Jo-town why you no like head?

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First of all, I would like to apologize in advance for always laughing at stuff I shouldn't laugh at in the first place. Ain't nothing as hard as trying to stop yourself from laughing (apart from diarrhoea of course). It is the same problem I get when I'm teaching. I ask a question and the students sometimes come up with the funniest answer and I just about get a heart attack trying to hold in that laughter.

Don't get me started on the awkward questions they ask me ALL.THE.TIME!Like this time we were talking about cancer and I tell the kids that when you have cancer one of the side effects of chemo is your hair falls off and i think your nails turn black or something. Then this kid lifts his hand with this serious face like he is about to say something profound. Then he asks,"You mean all hair falls off, including here? *asks while pointing his crotch*. I just repeated,"All hair including your eyebrows". At this point I have to feign anger to scare the others from asking follow up questions or making dirty jokes. It's cancer for crying out loud.

Let me get back to the story that I wanted to tell you. So this chiq who has lived all her life in town has been posted at a job near our village right! So being the good host that I am, with a big heart like a watermelon, I decide to welcome her.

First we go to this party to celebrate the birth of a new born. And the mama can throw down in the kitchen. She cooks food so good it could make you slap your mama. My friend looooo...ves chicken so you can imagine her joy when she saw some in a hot pot. Here they don't serve food in bowls, they keep them in hot pots which is kinda new to me.

My pal otoko the first helping of the chicken and eats it with glee. She then decides to go for a second helping but then changes her mind and declares that she is full. I don't think much of it seeing as she had already served copious amount of the hapless chicken.

On our way home she is pensive and sort of sad which made me fear that maybe she could be suffering from food poisoning. I then ask her to fungua roho. Then she confesses that when she looked in the bowl she saw chicken head in the bowl. She could've sworn the chicken was looking at her. Imagine that!

Apparently guys outchea don't cook chicken head n feet. They throw them away. Here in the village every part of the chicken is cooked. (Ok apart from the feathers). My friend was pissed because i didn't give her a heads up. Thing is Ive lived for a long time in the village to a point that I'm not surprised at things like finding chicken heads in a bowl. 

At least this mama's chicken was clean. Ive gone to houses where the house girl forgot to clean the sundu properly and served it on my plate which left a taste of shit in my mouth. I dared not spit it out because it would be considered rude.

Now my friend has sworn off chicken (Yay! the more for me ) This was after I explained to her that you gotta eat everything from the wattle to the tongue and all. You should have seen her retching. She argues that chicken poke their beaks in dirt and eat worms. I have seen chicken poke around in cow dung but it hasn't made me love them any less. This must be what true love is all about. You see them eat shit but you still love them to deff.lol. I think her argument about chicken-eat-shit-so-i-cant-eat-the-head-and-feet is total BS. Because I'm pretty sure all that dirt and all that chicken eat is what makes up all the other parts of the chicken like the drum stick n breast bone that people love so much.

 I know I should be sympathetic but nah. I love me some head...chicken head I mean.

Looks so good I wanna cry

Go out and get some chicken head tonight. You wont regret it son!
tata

Spaghetti Bolognose

That moment when you eat this...

...then check out the menu to notice this... #truestory

Talk about trying to save money eating at "affordable" restaurants (cheap is such a bad word).
If i die please tell @antwarogue to clear my browsing history and no flowers at my funeral please!
Excuse me while i go buy (more like grovel at my friend who owns a chemist in the building across the street) m'self some flagyl.

my relationship with food

Ive heard this phrase being thrown around of late in the wake of the world wide spread of eating disorders.

I find it funny,imagine taking your food out for dinner or asking it if you look fat in that dress.lol.

In my family,meal times are special as we spread the table and eat to our fill.My mother believes in eating so much that the only excuse for missing a meal in her house is if you are sick and have a doctors letter to that effect.

When i first left my mamas house within the first three months i lost 8kgs and my mum begun to worry and ask if i was eating well.Sometimes she would come around my hood and ask me out for lunch and make sure that i eat well to confirm to that i was fine.

I guess to your mother you will always be a her baby.

The reason for the easy weight loss was because i was able to eat smaller portions and omit other foods from my diet:since i was doing the buying and the cooking,i had more control.In my mothers house there is always so much food on the table that you feel the need to eat a lot.
I remember a non-kenyan lady..

Its the closest P.C. word i could come up with

who came to visit us and found us having lunch.She was horified to look at the portion of food on our plates and started telling us about calories and what Ghee(that i love so much) will do to our bodies.

Poor woman!She could not believe we actually put fat directly to our food on the plate.

My relationship with food is a healthy one.I exercise moderation and i have omitted sugars and animal fat (generally all types of junk) from my diet.I drink sugarless tea and have done so for five years now and i don't miss it.Am also not a fun of juice,sodas, alcohol and my only source of sugar is from fruits and the occasional honey.What works for me is that i eat healthy all week then on Saturday i allow myself to indulge alittle bit in the not so healthy foods and it has worked for me.My advise to everyone is that learn your body and know what works and what doesnt and avoid all the fad diets that they have going around out there.Dont copy anyones diet just do what is suited to your body type and feels right to you.