First of all, I got to say that God forbid it ever gets like that. Having to catch any form of meat/fish you wish to eat. Meat refers to both fish and meat
If it ever gets like that I would resort to eating Gob3//go-be//. Gob3 is a meal made of boiled cowpea served with palm oil, garnished with gari(processed powdered cassava), fried plantain and boiled eggs. If you’re hearing this for the first time then google “Gob3” and try it out. Do come back and say thank you 😌.
Gob3 is the only standard meal which can be afforded by persons from all standards of living and which does not require any form of meat/fish in preparation. It’s worth adding that it’s students’ favorite!!!
My second favorite one I would have loved on is spaghetti(indomie). It takes the shortest possible time to prepare with almost no effort, exactly how I like my food. Lol
Let me a take a moment and think about the number of meals I can have which do not need to have fish in it. This sounds impossible. Well, I can only think of my breakfast meals*, which include cereals, tea, and porridge.
So if I were to have to only eat of the meat from what I catch myself, and since I do not see myself doing any catching just yet, I would have had to settle for these “morning foods” mentioned above. Oh heck no!
Now that I think about it there are actually quite a handful of choices out there. If I should take the lazy road and decide not to flex my muscles and go out to catch any meat to make food. One can survive on pastries, no? Haha
Eating food without meat should not be a big deal. But then per the kind of foods we have here in my part of the world where we eat heavy, 99% of our dishes contains at least some fish in it. Most of our dishes come with either stew or soup. You can have plain rice boiled and served with either stew or soup. You can have yam or any of the foods in the “yam class”(thus the tubers/suckers such as cassava, potato, etc) served with stew.
The almighty jollof itself is actually cooked with lots of fish in it (even though the fish in it is mostly not visible;broken to tiny bits)and it’s also served with stew sometimes and chicken.
Point is, stew/soup is cooked with plenty of fish. You won’t have a complete stew/soup without at least some fish in it. You cannot really eat any of the foods without the stew/soup. Try this and you risk complications from malnutrition.
I do like the idea of hunting or fishing tho. I’m an admirer of “handy work” or anything that has to do with using the brains and hands together; Skillsets such as fishing and hunting included. I do think they are fun activities but in this case we would not be fishing/hunting for fun but rather for survival.
I can already begin to see how competitive it would have been.
Like, every single person having to catch one to eat one?!!! MONEY! You see how money is?!! That is exactly how meat would have been. It is the same way we would have been going crazy for it.
Value comes from demand. Meat would have been extremely precious!
I know there are vegetarians out there; I know people are actually living without eating meat or fish. So typically it is not as bad as I may have portrayed it, but the thought of it and not thinking in the sense of vegetarians does really make it look like a big deal.
This has more to do with where I’m from. In my part of the world you must be very well-to-do to say you are a vegetarian. Because there are very few foods here that are prepared without fish in it. So not eating fish would mean that you would have to eat almost as if you are a foreigner. That is what we would say. Haha
Yep there are restaurants that serve vegetarian-dishes. The point is they are not for the average person here. That is why I mentioned earlier on that you have to be very well-to-do.
Having to catch your meat before you can eat some would be really interesting. It would have been a life some would have just stared at, just like we only stare at certain restaurants and never entering, even though we pass the road everyday.
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