The legend of the fries
In a kingdom far far away, there was a wise old woman and her name was unknown.
Unknown had a large family and dinner was always served by 4pm.
However, by 6pm, the family starts feeling hungry again no matter how large dinner was.
Unknown thought and thought of what to do to solve this problem but nothing came up.
One fateful evening while preparing dinner of yam, one of the children playfully made an amazing mistake.
Instead of adding water to the pot of yam, he added the expensive vegetable oil.
Everyone was hopeful for a dinner of boiled yam and palm oil but what they got was surprising.
Instead of the yam boiling, it was frying. It was then unknown realised that there had been a mistake.
But because the vegetable oil was expensive, she decided to wait it out and see the result of this error.
This error produced crispy delicious yam that has never been seen or tasted. Unknown was surprised and she wondered why she never thought of this before
The fried yam was had for dinner all by itself and there was left over to snack on by 6pm when the hunger showed up.
From then on, Unknown had the idea of frying snacks after dinner. She fried yam, plantain and potatoes.
Till this day, the descendants of Unknown continued this act of fries making in all shapes and sizes
Some even started baking and grilling their fries, adding other components and even making it a full meal.
