This is what happened.
Hundreds of years ago, a Yoruba traveler went to the south-southern part of Nigeria and was served Edikang Ikong — a soup he immediately realized was the best he had ever tasted.
He then tried to steal the recipe by memorizing it to bring back home to replicate. But by the time he got back to Yorubaland, he had forgotten 75% of the recipe and his attempt to replicate Edikang Ikong while having only 25% of the required information resulted in Efo Riro (literally translation: “mixed-up vegetables”)— a soup that is 10x inferior in taste, quality and every other measure of goodness to Edikang Ikong. A soup that NAFDAC, FAO, UN, and WHO should ban. Along with that scam called poundo-yam.
