Adding sugar to beans
During my industrial training (I.T) days at Anyison Civil and Survey firm, there was a day I returned home early from work, and upon arriving, I found my aunt, with whom I was staying in her house, in the kitchen. It seemed as if she knew I would be back early, as the aroma of beans from the kitchen had permeated the house. Without changing my clothes or taking a shower, I walked down to the kitchen.
"Mummy Clinton, thank you for cooking ooo! I'm very hungry," I praised her as soon as I entered the kitchen.
She gave me a look that signalled I wasn't welcome at that hour. Perhaps she thought I had joined a bad gang that caused me to return home early. I thought she wanted to ask why I came home so early, but she remained silent and continued stirring the pot of beans on the gas cooker. I leaned close to her ear and tried to whisper some words to her, and immediately, she burst into laughter. Oh yes, I knew how to lift her from her serious and tired mood to her ever-jovial self, and I succeeded.
"Why did you come home this early today?" she finally asked with a smile on her face.
"So, you can talk now, right?" We kept chit-chatting until I saw her pick up three cubes of sugar and drop them into the pot of beans.
"Is that sugar? You put sugar in your beans?" I was totally shocked and I couldn't just keep quiet.
"Look at this village boy, don't you know that they add sugar in beans?" She questioned me back, this time dropping the spoon from her hand and turning to face me directly to get my answer.
"Sugar in beans? How? Beans already have a sweet taste, and adding sugar to it won't make it sweeter but excessively sweet, which would make it not taste like beans anymore," I explained to her, using my hands to demonstrate as if I were teaching a baby in a class.
"Kingsley, your time is up. Leave the kitchen. When I'm done and you feel you can't eat, you can go and make yourself noodles," my words seemed to touch her, and she pushed me out of the kitchen.
"In my house, my mom doesn't add 'maggi'(a season) whenever she's cooking beans because she believes beans are already sweet. How much more sugar?" I said all this as I found my way to the parlour.
At that moment, I quickly made a post on my WhatsApp status about adding sugar to beans, and two people replied that it's very normal and it'll make the beans sweeter. Haaaaa! I couldn't believe my eyes; my brain was far from comprehending the whole situation.
I calmed my nerves and patiently waited for her to finish cooking so I could taste it and see for myself.
I was still in the parlour, with my legs crossed on the table while I was busy on my phone. I saw her come out of the kitchen.
"If you want to eat, go and serve yourself, and please, don't waste it," she said as she walked away.
The curious me got up and moved quickly to the kitchen. I found the pot of beans open, with intense vapour oozing out, and at the same time, the aroma was unmatched. I took a plate, dished out a spoonful, and walked back to the parlour with my mouth blowing away the heat.
Surprisingly, I met her in the parlour, I knew tasting the beans in her presence wouldn't go well. I smiled and headed towards my room.
"If you throw away that food eeeh!" She knew what I was up to and she screamed out a warning.
I got to my room, slammed the door, sat on the bed, and took a spoonful of beans into my mouth. It was excessively sweet that I couldn't swallow. I just dropped the plate on the floor, used my leg to push it away, and laid on my bed, imagining what city people are eating all in the name of classiness.
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Please o, I beg to differ o. I don't add sugar to beans o, never and nothing will make me start now, chai,😲😲
Beans is a sweet meal and when prepared properly with a lot of smoked fish and crayfish ehn, it's good to go. Just imagining eating beans with sugar is scaring me right now
Hahahaha!
Ordinarily, the thought is scary.
And people are comfortably eating it
That's their own thing of cos as for me I'm not comfortable at all
It's well with them.
Amen
No!!!
Sugar in beans will be the last thing that can possibly come to my mind in a meal. I normally don't like when things are too sweet.
Beans already has sugar and when cooked with enough onion is already sweet.
I wouldn't even think of tasting it to know how it taste.
Hahahaha🤣
That's exactly what I thought. I couldn't imagine it.
The result will be extreme
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Someone has added sugar to beans for me before. It was exceptionally sweet and I disliked it. How they came about it remains a marvel to me.
Good script here
Hahahahah 😅
I guess the idea came from those YouTube chefs
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I remember trying it once but I didn't add too much sugar😄😄, I enjoyed it but I never tried it again before I will see myself in the hospital. I Know someone who always adds sugar to her beans.
Hahahah😅
This is serious.
What prompted you to do that?
I can't even imagine myself, with my normal sense adding sugar to my beans. Haaaa!😅
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When you are in the midst of people that eat weird food combos😄😄 there's no way you wouldn't want to try some out.
You are wlc
There is one thing that defines differences in taste — the appetite for sweet. Some love sweetness in nearly everything, while others want their savory foods to be very distinct from their sweet foods. You did such a nice job of dramatizing the interactions with your aunt and how you reacted to the idea that sugar would be added to beans. We would have loved to see even more development in this story!
Okay.
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Interesting story! I'd heard this before somewhere (I can't remember now) and thought the person was messing with me. I guess one man's delicacy is another's poison, eh? Hehe. Two cubes is not bad though. !PIZZA
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Mhen that’s hilarious I can’t even imagine the taste of the beans with sugar in it. My friend once mention that she use to add sugar in almost all her food and I doubted.
Some people love sweetness in everything they eat. I once taste pounded potatoes at a family friend's house. I couldn't cope with the meal. I remember another time that my Aunt boiled yam with sugar. I couldn't eat it also. I prefer not putting salt that is mostly necessary than putting sugar in these kinds of food.
You did a nice job in describing the scenes.
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Pounded potatoes?
OMG! I can't comprehend it.🥹
Swallow is not supposed to be that tasty🥲
Anyways, there are a lot food combo that are really weird and people are really cool with them.
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Woah !!! I am ready to taste anything but I do have a problem with too much sweetness. And bitterness too . Is it common to add sugar to beans? Maybe as a sweet dish. Like we have a sweet dish called "gajar ka halwa" which is carrot and sugar, very tasty for people who have a sweet tooth. Not my cut of tea though :)
Still in my house if I took a portion of food I had to finish it if I did not want to be punished. That habit has got into my bones and typically I try and eat it all even if I have to have a lot of water to swallow it :D.
Good post, it made me smile and reminded me of scenes from my childhood. Cheers from this #dreemerforlife.
Carrot and sugar?
That's going to be excessively sugary 🤣.
Over here, adding sugar to beans is not common but a few people do it and they feel very comfortable.
For food wastage;
I'm my house, we were used to wasting of food and that's because we have a farm. But that home I lived and tasted that beans, they frown at food wastage
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I never knew one could add sugar to beans until a friend cooked that in my presence one day. I was shocked as I told her beans are already sweet, adding more sugar isn't ideal especially with the way diabetes is flying up and down. Some people naturally love sweet things and never care about diabetes or any ailment that comes with too much of sugar. But they won't listen if you tell them about it.
Even my grandma before she died, made me understand that it isn't necessary to add seasoning to bean cake since you have added onions to it.
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Asweeeaar.
Some people are just too keen to sugary things.
My mom doesn't add Maggi on her beans and it still comes out sweet
Oh my God! This is my first time of hearing this, adding sugar to beans. I can't even try it. I'm just imagining how it will taste.
Hahahaha🤣
I was doubting and thinking it's not doable until I met that my aunt.
People are really trying with food combo🤣
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