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Where Did All The Yams Go' What About All Those Yams' After all those stories and discussions about yams, I was curious to see what exactly Nigerians eat. As an agricultural society, most of their food comes from farming. They do have meat, but yams are the main food component of their diet. Most Nigerians eat a light breakfast and have their main meal in the late afternoon (Chroness). For meats, Nigerians have goat, cow, chicken, turkey, geese, guinea fowls, pigeon, fish, shrimp, crab, and other seafood. For fruits and vegetables, they have oranges, bananas, pineapples, tangerines, carrots, watermelons, guava, melons, limes, grape fruits, mangos, apple (tinier than American apples and pink and white in color), peppers, tomatoes, onions, peas, and many other things (Chroness). Yams, cocoyams and sweet potatoes are popular in Nigeria. Ah, those yams, also called isu. The image we, as Americans, conjure up when we think of yams is not the same as Nigerian yams. These yams can grown up to 7 feet long and weigh approximately 150 pounds. They have three (3) types of yams: white, yellow, and ‘water yams’ (Gourmet). There are numerous ways to prepare and serve this abundant Nigerian food yams, rice, ground, meat, oil, water, made, soup, pepper, tomatoes, cooked, palm, add, white, vegetable, until, spices, served, powder, fried, dish, corn, 2002, tomato, salt, nigerians, nigerian, imoisi, food, color, boiling, boiled, vegetables, smooth, red