Dealing with ignorant people

Most of the time, i just let them speak their ignorance, listen, laugh at them in my head and walk away. i've been doing that to my roommate and yesterday i wish i'd said something to him.

I had some shito i bought in philly sitting on my kitchen counter since i got back last week. Last night while putting some on my rice, he tells me "i looked at the bottle and it said to refrigerate after opening so it's probably gone bad. Just to let you know"

First of all, wtf! Second, what do you know about african food to tell me how to store something i've been eating since i was little. I told him it doesn't need to be refrigerated. he goes 'well, i'm telling you because it said it has shrimp in it and it looks like the shrimp might be marinated."

I looked at him and decided i wasn't going to respond to his ignorance simply because i needed to get back to the NCIS that was playing on my laptop. But i did think, stupid fool, how do you tell me how i make something i've been making since i was 8? If he wasn't ignorant, he'd realize that villagers in hot parts of Ghana who don't have fridges make this. I almost told him i made this and took them to school for 3months but i deciced as always, let him him think what he thinks. I make it a point not to argue with an ignorant person who thinks he's a know it all because it's worse than chasing after the wind. It's plain foolish!

To tell me the shrimp has been marinated? what the ! Did he even see shrimp in the thing while looking at it? Reminds me of Marcia telling me palm oil is bad for you. Yet, i'm the one who isn't fat and have been eating it all my life and my greatgrandma ate it and lived to 106.

Sometimes i pity the ignorant and sometimes i'm thankful for them. Hadn't not been for ignorance, the God who worked that miracle knows i wouldn't have graduated from college. So let them think there are no fax machines in Africa and that it is a big jungles with people roaming through it. For when they ask me what my favorite food is and i reply "snake legs" and they go "that's nice" (which is usually the response i get), they wouldn't realize that it's my euphemism for "you ignorant fool, snakes don't have legs. ha ha!"