Thursday, January 04, 2007

...difference between Diarrhoea and Death

The other day, we were talking about this dish I made called DBM. If you're from Bangalore, you'd know that this mud-pie-like-thing called Death By Chocolate (fashionably called DBC by the yuppy-puppies). It's a craze, and it's sin to know Corner House and not DBC.

Anyway, I used to cook this very similarly named dish called Diarrhoea by Maggi (Maggi that was spicy as hell, and unlike the DBC, this one usually lived up to its promise), and people never liked this idea as much as they did DBC. So much so that they'd give up eating half-way if they knew what the dish was called. I didn't understand it.

Diarrhoea and Death are both usual, and they happen to everyone, at unpredictable moments. Both are not good things to happen, and cause for sympathy and humour (sorry - did I cross some line there?), but for some reason, there is no grandeur attached to Diarrhoea, like it is to death. Maybe it is not mysterious. Maybe post-Diarrhoea-people are just more common than the near-death-experience people. But Diarrhoea is dirty - Death is not - any kind of death, even if caused by Diarrhoea, is not. Funny isn't it? Do you think it'll work if I made it even spicier and called it Death-by-Diarrhoea-by-Maggi?