The Food That Doesn't Agree with Me: My Moimoi Story

Moimoi is one of the usual Nigeria foods I eat, it is known as bean pudding in English, I do eat this food not because I love to eat it but because I do not have a choice or anytime I feel like changing the taste of other foods, moimoi is never my favorite and it can never be.

Moimoi is a food I don't like to prepare and it has been long I had it, I only cooked this meal once last year, one thing about this food is that it is not easy to prepare for me, peeling the beans is always hard for me and coupled with the fact that I have to mix it thoroughly for it to be smooth and succulent.

I love to cook, even though cooking is my hobby but I do not know why I do not like to waste much effort on making this meal, this is one of my mother's favorite meals, she can eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but if I try it I will end up becoming slimmer in the next day.

I realized that any time I eat this meal I end up going to the toilet multiple times, it only happens to me alone in my family, my siblings can eat more than five wraps at a go without having any reaction on them but if I try to eat more than one wrap then I know I must visit the pharmacy for flaggy the next day, it always disturbs my tummy and results to purging.

Anytime I am at home and we are deliberating on what to eat, I always avoid it whenever they mention moimoi, they all know I would go against such suggestion, and I prefer not to eat anything than to eat it, it is not that I do not eat it at all but it is never common in my food, I can prepare it perfectly and everyone will enjoy it but it is not something I love to make regularly.

I remembered the last time my brother pleaded for me to make it and he was complaining bitterly about eating carbohydrates all the time, I was so furious and told him that I wasn't ready to go through such stress, pleaded and I agreed to help out, I did it and I ate one wrap that night, it was as if I took poison, that was when I know truly that one man's food is another man's poison, I was in and out of the toilet and couldn't enjoy my sleep, the night was so long that I had to be praying so that I could visit the pharmacy and get drugs to stop the purging.

My siblings are lovers of moimoi but I always excluded myself from it whenever they mentioned it, it is not something you can give me and I will appreciate it, you can add everything like fish, eggs, crayfish, etc and it will not still entice me, I haven't tried making it for the past six months now and I am not sure if I am ready to make it anytime soon.

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