Brass tumblers

 These are brass tumblers .

Generally in Mylapore the most conservative part of yesteryear Madras maamas and maamis drank thier 3 pm Filter kaapi in this .

Most brahmin households had a type of food pattern .

No bed coffee business

Palla velakaama kaapiya !!!siva siva !!!they would say

After morning snaanam at 9am most houses had proper lunch !

believe it or not 

Idli ,dosa ,vada ,poori all came later .

Those days it was sappadu with ney paruppu ,urlakizangu podimas  Rasam or rarely sambhar appalam ,rice always pacha arisi .

I had taken this  many days as a boy .

Dei inniku school illeyonno engaathila saaptuko maami would say 

Amma kitta naan solikren .

It was freshly ,made hot, and very tasty healthy food .

After this the maamas would go to work  ,may carry a kutti box with some snacks for madhyanam kaapi .

Maamis would finish housework and by noon lie down with Ananda vikatan .

At 3pm most houses had kaapi mebbe with some cheeda or muruku .

And around 7 pm some light tiffin like dosa or idli etc and one masala paal for maama in nearby pettikada .

Some cheated with a quick cigarette trying to be naughty for a maama .

Please I am not ridiculing anyone by this description .

They were all part of my childhood and most as close as my family .

That was thier simple life style .

Another important bit was no one sipped kaapi or water ( thoothum ) from glasses.

Mylapore expected one to thooki kudika ie you poured the coffee even if hot without touching glass .

I can still do it .

Actually its hygenic too .

Thus the routine was broken only for say a marriage and hotel visits were very rare as most maamis were heavenly cooks .