Borborygmos: The Call for Idiyappam

It hasn't been that long since Sunny started waking up early in the mornings. Early in the sense, ''Sunny's perspective of being early'' which is well after the sunrise. It was a relatively fine sunny Saturday morning compared to the past few cloudy and windy days. Absolutely no trace of dark clouds. Lisa was already in the kitchen busy reviewing YouTube recipes for breakfast. 

Chaaya....first call for tea.

  

Saturday mornings always come with fond memories of 'Duck Tales', 'Tales Pin' and 'Shakthi Man' in Doordharshan with delicious breakfast usually 'Puttum Kadalayum' and Chaaya. Wait, not sure if Shakthi Man was on Saturdays or Sunday, anyways doesn't matter.  

The intro song from 'Duck Tales', where uncle scrooge and his three grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie swim through the shiny golden treasures still stays fresh in memories. 

Same goes with the 'Tales Pin' where the other cousin of Baloo, the bear from 'The Jungle Book' with his flight cap and yellow shirt accompanied by his younger counterpart navigator, maneuvers in their cargo plane, 'Sea Duck'. 

The weekend newspaper was waiting to spend quality time with his soulmate (tea), Sunny is the broker of-course.

Chaaaaya.....second call for tea.

News seems to be less interesting as the colourful ads stands out catching your eye with fake sales offers and what not. As the curtain blinds were pulled open, bright Saturday morning sun showed up filling the house with immense sense of ''its a Saturday Morning'' vibe.

Chaaaaaaya.......third and last call for tea.

The elixir of communist Kerala, Chaaya and the local newspaper transfigured to immortality. 

Idiyappam is a rare item to find its place for breakfast when compared with its competitors. Possibly due to the much-needed muscle madness to squeeze out the noodle like strings. Its also called 'Noolappam' aka the string hopper. As Sunny and Lisa took roles to twist the ‘Idiyappa Thattu’, Kadala curry was setting in well with the spices in the hot pot.

Nissaaram……….enough, let’s cut this off and use the rest of the dough to make Idiyappa Pidi.

These go well with chicken curry if further processed a bit differently, not today though. Breakfast got baked and its hot in the pot ready to eat now.

Twist………..Twist……………Twist

Sunnychaaya, we’ll have breakfast after coming back from church.

(PS: Sunny Chaaya is not a special tea, although it might sound so when ‘ichaaya’ is used. ‘ichaaya’ is a traditional usage for calling husbands in Kerala Christian families along with their name)

Oh well, let’s run to the church then. They both left to church having a 4K snapshot of Idiyappam and Kadala Curry in mind.

Lucky that its not a Syro-Malabar Qurbana, else it would have taken one round of ‘Titanic’ or ‘Sholay’ prior to breakfast.

As the priest raised the holy bread in the name of Christ, followed by wine; Sunny’s bowels felt happy and sang songs aloud.

Brrrrrrrr……(low pitch)

Brrrrrrr…………………(high pitch)

The followers got side tracked for a moment there to hear the new ringtone as opposed to the usual bell tone. The rumbling, growling, gurgling ringtone was from Sunny’s bowel Mov(i)e-ment called Borborygmus. It was indeed the long calling for the Idiyappam.

NB: The scientific name borborygmus (meaning  - a rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines) is related to the 16th-century French word borborygme, itself from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek βορβορυγμός (borborygmós).