Bread is not native to us; it was introduced into our culture. Owing to the dynamic nature of the Igbos, it was adopted and it has now changed the entire customs of the Igbo people.
During festive periods or whenever we travel to visit our loved ones, one must go with a present be it edible gift or non-edible gift. The most common in our custom of it all is to buy bread from the area you are coming from to gift to the loved ones you are visiting.
Some may decide to buy bread on arrival but I appreciate more, bread bought from the area you are coming from because I am not quite familiar with it.
The Igbos enjoy bread differently. Many eat bread as breakfast and dinner. However bread can be enjoyed anytime of the day as manual labourers enjoy bread with carbonated drinks or high caffeine content drink.
I love eating bread with egg and beverages ( milk mixed with Milo ). Some of my friends enjoy bread with custard @JoegatesChidi , some with Akara and majority here in Enugu with Okpa .
This is my part of #monthlytopic initiated by @HiroyukiTakisawa which its theme is "Bread in your region". I also grant him the permission to use any of these photos.
Hi, @Austinelewex Thank you for introducing your culture. Interesting!
Btw, I like eating bread with cold milk If I eat hard-type bread at night, drinking wine together is also great
@HiroyukiTakisawa That’s so great to hear. Many over here enjoy bread differently even beyond what I am aware of . The beautiful thing is bread used as gift in my culture. It is the most common. Notwithstanding other food stuffs one could buy. I appreciate bread alot as gift.
Good to read a post from you on connect again. It’s been a while.
Yes I totally agree with you,bread is not a Nigerian thing,nor an African culture but we have adopted it in. Getting locally made bread on a journey is a very common thing. Bread agege is a first class locally made bread in Lagos. Just too busy to get a post together on that. It’s a nice Bread if you had it with beans .
@Austinelewex omg I must commend this post, , most especially the act of visiting bya loved ones during festive period, bread bought from a different loaction is highly appreciated. Them on the note or enjoying bread with #Okpa and washing down with coke or custard …mehn! Good old days in school, those were my breakfast, I don’t joke with it. Thank you @Austinelewex and @HiroyukiTakisawa for this wonderful monthly topic
that’s a tradition that has been adopted in Nigeria as we mentioned earlier on. Bread from another region of Nigeria as a gift on travel to a different region. We’ll see how that goes. .
In Nigeria, we use bread for many things. We use it to eat beans, we use it to eat noddles, we use it to drink pap. We use it to eat with groundnut. We use it to with chilled coke. We use it to eat akara (beans cake)
Without bread, Most Nigerians cannot survive. It is one of the cheapest meal you can have.
Thank you for sharing about the bread and culture of your country.
In the second photo, it looks to me that the basket is full of bread. Did you buy it all?
And the bread in the third photo is very similar to the Japanese “steamed brown sugar bread with walnuts”. When I remembered it, I wanted to eat it.
What will I be doing with so much bread , I was lucky to see someone who is buying bulk when I went to the departmental store. I only bought a loaf which I did sandwich with.
Hope you like the culture of gifting bread?
Ah, we don’t have walnuts here, so I can’t relate. Nevertheless, whole grain loaf is good for elderly people.
Thank you so much Ma @RosyKohli for your beautiful comment on my post.
Yes omelette is great with bread, I also enjoy it that way. Bread is very important in our community nowadays. One can get bread with any amount depending on quality.
@Engr_MHasan Thank you for your comment. I guess you can try bread and omelet in your breakfast today if you had not try it before. It tastes really nice.
Igbos are dynamic set of people, that is why they have allowed Bread to form an integral part of our custom. Nevertheless, other food stuffs can be use as a substitute for bread just that bread is now the most common. @Izumi
If I eat hard-type bread at night, drinking wine together is also great 
. The beautiful thing is bread used as gift in my culture. It is the most common. Notwithstanding other food stuffs one could buy. I appreciate bread alot as gift. 
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, most especially the act of visiting bya loved ones during festive period, bread bought from a different loaction is highly appreciated. Them on the note or enjoying bread with 
…mehn! Good old days in school, those were my breakfast, I don’t joke with it. Thank you 
