sukku kaapi

This morning, I had my first experience of sukku kaapi.

I have heard of this weird sounding thingy before and finally I thought of having a go at it. And one of my saapattu goshtee members ordered it for me.

So, there I was waiting for this exotic sounding concoction to be served and the vendor handed over a steaming paper cup full of it.

The first thing that hit me was the color. It was WHITE. I like my coffee to be in the spectrum between dark brown and black. And the thing here was like white.

I was going to ask the vendor to add some more 'decoction' to get some color and thats when my sangam members intervened. Having seen quite a bewildered look on my face, they understood what I was looking for.

Then they started explaining the whole concept of sukku kaapi to me. I found out that in sukku kaapi one only gets sukku and absolutely no kaapi. Apparently, to make this liquid syrup, one just boils milk, adds sugar and a spoon or so of this sukku stuff. After this they leave it to the drinker's capacity to gulp it down (or keep staring at it like i did for some time).

I mean, if you are calling a beverage as some kaapi then why the bleep dont you add kaapi in it? I dont want to hear the 'there is no mysore in mysore bonda' story for this - at least there is no mysore but there is bonda. not the case in sukku kaapi, where you get sukku and no kaapi.

So after a long stare at the cup which didnt help bring in any form of caffeine in it, I decided to drink the damn thing, at least for its inherent medicinal benefits.

Needless to add, thats the only reason one must ever drink that potion.

I now wonder and hope that Neeluking clarifies, can I file a PIL for bringing in a name change for this beverage? Meaning, if they call something as 'something kaapi' i damn well expect to see kaapi in it. Same logic for other such food stuff with contradictory names.