Put off by ‘puttu’, nine-year-old tears aside Kerala breakfast dish in class essay

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bengaluru-based Malayali IT engineers Soji Joseph and his spouse Diya have a three-acre plantain farm within the former’s hometown of Mukkam in Kozhikode. Whenever they return to their dwelling in Bengaluru’s Electronic City after visiting the farm each two weeks, they take bunches of ripe plantains with them. And Diya then makes ‘puttu’ on a regular basis to complete off the perishable plantains.

But little did they know that their nine-year-old son, Jais Joseph Soji, hated the Malayali staple breakfast, a lot in order that he wrote in his examination reply sheet that it was essentially the most hated meals he ever had. The third grader’s quick essay titled ‘Puttu breaks relationships’ has since gone viral on social media.

Soji and Diya make sure that their natural produce is distributed amongst their neighbours after coming back from their each go to to Mukkam and naturally ‘puttu-pazham’ mixture would hit the breakfast desk for just a few weeks till the inventory will get over. Jais, who research at SFS Academy, Bengaluru, is a foodie who prefers to have ‘appam’ and stew, and chappati and rooster curry for breakfast. No surprise he hates this ‘puttu-pazham’, which is straightforward for Diya to make in a jiffy. Diya advised TNIE that many a time, Jais makes a fuss when he sees it for breakfast.

“When he realises that I’m not going to budge, he eats it with a heavy heart and rushes to school. Since his answer sheet went viral, I have kept aside the ‘puttu’ maker for a few weeks. But Jais is not going to escape from ‘puttu’. Among plantains too, he prefers ‘robesta’ and Mysore ‘njalippoovan’,” mentioned Diya with a chuckle.

It was Jais’ English instructor, Sheeba Richard, who posted the kid’s reply sheet on the college journal which was shared by his father, Soji, on his Facebook account.

“Our school’s policy is to nurture our students’ potential. So, when I held the revision test for the third graders, Jais came up with an excellent short essay on the food he hated the most, ‘puttu’. I liked the way he weaved his piece,” mentioned Sheeba, a Mangaluru native.
 
Ever since, he has change into a sensation in his faculty. His elder sister, seventh grader Liz Maria Soji, and youthful brother, Chris Joseph Soji, are comfortable. And actor Unni Mukundan shared the put up on his Instagram account. Jais, who needs to
change into an astronaut in future, advised TNIE that his associates have been pestering him for his autograph.

“When I saw the question, it came naturally to me to write about ‘puttu’. I didn’t realise that my answer would hog the limelight,” mentioned Jais.