INDRI-APPAM.
Oru Pachchatheri.....is what I always thought it was. Yea, now if you do by any chance know what it really means, dont blame me for thinking it was a theri-item instead of a food item!....Reason? My beloved Amma! Me, sis and bro were always a little too hyper when it came to delayed breakfast/lunch/dinner. Frustrated, amma would rage up and say "INDRI APPAM!" when we asked her what the hell is there at home to eat?!
It is not until the last week that I discovered it was a APPAyude (APPAMinte) swantham APPUS. APPAM's child.
Non-keralites, A in APPAM is read as A in Antartica. I always hated listening to it being pronounced as aaappam! "aaaapp" might mean "You" in hindi, but I guess it is a pachchatheri in malayalam. Well, unless I discover that even "aaaapp" is one of those innocent words that was misused!
It was in a prayer meeting when the guy giving the message talked about I.N.R.I. Somehow he teased about how people read it as INDRI and connected it to INDRI APPAM! I frowned at that word wondering why he was using such words in a prayer gathering!! Fortunately, before I would open my mouth to the neighbouring aunty, he spoke about INDRI APPAM and detailed what it meant!!!! I was gaping and staring at my mom who so innocently sat there not knowing how much damage she had done to me....!
Now for all those who were in the same boat as mine - yea, I completely understand how this feels. Now the last thing I want to know is that indri appam does mean something else too!! NO! I DONT WANT TO KNOW! For me indri appam is only an appam! :/
Oru Pachchatheri.....is what I always thought it was. Yea, now if you do by any chance know what it really means, dont blame me for thinking it was a theri-item instead of a food item!....Reason? My beloved Amma! Me, sis and bro were always a little too hyper when it came to delayed breakfast/lunch/dinner. Frustrated, amma would rage up and say "INDRI APPAM!" when we asked her what the hell is there at home to eat?!
It is not until the last week that I discovered it was a APPAyude (APPAMinte) swantham APPUS. APPAM's child.
Non-keralites, A in APPAM is read as A in Antartica. I always hated listening to it being pronounced as aaappam! "aaaapp" might mean "You" in hindi, but I guess it is a pachchatheri in malayalam. Well, unless I discover that even "aaaapp" is one of those innocent words that was misused!
It was in a prayer meeting when the guy giving the message talked about I.N.R.I. Somehow he teased about how people read it as INDRI and connected it to INDRI APPAM! I frowned at that word wondering why he was using such words in a prayer gathering!! Fortunately, before I would open my mouth to the neighbouring aunty, he spoke about INDRI APPAM and detailed what it meant!!!! I was gaping and staring at my mom who so innocently sat there not knowing how much damage she had done to me....!
Now for all those who were in the same boat as mine - yea, I completely understand how this feels. Now the last thing I want to know is that indri appam does mean something else too!! NO! I DONT WANT TO KNOW! For me indri appam is only an appam! :/
1 comment:
Hehe...Good one!
Relieved to see a mom like mine! You have no idea how many words in malayalam I pronounce wrongly...for which it was not corrected coz Mummy that I was too small to be corrected....Ahem..what abt NOw?
And you knw wht....havent u heard hw Tamilians pronounce appam...its 'aappam' for them... :-D
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