What is the difference between a mumlet and an omelette? Many do not know
September 23, 20244 Mins Read
Lifestyle Desk: Bengali's first choice is beef-hilsa. Then if you have to catch it, then chicken. But eggs? Did the Bengalis ever think of him as 'meat'? As of the past thirty years, eggs have never been considered a 'food' in Bengali non-vegetarianism. But these days, from breakfast to dinner, humpty dumpty has eaten eggs and eggs. But Bengalis did not remember him that way. Did not remember just did not want to keep it? Or is there a cultural mystery behind it?

Mummelet and omelette

It is very difficult to place cultural eggs in Bengali life. It is not known what happens if the girls hatch their eggs. However, the fact that eating eggs of pregnant women was forbidden in Bengali homes is still alive today. If we can look at eggs after all these gender differences, it will be seen that duck eggs were not as taboo in the home of Bengali Hindus as chicken eggs were. Calling chicken 'Rampakhi' and hanky panky over its meat and eggs was a casual affair in the Bengali Hindu hinterland.

Poultry hen's decadent flavored eggs did not enter the Bengali kitchen at that time. A sophisticated Bengali of Baligunji style used to eat dishi chicken eggs. In North Calcutta chicken is still a bratya.

Those days ended by the 1970s. But by that time, Dim's connection with Bengali has matured. Egg Dalna was the emergency menu of Bengali families at night, even if there was no egg in their daily meals. At that time, most Bengali families did not have a refrigerator. So Bengalis used to store eggs at home when they got a glimpse of hartal. Bread too. But the pairing of egg and bread is for the benefit of tea shops in Bedam Popular neighborhood. There, the sound of making an omelette by whisking eggs with a thin steel spoon in an aluminum glass was the catalyst for the adrenaline rush of the conversation. That word is associated with Bengali's struggling being.

Omelet is seen by Bengali in his own Keta. Not today's 'Bristow'-breed soft Spongebob-brand omelets. The omelette at the tea shop was thin, with brown edges. A mosaic of chillies and onion slices prevailed on his body. His name in Bengali Amdarbar was not 'Omelet' at that time. He was called 'Mamlet'. In many Bengali households, what was called 'dimvaja', is something outside of this omelette or mumlet culture.

Deep fried with double duck egg with onion-chili-ginger-cilantro in a black iron pan, the taste of that pada has disappeared after globalization. But that too when middle class-lower middle class families did not have 'fried eggs'. That item was served when the son-in-law came to the house for a while. Pooch was not that popular. Eggs were boiled only for Dalna cooking.

Egg stalks are amazing things. Once this special pada was cooked in a house and the neighborhood smelled. Even in middle-class homes, whole eggs could not be found in Dalna. Boiled eggs were cut in half to infuse the spices into the egg. The children of the house used to get only half of the eggs. Adults are whole. However, it is difficult to say what arrangement the girls had. There is a huge difference between the purpose of egg frying and egg frying.

Egg yolks are also edible. But if the son-in-law spends that night at the in-laws' house, then only the parata-egg dalnar fruit is eaten. These are the stories of unannounced in-law visits. Dim bratya on son-in-law's official visit. Goats used to play there, hilsa fish used to swim in the middle of the river of desire.

Did the Bengali casually take the egg forever? But eggs are essential in Bengali Sadh's Mughlai paratha! In the last three and a half decades, Bengalis have not chewed egg rolls! The night passers-by satiated their hunger by standing in front of the whole night shop of the bread-and-egg carbaree sitting on the roadside with the stove. Even today, the sound of round eggs sizzling in oil in a black frying pan is indelible in Bengali life.

The egg is the savior, the egg is Moses-Jesus. Again, in the long-distance train, the Bengali railwayman ate a boiled egg cut in half with a thread and sprinkled with light flour on it. Khurda Rose, Mughalsrai, Begusrai have been seen outside through the window. Bengali did not understand the importance of eggs there?

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Just as it is difficult to perceive the meaning of teeth when there are teeth, Bengalis did not understand the glory of eggs before the introduction of plastic eggs. Today a Bengali knows what happens when eggs are strained. But the fact that Dimvaja, Mummelt has gradually disappeared from the Bengali palate, replaced by Egg Scramble and Stuffed Omelet, will preserve the story of loss of self. No documentation left. The next generation will not be able to understand the difference between a mumlet and an omelette. Sadhe says, Bengali self-forgotten caste!