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As someone who is mixed African and Carribean this this absolutely true

What do they use to fatten the person with and how much.

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.

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

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.

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.

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