 okay so this is a humbling exercise for me you don't know i need a snack and especially in Ghana with all the garlic and onions and spices you you after a while you're like what's in her mouth i i think i'm a popcorn expert by now then i've said a lot of popcorn then which i don't understand that people like it's malt people are going to trash me for this hello and welcome to another video here on the channel my name is Kwame i'm Elaine and this is me plus you is us yes us and you can see we're matching outfits yes today we look like a snack yes because i'm gonna talk about snacks that's your intro yes we're looking like snacks you talk about snacks so as you can see from the title we're going to talk about our favorite ganion and dutch snacks yes yeah so i'm going to be talking about the dutch snacks and she's going to be talking about the ganion snacks i can also talk about dutch snacks okay we can talk about both yeah so yeah we're going to start with which type take the lead okay i'm gonna go with the first one being coco's macaroni i love things that are coconut so if you don't know coco's macaroni is i put it on the screen as i look like she's always editing in camera like why yeah so i've put coco's macaroni on the screen i love coco's macaroni because i love coconut stuff and this is one of the sweets that or when was the first time you were eating coco's macaroni so i had it on the flight and the airline introduced them to it so i had it on the flight from akra to amsadam yeah yes and then i was like what is this and then Elaine hadn't eaten hers and i was like whoa this thing is really nice are you gonna eat yours it's like nah like can i have it so i ate it and realized oh my god what is this thing is so nice i don't know about you watching me right now if you don't have but how do i describe it's like coconut toffee coconut um it's a cookie yes then kind of a filling from bounty yes i think so it's a cookie yes it's the best way to describe it this is baked cookie but it's very filling because it's it's heavy as well so it's a cookie that's like made from coconut and that's my first favorite snack and i think what made it remarkable is that he doesn't like sweet stuff so for him to ask for my cookie is like exceptional it does never happen in the history of yeah us good one yeah do you want to continue with the Dutch snacks no no no so you go give me well ganna hmm so i think before we dive into the next snack i think ganna and netherlands have a very different snack culture so i feel in ganna because the meals your meals are very heavy you don't have that many snacks while in netherlands you have like light breakfast then at 11 you eat the snack then you go to lunch and bread yeah from there around two three you eat something else yeah like we have a snack culture more than in ganna no i think we we we also have a snack culture but i feel yours is more like to munch on something while you wait for the big meal no we do have a lot of snacks so why am i not it's just that but there is a difference in the snack culture no so describe this snack culture ganna so the snack culture here is i don't know how to describe it but it's more okay so there are two places major two major places in markets and on the road yes on the it's more on the road kind of thing yeah that's our snack culture it's on the road so you're going to have your should i mention them the snacks or no let me come in first yeah we mentioned the snacks but i feel like but we are on the road it's like you snack to maintain yourself until the big no it is you munch on a lot of things we munch on a lot of things but it's not to maintain yourself for the main meal we have special snacks like like we make snacks for snack sake maybe i don't eat those exactly yeah so eat the in many snacks for the snack sake so we have is that like the shrimps on the stick shrimps on the stick that's a very um when you go to akasombo oh no like the oysters on the stick oysters yeah it's not i thought it was shrimp no no on the stick so that's a snack that's a snack but it's it can also be eaten with a meal because you can you can take them off the stick add some sauce to it and eat it with a meal okay maybe people need visual of that this one too yeah i'm not sure if i can get that so but that's not a snack there's a snack there's a snack like you know groundnut cake we call it a catty cake it's a snack nobody ever introduced me to groundnut cake really nobody it's like a candy oh is that like the toffee yes it's like a candy so we call it a catty cake so that's a snack but it's not cake it's toffee yes but we call it in catty cake that's the name um there is a one that is famously translates into monkey tail it's uh it's made from groundnuts and other um monkey tail it translates to but it's made from groundnuts it's like it's called kuli kuli i'm learning new things yeah it's called kuli kuli it's a snack it's sold in traffic or in the markets monkey tail yeah like it's long yes it's like um i can put that on the screen that i can probably find i put it on the screen but anybody watching me who is a guardian knows uh kuli kuli or adun le as they would call it and it's like groundnuts and what i don't know the ingredients mainly but it's dry it's hard it's i have to look at the crispy as well crunchy crunchy yes crunchy it's crunchy it's dry it's crunchy it's made from groundnuts and other things so you're making me go into like all the snacks that we probably yeah because i don't know these ones yes so let me come in with the ones i know before you take it away okay so this is a humbling exercise for me you don't know any snacks so i will go for i am one of my favorite ones plantae chips yes on this screen so it's made from plantae they slice it thinly and then it's fried deep fried and i like the ripe one yeah more orangey one yeah that is sweet right reminds me a bit of cinnamon and it's nice to munch on something like around three o'clock four o'clock like just before the anyway you feel like yeah and then i combine it with tonic water i don't know i just like the bitterness and then you have the crunchy plantain it's really good um another snack uh come and introduce me to it's like this mix of um uh groundnuts and corn yeah it's very dry and crunchy and crunchy too but it's also very filling very filling of it yeah and hmm come at the nice story with that one so um that the roasted corn when you've taken it off the husk and it just roasted uh or dry frying it's dry frying or like you don't fry with uh oil it's dry yeah so it's roasted corn technically um but it doesn't pop or it's not popcorn it's in between sometimes when the heat is too much popcorn in it yeah um my mom once told me that back in the day i mean since we're no mint and chewing gum and other stuff because of the smell of it after it's chewed when people would be going out on dates and maybe they've had something uh maybe too oniony or garlicky or something they would chew this snack to kind of neutralize the smell in their mouth yeah before they step out so this is also a good uh i don't know oral cleanser i think it really neutralizes your breath and especially in Ghana with all the garlic and onions and spices you you after a while you're like what's in my mouth so especially when you're working or something or like i mean you just need to be like aware of that so now they give these small tom tom so something yeah tom tom to the mint but before that it was actually this uh corn makes you and it's it's nice it's nice like it's filling it's just before so i did just before dinners or like much much much and then we get to dinner yeah and do you have another onion yes yes i do okay well i don't take it anymore but when i uh in the beginning when i wasn't gonna uh i would do a lot of fen yogo like the ones so when i would come back from work then on the roadside i would buy fen yogo and then walk to so from our pungulo i would walk to the hostel with my fen yogo and it's a good energy yes yes a lot of sugar it's so much sugar it's only sugar in the thing and they it's funny because the appetizer is like healthy snack because there's a calcium in it or something like that it's made from milk and yeah but i think it's like one percent calcium like it's mainly sugar but it just gives you a nice sugar high especially at the end of the day it's you can pull through kind of through it yeah no yeah i don't i don't i don't eat it anymore though i i've stopped okay oh yeah and i eat i ate a lot of as well and i was pregnant i ate a lot of popcorn but it's not necessarily um garnet but what i like about it is that you can get fresh popcorn on the roadside on the roadside so that is very garnet because i mean in ellis you can buy in the store but it's not the fresh fresh fresh one and that's where i've tried a lot of popcorn sellers but you need the one that has like sugar that's like glazed around the popcorn so when you bite in it you have this crunch of sugar and not everybody does like that sometimes they just pour like sugar on it after like baking the popcorn yeah so i i think i'm a popcorn expert by now what does that even mean then i've tried a lot of popcorns and yeah i know which one i like which one it would like okay and then there's also kelly willie yes kelly willie but come on everybody knows that one yeah but i have to say i mean we're talking to both ghanians and that's true so kelly willie is like small slices of plantain and then fried and spiced in a certain way yeah so it's it's um pepper ginger and other spices yeah and then you mix it with like you you make it into a paste yeah and then you put the depends on how you cut it it could be in cubes or but small sizes of plantain ripe plantain ripe soft ripe yeah very soft and then it's mixed it's made to sit for a while to marinate and then deep fried in a lot of hot oil yes and it's often um sold in the evenings or late yes nights which i don't like after meal i want to do in the day but you can't get your kelly willie no well so in our neighborhood we don't have i don't know who wants to jump into this business opportunity but we don't have a kelly willie joint in our neighborhood have we we do we just haven't seen it no but we have tried to look for it yeah we found it maybe it's not close to us but we'll find it we'll find it i'm sure there is there's no way there's no guinea neighborhood without kelly willie yeah that's true yeah it's not possible but it's mostly beginning of the evening or evening when you can buy it yeah while i could eat it all day every day so i don't understand it's part of the snack culture so yeah the ones you don't know out of some of the ones i've mentioned um and we also our snacks often come with um we also have the fruit snacks as well yeah i've got fruit yes yeah we have a combination of like maybe you have a banana and groundnuts as a snack sometimes full meal on its own depending on how much you want to eat but it's a snack as well um even roasted plantain yeah like the coffee coffee broke man coffee broke man yeah for you it might be a snack but for somebody it's a full meal it can be a full meal it's very filling though yeah very filling so those are some of the guinea snacks and then i'm sure there are different snacks in different regions of Ghana that are common or popular there that is not really popular in Accra yeah maybe a good dimension also like the tea culture in Ghana well not necessarily tea like it's like tea with lots of sugar a lot of milk condensed milk and then that's like tea here it's really like a snack on its own honestly is it a snack on its own because it's quite filling yeah but i want it to be a snack yes it's a snack tea yeah that's a snack same with Milo it's a meal people have it for breakfast yeah like okay okay then it's not a snack it's not a snack but i'm just mean it's a snack for me because it's not like oh you drink a cup of tea like it's different okay i don't know how to explain and then Milo very thick yeah Milo you would also call that a meal technically you can survive on Milo and oh another thick drink which i don't understand that people like it's malt people are going to trash me for this you need to grow up with malt in order to really appreciate it i've realized i've realized that from a lot of people even in even in africa for example the first time my kuda the first time like i or when she came and i introduced her to malt and she was like oh no i didn't introduce her to malt she had taken she had drunk malt before and she was like she didn't get no you don't get it if you didn't grow up yeah it's it's it's a nostalgic thing it's an acquired taste yeah zilla you you grew up with it or not most foreigners i know just like malt like heavily like uh yeah but we love malt especially when it's very chilled it's just it's also a lot of sugar again and it's really filling i think malt has changed over time maybe malt of back in the day was not very sugary from my opinion yeah okay i see yeah okay i think yeah but what else no no yeah the dried fruits i like that but that's a bit a newish thing uh like dried mango dried banana dried pineapple these kind of snacks are now in more in stores than on roadside and stuff but it's a good snack uh also a bit of sugar but it can also sustain you for a while and it's nice and chewy like you really have to chew well yeah so i think i think more of our snack or snacks in Ghana are on the road type snacks and you find them in the markets and you still don't have people make it at home they're drinks as well i mean like the asana the bisap yeah that's always yeah all these they're kind of in a commercial space most of the time yeah you don't make it at home yeah you can't make it at home i mean it's doable but most of our snacks are on the road on the go because um there's a lot of activity in terms of market activity or people working in the formal sector and it's easy for you to just snack on something on the go that's what i mean sustain yourself like sustain yourself but it's not i mean you're making it seem like people eat regular meals but in a small quantity a snack no no no i just mean like how to say like it's really because you're always on the move yeah kind of so especially in Accra like the snacks like if you take a malt you can go again for like two hours yeah right yeah the same with like the grad the corn mix if you chew chew chew like while you're driving or you're doing errands you can you you don't have to like get a meal quickly or something yeah it's it's not a light thing like it's not you cannot compare to cocos macron you eat one and then you want to eat six before you're full yeah but you gotta know yeah so cocos macron is the dutch one um she's gonna also school me on like the dutch ones oh i'm not gonna which ones are your which ones are your favorites out of the ones you mentioned out of the ghanian snacks oh almost like plenty of chips for sure then the corn mix that's for sure that's for sure a brooding kathie is the corn mix called a brooding kathie a corn and groundnuts corn and groundnuts yeah that's about it and then which one again killer really fair enough they're very popular so yes very popular especially my household fair enough yeah so my favorite or the dutch snacks that i know um or cocos macron i know that i recently discovered pinda rocha pinda roach oh my god it's really good especially with white chocolate my god that's like cocaine if you want to if you want to bribe me give me pinda rocha yeah it's so nice because okay we have to describe well so it's like groundnuts this is actually a busy opportunity for someone in gana white chocolate with groundnuts and then you melt the chocolate around it let it dry yeah it's because you have the crunchiness from the groundnuts the sweetness from the chocolate and then the milky sweet milky yeah it's really good anyway so i think pinda rocha became my favorite in the latter part of when we're in the Netherlands uh in the last few months so it became my favorite um dutch people eat bread as main meals but over here it's a snack if i may be fair come on if you're eating a sandwich it's not a main meal unless it's maybe breakfast and you choose but on the average day it's a snack yeah but they eat bread um um what's the the christmas ollie ball ollie ball wow ollie ball is a dutch snack as well it's a bit like boffroot yeah it is only with raisins in it yeah it's like boffroot with raisins and we eat it like that ollie ball bitter bolle oh yeah bitter bolle that's more than when you go out for drinks and you feel like you want to munch on something then you do um bitter bolle how would you describe it um it's cheese inside right no that's not no meat meat make um which one is which one is cheese inside cheese stick okay but that's i don't well maybe it's dutch i don't know so it's like fried you fry it's like um spring roll but then cheese inside and they're smaller so it's like when you bite in it it's crunchy it's fried and then so the cheese comes out it's meat and what meat and kind of a crunchy outside yeah so it's like i don't know how to say it yeah and then and then it's so it's dipped in egg mustard oh yeah yeah there's mustard in there as well no you dip it in mustard when you are about i'm talking about the frying yeah like breadcrumbs around it that's how it kind of feels so the egg wash and breadcrumbs yes and then you fry yeah you fry but what's inside the meat yeah meat meat why is it called bitter bolle that i don't know it means bitter bolle okay yeah that's but is it it's not it's not as i always have to research that okay you can add it in the description original bitter bolle and who's at the snacks casoufflé it's also a cheese soufflé it's kind of similar out lucas bitter bolle like a crunchiness breadcrumbs kind of outside it's like a square yeah and then inside there's melted cheese and then what about the one with the rice inside that's bami schreif bami schreif oh no that's that's bami rice i don't know the name of that one so these all these like fried snacks you get at snack bar and it can be a meal on itself but i don't eat it often is that all the dutch snacks that are available not all the snacks that are available are we talking traditional or i mean the commercial ones that are like you know in the rocha in the in the bag is different but let's talk about the traditional ones like the way we have our i don't think we have a lot of traditional dutch snacks but we eat a lot of cookies but that's not necessarily like when you go to somebody's house they will offer you tea or coffee with a cookie i think the only bowl is very traditional the snack bar stuff i think it's a mix because for example bami schreif bami is like more like an asian influence like that's like noodle yeah that's not necessarily originally dutch i mean but it's common in nedlands yes that's that's that's that's the same like that i think one that is very uh common and traditional and nice is strobe afro why did i why didn't i should have mentioned strobe afro first especially if you get them fresh on the market yeah so they make them it's like cookie then you have strobe which is um um like the honey no it's not honey it's like um what you put on syrup syrup syrup and then another layer of cookies and you call strobe waffle um syrup waffle and in the market they make the cookie fresh and then they put a thing and like warm and it's warm i have a picture of that and i think it's for for tourists it's one of the most popular things you would ever buy it's really nice in the Netherlands even for gifts for your friends yeah it's on the screen you see strobe waffles if you see it anywhere yeah it's nice i saw strobe waffles in the store here in Ghana i'm not going to mention the name and i looked at the price not just laughed yeah it's a lot like in eliz you could buy for two euros or something and if you want to eat it it's nice if you have tea or coffee then you put it on and it's hot you put the strobe afro on top and then the the syrup will melt melt a bit um it's not the same as the market the fresh one but it comes closer it comes close but i'm not a fan of strobe waffles a lot i've eaten it several times but i'm not a fan if i would choose between i would take cookies macarons any day yes we should have brought some yeah i don't know why we didn't but no we brought pindor roche and it's finished finished before the finish like ending so we're just dreaming of pindor roches every night so i would say my favorite uh dutch dutch snack is honestly coconut or pindor roche pindor roche they're like together at this but i see it now it's pindor roche yes it's nice yeah but i don't know which one is my favorite favorite then maybe my favorite is plantain chips just because it's like the real og snack oh so you like plantain chips overall even if you combine the two countries plantain chips oh no no i thought i had to choose one okay in gala but if you combine the two countries which one would you go for no i will go for sweets i'm a sweet tooth so pindor roche they're not a lot of sweet snacks in gala except from fenyogo fenyogo is not a sweet snack i think we have you have not had the toffees a lot like i think i had one but i don't think i was very swayed by it really i think i should i should definitely introduce you to i've done a terrible job then terrible i've done a terrible job at introducing her to which other sweet snack is there i will find them and i'll bring them okay then we'll do like a snack part two yeah we have to eat it we have to do a snack so we've described them we have to do a part two where she actually tastes them and rates them so watch out for that as i'll do blindfolded and i'll describe the texture first and then we take it off i look at it that's what we're gonna do that's what we're gonna do snack panel okay i think um did i miss anything they have any other snack you want to you tell me no i don't know i'm good if i didn't miss any oh there are a lot but well like they're mostly sweet cookies okay so i think and you were describing yours so i think it's fine yeah oh and oh i want that snack tempus ah what's tempus like it's a small um more like a pastry like it has this layer of very crunchy layered um not cookie oh yeah you really like buying now the pink one right the pink and then there's um thick um cream in between and then on top it has this uh icing pink icing yeah would you also say that uh but that people don't eat it on the regular it was because i was pregnant that was eating it a lot but that's more like when somebody's birthday you bring yeah don't push would you also say cheese uh sticks are a snack yeah yeah when you go out for drinks in you you feel like you know beer and like fried stuff go well together so you have bitter ballad cheese sticks like a whole mix and you order you get a whole platter of fried stuff i don't know if that's a dutch thing maybe maybe again we have to look into the origin of so we're gonna bring you the snacks and then she's gonna taste them and then rate them yes but um my favorite dutch snack is definitely tompoosh but it's not a snack it's more like a cake that's your favorite all time yes wow you can make me up in the middle of night with tompoosh okay please send tompoosh everybody who's watching this okay all right so yeah that's uh i want to hear if people have snacks that we didn't that they like snacks that we don't please put it in the comments because if we're gonna eat the snacks next time i want to try everything so that he didn't indicate me on or that i wasn't exposed to and please don't kill me about the malt i didn't grow up with it i respect it but i don't love it okay okay point me point me thank you yeah we'll catch you the next one we'll 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