Caribj meh nah doubt fufu ah wan african dish all me ah say is dem improvise and use plantain and cassava fuh mek fufu . Look nuff nuff people think Black Pudding is african when in fact it is portuguese but yuh nah hear portuguese arguing bout ownership .

Bai it is a known fact that europeans populated their colonies with agriculture from different geographical regions so what ? Bai sugar cane came from India and southeast asia was introduced to africa in the early 1800's . It did not spread to NA and Africa on it's own it was carefully brought to these countries by colonists . In the middle east italian merchants and traders brough the plant to plces like Tyre and so it spread .

Bai rice was introduced the africa by arab merchants and Jollof rice which is a mixture of rice , dried tomatoes , tomato paste inions salt pepper and even some nuts was a dish the arabs used to make and passed onto regions of africa such as gambia and it caught on in most of africa . The dish has evolved since then to varieties.Plantains was brought to the Canary islands by italian merchants and the portuguese brought it to Brazil and from there it spread through out SA. Like I am saying arab merchants and european merchants and colonists brought various agriculture to the west. Look Cassava was indigenous to South America but the world largest cultivation of cassava is now Nigeria .

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Originally posted by kidmost:
Caribj meh nah doubt fufu ah wan african dish all me ah say is dem improvise and use plantain and cassava fuh mek fufu . Look nuff nuff people think Black Pudding is african when in fact it is portuguese but yuh nah hear portuguese arguing bout ownership .

Bai it is a known fact that europeans populated their colonies with agriculture from different geographical regions so what ? Bai sugar cane came from India and southeast asia was introduced to africa in the early 1800's . It did not spread to NA and Africa on it's own it was carefully brought to these countries by colonists . In the middle east italian merchants and traders brough the plant to plces like Tyre and so it spread .

Bai rice was introduced the africa by arab merchants and Jollof rice which is a mixture of rice , dried tomatoes , tomato paste inions salt pepper and even some nuts was a dish the arabs used to make and passed onto regions of africa such as gambia and it caught on in most of africa . The dish has evolved since then to varieties.Plantains was brought to the Canary islands by italian merchants and the portuguese brought it to Brazil and from there it spread through out SA. Like I am saying arab merchants and european merchants and colonists brought various agriculture to the west. Look Cassava was indigenous to South America but the world largest cultivation of cassava is now Nigeria .

Sugar cane was introduced into North Africa and the Canaries long before the 1800s. I assume that is a typo. Arabs brought it to North Africa (maybe the 1300s) and the Spanish took it to the Canaries, the Portuguese to Brazil, and it spread from their to all over tropical America. Rum was developed by accident in Brazil (fermenting molasses). Should we call it a South East Asian product?

fufu is African. Africans took alien ingredients and made their own dish. Fufu was brought to the Caribbean by Africans. The fact that the ingredients might not have been indigenous to West Africa doesnt negate the fact that its African.

In fact coucou (funji/funche) becomes interesting. Corn originated in the Americas. It arrived in Africa, brought no doubt as a trading item by European slavers. It became hugely popular, spreading to places far away from European influence. Coucou was RE-imported into the Americas by Africans.

The Africans took an American product and made something of their own and took it bcak to the Americas. Coucou, known as funche in Puerto Rico, and funji in Antigua, is regarded as African in origin. Note that Puerto Rico would have been one of the islands where corn was taken from. Yet to them funche is African, not Taino.


Blackpudding is creole. African slaves took a British/European dish, spiced it up, used rice as the filler and so you have a creole meal. Its creole because one group took the dish of another and transformed it into their own. Prior to arrival in the Caribbean I dont think Africans knew anything about this though they had all the ingredients avialable.

You can get a version of black pudding in the Appalachians. I think they use corn meal as the filler and its certainly NOT spicy.