The
perfect dress, the perfect hairdo, face on fleek and bringing your
A-game and then out of the blues, some okro soup stuck in between your
teeth ruins what should have been a perfect evening.
Food is important and here are 6 things you should totally avoid on a first date:
1. Spaghetti
Most people
can’t eat spaghetti without a slurp and that slurp splatters sauce all
over your mouth and chest not to mention ruining your makeup. Forget
that romantic scene from Disney’s ‘the Lady and the tramp’, spaghetti is
not romantic food.
2. Draw soup
A favorite
among Nigerians and guaranteed to leave a mark. Okra, ogbona or mixed,
anything that leaves a trail from your plate to your mouth should be
avoided at all costs.
3. Shawarma
Show me a
person that can finish a whole Shawarma without making a mess and I’ll
show you the real MVP! Most people can’t manage this small feat which is
why Shawarma is a no-no.
4. Suya
Suya is
delicious and not at all messy so you must be wondering why it’s on the
list, well it isn’t the Suya per se, it’s the onions that go with the
suya. Most people can’t eat Suya without munching on the onions and
onions are almost as famous as garlic for giving bad breath. Bad breath
does not a great first date make! So say no to suya please!!!
5. Food with lots of garlic
Thankfully a
lot of restaurants include the ingredients for each dish in the menu.
Garlic oozes from your pores not to mention giving you bad breath. I
don’t have to emphasize staying away, it’s for your own good.
6. Experimental food
Any food that
you have never eaten before is not fair game for a first date please! A
number of things could go wrong. I know a girl who ordered calamari on a
first date because it looked fancy and ended up in the ER with
anaphylactic shock. Even if you don’t get allergies, you just may hate
it and have to pretend to love it to save face or there may be a certain
way that sort of food is eaten. Avoid the embarrassment, stick to the
familiar.
Your first date
isn’t the time to show him what an unrepentant foodie you are, if you
can’t eat it without making a mess then pretend it isn’t on the menu.
Culled from Nigeria Kitchen
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