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Here, women propose marriage and men can't refuse
CNN ^ | February 1, 2007

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: alcapp; culture; foreign; marriage; sadiehawkins; sadiehawkinsday
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To: doc1019

I was thinking that after all those years of eating her food that you might have put on a few pounds.


61 posted on 02/01/2007 6:45:31 PM PST by UpAllNight
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; planetearthling
You're not some scientist studying us, are you? ;)

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.


62 posted on 02/01/2007 6:47:19 PM PST by xJones
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To: Delta Dawn

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?


63 posted on 02/01/2007 6:47:41 PM PST by doc1019 (If Obama is elected as President, we will become an “Obama Nation”.)
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To: planetearthling

"Then when I ate this meal, it was like lightning. I wanted only her."

I won't be having what he's having!


64 posted on 02/01/2007 6:50:38 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: Grizzled Bear

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.'


65 posted on 02/01/2007 6:52:37 PM PST by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: planetearthling

WOW, what do they put in that fish? I need the recipe! ;-p

Welcome to FR!


66 posted on 02/01/2007 6:53:35 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Growing old isn't so bad, especially when you consider the alternative!)
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To: UpAllNight

True at first …

I’m 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.


67 posted on 02/01/2007 6:59:09 PM PST by doc1019 (If Obama is elected as President, we will become an “Obama Nation”.)
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To: girlangler; Calpernia

I burn everything I try to cook... well, almost.

He loves me for my mind.

;-)


68 posted on 02/01/2007 7:01:17 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: Red Badger

Are you afraid of being offered a plate of fish ... or of never receiving an offering?

*grin*


69 posted on 02/01/2007 7:13:48 PM PST by Titan Magroyne ("Y'know, I've always thought of politics as show business for ugly people." Jay Leno:Al Gore 11/29)
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To: Delta Dawn

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


70 posted on 02/01/2007 7:14:55 PM PST by WireAndWood (DNC: if it weren't for groupthink we'd have no think at all.)
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To: RightOnline
Put a filet in front of me, darlin'.......and you'd better lock the doors and unplug the phones...........

Mmmmmmmm!
MAN FLESH!

71 posted on 02/01/2007 7:18:54 PM PST by uglybiker (AU-TO-MO-BEEEEEEEL?!!)
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To: word_warrior_bob

Sick!


72 posted on 02/01/2007 7:20:44 PM PST by rbosque
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To: planetearthling

What has this to do with Global Warming?


73 posted on 02/01/2007 7:27:03 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Calpernia

So you had a picture of red palm oil on hand on the off chance that someone would make a post about it?


74 posted on 02/01/2007 7:28:15 PM PST by redheadtoo
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To: planetearthling
Hmmmm..... fish I can catch and cook myself..

I'm waitin' for the lady that offers a Cessna 182!!!

75 posted on 02/01/2007 7:39:45 PM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: planetearthling

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.


76 posted on 02/01/2007 8:01:10 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: mylife

You ought to be shot for posting that picture.LMAO


77 posted on 02/01/2007 8:16:23 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: imahawk

Taking cover!


78 posted on 02/01/2007 8:17:12 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: word_warrior_bob

MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!


79 posted on 02/01/2007 8:21:14 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Lady Jag

Im sure you know why she is pulling him by the hair and not the feet dont you?


80 posted on 02/01/2007 8:24:10 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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