Amala Makes People Black.....Eba Makes People Yellow
Hiiiiiiiii My Loves,
What shall we be talking about today?
So I was gisting with my girl Dolapo the other day and the
conversation veered towards black edible items, in this case black cake
fondant. My birthday is coming up and I told Dolapo I didn’t want black fondant
because I don’t eat black things. I don’t eat or drink anything dark. I have
serious aversion issues to anything dark. Yes, I don’t eat chocolate. I’ve
never liked chocolates. When I was a child and other children would lust after
chocolate, I would be the only child going in the opposite direction. Not just
chocolate, I don’t drink coke… EVER. I mean, I’ve tasted coke before but I don’t
know if I’ve ever swallowed more than a mouthful in my entire life. Yes, it’s
that bad. I was a full blown adult before I would eat amala. Yup. I sucked that
much. As a matter fact, there is a running joke… more like a funny narration of
me in my family. So when I was little (think Primary school days), when anyone
would offer me amala to eat, I would start crying that I want eba instead. If
they ask why I don’t want amala I would say Noooooo I dun want, amala makes
people black….. eba makes people yellow. I wan ebaaaaa. Lollllll.
There is NOTHING anyone could do to make me touch chocolate,
coke, amala, or anything edible that’s dark in color. Please ask me where this
cray….cray aversion came from o biko.
(Abeg I was just about 4/5 yrs old I think when all of these
started so please don’t criticize my thinking).
So in primary school (Grace Children School, Gbagada) there
was this girl in my class whom I was good friends with. Her name is Tokunbo
(Let me not mention her last name). Tokunbo was dark in complexion, if I remember
correctly her gum was also black. Everything was just black. See I am fair in
complexion, everyone in my house is fair-ish too…..for some reason maybe I expected
everyone in the world to be fair. This is until I got to Grace and I met
Tokunbo. She was a very lovely girl, but mehnnn I would just stare at her all
day, wondering ehnnn how can someone be this dark in complexion for goodness
sake ehn. And she didn’t help matters at all either. When we were served milk
in school – we had options of chocolate, plain or strawberry milk during snack
time, this Tokunbo will now choose chocolate milk. Every day she would come to
school with chocolates. When they ask us what we want to drink per sodas,
Tokunbo will now say Coke. When they ask us in class what our best food is,
everyone will be saying Jollof rice or fried rice, or dodo, or spaghetti oooo. Please guess what Tokunbo will say.
AMALA!! Ahnn ahnn.
That’s how me I started thinking it was Amala, Coke,
Chocolate that made Tokunbo black in complexion oo.
Of course when I got older I knew none of those things had
an influence on her complexion but I think my head is now too warped to
function otherwise. Bottom line is I was traumatized.
I have since started eating Amala…. Once every other month
or so, but I won’t drink coke or eat chocolate at all. I will eat Cadbury’s Eclairs
though and that is the only candy that has chocolate I would eat, but will not
go near a Kit Kat\Hershey Bar etc… Hellz Nah! I would rather drink ogi than
drink coke, and I HATE ogi!!
I also won’t eat chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream!
Why?? What for? Why would anyone make a delicious dessert like that so black?
What if there was a cockroach in it how would you see it? You people play too
much abeg.
Loll….. so there it is. That’s my weird story. Dolapo made
me share this by the way!
Ohhh so errrrm yeah, I think I need a shrink right? How do I over come this weirdness? Anyone got any ideas? loll I'm for real o cos y'all don't take me serious at all!
Xoxox
Savannah