Every part of India has its own unique cuisine which is great because we get to savour them all. But sometimes, this diversity results in (totally harmless) food fights online and some unusual flavour combinations.
Twitter user Spuddy Kat recently recounted how her in-laws from Lucknow sent her South-Indian parents some Tunday kebab paste (essentially half-cooked kebabs in paste form or kebab ki pitthi) and they proceeded to eat them with rice and vegetables.
My Lucknowi in-laws sweetly sent Tunday kebab paste for my south Indian parents. My parents excitedly fried up the kebabs and ate them with… plain rice and poriyal. My spouse is horrified.
— SpuddyKat (@spadjay) January 5, 2021
My brother enjoyed the Tunday kabab with curd rice https://t.co/wMe9yEfT9N
— SpuddyKat (@spadjay) January 5, 2021
Her husband and other folks from Lucknow are now calling it sacrilege as they are usually eaten with roomali rotis, naans or paranthas.
Yeh azeem tareen gunah hai jiski maafi nahi hai
— Saifur Rahman 🇴🇲-🇮🇳 (@SaifR_BBK) January 6, 2021
as a lucknowi, i never had more panic attacks in reading a tweet before this😭😟
— Akash Singh (@_A_kasH) January 5, 2021
Its like eating Makke di roti with Sambhar 😆😆😆
— Amrik Singh (@amrikgandhi09) January 5, 2021
As a Lucknavi, I can’t tell you how unsettling this is for me to read 😳🥺🥺
— Kaavyya Kesarwani (@kaavyya) January 5, 2021
This is blasphemy 😐😐 Dil mein dard sa ho raha ☹️ https://t.co/zibvNRwjpZ
— Azhar Jafri (@zhr_jafri) January 5, 2021
A few people are sharing their own stories on experimenting with food (intentional or unintentional) like caviar with rice, dosa with gobi manchurian and dosa with dal makhni.
I was initially horrified and then thought of the time my Bengali aunt was given some caviar from Ukraine and fried them up with some batter, green chilies etc and served with rice and dal – as we usually do to fish roe from Rohu or Hilsa.
— Saugato Datta (@sd268) January 5, 2021
This is my story I’m from Lucknow and my wife is from Mysore.. I get these panic attacks twice a day 😂
— Ameer Zada Khurram (@ama_miyan_suno) January 6, 2021
In their defense, we'll eat anything with anything: My mother mixes rasam in her biryani rice, and my dad used to go to Hot Chips and order dosa and gobhi manchurian https://t.co/0eu086pcia
— bon ivermore (@suburbanaxal) January 5, 2021
My dad ate dal makhni with kal dosai the other day. So these things don't shock Tamilians. https://t.co/IOJRCojVLG
— Sundar (@doc_sund) January 5, 2021
Would you eat Galauti kebabs with rice? Tell us.