Jollof rice migrated it ran away from home.
[SINGING] Oh father...
Look at you, you're not...
Bro, you can tell the Jollof is inside you bruv,
all you're doing is back and forth, back and forth.
Yes, people. This is Culture Capsule.
A show where we journey through Black space and time to decide
which items from the culture earn their space in our future.
I'm your host, KG.
This capsule will serve as humanity's living testament to the present day
and aid mankind.
D Double, like bruv,
can you like please wait for me to introduce you, yeah?
Yes, you heard it correctly.
Legend D Double E will be the voice of reason on this journey.
Think of him as our resident Alexa, coming through with important facts.
Joining us for this episode we have Youtuber, Grace Ajilore,
funny man and philanthropist Eddie Kadi and Travis Jay.
Mm, which one of these foods
will make it to the capsule to feed the future generations?
Oh, my gosh. It's the food episode.
Eddie Kadi, what did you bring, bro?
Um I brought a Chenopodium. [CHUCKLES]
[Ok] Also known as quinoa or as my uncle would call it, kin-owa. [CHUCKLES]
It's superfood.
What a statement.
Grace, I don't know if you feel pressure from there but, what did you bring?
I brought a sexy, divine,
delicious, scrumptious, Jollof.
Do you believe that Jollof can get into the, into the capsule?
My Jollof... my Jollof is going to win it's going to get to the front.
Travis, what did you bring bro?
See what I’ve got right here?
Rice and peas. [Oh] It’s the beginning, it’s the end,
it's everything in between.
Even when I, watch as I unveil you can actually hear reggae music, you ready?
[SINGING] Oh father...
Round one, the debate.
So people I've heard your opening statements.
You lot are really going to debate to get into the capsule and I respect that.
I already know this is going to be a fiery one.
A lot of pressure. We're talking about podium food.
We're talking about the colour.
We're talking about the texture, the taste, the aroma.
The floor is anybody's.
Listen, listen-
First thing’s first, yeah,
That right there looks like the bottom of an ashtray.
[Bro] Nothing delicious or appetising on that plate.
Cigarette buds.
It may look like the bottom of an ashtray.
You may even call it fossil but fossil lasts forever.
You might even find it in the mines, but this is where we find diamonds.
You see, the thing is, just like Jamaica in the Caribbean,
[Mm] it’s a small island
but the impact, is global.
[Ok] You see anywhere you go in the world, you’ll find rice and peas available.
[Wow] Yeah? That’s impact.
He said, you can find this...
this rice anywhere in the world.
In Congo, that will not get a visa. [CROSS SPEAKING].
No way. [EVERYONE LAUGHS]
Grace, what, what’s your part in it?
Because all of you people are just fighting with this nonsense and this nonsense.
We are talking about Jollof here.
The, the start of Africa.
As you lift it - all the songs you're singing it is not there.
You can hear Wizkid you can hear Burna, you can hear everybody there.
Come on. Don't joke with it.
OK, I dont know what that ash is.
And I don't know that needs some, something.
That needs some soup on it, stew on it.
Can I just ask. You stuttered at the beginning, that's what Jollof rice does,
It just makes you stutter. [You didn't believe]...
You don't need to put anything on the side.
Clearly, it rejects anything that lands on it.
No, no you’re right! [LAUGHS] You’re right.
When I look at Jollof, all I see is overcompensating.
When a man pulls up, short brother, ugly, he ain’t packin’, what does he need?
Massive sports car to compensate.
You see rice and peas, confident, stands comfortably, next to meat.
You need something on it, it's dried up.
I’m not going to lie to you... [CROSS SPEAKING].
That is black.
Jollof rice needs seasoning, it needs meat, all of that other stuff [CROSS SPEAKING].
I want to be fair.
Wait wait wait.
You guys are saying my stuff looks you know -
It’s black.
Can we see your own please?
Listen...
No colour at all that looks like black and white.
Listen, look, listen-
This one was made in B.C.
All I'm going to say is this...
before Christ, before Capsule.
Jollof rice, you guys are not even sure whether it's Nigerian, Ghanian from Mars
from Antarctica. Do penguins love it? You guys are not sure. Confused...
Wait hold on, I can...
I can find out right away where it's from.
I've got D Double. D Double!
Traced back to the thirteen hundreds
to the ancient Wolof Empire, also called the Jolof Empire,
the motherland of dish is widely considered to be Senegal.
Hmm?
Ah. Hehe.
According to The Highness, D Double, [Yeah] Jollof rice is an asylum seeker
Jollof rice is migrated. [EVERYONE LAUGHS]
Jollof rice migrated it ran away from home.
It left Senegal
[Yeah] got to Ghana said I don’t like it, went to Nigeria, I’m confused
now it’s in Britain claiming rights [EVERYONE LAUGHS] I’m sorry, you see - [CROSS SPEAKING].
Let me tell you something.
You seen the running it did, quinoa can last the running all the way.
You people have been stealing from us.
Everyone who in Senegal all there, there, there.
Everyone has done their remix of Jollof. It started from Nigeria. Dont p**s me off.
You called that a supergrain?
Just like the Super League, get that out of here, bruv. [EVERYONE LAUGHS]
Nah nah nah I can't breath.
See Travis, this is why you...
This is why you people will not last, you see. Look at me.
You're not the example bro.
They call me the waist man.
A wasteman?
there's a reason why I'm called the waist man. My brother look...
[SINGS A TUNE]
And what has that got to do with quinoa?
I will do this all day long. I will start electricity because of this supergrain.
I've been raised on a Jollof diet
so let’s both do the waist and we’ll see who, who will last the longest.
We're about to see, you see... are you ready?
Look at you, you're not...
Bro, you can tell the Jollof is inside you bruv.
all you're doing is back and forth, back and forth.
You need to save the world, you need to save the world.
But with this, I can run one hundred metres in under ten seconds.
[CHUCKLES] Travis Jay
Don't talk to me, don't talk to me.
I would rather just sit here and eat my Jollof
because at the end of, this is disgusting, and that is disgusting.
You're speaking Walof right now.
No I'm not. [EVERYONE LAUGHS] I'm, not.
Is it gonna be Eddie’s blacked out supergrain?
Grace’s wandering Jollof?
Or maybe It's Jamaica's very own, rice and peas!
You can tell which one I'm backing. Rice and peas blud.
Let's keep it moving.
The only, the only way to make this fair, the only way to really figure this out,
yeah, It’s gotta go in these three things:
Can it be in a restaurant on a menu?
Of course.
Can it go to Carnival confidently, yeah?
And can it be in a lunch box?
100%.
Can you take this, can you take that to the Carnival?
Well, I just, I just -
Can you take that to the Carnival?
I just took him to Carnival now.
Can you put this in packed lunch? Which child is gonna have this for packed lunch?
My children shall last forever,
My children will have energy in class.
Mathematics will be part of their pancreas.
No no no no no no no no.
If you put that in a child’s lunch box he’s gonna hate you bruv.
If you look at that rice and peas, we’re talking about children here.
That one pea can choke a child.
You don’t want to be a child killer.
Only a child that’s been eating quinoa his whole life couldn’t manage a pea. [EVERYONE LAUGHS]
All right, cool.
Listen people, I made my decision.
I’m just gonna say it like this.
If I went to a restaurant and I went out, expensive restaurant
and they did serve me quinoa I would be a bit upset-
Bam.
If I opened my lunch box and I saw quinoa I’d be upset-
Bam.
If I went to Carnival, I wouldn’t even see it at Carnival.
[CROSS SPEAKING]
You don't like your life KG.
I’ll pray for you.
No, no, no. in other words...
So Eddie...
Yes.
See you later, bro.
You are deporting me?
Again, I came here to save your life.
I did my best.
Round two, a meal’s not a meal without the garnish.
So this next round is called, 'Garnish Da Ting', [Mm mm]
You guys have got one minute to plate up and make it look beautiful.
Make it look worthy of going into the capsule.
Are you guys ready? [OK]
Three, two, one.
Where do I put this?
All the plantain is mine.
Plantains, all the plantains because right now -
Yeah he’s not, he’s not allowed. [LAUGHS]
Wow.
Look at that. [LAUGHS] Don’t joke... [LAUGHS]
Travis what’s your, what’s your plan for this dish?
Don’t you dare, don’t you dare, don’t you dare.
What we’ve got here is a very spiritual [CROSS SPEAKING].
I’ll leave that one for you that crumbs [LAUGHS].
Travis, a little heads up -
[Sorry mate?] You know, the jollof is really getting colonised.
You know the Jollof is really getting colonised now with all the extra garnish
Nah that's perfectly fine, that's completely fine.
You’re pretty much left with the bath salt.
[CROSS SPEAKING]
I'll be honest with you, yeah right now Travis
looks like he’s creating some sort of park. [EVERYONE LAUGHS]
I think, to be honest I'm not going to...
Travis is creating a park. Wait wait wait...
Yeah, now we’re going for deforestation. [CROSS SPEAKING]
Listen, you've lost.
Just call it, just say you've lost.
OK, people.
These are the final ten seconds.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
Step away, please.
She’s dancing, she’s dancing, the confidence.
You’re not happy, are you?
I am very happy.
But you’ve got rid of the park. Just explain why you got rid of the -
No, so basically had to make an executive decision.
I didn't like the direction I took us in.
When I say us I'm talking about me and the culture.
So when I was taking us down
a certain road, I was like,
this isn't where we want to be in a few years time so, wipe that out.
Can I be honest with you?
How do you feel about that one lonely plantain there?
Well, that's fine. You see, it's just a complimentary little side asset.
Let's move on. Let's move on.
Exactly, you come to the real dish.
You were dancing in the final like... final three seconds.
I saw you giving us some of those moves.
Yes. So that shows me confidence. Yes.
Are you happy with this?
Is this worthy of going into the capsule?
100%.
100%. This is even like a vegan type of thing
because there's no meat there.
And you know usually,
African people don't really like food without meat, but it's OK.
It's still something.
But I need I need more plantain. Yeah. It looked lonely.
It does look very lonely.
And now I didn't...
It started off very confident.
Excuse me, excuse me. [EVERYONE LAUGHS]
How about that. OK, cool.
I've made my decision it is official.
We already know which one has to be the winner. I am going with
Jollof rice.
Grace, how do you feel?
How do you feel about this going in there?
Thank you for the stage.
Listen as you can see it's speaking...
It spark for itself.
Come on. Look at it, it's sparking. It's sparking.
And that's all I need to say.
Look, I told you I was going to win and now I've won, period.
Brilliant, um any words from you? Commiserations?
There's nothing for him to say I'm the winner.
Just want to say, she was a hell of a champion.
And also, I just want to say, I love Africa.
I love all the countries, you know this was just a bit of fun...
Because the white rice lost!
Your white rice was cold.
Jerk chicken and Jollof rice is one of the best combinations
that the world has ever seen.
Very true. Very true.
Well listen people, this can’t go into the capsule in this way so D Double,
you need to hook me up with some Tupperware
because that's the only way you can go into the capsule.
Got you, cuz.
Bun the pagans, bun the vultures.
This is the capsule for all the culture. INSIDE!
Opening capsule, opening capsule.
Bun the pagans, bun the vultures, this is the capsule for all the culture.
And that's it for this episode.
And that's it from me, me.
Join us next time where I’ll be joined by more celebrity guests to decide another artefact to go into The Culture Capsule.