The New Terms Associated With Garri Drinking According to Nigerians

The new food that is making waves these days is soaking garri, something that a lot of people have been eating for a very long time. The fact is drinking garri has always been associated with poverty or a lack of funds to actually buy another option of food but recently lots of people and even celebrities upload pictures and videos of themselves eating this delicious meal that has been referred to as a lifesaver since the beginning of time.

Today, there is even a new name for it – grocery. If you have been on social media recently, you must have noticed the renaming and rebranding of drinking garri. Here’s a little breakdown;

1) Grocery

Usually, grocery refers to items or food products that are typically found in a grocery store. But in today’s world (read Nigeria’s terminology) grocery refers to garri. Garri you are about to soak in water and drink.

Usually, garri is accompanied by different condiments. Some people use groundnuts, milk, sugar, salt, etc to drink garri. With this new naming system, some of these condiments also have their new names. Here are some of them;

2) Floating berries

Everyone knows it’s tradition to accompany your garri with some protein. The most common option is usually groundnuts or peanuts. Today, peanuts have a new name and it is called floating berries.

3) Kuli kuli

Kuli kuli is a popular Northern snack made from dry and roasted groundnut. It is commonly eaten with soaked garri. With this new nomenclature, kuli kuli is now commonly referred to as chocolate crunches or waffles.

4) Sugar

If you are adding sugar to your grocery drinking, the new name is sweetener.

5) Fish

For some people, they take their ‘grocery’ drinking to a new level by eating it with dried fish. In this scenario, this dried fish is renamed as seafood.

6) Milk