This trend is now finding it’s way into some restaurants and fastfood joints.
If this widespread practice is really harmful as feared and has been allowed to get this much popular, we may risk contaminating a whole generation of Africans.
Our street food is popular, tastes nice, and supports livelihoods. But in our African world where there is mostly no implemented training and certification requirement before one can cook for the public, how then are we improving the healthiness of our street food, when it’s packaged in plastic bags when hot?
Some street food makers have already escalated the practice by tightly covering pots of rice with plastic rubber bags when cooking.
The thought of hot water vapor possibly extracting chemicals from the plastic and mixing them up with the food makes me quite uncomfortable.
Our unholy romance with nylon plastic rubber bags is possibly poisoning us silently”.
