Hmmm...I used to really like eating garri and soup...sipping garri too was bae(in my high school days, we called it zaw, zawa or sawdust)... I enjoyed sipping "condimented zaw" as we called the one we mixed sugar(or honey), Milo and milk.
As I grew and started off to a life where you have to buy, my love for it diminished because some women believe if they don't put their whole hand inside the garri, they won't know which is good or not.
Away from garri...
We have a lot of other things that have people use their bare(and mostly very dirty) hands to fiddle before selling.
Some of those things are Suya, meat, etc.
They believe it doesn't matter. We used to think it never mattered.
But we can avoid some diseases that are troubling us.
Good hygiene matters.
One of the gatekeepers in my workplace likes being social by holding everybody's hand when entering through the pedestrian gate. This is totally unhygienic and dangerous as he tends to unconsciously or unknowingly pass germs from one body to another.
We say germs doesn't kill Africans...Okay!
But avoid what you can avoid.
Keep your own germs while I keep mine!
Engr. E. Okono