It all began off with toroid banana cakes - an abomination, a chimera of three dimensional geometry hybridized with an icteric horticulture product.
These culinary disasters were duly prepared on every family member's birthday - and sometimes for no specific reason, other than there being a surfeit of bananas in the house - or a surfeit of time for the creatrices (yes they were all rabidly female).
The origins of this mysterious malady can be traced back to the hoary past - back to the very cradle of civilization - Mother Africa (Zambia to be specific). The sibling passed it on to the mate-to-be and just like Mendel predicted, the progeny of the two inherited the dominant trait.
I fear for the future generations - the latent entrepreneurial spirit of the Singh/Sinhas may launch a global chain of eateries serving thirty varieties of banana cake. I can visualize a nightmarish scenario of fast-food joints serving banana-cake dosa, butter banana-cake, banana-cake vindaloo, tandoori banana-cake, banana-cake nuggets and the specialty manchurian banana-cake.
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| The twin golden arches of McDonalds will be replaced by the twin spires of Banana Cakes Ltd |
We digress....
The powers that (rob)be then informed us that we mango people lived in a केले का देश।
And now to expiate your sins, I am given to understand that one can offer bananas to the divine powers that be. OMG! Consuming all that banana bhog will cause celestial hyperkalaemia
firstly, toroid cakes were made on birthdays and other days...but they were not always made of bananas! secondly, your sibling taught your mate-to-be the famous 'gijtshojuba pie' which again, had no bananas in it! my recent temple offering and OMG seemed to have inspired you....i can see. and you seem to be seeing "bananas" everywhere! going bananas???? anyway...the tandoori banana cake, banana cake vindaloo sounds interesting...must try out...ha!ha!
ReplyDeletehahaha...is mummy making cakes from the guruvayur bananas?
ReplyDeleteof course not....you are not supposed to cook prasad! why would i make cakes now....no one to eat them!
DeleteWhy, they could be used as UFOs, spare tyres (tube-less), neck ornaments for Ndebele and Kayan women, duff-nuts (sic) for giants, super-conducting magnets in the HADRON collider .....
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha. I was laughing aloud in the 'silent zone' in the library :d
ReplyDeleteMami, I miss the banana cakes. Deprived of their golden greatness, I have resorted to eating the fruit itself. Indeed much to Mama's horror, sibling and mate-to-be have passed on their Musa leanings to their respective progeny.
If this banana madness continues, then the status of one of the progenitors shall be ex-mate!
ReplyDeleteJust kidding.