On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 07:53 +0530, Bonobashi wrote: > ...And I'm glad to report that even today, the hospitality sequence in a > traditional Bengali household is water - sweets - tea. That's if you aren't > there for a formal meal or such-like big-time stuff.
sweets being an even faster way of injecting glucose into the bloodstream than tiffen. thus proving that the bengalis recognise how to calm down guests. or perhaps bengali guests are ready to fight quickly and need rapid calming down with lots of sweets? -r (who realised that growing up in delhi with a palghat iyer mom who grew up in bangalore and bombay and a calcutta-born delhi-educated dad, he can claim to be from all four corners of the country and therefore insult everyone)
