Cream bun
I don’t know how true this is for other cities — but Madras has an acute shortage of young adults who as students ate cream bun everyday. Braving the April sun, I walked almost an entire kilometer to find cheri gumbal at McRennet eating non cream bun type cakes.
There is a certain class about a well baked cream bun — with its not so smooth edges that gently overflow and yet are well contained within the bun. The cream having distinct railing on it is a mark of the finest from the lot.
I also notice, for some reason, inflation has a perverse impact on class equations. Things that are wonderful are forsaken to the masses who make messes.
Tags: Class equations, Cream bun, Credit Policy, Inflation, middle class, Raise Repo Rates
April 29th, 2008 at 5:14 am
April 29th, 2008 at 6:34 am
used to be 5 rupees at a bakery at adayar depot. became 6 and the clientele vanished.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Are you talking about the semi-circular one or the circular one?
April 29th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Umm, the circular thing was called a Japneese Cake, I think.
And, this is not semi circular — more like a quasi ellipsoid. But with eccentricities that approximate it close enough.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:32 am
quasi ellipsoid.
yen da dei…
April 29th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I used to eat it from tea-kadais. The “cream” is usually granular and has a saccharine taste to it. I dont know about McRennet though.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:09 am
indha gaurav punnakku oru kevalamana post pottirukkan pathiya?
Punnakku, P.Amarnath northie-nu nenachukittirukkan. Ivan mela oru puke mazhai pozhiya koodadha? idhula psycho analysis vera (fair skin etal)
Dei Gaurava, Why are you hell bent on proving you are a rank one idiot?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:27 am
ithukku ethukku ba puke — his name is Palani.
ithukku mela, we need to prove his tamil cred va?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
chennai eats maska bun!!
April 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
What’s maska? And I don’t care what Chennai eats. It’s about 15 years away from Madras.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
And Sriram, this is not that. That is elai bun — this is cream bun.
The two are a few civilizations apart.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:21 am
dei nilu, adhilla da. Gaurav punnakku thought he was writing very a clever piece by invoking Sadagopan R and all. His logic is “Tamils (by which he means probably you and hawkeye) cried when Ramesh was left out yet they dont pick their own boys in IPL for Chennai”. First of all, what has the past got to do with it? Ramesh’s case was in 2001. 7 years later, quite poossible that there arent enough tamil guys good enough?TN not having good enough players now doesnt mean those who were close enough to national selection, barring indhi bias, were crap? Simple logic, I know. But our pudungi doesnt understand it and doesnt even realise he is exposing his stupidty when he writes this in his blog.
Secondly, to fortify his point he points to outsiders like Dhoni(ok, outsider dhaan), Oram(Tick), Gony(perfect outsider) and AMARNATH!!
Gaurav Mayiru in his haste to make what he thought was a oh so clever point didnt even check facts.
Dei Pudungi Gaurava, your ignorance and poor logic was well known before - now, you should be able to see it yourself. What? You still dont see it? Thought so. Ofcourse, you are ignorant and dont know that you are ignorant.pudingi kena payya Gaurava - eppo do thirundhuva?
April 30th, 2008 at 6:28 am
punnakku - avanakku logic-lam puriyadhu -da.
Maska-pao– nnu sollu.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Nalla ketteda koomuttai thalaiya!
Yeah, what does logic have to do with Sab(udan)nis?
April 30th, 2008 at 10:02 am
btw, did anyone notice that the RSS has a good claim on the Chennai IPL team? I mean they have AMARNATH as well as BADRINATH!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Cream bun is a lower class deliacy.