I am born in kozhikode which is famous for so many things including "Mittayi Theruvu"(Sweet Meat Street).From this itself you can guess how much will be there for me to share about sweets..
The first thing which comes to my mind when i am thinking about this is a light pink colour mittayi which resembles a bush which is really tasty and the sweet which is fibrous stucks to our tongue.Kids use to enjoy that and some youngsters too..the sound of a bell Which a mittayvala(sweet seller ) posses usually wakes up the elders from their afternoon sleeps..
My childhood memories mainly consists of utsavam(festival)in temples of our villages...For utsavams there will be lots of stalls set up near the temple and there will be different types of mittayi known as chalk mittayi(which resembles the shape of a chalk)available in shades of pista green,light yellow,orange,Pink etc..then the next item is sharkara jilebi Which the mittayi valla serves us hot..then there are again different mittayis in different shapes and colour which we collectively call as thira mittayi
The next memory regarding mittayi is kadala mittayi(madeup of ground nut and sharkara),Jeeraka mittayi(having the taste of cumin seeds),Naranga mittayi(taste of orange)...Then comes the first chochlate I had tasted a lot..MILK TREAT I donno whether it is available in the market nowaday...My class teacher was the one who introduced me to that..Neena mam..Whoever does the mathematics home work problems correctly and score good in her subjects use to get MILK TREATs..It was really an inspiration for me in studies...The sight of milk chochlate inside the dark orange wrapper made me love mathematics for a certain peroid of time..
The sight of colourful ice mittayi(ice candy,pista ice,paal ice(milk ice))which you will get during your visit to beach...How can a person forget such memories?Damn sure your tongue won't forget the taste for years..Which turns your tongue colour to dark Red and Pink..
Atlast the kozhikoden Halwa which Every person after coming to kozhikode will definitely try to taste atleast once.
I think that sweets are connected to Every customs,cultures and All..that's why we give sweets to our guests as a gift in marriage functions etc.. Don't you..?
Waiting for your sincere feed backs.-Neethu
The first thing which comes to my mind when i am thinking about this is a light pink colour mittayi which resembles a bush which is really tasty and the sweet which is fibrous stucks to our tongue.Kids use to enjoy that and some youngsters too..the sound of a bell Which a mittayvala(sweet seller ) posses usually wakes up the elders from their afternoon sleeps..
My childhood memories mainly consists of utsavam(festival)in temples of our villages...For utsavams there will be lots of stalls set up near the temple and there will be different types of mittayi known as chalk mittayi(which resembles the shape of a chalk)available in shades of pista green,light yellow,orange,Pink etc..then the next item is sharkara jilebi Which the mittayi valla serves us hot..then there are again different mittayis in different shapes and colour which we collectively call as thira mittayi
The next memory regarding mittayi is kadala mittayi(madeup of ground nut and sharkara),Jeeraka mittayi(having the taste of cumin seeds),Naranga mittayi(taste of orange)...Then comes the first chochlate I had tasted a lot..MILK TREAT I donno whether it is available in the market nowaday...My class teacher was the one who introduced me to that..Neena mam..Whoever does the mathematics home work problems correctly and score good in her subjects use to get MILK TREATs..It was really an inspiration for me in studies...The sight of milk chochlate inside the dark orange wrapper made me love mathematics for a certain peroid of time..
The sight of colourful ice mittayi(ice candy,pista ice,paal ice(milk ice))which you will get during your visit to beach...How can a person forget such memories?Damn sure your tongue won't forget the taste for years..Which turns your tongue colour to dark Red and Pink..
Atlast the kozhikoden Halwa which Every person after coming to kozhikode will definitely try to taste atleast once.
I think that sweets are connected to Every customs,cultures and All..that's why we give sweets to our guests as a gift in marriage functions etc.. Don't you..?
Waiting for your sincere feed backs.-Neethu
nostalgic. good writing. it is not sweet street. it is Sweet Meat street( SM street ) .
ReplyDeleteThankyou for your comments Sir..I didn't know it till now.:)
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