The Stockfish — One of world’s stinkiest food yet I love eating it!

Stella Oni
5 min readJul 30, 2019

Stockfish

Those that have read my food articles would know that I am quite adventurous when it comes to food. It began at a very young age. Yet I have not written about my love affair with the stockfish.

In Nigeria, we have particular delicacies that, once combined, create the most aromatic of soups and also the most pungent.

Mind you; our soups are not the blended soups of Europe, America — to name a few.

Assorted meat or Dried Seafood combo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzAt6e1l-c

In our soup we combine choice parts of meat (the beef, entrails(haggis to the Scottish! cow foot, cow skin) that we call assorted meat or smoked fish, stockfish, crayfish and shrimps with green leaves and okra. There are tens of combinations to make the most delicious of soups — efo riro, efo elegusi, edikaikong, etc.

My particular addiction is the stockfish — one of Norway’s most famous exports and has made many Norwegians extremely rich. Stockfish comes from Cod, Pollock, Tusk, Haddock and a few other varieties. The most popular and expensive one is the Cod.

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Stella Oni

My writing focuses on Food, Self-help, and Technology. Growing up with my grandmother kindled a profound passion for food and fuels my ongoing curiosity.