My favourite Diwali sweet has to be soanpapdi. No, I am not kidding.
When you are brought up in the non internet era, you don’t feel embarrassed embracing our traditional and cultural norms. That was my story too. And that’s how I really ended up tasting and liking soanpapdi. It’s non too sweet and light. Also, the gujju in me kept the sweets to myself than recycling them. Mafat no maal (freebies).
But now we are surrounded by anonymous followers who like to hear us say things that are cool. Like how we received only soanpapdi. How we never buy them to give away; and yet end up receiving it. This peer pressure of pleasing our followers we may never meet is real. And that also makes us hate this wonderful sweet.
This was my 3rd Diwali without receiving a single box of it. They say (read me) that things you hate come right at you no matter how much you try to avoid them. The opposite of it is true as well. “Agar kisi cheez ko tum shiddat se chalo to puri kaynaat usse tumse milaane me lag jaati hai” dialogue is the second biggest lie fed to us by the bollywood, first one being babies are born after two flowers kiss. I rarely ever get a soanpapdi box on Diwali. And I am that giver of it everyone hates. That first ever in the chain of soanpapdi passing the parcel who actually buys it. Thus, next time before cursing the giver, think about me.
Happy Diwali. I hope next one will be mask free and full of soanpapdi.
PS: I should have chosen the name Soanpapdi for this site instead of Aciditea.
I will get you a few boxes of it. And Acid-i-tea – very you! The ‘soanpapdi’ bit of you can be a badly kept secret.
Hahahaha. YES 😀
But, you know all my secrets.