Posted on 02/01/2007 5:37:07 PM PST by planetearthling
ORANGO ISLAND, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- He was 14 when the girl entered his grass-covered hut and placed a plate in front of him containing an ancient recipe.
Like all men on this African isle, Carvadju Jose Nananghe knew exactly what it meant. Refusing was not an option. His heart pounding, he lifted the steaming fish to his lips, agreeing in one bite to marry the girl.
"I had no feelings for her," said Nananghe, now 65. "Then when I ate this meal, it was like lightning. I wanted only her."
In this archipelago of 50 islands of pale blue water off the western rim of Africa, it's women, not men, who choose. They make their proposals public by offering their grooms-to-be a dish of distinctively prepared fish, marinated in red palm oil.
It's the equivalent of a man bending on one knee and offering a woman a diamond ring, except that in one of the world's matriarchal cultures, it's women that do the asking, and once they have, men are powerless to say no.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I was thinking that after all those years of eating her food that you might have put on a few pounds.
He's probably another one of those damned anthropologists, they keep studying us all the time.:)
I know this is age-dating me worse than potassium-strontium but this does remind me of the old Al Capp Sadie Hawkins Days races where the unmarried females could marry any single male they could catch up with.
Typing it made me tear up
God thank you for giving me such a wonderful women as a life mate.
Did I mention that she was a great cook?
"Then when I ate this meal, it was like lightning. I wanted only her."
I won't be having what he's having!
How does that song go?
'If you want to be happy for the rest of your life,
you've got to make an ugly woman your wife.'
WOW, what do they put in that fish? I need the recipe! ;-p
Welcome to FR!
True at first
Im was big person to begin with (6 2, 230 weight lifter). However, I was in the military at the time so I got a handle on it quickly. Today (at 60), I still weigh in at 230 and for the most part a solid 230, age notwithstanding.
I burn everything I try to cook... well, almost.
He loves me for my mind.
;-)
Are you afraid of being offered a plate of fish ... or of never receiving an offering?
*grin*
Jimmy Soul:
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
so from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you
Mmmmmmmm!
MAN FLESH!
Sick!
What has this to do with Global Warming?
So you had a picture of red palm oil on hand on the off chance that someone would make a post about it?
I'm waitin' for the lady that offers a Cessna 182!!!
would NEVER work with feminists.
CNN's author was a fool for bringing it up.
Feminists don't cook.
The fish smell near a feminist is not form fish.
Of course not covered in the story is that this was actually tried in the United States by feminsts. That is how san francisco turned homosexual.
But seriously, since when do feminists cook.
You ought to be shot for posting that picture.LMAO
Taking cover!
MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im sure you know why she is pulling him by the hair and not the feet dont you?
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