SWEET AFTER MEALS.

Usually, right after eating I always want to eat more. This time around not food but then anything edible but not heavy.  I do not know if everyone feels this way anyway. Even when I am very much satisfied, I still always want to eat. Sometimes, I either take a drink chew some biscuits or take some fruits. How I hate fruits! Anyway, I only take the fruits when indeed I have no option.

It is funny how people eat a lot of foods but do not even know what they are called. Foods that are usually taken as sweet course and conclude a meal are called desserts. Desserts in western cultures usually include; cakes, cookies, biscuits, pastries, ice creams, pies, puddings and candies.  However because of the natural sweetness of fruits, they are commonly found as dessert courses. Desserts are constantly changing with the new techniques and ingredients available at the time or in the area.

biscuits

pie and rock barns

Desserts have now changed from natural candies and nuts to multi layered cakes. They mostly contain sugar or a sweetening agent. A friend disclosed to me that she chews gum right after eating and wanted to know if it was a dessert. I didn’t have an answer for her anyway. But since chewing gum is sweet and is chewed by her after eating, maybe it can be considered. But well, who am I to say?

bananas

 What do you consider as desserts? Angela Boahen a lady who sells drinks and pastries at Kanda when asked what she sells told me she sold snacks. Well, it is not wrong at all. After all, drinks and pies are considered as snacks. However, these are also desserts. Having spent about three years on the campus of Ghana Institute of Journalism (G.I.J), it has come to my realization that some students just eat anything at any time.

When some people are eating, the ladies especially and do not take drinks along side, I was told by a friend the food does not digest. Interesting isn’t it? Journalists now turned doctors. “As for me, when I am eating and I do not drink alvaro along side, I do not feel” Stella boldly told me. In this case will the alvaro be considered as a dessert or part of the meal?

The kind of desserts we take however and the reasons why we take them are best known to our selves.  Mostly in Ghana, the common desserts that are taken are mostly fruits . Popular among them are oranges, water melons , pineapples and bananas.

Drinks and pastries funny enough are taken by some people as main meals. After that is eaten, these individuals then drink water. In this case, is water the dessert? Interesting enough, the desserts that some individuals take in some countries are far richer than what we take in Ghana as our main meals. Imagine a dessert of baked custard, strawberry ice cream, chocolate chips cookies and German chocolate cake. Yummy right?

Drina in the video below tells us about her favorite dessert.

Sebastian also tells us the dessert he loves most

 All’s well that ends well. Its yet another time to take a breather. Catch you.. do not forget to constantly take desserts . Am out!