amala also has its varieties such as:
Amala fifun (Lafu)
Amala dudu.

There are other food such as :

Ebiripo
Pupuru
Ekuru
Eba
Eko
Sapala
Ogi
Ofada
Garri
Akamu (Oka baba) (the baby guinea corn).

Other foods includes:

Ojojo
Akara
Moimoi
Egusi Alapa
Asaro
Langbe
Jogi
Kokoro
Adun re
Dodo ikire
etc.


There are also several varieties of Yoruba soups.

For example, efo soup has its several varieties such as :
Tete,
Soko,
ewuro,
elegede,
Yanrin,
amunututu,
iroko,
gbure etc.

Ila also has its several varieties such as:

Ila asepo ,
Ilasa,
Ila asepo,
Ila funfun,
Orunla.

Egusi also has its several varieties such as, efo elegusi, egusi funfun, ogiri etc

Aside these, there are other soups such as:

Ayamase
Ishapa
Ikokore
Obe Koowu
Ata dindin
Imoyo
Gbegiri
Ewedu
Bokolisa
Marugbo/Eweta
Obe iru
Luru
Osiki
Akuku
Apon
Opa
Eku

Yoruba have got several varieties of cooking food, soup and vegetables, considering the several varieties above. In fact, using IFA as timeline, In the old days when sick people are taken to the Awo, the first thing the person was asked was if he or she had eaten. If he's not eaten, several varieties of nutritional foods are prepared for him to eat before any other thing because it could be hunger/lack of food which got the person sick. Besides, one needs to eat food before taking medication. That's what some later term as aseje. The idea behind it was to ensure one had eaten food first before taking medication, considering most of the sick people were left at the Awo place in the old days. Same principles of eating before medication is employed in the hospital today.

DeepThroater:



Where in your SE are any of the main ingredients of these foods you are claiming are cultivated ?


Bloody liars.


I don't blame you at all.

I won't answer your questions until you actually lay claims to any of them. "This is not your own" is different from "this is my own"

Most of you keep saying it's not of Igbos origin without telling us the origin. Speak of Solomon and two harlots.

waternogetememy:



LISTEN, EVERY FAMILY IN IGBOLAND HAVE AN AREA IN THE COMPOUND FOR PLANTING.

THEY STILL HAVE THEIR FARM IN ADDITION.

WHEN YOU CRY EBI KPA MI, DID YOU HERE IGBOS SAY A WORD?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEY HAVE EGUSI GROWING THERE.

MAY NOT BE AS MUCH AS IN THE NORTH BUT THE FARMS ARE THERE.

Who you dey decieve .

All the Egusi you eat in the SE comes from Kogi and Benue .


Stop lying.

My friend used to buy bags of Egusi from these aforementioned states and send to his mother in the east .


Liars.

Na igbo own all food in this country since na u own egusi ....

[quote author=Bestmanfornow post=129222178][/quote]That's what I'm saying it is well known all over west Africa not associated with only Igbo

If Nairaland is a microcosm of Nigeria, then it will take a miracle to get tribalism out of Nigeria. And it will take God's intervention for Nigeria to grow and prosper. Nigerians can bicker and fight over something as insignificant as "egusi soup".

I JUST DEY HERE THEY WONDER HOW YORUBA TAKE ORIGINATE EGWUSI.


THIS PEOPLE THAT CANNOT COOK SOUP WITHOUT OIL.

Bulldozer90:
I won't answer your questions until you actually lay claims to any of them. "This is not your own" is different from "this is my own"

Most of you keep saying it's not of Igbos origin without telling us the origin. Speak of Solomon and two harlots.

Egusi is a plant that is grown mostly in the middlebelt and in some parts of Kebbi and also in Taraba and southern Adamawa.


The melon plant has to be exposed to dry and ferment in the field before it is harvested and so its growing cycle is best in areas like the middlebelt which do not have a longer and wetter rainy season like the south.


You do know I can easily get data on Egusi production by state from the web ?

Liars

DeepThroater:



Who you dey decieve .

All the Egusi you eat in the SE comes from Kogi and Benue .


Stop lying.

My friend used to buy bags of Egusi from these aforementioned states and send to his mother in the east .


Liars.

DUDE SEE THIS, IT IS A COMPOUND IN THE EAST.


https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/7417103/turned-home-garden-eden

waternogetememy:



ALL THAT SHIT YOU POST IS CRAP.


IT IS INACCURATE AND WRITEN BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT LIKE TO LAY CLAIMS TO THINGS.


ANSWER THIS QUESTION, WHICH SOUP DO YORUBA COOK THAT REQUIRES THE LEVEL OF DETAIL YOU GET IN EGWUSI?


HAVE YOU SEEN THE REST OF IGBO SOUPS AND THE DETAILS?


Y ARE THEY IDENTICAL TO EGWUSI?

The fact we cook Jollof Rice doesn't take it away that it is originated from Senegal.

It's a research paper by Muddasir Ismaila Moyi and Francis Attah Egu (an Igbo man).

You can do well to do your own research and come back.

Good night to you 💓

DeepThroater:


I know your SE well.

You are not talking to someone you can easily decieve.


The highest cultivated foodstuff in the SE is cassava , cocoa yam and water yam then Ugwu and bitterleaf.


You can add Ebonyi rice and sweet potatoes and other beans varieties but this Egusi , pls no lie abeg.

Ignorant mind, Egusi is very common to cultivate in Anambra, just like Ugu

waternogetememy:
I JUST DEY HERE THEY WONDER HOW YORUBA TAKE ORIGINATE EGWUSI.


THIS PEOPLE THAT CANNOT COOK SOUP WITHOUT OIL.

How is Egusi grown and harvested ?

Let's start from there



Egusi is grown in Kwara and parts of northern Oyo.

Where in your SE is it grown ?