I love grapes. Right from the grapevines to the final
product of grape fruits in the farms, and furthermore the wine that some of the
most creative people invented from that pearly fruit, everything about grapes
sounds like some medieval witchcraft to me.
I have been seeing grapes on sale at the rate of Rs100 for 2 kg wherever I go these days. I didn’t go beyond 50 km
from home on these days. That’s why the offer surprised me all the more. Grapes
in my rural neighbourhood at such low rates sounds an alert. So I didn’t buy
any of those. But when I found them at a higher price this evening in a
hypermarket, I bought half a kg after enough dawdling.
“Are these sweet?” I asked the staff.
“Sweet and sour,” she said. “A bit
sour,” she explained when I looked sceptical.
When I tasted them at home, after soaking
them in salt water for half an hour and then washing them three times in
running water as instructed by Maggie, they tasted like the pesticide in the
vegetables I usually get from the nearby markets. I ate only a few of those grapes. But the odour
of chemicals rises from my viscera even as I am typing this out.
One of the things Maggie loved was
fish. But we stopped buying fish for ourselves because any fish you buy in
Kerala tastes of chemicals. Deadly chemicals. Fish chews like leather. We
stopped buying fish for ourselves. But you will find me in a fish stall twice a
week. My cats want fish though I have been trying to convert them to eating
Amazon-supplied cat feed. They do relish those pellets supplied by Amazon’s
meticulous delivery personnel. But they seem to need some natural food too and
I don’t want to deprive them of that. My concern is t’s difficult to please even
the cats with the fish that’s available these days in my neighbourhood. Sometimes
my cats just shun the fish I give them, raw or cooked.
Poison is what we get in the name of food.
A knowledgeable friend of mine tells
me that poison is what they give us in hospitals and medical stores these days.
This is called the return of the great ancient civilisation!
I throw a challenge to the vegans in
India. Check the vegetables sold in Kerala and tell me honestly how much of
them are really edible.
They won’t dare do that. Because
India has become fake. Absolute fake. Prove me otherwise instead of feeling
cocky sentiments in your religious genes.
Speaking of cockiness, cocks in India
are fakes too.
I challenge the right wing in Modi’s
India: Give me one genuine thing. Apart from crocodile tears in an ancient
Vadnagar tea cup. Please.
That's too bad. The state of the food supply has much to be desired.
ReplyDeleteThis rich-poor gap is all about the slow poisoning of the poor by the rich.
DeleteWhat we eat,drink and breathe are fully poisonous.Man is avarecious for wealth.So he poison his fellow beings.
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Our entire system is poison puppeteered by Venomdas...
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