The season of Bounty
August 27, 2007 10:11 AM Subscribe
Harvest festival. So they are gathering the seed back UP FROM the ground.
posted by DU at 10:17 AM on August 27, 2007
posted by DU at 10:17 AM on August 27, 2007
I thought it said "Celebrating Onan" and I was like "Oh, I'm good at that!"
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:47 AM on August 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:47 AM on August 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
I just popped in to make the same joke everyone else did.
posted by sourwookie at 12:03 PM on August 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by sourwookie at 12:03 PM on August 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
I totally thought it said "celebrating Onan" - guess we're all a bunch of pervs up in here.
posted by SassHat at 12:44 PM on August 27, 2007
posted by SassHat at 12:44 PM on August 27, 2007
Celebrating Onan? That's where I'm a Viking!
posted by sidereal at 1:17 PM on August 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by sidereal at 1:17 PM on August 27, 2007 [1 favorite]
...Hey, you know what that looks like?
posted by katillathehun at 3:26 PM on August 27, 2007
posted by katillathehun at 3:26 PM on August 27, 2007
What sourwookie said.
And I really hope "Easter" has a smutty meaning in Tellugu.
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:06 PM on August 27, 2007
And I really hope "Easter" has a smutty meaning in Tellugu.
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:06 PM on August 27, 2007
hm, true, but they shouldn't be set up within the yoni.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:03 PM on August 27, 2007
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:03 PM on August 27, 2007
Onam is celebrated by wearing new clothes and resolving to lead a new life of truth, piety, love, and humility.
All juvenile kidding aside*, it sounds like a wonderful harvest festival with a a rich mythic story , and delicious food. (I would love to try Tomato Rasam. Do you eat it with rice or on it's own?) And what looks like a lot of great dancing, fun and games. It's a pity it only goes for one day (this year it fell on Aug. 27th) as it seems like there are enough activities here for a week! I found a temple in NYC that was celebrating it as well.
*With apologies to Hadjiboy.
posted by Skygazer at 11:32 AM on August 28, 2007
All juvenile kidding aside*, it sounds like a wonderful harvest festival with a a rich mythic story , and delicious food. (I would love to try Tomato Rasam. Do you eat it with rice or on it's own?) And what looks like a lot of great dancing, fun and games. It's a pity it only goes for one day (this year it fell on Aug. 27th) as it seems like there are enough activities here for a week! I found a temple in NYC that was celebrating it as well.
*With apologies to Hadjiboy.
posted by Skygazer at 11:32 AM on August 28, 2007
I would love to try Tomato Rasam. Do you eat it with rice or on it's own?
Neither of the above, really.
Rasam is a side-dish that appears, like sambal, with almost every South Indian dish, from snacks right up to full meals. Ideally, you would eat it with sambal, rice, curd rice, tamarind rice, at least half a dozen veg curries, a few pappadams, some pickles & chutneys, maybe some kind of Indian bread, puri and vadai, some fruit, at least half a kilo of sweets, and hopefully also some Indian flavour of icecream, such as kaju kishmish or elaichi badam pista. I would recommend a fresh lime soda & a few Kingfishers to wash the meal down, and a falooda with the dessert.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:46 PM on August 28, 2007
Neither of the above, really.
Rasam is a side-dish that appears, like sambal, with almost every South Indian dish, from snacks right up to full meals. Ideally, you would eat it with sambal, rice, curd rice, tamarind rice, at least half a dozen veg curries, a few pappadams, some pickles & chutneys, maybe some kind of Indian bread, puri and vadai, some fruit, at least half a kilo of sweets, and hopefully also some Indian flavour of icecream, such as kaju kishmish or elaichi badam pista. I would recommend a fresh lime soda & a few Kingfishers to wash the meal down, and a falooda with the dessert.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:46 PM on August 28, 2007
You just basically described the best Indian meal I've never had. And I've had one or two, but none as amazing sounding as that. I think I might have to print that up and hand it to one of the folks at the Bombay Palace and say: This....I want this...just exactly like this....thank you.
posted by Skygazer at 8:15 AM on August 29, 2007
posted by Skygazer at 8:15 AM on August 29, 2007
(for authenticity, it should be served on a banana leaf, and eating with your hands right hand is part of the pleasure - the dishes are designed to appeal to the touch, as well as to the other senses. waiters should wander around with pots & top up any item on your leaf that is starting to run low, until you can no longer move. drinks & sweets aside, the whole meal should cost you no more than a couple of dollars...*sigh*...i wonder how much more bountiful it can be in this Season of Bounty?)
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:08 PM on August 29, 2007
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:08 PM on August 29, 2007
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