Please! I HAVE to write about this.. Dont stop me..
The smalll amount of television i see is when i am at home in chennai... Most of the stuff nowadays in TV makes me look at it from a hilarious angle, as i dont understand as to how artifical things can get....
Well, talking about cookery shows... One day, I was flipping channels, not able to stay in one for more than a minute, when my mom wanted to watch a particular cookery show...
These shows are pretty funny...
This is the place where you will get to see 'hand care' at its best!! ... be it well manicured, highly nail-polished hands or a whole bunch of designer hand ornaments.. its all there for the viewers... They know that their hands are going to be 'the focus of attention' throughout the show ......but i still wonder as to who would like to knead a sticky dough with 4 finger rings and 2 coats of nail polish on.... ;)
In these shows, you can clearly observe that the statement "Idhu panradhukku romba easy and odambukku nalladhu kooda..." ( Its easy to make and very healthy too...) will be repeated atleast a hundred times in the course of the show...
Even if they fry it in deep oil or add a liberal layer of cheese on top of what they are making, they will still pinpoint the 20mg of DAL which happens to be present in the content, and say that it has a LOT of protein it... or the stem of the vegetable which they have added will provide an lifelong supply of Vitamins .. or the milk which they have mixed will keep your bones strong even after you die...!!! :D well.. exaggerating...
One more thing which has to seriously BANNED from being said on these shows is "Kozhandhainga school lendhu vandha virumbi saaptuduvaanga... avangalukku romba pidikkum" ( When children return from school, they will really like to eat this stuff) For GOD's sake... its not only children who have to eat, in this world... even grown ups DO EAT..!!
They keep repeating that children will love it, and mention that they are adding every ingredient keeping in mind what children like...
And i really wonder if these people make this for their children when the kids get back home...
Last but definetely not the least, the 'garnishing/decoration' which they do, after they finishing cooking... Half a kilogram of whatever they make will be accompanied by another half a kilo or corriander, cashew, sliced cucumber,carrot,tomato and all such stuff on top of it... and at the end of it, you see a colourful end product, when it is focussed, and by the end of it, you end up forgetting what she had actually cooked... as it will be hidden, under the covers..err.. colours... And i bet all those 'extra' stuff will be treated as untochables after the show...
Theres one incorrigible show on one of our channels, wherein a team from the company which has sponsored the show comes on air, and they are served all the stuff which has been prepared and they taste it then and there.. The cameraman simply refuses to take them out of focus till they FINISH whatever is there in their plate/cup... !!
THE LIMIT I TELL YOU!! :)
Even as i am typing this i am ROTFL.... and hoping that situations would change, but still wonder as to how people put up with such consistent crap! :)
Well.. feel free to comment...i hope you will empathize.. :)
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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lol.. heights!
but then... not bad... you're atleast taking some efforts to learn cooking; i appreciate that! ;)
first blame mallika badrinath. coms as she does with a 5000 rs minimum silk kanjeevaram that will set the neighbourhood mamis gossiping for a week or so. then she would be wearing the entire lalitha jewlery showroom on herself. and finally yeah she does cok too. atleast my mom swears by her.
and north u got sanjeev kappor and the likes in coat suites ties dishing out mughlai tandoori to egyptiam prawns and what not. god knows who theses shows are targetted at
as far as the childrens part that u mentioned, case of aspirational/emotional outreach advertising/marketing
venkat
@anand ms
i DO make efforts like this da, even though cooking comes naturally to me.. :D
@venkat
very true.. and i keep wondering how mallika badrinath bloated so badly in a span of 2 years, even though she keeps giving diet tips in her programmes ;) atleast these people are professional in the cooking part.. its the other address illadha cooks who are funnier...
learning to cook..watching cookery in TV ...hmm..planning to get married ah ? congrats ya .
paavom vasanth enterprises owner, he has to taste the stuff ever week (heard he sponsers DDs cooking show)
seri as jagan asked why do u watch these shows??
hahahahahahahahaha....anand well said..;)...but ppl did ya all notice...this girl speaks everything abt the cookery show but fails to recognize the dish being cooked...:P
seri anga ena samacha...adu ni panna katundiya ile inum ade peas pulav medapu liye irukiya...:P
@jagan
nee vera.. velila saaptu stomach gone for a toss.. so daily cooking start pannaradhukku dhaan... ;)
@vatsan
paavama? andha aalu anga ninnundu kanna poinna nu kealvi vera keapaan, kudukkara prize ku.. ;) Cant stand that!!
@anand
panninadhu something called bread thayir vadai..! verum bread a wet panni, vada maadhiri thatti, even without frying, thayir la poattuta.. enna kandraviya taste pannumo.. u try it out n tell me.. :D
lol...the people who are eating also have to comment...that it was very good..too much a irukkum...pavam avanga...i, too, pity the vasanth stores owner and his two adiyals ..who come in every show...
@vijs
shall chk out that tarla dalal show..... ;)
@maduraiarian
welcome to my blog.. :) and yeah.. they are surely a centre-of-mockery, pitiable group on tv.. :)
these cooking shows exist bcoz there are lot of white goods makers who want to sell to the women. all the cookery shows on Tamil channels are stereotyped ones.
what was Srivats initials? I don't remember him now. I used to play during the early 90's. what was ur dad's name?
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