Making soft round chapattis is an art just as a sculpture is a great form of art by the sculptor. Not all home-makers succeed in this homely job of rustling soft round chapattis in double quick time. Husbands have to be content with map like structures landing on their nightly platter along with portions of sabji, reshead fish and meat balls. Some men are known to grumble just as women do only to a lesser extent. The complaints may center around the unknown shapes and textures that land in their oral orifices. Most men are famous of devouring the hardy bits for their minds are in a constant whir on their career hassles at the workplace.
Some women love the square shapes of their handiwork while others are very elated that their chapatis are well-rounded. Others especially those who are new in the kitchen domain fumble with the dough making and end up with amoeba like edibles that their husbands are forced to gulp down. Tasty nevertheless!
Some women swear to adding a little oil or ghee in the dough so that the protein filled edibles turn out soft and palatable. Otherwise you wouldn’t want to be left chewing rubbery bits and pieces of wheat flour and spitting it out to your pet dogs, who in turn sniff it and turn away disappointed. Only to realize that you have lost a tooth in the bargain of biting the hard pieces of apparently edible wheat flour…
You don’t know whom to blame – the wholesaler where the wheat flour is bought or the retailer who is only too happy to push it off his shelf into the hands of some eager beaver like customer (like you) or your wife whose hands will never be able to breathe tasty life into the dough. You may even have to book an appointment with the only dentist in the local vicinity to check if the lost tooth can be replaced with a denture. Alas! At a young age of thirty, you may realize that you have indeed turned out to be old and toothless. Thanks to God knows whom!
So off you go to visit the old dentist who feeds you with gibberish about your teeth structure being weak when you tell her earnestly about the loss of your valuable tooth in the process of munching some chapattis. He gives you a look that questions, “Chapattis? How can you lose a tooth munching on yummy chapattis until and unless your teeth structure is weak and prone to dental decay?” There you go! She charges you a bomb for her less than the 2 minute survey of your pearly whites. Off you go home to announce sadly the bad news that you just learnt of your pearly whites. You think to yourself, “At least, Mrs. will be happy to know that it wasn’t her chapattis that led to the vital loss but rather lack of proper dental hygiene that caused the loss.”
As you ruminate on shifting to eating soft palatables like soup and pao and less of chicken or almonds or for that matter chapattis, your top storey starts taking a beating! Your only fear in the days to come is that you don’t end up losing more of your canines and molars. Ah!
