Made with both white and red cocoyam (Macabo), the chips fried with vegetable oil still baffles many.
One of the species of cocoyam popularly known as Macabo, is known for itching if not boiled for a long time. Most people boil and eat with vegetable soup while other crush it to paste, wrap in leaves and eat with slimy soup like okra or with soup prepared with palm fruit oil as eaten in the South West region of Cameroon. Another form of eating Macabo that has marvelled many is by frying the raw version of it. According to the CEO of Dream Services that produces the chips, Fandio Wandji Josiane, the idea of making chips came as a result of curiosity. She disclosed that if Macabo that itches can be eaten in its boiled form, it can also be fried as sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes and plantains. As she tried for the first time, she thought that after eating, her oesophagus will peel due to terrible itching but to her greatest surprise, she felt no itches and that was how she made some for friends and relatives who encourage her to produce on a large scale for the public.
Production evolution has been steady since she starte...
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