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I won’t pretend that I am not slightly disappointed when I go to a Nigerian party that does not have Nigerian food, but it’s not necessarily a deal breaker for me. For one thing, I eat at home before coming and I don’t expect too much. These caterers can like to disappoint you sometimes. The food will look so good and then taste like it was cooked with one maggi cube. Plus, it depends on the kind of Nigerian event I’m attending anyway. I’d expect finger foods at a baby\/bridal shower, but for a bigger event like a wedding, I’d think there would be “real” food.<\/p>\n
But that’s not even what this post is about. The question I keep pondering is why people go crazy for Nigerian food.\u00a0Guests have barely arrived and people are packing take away plates. Is there no shame left? \u00a0I don’t even think there’s a method to control the madness. No matter how you dispense the food, there would always be those people that find a way to take half of it home, so at some point during your party, there’s no food left – not because you did not provide enough food, but because some people have foil trays of your food in their trunk.<\/p>\n
I have seen people try all kinds of methods to control the food, but Nigerians still have a way to elude these methods:<\/p>\n
(1) Buffet Style:<\/strong> All the food is lined up in serving dishes\/trays and being warmed by those little fires. There are no servers behind the food, so people take what they want. That’s how they end up taking too much. People who eat their rice with one piece of meat at home will come to your party and eat 10 pieces.<\/p>\n(2) Buffet style with food police:<\/strong> This is the same as the one above, but there are servers behind the food. Or as I like to call them, Protectors of the Realm. These people are there to stop the above mentioned people from taking 10 pieces of meat. However, there are some strong willed guests who will start screaming and shouting over not being given all 10 pieces of meat.<\/p>\n(3) Pre-served food:<\/strong> This is when the food is already preserved in individual plastic or styrofoam plates. Great idea, right? Yeah. Except that one person will run off with 10 plates of food because they have to take food home for their husband’s sister’s cousin’s neighbor’s friend’s enemy. There goes your food.<\/p>\n(4) Restaurant-style:<\/strong> Everyone remains in their seat and servers bring the food to everyone. But there would be those people who don’t eat rice and would prefer beans — and the people who don’t eat beef and would prefer goat meat. Therefore, the servers have to take the food back. Food is wasted. Time is wasted. Everyone is hungrier than they should be.<\/p>\nI rarely ever have events, and by “rarely,” I mean that I don’t remember the last time I was the host of an event. I usually think about it, but I never actually go through with it. I think the best way – and possibly the only way – to control Nigerians at Nigerian parties is to serve them with non Nigerian food. Let’s see how many of them are running to take mac and cheese home. The next best option is to have everyone bring their own food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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