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What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by tpia: 11:44pm On Feb 07, 2020
What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture?

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by chatinent: 11:50pm On Feb 07, 2020
ยค Nigga, personally I eat everything edible. I'm no traditional man.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Pierced(f): 11:52pm On Feb 07, 2020
Dogs.

Modified......I am from Enugu state. Enugu Ezike. According to what I heard..... If u knowingly eat dogs.....u will av rashes in ur tongue and ur lips.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by nlPoster: 6:44pm On Mar 11, 2020
What should you do if you've eaten a taboo item without knowing?


Induce vomiting to purge it from your system.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by nlPoster: 5:17pm On Apr 13, 2020
In parts of Ijaw land, eating snails is taboo.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Ishilove: 4:26pm On Apr 14, 2020
Snails. Ukwuani land.

I've never eaten snails, will never knowingly eat them. If one unknowingly eats them, you're supposed to induce vomiting. If you can't, you're to go for ceremonial cleansing.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by omoadeleye(m): 4:26pm On Apr 14, 2020
None, unless you don't like eating some awkward meats

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Slawormir: 4:26pm On Apr 14, 2020
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

If you reason this question ehnnn
He be like mumu mumu question

But ehnnnn! On a serious note. Na better question.
But op. Na plant or animal product?
What am i even saying! Food na food na! Too much weed in my system


Make i call my grandmother whether any food dey for Bini when we dey forbid

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Zombiekiller010: 4:26pm On Apr 14, 2020
Food with no salt for 8 days for a woman that just gave birth( Yoruba call it obe Ate), i heard if someone dare it, the baby will die

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by buygala(m): 4:26pm On Apr 14, 2020
Chopping another man's wife is a taboo in my village ...''chopping" as in ''fvcking"....

But i understand that in some parts of Benue State, men give out their wives and daughters as Kola to visitors shocked...as in if you are spending the night in his house, he can delegate one of his wives or daughters to keep you in satisfactory coital company overnight....

Point is....one man's meat is another man's poison cool

Modified

I have been getting some mentions telling me the Benue tradition I stated above isn't true...sad

Up till tomorrow, adultery is not prohibited among the Tivi tribe in Benue State..there, you cannot be convicted for knacking someone's wife...

If you think I am lying, please find and read the cases of Apiko V Ikogi and Tofi v Uba, the latter having been decided by the Nigerian Court of Appeal..

For ease of reference, here are the cases' Court citations:

Tofi v Uba (1987) 3 NWLR PT.62 P.723 PARA A-H

APIKO UNOGWU V GABRIEL IKOGI-APPEAL NO. OHC/19A/2008

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by chukwuibuipob: 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
sad Even in diz lockdown,nor try am.Food nah good oo
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by IstandWithGod: 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
At this stage of lockdown am sure some people will eat the "tabooed" food.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by DaddyMorenike: 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
Breast milk.
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by ignis: 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
Anything black, but not limited to black Amala.
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by seunlayi(m): 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
Yoruba don't cook any food that is against their culture. Therefore, any food cooked is edible

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by lekan3531(m): 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
Kuli kuli and garri....

Oboy shey u get sense with dis question.

We dey vex oooo

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by lekzy116(m): 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
My culture doesn't have any but I can't eat cat, duck, snake and okro soup. They are like taboo to me.
Lalasticlala will not like that snake part undecided grin

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by HeadNigga: 4:27pm On Apr 14, 2020
Anything I see now I chop. Taboo or no taboo. Whether Aboki, afonja or Igbo food I go chop am. After corona hunger we go dey observe tradition.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by jawalis(m): 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
Roasted Corn
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Themandalorian: 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
I blame boredom for all this.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by daniwise(m): 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
Crocodile.
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Nobody: 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
I eat everything I like.


there are some animals we are not supposed to eat but I eat them because I was not there when they did whatever they did.


I didn't benefit so why should I pay the price?

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Flexherbal(m): 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
We eat anything eatable .

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Tina001(f): 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
Dog, snail, snake, human meat

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by StupidNLmods: 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
Fried human meat
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Realstick941: 4:28pm On Apr 14, 2020
I am hausa we look down on Goat meat

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Mistaicey2288: 4:29pm On Apr 14, 2020
Hmmm none I know of actually. And i haven't been told there's a particular food we don't eat in my tribe/culture.. I believe anything goes as long as it's something edible (can be eaten by anyone) and nutritious.

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Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by SweetCunt97(f): 4:29pm On Apr 14, 2020
Python meat.
Re: What Food Items Are Taboo In Your Traditional Nigerian Culture? by Nicklaus619(m): 4:29pm On Apr 14, 2020
I can't remember any, I eat all eatable jaree, as far as it's not those creepy and disgusting things the Chinese eat. cool

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