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**Paul Bunyan** · 05-24-2006, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by FloraiPuyal Originally Posted by dsath I have read somewhere that even idli is not a native - native of Tamilnadu.

Were tamils eating grass before someone taught them to cook?

Not just then, pa, we are still eating grass! Biologically, rice is a grass. kandupudichitaruya periya podalanga!

( just kidding. anyway, logically rice is a grass before it is cooked. once cooked it becomes food. )

good thing that no one said rice was introduced into tamil nadu by portuguese in 1590 and since tamil words could not start with ri, they added a and made it arici.

05-24-2006, 07:44 PM	#31
Paul Bunyan Join Date Jul 2007 Age 59 Posts 4,495 Senior Member	Originally Posted by FloraiPuyal Originally Posted by dsath I have read somewhere that even idli is not a native - native of Tamilnadu. Were tamils eating grass before someone taught them to cook? Not just then, pa, we are still eating grass! Biologically, rice is a grass. kandupudichitaruya periya podalanga! ( just kidding. anyway, logically rice is a grass before it is cooked. once cooked it becomes food. ) good thing that no one said rice was introduced into tamil nadu by portuguese in 1590 and since tamil words could not start with ri, they added a and made it arici.
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