“True friends chop the onions and cry together”
Jokes apart, let me talk about the food habits of some people, that I have come across as they enjoy their food. (Indian Subcontinent).
I am not talking about table manners but the style of eating.
✔One category enjoyed eating each food item separately (as shown in the image below) without much mixing or crushing or smashing.
✔Another category of people enjoys the food by mashing all the food items together
Eating food items separately
Many enjoy eating varieties of food separately but mixing the items when required without mashing the same.
Mashing all those separate food items into a pulp
Eating food items by smashing, crushing or mashing and thus mixing all the items into a single pulp and enjoying the food in bits. (Indians call this version a Khichdi) as shown in the image below.
These people say that this is a combined taste of all the food items that taste better than eating separately.
Those who favour this type of eating say that they just experience the Heavenly taste.
“When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, ‘That looks like cat vomit.’ And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it’s flat” Margot Robbie
Do you like this type of food?
I am not sure what exactly constitutes style of eating under food etiquette and who decides?
What these people argue is that everybody is busy chopping…
Chef/butcher chopping the vegetables/meat, tree feller chopping the trees, woodcutter chopping the wood, or hairdresser trimming the hair, gardener enjoying chop chop…if you allow them they go on doing without hesitation.
Maybe chefs and connoisseurs among the readers can guide me to understand better
Can you share your views and thoughts, my friend?
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Take care, my friend.
Namaste 🙏🙏🙏
Philo
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This post is part of Sue & GC’s Weekly prompts-Weekend challenge- CHOP
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I’m an eat food separately kind of person.
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Thank you Ashley.
I like your concept.
Each food is different and has different taste and aroma.
By combining food items and even going extreme by mashing, one may lose the individual taste and aroma.
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Lovely capture of onions. And I do like to eat certain dishes in a pulpy manner, especially Channa Chaat 🙂
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Thank you my friend.
Haha…Channa Chaat… I am with you.😃😃
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👏👏👏📷✒️
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Thank you my friend.
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Fantastic photos of onions. As to food, it depends on the kind of foods, their flavors, textures, and aroma. Some foods complement each other, but certainly not mashed together, yet some should be eaten together, while presented separately on a plate.
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Thank you Dolly.
Now I understand better.
So it is advisable not to mash all those separate food items into a pulp and eat.
So we leave it to the individual choice and decision.
Are such things (mashing and making a pulp) allowed in a gathering for feast or during get together etc?
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I am the wrong person to ask about what’s allowed, dear friend! You should ask Miss Manners – only kidding, of course. It’s not socially advisable, if you want to make a good impression, but if you don’t care, then just enjoy yourself.
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Not at all
You are that perfect Ms.Manners.
Thank you for helping me out.
I can explain to these two groups ( for and against) through your anwer.
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I am not! I am a pale resemblance of my grandmother who had been brought up by a very strict governess.
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I fully agree.
Mothers can’t replace grandmothers and surely daughters can’t replace mothers in culinary skills and certain manners and behaviours.
Thank you Dolly for this information which made me to recollect my grandmother’s style of table manners.
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I am so glad, dear Philo.
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I like everything on my plate at once but I take a mouthful of each separately. Thank you for this, Philo I love your interpretation of our Chop challenge. 🙂
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Thank you Sue.
Always you both post interesting themes.
A pleasure to join the fun whenever possible.
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