I was having my favorite murungakkaai poricha kozhambu on Saturday. While I was having one of the many refills of the same, I looked at my plate and saw all the left over pieces of murungakkaai.
It looked like a scene from the movies where some character gobbles up a pile of chicken and leaves out the bones on the plate.
As usual, the eureka gong sounded in my head.
We call murungakkaai as Drumstick. Drumstick is also a cooked part of the leg of chicken or any fowl for that matter (ref here). Sheer coincidence?
Or probably, we vegetarians call it drumstick, to satiate our desire of eating non-veg without actually eating it. On the lines of naming dishes as "aamai vadai" or "palli dosai" etc...
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With Murungakkai claimed to have aphrodisiac powers, by many experts including Bhagyaraj, I am sure that Dr. Prakash will have an altogether different analogy for the term "drumstick".
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