The Poison Called "Taste"...
A friend of
mine, who has traveled all over Tamil Nadu, shared something with me that he
witnessed and was deeply frightened by. I want to share that with you.
It is nothing
other than the sight of food... food... food... everywhere you look.
Food has become
a huge business in Tamil Nadu. The entire state seems to have been designed
with the idea that everyone must be eating something all the time. And hardly
any of it is our regular, traditional food. Staple foods like rice, idli, dosa,
pongal, and upma are looked down upon as inferior. Many restaurants don't even
serve them.
For dinner,
mostly only varieties of roti and curries are served. Even for lunch, you find
more of biryani varieties, parotta varieties, rather than simple rice. In this
trend, I believe only breakfast has largely remained unaffected so far. But
soon, that too will be taken over by foods like oats, burgers, sandwiches,
noodles, and pasta... Serial television advertisements are already introducing
this.
I am still
bewildered by a signboard I saw at a shop boasting 99 varieties of parotta.
They even fry and eat ice cream now. Why, oh why, is ice cream served on a
sizzler, a stone of fire?
Almost every
type of world cuisine is available in almost every part of Tamil Nadu. Shops
selling Pizza(s) and Shawarma are visible in every town.
Bakeries are
everywhere, and the items sold there aren't even made locally. Someone,
somewhere, mass-produces and supplies them to everyone. Even the taste is not
the old, familiar taste; there's an excess of additives like taste enhancers.
The food is supposed to melt the moment it touches your tongue.
The underlying
message from the kitchens is that no one in the town needs teeth; there's no
need to bite anything hard. Items that require hard chewing are not available
for sale. Sweets and cake varieties have proliferated. As sweets have
flourished, so have dental clinics on the ground.
Even in Annachi
shops and Bai shops, you don't find Tamil products. Mostly, it's North Indian
products that are available for sale. Why, even for snacks, there are only
Haldiram's packets. A taste that people would have once spat out with a 'thoo'
has now become a habit for people, from the airport to the local grocery store.
The fundamental
reason for this is the proliferation of department stores like D-Mart. They can
offer low prices only if they purchase in huge quantities. Therefore, they only
sell products from large commercial companies. Attracted by their sophisticated
appearance, people have started going there, thinking they can get everything.
No one considers
the money spent on food as a waste. That is the fundamental capital of this
business. People first "eat" with their eyes. Then, they buy
everything they see, eat what they like, and throw away what they don't.
In the past, the
habit of eating out was due to a lack of time to cook at home when returning
from outside. But now, with delivery apps like Swiggy and Zomato available even
in remote villages, you can order food anytime and have it delivered to your
home.
Here, hunger is
not discussed; only taste is discussed. The food of each geographical region
was developed to suit its local environment. But bringing all foods to all
places is a great war that is destroying human genetics.
I am suddenly
reminded of what Kamal Haasan once said in an interview: "Even a
six-course meal will turn into excrement the next day."
Tamils were late
in their struggle to remove foreign words that had mixed into the Tamil
language, and that struggle has not been successful to this day, as is clearly
evident from the signboards everywhere and the people's speech. The truth is
that the Tamil language is perishing. Similarly, you must realize that the
Tamil race is being destroyed by foreign food.
We must escape
from the poison called "taste" and return to the Tamil food culture,
which acts as a medicine for the natural state of hunger. We must liberate
ourselves from foreign foods.
If this does not
happen, mark my words...
In the next ten
years, cancer hospitals will proliferate everywhere. Premature death in youth,
obese children, heart attacks – all these will run rampant.
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