Remember when south Indian Twitter users rose to defend the idli after a British professor put out a less than charitable opinion on the food? The same people may find themselves deeply divided now. As a mystifying image featuring idlis … on a kulfi stick surfaced on Twitter. It was initially unclear which restaurant has come up with this polarising innovation, but it was supposed to be somewhere in Bengaluru. Then it was claimed that Colombo Idli House in Bengaluru is behind the innovation. The manager told TNM that they have no such product on the menu and someone had posted a picture attributing it to them. "We got many calls, we have written to Google asking for help to remove the post wrongly attributing us."
Well, so it's not Colombo Idli House that's serving stick idlis, but whoever it is they have got the internet divided.
And no, it’s not sweetened. It’s just idlis in a different shape. On a stick. That’s it.
Bengaluru, India’s innovation capital can’t stop its creativity from manifesting itself in the most unexpected areas… Idli on a stick—sambhar & chutney as dips…Those in favour, those against?? pic.twitter.com/zted3dQRfL
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) September 30, 2021
Unsurprisingly, there are those who are furiously offended on behalf of idlis while some are a little more open to the idea. Others just want to know why!
Never thought a day would come to see our beloved idli on a stick :( https://t.co/rFp0gQpWwG
— Dinesh Unnikrishnan (@Dinesh_Unni) October 1, 2021
That idli on a stick is an abomination. And should be banned immediately.
— Ajay Kamath (@ajay43) October 1, 2021
Creative like a hell! https://t.co/oUM2TjnJkx
— Teena Sree Tejaswini (@tejaswini_teena) October 1, 2021
Which monster did this?! Not with Idli....
— masaladosaikaapi (@SubhaRamz10) September 30, 2021
NOT WITH IDLI!!!!!!!!
I mean, this should be a cardinal sin...
https://t.co/JCTUlMEg2q
After ruining sambar, Bengloor fellows are coming after idlis now? https://t.co/jCHXy50hL7
— Stop the Gaustapo (@atlasdanced) October 1, 2021
There are quite a few ayes, the ones who feel it's just an idli.
What a brilliant innovation! After #ThattuIdli and #TumblerIdli now comes #KuchiIdli! (A Bangalore innovation according to whatsapp!) Karnataka is indeed the Idli capital of the world ️ pic.twitter.com/ByOEYVNC89
— Avtar Dr Saundarya Rajesh (@SaundaryaR) September 30, 2021
That idli on a stick is still an idli, can be dipped in either sambar & chatni separately...hasn't been destroyed like that fanta omlette. Would definitely eat it.
— Kavya ಕಾವ್ಯ (@kavyasvoice) October 1, 2021
ngl seems like a good way to eat idli. felt the same weirdness with cakesicles. once you try it you're like "oh cool, it works"
— No (@RootKanal) October 1, 2021
Questions of the day:
An edible stick could add extreme innovation. After partial consumption from top of the Idli, it may be difficult to dip any more in case just leftover (Sambhar and Chutney). https://t.co/KsyFbHifHQ
— सुखराम (@sukhram_jmp) September 30, 2021
What do you suppose came first? The idli or the stick? I mean did they steam the idli with the stick or did they stick the stick in the idli after they'd steamed it? https://t.co/c3LLACd0wT
— Jyoti Singh (@synchronise1857) October 1, 2021
Where will this end?? https://t.co/s1VITvbqbd
— Sir Bumraaaaaaah!!!!! (@Ibleed_sarcasm) October 1, 2021
The only question is, Why??? https://t.co/ZMGOGqHiHk
— Dhananjayan (@Im_Dhananjayan) October 1, 2021
We are yet to ascertain if there is indeed a restaurant somewhere in Bengaluru with this unusual offering, but whoever they are they should know they have set off a feud on Twitter. Meanwhile a chef name Minal Badheka has claimed that she is the inventor of the idli on a stick.