African Man Goes Viral on TikTok for Drying Wild Vegetables on the Pavement in Canada: “My Dad Would Do This”

African Man Goes Viral on TikTok for Drying Wild Vegetables on the Pavement in Canada: “My Dad Would Do This”

  • A man trended on TikTok after his daughter shared how he did quite an African thing abroad
  • The man put out vegetables in the sun and dried them, much like Africans do in rural areas to preserve their food
  • Netizens shared similar stories of how their relatives would do the same unashamedly and gave examples of how they even took African food abroad

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An African woman's dad dried veggies in Canada
This woman's dad left veggies to dry on the pavement in Canada, African-style. Image: @moonshyyne
Source: TikTok

You can indeed take a person out of Africa, but you can never take Africa out of a person. This maxim was proved in a viral video where a man in Canada did one of the most African things and dried veggies outside!

Man dries food on pavement in Canada

@moonshyne posted a TikTok video of her father that shows how he left some wild vegetables out to dry. The video was viewed 264.6K times. In the video, the woman shows the beautiful Canadian neighbourhood they moved into.

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The video moves to a close-up where her father dries vegetables on the ground. In the comment section, the woman shared that her father grew the vegetables in large quantities before he dried them.

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Watch the video here:

TikTokkers share similar experiences

Netizens had hilarious reactions to the video.

Tebbie jokingly asked:

“Why did he have to dry those out there instead of the backyard if there was no sun in the front yard?”

Rog' commented:

“The heat radiating from the pavement can cook an egg. This is a great idea, but my neighbours would help themselves to anything out there.”

Shan Ashley exclaimed:

“He doesn’t care! My dad would do the same. The only difference is that we’re Jamaican.”

Laurizz had a memory:

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“I remember when my grandma came over with a bunch of spinach and dried tea leaves in huge packs and mopani worms.”

Faffieydrey450 was impressed.

“Thumbs up for dad!”

Avdass wrote:

“All good. My Caribbean family decided to grow corn in their Brooklyn front yard.”

Halima chipped in:

“Don’t worry, us Indians do this too.”

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Tebogo Mokwena (Current Affairs editor) Tebogo Mokwena is a Current Affairs Editor at Briefly News. He has a Diploma in Journalism from ALISON. He joined Daily Sun, where he worked for 4 years covering politics, crime, entertainment, current affairs, policy, governance and art. He was also a sub-editor and journalist for Capricorn Post before joining Vutivi Business News in 2020, where he covered small business news policy and governance, analysis and profiles. He joined Briefly News in 2023. Tebogo passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative Email: tebogo.mokwena@briefly.co.za