Anyway, ground nuts or Epa (sound like air-pah) is abundant in Nigeria. One of the largest producers in the world, and account for 30% of ground nuts in Africa alone.
In Lagos or rather in Nigeria, they are sold in two distinct forms. Either with or without its nutshell...duhhh. The former is sold cheaper along the roadside and in clear plastic worth N200 each or N100 (sorry I forgot).
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| Epa in plastic, with |
Meanwhile, the latter are sold widely too. Either by the roadside or in shops and supermarket. Prices varies from maybe around N400 to N1,000 ,maybe. I mean maybe ....because it all depends on the packaging. This is how they sell groundnuts....
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| ...in bottle |
The bottle, from the look of it must've been used for some kind of beverage. Recycled and given new lease of life, but this time around with groundnuts as its contents. This one Madam bought at her office. It was N400 (about RM 8.50, Malaysian Ringgit)
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| the size |
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| tasty groundnuts |
We do have groundnuts back in Malaysia. There's a few companies that've been in the groundnuts business for donkey's years. But it's usually sold in wrapper like those imported potato chips. Yup, like that. Why bottle? Maybe they have access to unlimited amount of bottles here in Nigeria. Or maybe, like Madam's colleague Dolapo mentioned a couple of times..."that's how we roll". Aheh.....
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