ഞം ഞം
ഞം ഞം translates to nom nom in English, which is an alternative form of om nom nom.
I have been labelled a picky eater quite a few times, which is possibly true. I don’t eat certain kinds of food, and often had to stay hungry at almost all conferences and events because they don’t serve food I can eat.
People often say I should make a list of food I can eat. So I did.
perry’s yum and yuck ഞം ഞം list
last updated August 19
5 - yum 😋
- al faham
- banana
- beef pepperoni pizza
- chicken fry
- chicken nuggets
- chocolate mud cake
- kinnathappam
- potato fries
- red wine
4 - like 👍
- apple
- banana fritter/പഴം പൊരി/pazham pori
- beef fry
- beef liver
- black coffee
- carrot cake
- cheera/ചീര
- chicken cutlet
- chicken liver
- chicken pepperoni pizza
- chicken puffs
- chicken shawarma
- chickpeas and wet rice/പയർ കഞ്ഞി
- chickpeas/കടല
- chocolate cake
- cowpeas/വൻപയർ
- egg puffs
- kerala beef fry
- kerala parotta
- kozhukatta/കൊഴുക്കട്ട
- meat roll/chicken roll
- mixed fruit jam
- omelette
- raw banana chips
- rose matta rice
- seer fish fry/നെയ്മീൻ/neymeen
- sharkara upperi
- thiruvananthapuram boli/തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബോളി
- wheat bread
3 - meh 😐
- appam
- aviyal
- beef curry
- black tea
- bonda
- chappathi
- chicken burger
- chutney
- dosa
- duck roast
- ghee dosa roast
- green gram/ചെറുപയർ
- kichadi
- Kozhikode halwa
- mutton stew
- neyyappam
- pulisseri/പുളിശ്ശേരി
- puttu/പുട്ട്
- tapioca/കപ്പ
- undampori
- unniyappam
2 - yuck 🤢
- achappam
- almond
- beetroot
- black mustard seed/കടുക്
- bull’s eye/fried egg
- cashew
- chicken curry
- coconut
- ela ada
- fish curry
- fish fry
- fish molly
- ginger
- idiyappam
- idli
- Indian anchovy/നത്തോലി
- jackfruit
- kallappam
- kuzhalappam
- lasagna
- lentil/പരിപ്പ്
- mandi
- orange
- papadam
- pathiri
- payasam/പായസം
- pear
- pesaha appam
- pickle
- pineapple
- plum cake
- pork
- pumpkin
- rasam
- ripe banana chips
- salad
- sambar
- sukhiyan
- theeyal/തീയൽ
- thoran
- vattayappam
- vegetable burger
- vegetable puffs
1 - don’t even think about it ☠️
- biriyani
- cooked carrot
- ice cream
- lady’s finger/okra/വെണ്ടയ്ക്ക
- masala dosa
- milk and milk products
- onions
- peanut
- pungent food - anything that contains chilli pepper, pepper, capsicum
- tea or coffee (with milk)
- tomato
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Like many people I try to avoid eating from food chain businesses, especially those with ties to murderers in Israel and USA. Yes, I’m aware I eat meat and I do not fail to see the irony.
statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged (rant)
Sometimes, people ignore my allergies and food preferences and offer me food I can’t eat, such as tea with milk or biriyani. When I point out I can’t eat them, I’m offered friendly advice such as “get over it” or “stop showing off”.
Sometimes people comment on my food preferences.
do you have ulcer?
no.
what’s wrong with you?
no.
are you even from kerala?
yes.
what kind of indian are you even?
yes.
you should up your spice tolerance
no.
why you say you no like this food that food. remember children in north india die of hunger every day.
tell your mom to cook better food
fuck you.