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islandwide, and okra, which can be found at supermarkets, vegetable markets and home gardens, are very inexpensive ingredients. Because these main components are inexpensive, the dish became common for many residents in Barbados' early colonial history. In Ghana, a similar meal of fermented corn or
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prepared fried or steamed is a usual complement to cou-cou. Cou-cou and flying fish has become Barbados'
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A cooking utensil called a "cou-cou stick", or "fungie stick", is type of
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This article is about the corn bread. For the French card game, see
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maize flour eaten with okra stew and fish is known as
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used in its preparation. A cou-cou stick is made of
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