My nephew, Ramanathan threw a birthday party for his 2 year old son, yesterday.
Since I was consulted about the menu for the party, I suggested a welcome drink different from the usual orange and lemony ones.
We served 'Sprite' with 'Curoco' syrup which gives the colorless Sprite a beautiful blue tinge. You can deepen or lighten the blue by adjusting the quantity of the syrup. (Curoco is an edible corn starch based blue syrup which is freely available at stores like Nilgiris and Nuts & Spices across Chennai). Since I had the syrup at home I could share some with them.
Then there were other typical party items like samosa, finger chips, mini jamuns, a piece of the birthday cake and for dinner, a vegetable biryani with raitha, curd rice with a sweet sour ginger chutney.
I called two young boys (sons of my nieces) to help circulate the welcome drinks among the guests. They did so without helping themselves to it first which is strange for enthusiastic youngsters! When I asked them the reason, they said it looked like kerosene!! It stunned me for a minute but soon I started seeing it their way.
It was like looking at the same thing in a very different way.
Kerosene sold through the Public Distribution System/Ration Shops locally is colored blue to detect pilferage of this heavily subsidized item by the Tamil Nadu state government.
The fizz was there, the color was great, the welcome drink was the conversation piece for sometime among the guests, yet I too started seeing it as kerosene instead of the delightful Curoco's blue.
Cheers!
Mahalakshmi
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