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Chica 18-03-09 19:23

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kkrix 12-03-09 15:41

Fingerfood is in vogue in Germany. There's a misconception that the "western-civilized" cuisine doesn't include using the hand to eat. People often think of using knives and forks instead, but nev.
What about the famous Bavarian cordiality (Gemuetlichkeit) the Bavarian veal sausage at the Munich Beer Festival? Don't we eat that with our hands?
There are those who take it to the extreme; they take the sausage, cut it into small bite-seized pieces, then in a well behaved manner, verging on an aristocratic, lift the the fork gentilely to one's mouth, and then masticating in slow languished way to savour the taste don't understand the deeper grounds of the Bavarian soul.

To eat with one's fingers, everywhere on earth has a lot to do with enjoyment and sensuality.

The biggest advantage is that you don't need several pieces of cutlery - resembling a surgeon's instrument tray - as often seen accompanying French Haute Cuisine, but that's not to say that eating with the hand ( the right hand) is any easier. For that, you need practice, a good deal of luck and a magician's 'slight of hand.'

After a rude shock, coming over me during my first visit to a Chop Bar, the spectacle of the usual way of consumption of those traditional meals like Fufu or Banku, convinced me of the fact, that every Ghanaian surely had to spend a very long time to learn how to eat that way.

My first efforts - weaponed with washbowl and soap - to transport small riceballs with soup to my mouth without a spoon, was a debacle. Meaning a dirty skirt, a guilty conscience, mixed up with some odd sandbox memories from my early childhood.

Another idea. To pacify national sensitivities, why not instigate a national sport regarding Ghanaian food? All avid 'Bush Canteen Gourmets' should compete regulary, while eating their Fufu-meal with appropriate big bowls. The only condition attached to the competion is that the fufu must be eaten on an aeroplane from Accra to Lagos and back during a tropical thunder storm. That way, you may detect the real sportsmen - seperating the men from the boys!

My first choice is Kenky with a sharp dip. With Kenky I would be a champion in the plane-competition. I'm not fully skilled for the premier league yet but I would definitely come tops in the second Ghanaian Fingerfood-league.

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