Talk:Fufu

message: I just came to edit this and check for grammer mistakes bye:).
Fufu is so delicious! with soup! mmm, I miss it. It's an acquired taste. It's not how the food looks it's how it tastes. African food has lots of nutrients. We use lots of veggies, carbs, protein, oils, and fruits. A well-balanced diet accompanied by lots of walking even with taxis, buses, and cars available keeps the obesity rate down. We just eat till we are full serving size is not something Africans watch carefully.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.201.131 (talk) 13:11, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is polenta a good English translation for fufu?--Sonjaaa (talk) 06:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, not really. There's no need for any translation, since fufu is the word used by English-speaking people in Nigeria, Cameroon, and other Anglophone African countries. — Dulcem (talk) 06:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Polenta

message: [Pasted this from page --Jammoe (talk) 03:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just be bold and make your edit and click save, but remember to explain your edit in the edit summary. – ukexpat (talk) 18:18, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-wording existing reference? 

message: why is the first line 
"Fufu, (variants of the name include fufu, fufu, fufu)"
all the 'variants' are the same  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.154.139.28 (talk) 09:18, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Was the work of a vandal. Now corrected. Ezeu (talk) 19:43, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ummm 

message: Could someone who knows please disambiguate cocoyam in this article? --jpgordon::==( o ) 05:06, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  cocoyam 

message: This chapter needs rewriting! sam. 11:06, 2 March 2011 (GMT)
The word 'fufu' is not specific to Asante Twi but is common throughout the Akan group of languages (Asante, Akuapem, Fante, ..). In Akuapem it would probably be spelt 'fufu', whereas in Asante I think 'fufuo', or 'fufuw', is more likely to reflect the diphthong. I have never seen a final 'p' silent or otherwise. I am not convinced that there is a double etymology. To pound fufu would be 'wɔw fufu'. If 'fu-fu' is now ever used to mean 'to pound', it seems more likely that it has been derived from the food name, and not vice versa, in the same way that we might say 'to cream'. I am open to correction from an expert, but if these comments are not challenged I will change the text to reflect the above in about a month's time. EJT (talk) 23:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: Fufu is also eaten in Angola and is considered the national food in the country. Funge or Fungi, as it is usually called in Angola comes in two different forms, maize and manioc. While there is a third type of funge, a mixture between both types, this is not so popular and Angola's usually stick to their preferential type, maize or manioc, which is often relates to the region they are originally from. The maize type of funge presents itself in either a yellow or white color, while the manioc type presents itself in a translucent grey and is sticky in its nature. Manku15 (talk) 13:28, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fufu in Angola 

message: It appears that whoever is from Ghana has written about how everyone accepts that fufu is a dish from Ghana .... and people from Guinea have declared that it is a dish from Guinea ... and that my friend's uncle was from the Akan tribe - and he invented it. Closer to the truth would be to say that 1. it is an introduced food which replaced a lot of indigenous, and often more nutritious, foodstuffs, such as yams, and was probably imposed by colonial overlords so that they could exploit the workforce in a contained setting rather that letting them do traditional food gathering; and, 2. that it is eaten in a great many countries in Africa - west, central and south ... not just the places that the editor knows. Francis Hannaway (talk) 07:33, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's pretty common for editors to claim foods as a point of national pride. Unfortunately, it's almost always without any sources. The colonial history perspective would be a fantastic addition to the article, do you have any sources? Grayfell (talk) 08:47, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country bias 

message: As a current resident in Ghana, who have witnessed the preparation of fufu in many homes across tribes, I have never seen any method  of preparation that involves flour of either cassava or plantain. The reference cited, describes the history of cassava in Africa, and does not make any reference to fufu, or other related local dishes. The common, traditional method of preparing fufu, is by pounding varying portions of boiled cassava and unripe matured plantain. The portion of plantain is less that the cassava. Emmausgamer (talk) 18:09, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traditional Preparation in Ghana and Nigeria 

message: It seems that any stodgy mess can be called fufu. In reality, it is a different food in different countries. It is made from different ingredients and even has differing names.
Given that they are all high-carb belly fillers, a grid could distinguish them into main ingredients. Some are made from cassava (whether boiled, ground, or fermented), others from plantain bananas, and others from several other grains. Perhaps that should be the main grouping.
When it comes to nutrition, this article is very confident that all the various fufus have the same nutritional values, regardless of what they're made from. And of course, it's all very positive! Whereas, cassava carries definite health risks.
It's a clumsy article, with several contradictions. Francis Hannaway (talk) 18:00, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grid to make it clear 

message: I lived in Ghana for a couple of years in the early 1980's, and I remember fufu as being made by pounding boiled yams (the big, white fleshed yams, not sweet potatoes) in a big wooden mortar with long poles. It was quite a performance sometimes with two women pounding and a third reaching in to turn the dough between the strokes with her hand and everything timed so she didn't get her fingers smashed. My impression was that, in northern Ghana, this was regarded as real fufu, and variants using cassava and plantain were pale imitations. 
I do not trust my long-ago memory enough to put this in the article, but can someone who knows more about it comment? 45.177.17.134 (talk) 12:46, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You must be referring to cassavas (that's what they are called in Ghana). And I agree, pounding fufu in Ghana is such an involving activity! Kwadwo O (talk) 08:07, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fufu made from yams 

message: First the references to ghana, we shouldn't deceive ourselves this is older than our fake borders. If a ghanian says fufu, we should understand that he is referring to ghanaian fufu, likewise others. This article should only refer to cultures that literally call it fufu. In nigeria it is called fufu by ibibio, efik, oron and other tribes in the south south region. Akpu (as called by igbos in the south east) is almost a different dish, the cassava is fermented for longer, loses its white colour and gains a darker look. It's almost comedic watching a bunch of over-colonized brothers attempt dumb nationailsm SmartAfricanBoy (talk) 21:20, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Article is a biased confused ignorant childish mess