There are some things that are just uniquely Indian – the way that we touch our hands to our forehead when our foot accidently touches a book. The way regular people feed animals: pigeons, cows, monkeys, snakes. The way we drink tea out of earthen cups. The way we have plates with unique segments for the rice, the dal, the pickle, the subzi, the roti as Vir Das pointed out.
It isn’t just Indian cuisine, it’s great for other cuisines as well and it cuts down on the need to use and wash separate utensils, he says.
Das was recently in the middle of a controversy because of his Two India standup routine. Some are still trolling him for this.
…to other topics and other plates with similar utility.
There’s a reason why people love the special plates they eat off – the taste is different, points out this commentator.
The tweeple identified with Das’s loyalty to his segmented plate – because many of us have these plates, albeit in different shapes.
This commentator knows it as the ‘gurudware vali thali’ probably because langar is served in such plates as well.
As this tweet points out, the plate has been in use for 31 years and still does the job.
Apart from keeping flavours and textures separate, this kind of plate also helps with portion control, says this and many other tweets.
The bhindi needs to be cooked more and the dal should be thicker – and the photographer a little less evident points out this tweet.
Some people get used to this sort of plate in hostel, which is when they recognise its utility.
Some people travel with their own plates, some have pillows they cannot do without… it is a peculiar form of loyalty perhaps.
The lamentable lack of taps near the commode in foreign countries means that a lot of Indians going abroad do this.
While several commentators pointed out that OCD is a serious condition and no joking matter, another pointed this out: that bit of dal where it shouldn’t be on Vir Das’s thali bothered this guy – and others as well presumably.
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