A son-in-law visits his mother in law and the latter in all
affection prepares and feeds him with a lot of kozhukkattai (a very delicious
food item..a deshi pancake).. Enamoured about the taste but ignorant of the
name of the delicacy, the son in law asks for the name and is planning to go
over to his place memorizing the name of Kozhakkattai so that he could mention
the name to his wife and ask her to prepare the dish in plenty..He chants the
word kozhukkattai enthusiastically all the way and travels from the place of
MIL to his own wife's abode.. En route, he had to pass a bridge and an instant
storm comes by.. He is chanting Kozhakkattai again and again but some people
were warning that an ahiripaatcha storm ( an unexpected storm?) has overtaken
them. In confusion, the littany of Kozhakkattai tuns into "
Athiripatcha" and when the storm clears and the man reaches home the word
Athirpatcha had replaced kozhukkattai.. and he hurriedly demands his wife to
prepare Athiripatcha in the same style as her mother would do.. The lady is
flabbergasted. She could not divine what her man was telling. She pleads
ignorance and is beaten up and develops swellings over her body the size of
kozhakkattai.. Later on the Mother In Law visits them to see her daughter and
witnessing her miserable plight, demands the Son In Law why he has beaten up
her daughter and caused swellings of the size of Kozhakkattai.. The word strike
a chord in his mind and he tells his wife that what he wanted was
"kozhakkattai".. Obviously not athiripaatcha.. Rest is left to
imagination..
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