🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Joined 4 months

Truthfully it's not so much of what do they use it's what DON'T they use. Here a lot of foods are naturally fatty because of the oil put and used to cook our food, on my profile I have a video of a few photos of home made dishes I've eaten recently and as you can see most of them are pasta, rice, fried foods and the soups are made with quite a bit of sunflower or palm oil cause you have to fry the blended pumpkin seeds before you put in water and let it cook. (Egusi soup) At least I can speak for Nigeria and Jamaica.

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Munchies

Joined 4 years

Fattyprincessriri:
Truthfully it's not so much of what do they use it's what DON'T they use. Here a lot of foods are naturally fatty because of the oil put and used to cook our food, on my profile I have a video of a few photos of home made dishes I've eaten recently and as you can see most of them are pasta, rice, fried foods and the soups are made with quite a bit of sunflower or palm oil cause you have to fry the blended pumpkin seeds before you put in water and let it cook. (Egusi soup) At least I can speak for Nigeria and Jamaica.

My BIL is Nigerian, so I'm slowly learning more about the culture. He's Yoruban, so they don't do the fattening room thing. But they are obsessed with thick/curvy women and fattening up thinner women. His friends and family are always feeding his spouse (my brother - a trans man). My brother is a small person - short and skinny.

I thought us Southern black people fed people up a lot. I'm finding we have nothing on Nigerians.

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Fattyprincessriri

Joined 4 months

You definitely do not 🤣 we loveee food, here food IS culture

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Fattyprincessriri

Joined 4 months

And I am Yoruba too born in Lagos state to a Jamaican father and an EDO mother (Nigerian)

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Munchies

Joined 4 years

Fattyprincessriri:
And I am Yoruba too born in Lagos state to a Jamaican father and an EDO mother (Nigerian)

What a small world. My BIL is from Lagos state as well. No Jamaican tho.

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Wizardking18

Joined 2 years

Fattyprincessriri:
You definitely do not 🤣 we loveee food, here food IS culture

Food is more than just culture in Nigeria 😂😂😂

Growing up in a Nigerian family, you learn quickly just how much food means to us and how to cook!

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Munchies

Joined 4 years

Fattyprincessriri:
You definitely do not 🤣 we loveee food, here food IS culture

Wizardking18:
Food is more than just culture in Nigeria 😂😂😂

Growing up in a Nigerian family, you learn quickly just how much food means to us and how to cook!

God, I love the Diaspora. We have a lot of general things in common, but I adore the way we put spins on things.

I love me some us.

4 months

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Wizardking18

Joined 2 years

Fattyprincessriri:
You definitely do not 🤣 we loveee food, here food IS culture

Wizardking18:
Food is more than just culture in Nigeria 😂😂😂

Growing up in a Nigerian family, you learn quickly just how much food means to us and how to cook!

Munchies:
God, I love the Diaspora. We have a lot of general things in common, but I adore the way we put spins on things.

I love me some us.

Different cultures and it new places, but still at the same people deep down and we are here for it

4 months

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Munchies

Joined 4 years

Fattyprincessriri:
You definitely do not 🤣 we loveee food, here food IS culture

Wizardking18:
Food is more than just culture in Nigeria 😂😂😂

Growing up in a Nigerian family, you learn quickly just how much food means to us and how to cook!

Munchies:
God, I love the Diaspora. We have a lot of general things in common, but I adore the way we put spins on things.

I love me some us.

Wizardking18:
Different cultures and it new places, but still at the same people deep down and we are here for it

4 months

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

MottiF

Joined 8 years

Slimjim:
Most people think feederism and fat admiration are purely modern kinks, but in parts of Africa, they’ve been cultural practices for centuries.

In my culture (Nigeria), fatness traditionally symbolised wealth, beauty, fertility, and good health. Among the Efik people in Calabar, brides-to-be would be secluded in special “fattening rooms” for months. There, they’d be pampered, taught womanhood, and encouraged to gain weight before marriage.

These images are from both modern ceremonies and historical records 👇
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When I look at this community, I see a parallel: what we do here isn’t strange or “taboo” it’s part of a long human tradition of celebrating fatness as power, prosperity, and attraction.

Maybe Fantasy Feeder isn’t just fantasy at all… maybe it’s a continuation of something much older.

Had anyone here ever heard of the Calabar fattening room before?

in Africa, they understood the value of life, long before anyone else!

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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here