[Get together at my relatives' place]
[Visitor Malayali]: This parippu vada (red gram vada) is a typical Malayali dish.
[I]: Yeah, it is very common nowadays.
[Host Malayali]: Yeah, Yeah...
[I]: In fact, in Mangaluru we call it 'chattambade'
[Host Malayali]: ...o..o..
[I]: It's basically a funeral dish...the name 'chatta' means funeral and 'ambade'* is vade
[Host Malayali]: [Confused, looks up and nods his head]
* ambade was the original common (Proto-Dravidian) name of all these dishes, now surviving only in coastal Karnataka. The diluted name 'vade' of eastern Dravidians has become common name all over India and among Western Dravidians like Kannadigas too. Strictly speaking, the native Kannada word should have been 'bade'.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
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