[Paul Bunyan]

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.