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sajith ([personal profile] sajith) wrote2009-01-01 10:49 pm
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Professor Appunni's sheema nellikka eating lecture demonstration.

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Hello class. Welcome to this sheema nellikka eating lecture demonstration. Here we examine the delightful procedure of eating sheema nellikka in detail. Sheema nellikka, as you might know, is a tropical berry that keeps a raw-tart-sweet taste when ripe. You can pick one from the ground, or pluck one from the tree, and then plonk it into the mouth, chew away, savour the tanginess... crunch crunch. Slurrrp. Mmmm. Mmmmm.

While we do not know precisely or care about the English or Latin names for this nice little gooseberry-namesake, we can easily speculate about its possibly foreign origins, because, you know, sheema stands for the olde England. Since England is hardly a tropical country, we could further postulate that this came to India from a south American country, probably Brazil, much like coffee. But neither the etymology nor the botanical origins should concern us as far as our goal is properly enjoying the sheema nellikka taste. This is an art, much like wine tasting is an art, I tell you.

Well dammit, I don't have the patience to explain further, which is ignorant ramble anyway. I can't talk through all this megalitres of drool either. Just watch me doing this:

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A bonus side-effect is that the fibrous flesh of sheema nellikka even cleans your teeth! Which means no Colgate anymore! Damn the corporate teethcare! All you need is this gift of sheema nellikka from Mother Nature! See! See!

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After this lecture Professor Appunni invited his class to try and repeat the eating procedure on their own. The sole student stepped out with some trepidation:

examining

shy

(I don't know when these kids would grow up and send goons to beat me up. They grow pretty fast these days. In my defence, I'm just volunteering for the Bharatiya Silliness Bachao Andolan, so maybe I can plead I was only doing my job. And the children get to share the fruit produces along with the visiting crows, various other birds, bats, and squirrels. In theory everybody should be happy. In practice we know that this is a far more complicated affair.)

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