Mancunian adventure

 This is an account of our longing for thairu sadam during our first miserable winter in Manchester.The name 'Yoghurt' was unknown in this part of the world. On a daily diet of mashed potatoes , boiled cabbage and boiled mutton we had reached the end of our tether. Adversity brings out the best in people as this story shows.
We  got rid of our depression  and started leading a near normal life.Our grades improved.We even started liking the place.Had the Romans discovered thairu sadam  they would not have  left Britain. And who knows how history would have developed!

Comments

[Kamini]

Every time I eat my sweetened strawberry-flavored yogurt, I will think of you and your friends struggling in the damp and cold of Manchester. And the business venture that wasn't!

Thanks kamini.One of these days you will get a write up-"The greatest chef" Appa

[raji]

Fantastic read!
I know exactly what you must have gone through. To be deprived of one's comfort food when you are already in a, cold, alien land can only add to the misery of homesickness.
And it is really a pity that you did not market the flavoured thairu - imagine Strawberry Thairu (for that is what you would have called them, I am sure) lining the Woolworth shelves!

P. S.
Was this originally published elsewhere?

Yes but I do not remember where.I just had a xerox copy.
Kuttiappa

[Ambika]

The love and longing for thairu sadam seems to have been passed on to son and grandson!