AP: Grocery Store Owner Shocked To See Mango-shaped Egg, Decides To Showcase It During Ugadi Festival
To make sure he wasn't dreaming, he decided to compare the egg to a mango - Sathi Babu realised later that the egg in the mango shape was actually an egg. It was shaped exactly like the king of fruits.
Summer season is here and the only good thing it brings is mangoes! The scorching heat can only be tolerated if we get to eat some delicious juicy mangoes along with a chilled glass of thick mango shake. However, have you ever seen a mango that looks like mango but actually isn't a mango at all? Confused? So were we!
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But this incident from Andhra Pradesh will shock you and make you wonder if things are what they look like.
Ugadi is the Telugu festival of mangoes in the summer, and it marks the beginning of a new year for the people. But this time, an egg is participating in the festival too. How? Because it looks just like a mango!
Now, we are used to seeing eggs in either white or brown colours, but this, we bet, you wouldn't have ever seen before. The owner of a grocery store in Pithapuram in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh was surprised to see an egg that looked like a mango on Madhapuram Street.
To make sure he wasn't dreaming, he decided to compare the egg to a mango - Sathi Babu realised later that the egg in the mango shape was actually an egg. It was shaped exactly like the king of fruits.
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Upon hearing the news, people flocked to the kirana shop to see the mango-like egg. Even the grocery store owner was confused about whether it was a mango or an egg.
So, taking advantage of the popularity due to its weird shape, the store owner decided to get the mongo-shaped egg in the fray during the Ugadi festival. After all, starting a new year on a hilarious note is a good thing.
For the uninitiated, the Ugadi festival is the beginning of the Telugu New Year. People celebrate the festival of Ugadi by indulging in delicacies and also by drinking ¡®Pachhada,¡¯ a mixture of six tastes including sweet, hot, vinegar, bitter, and so on.
The famous festival is also known as Samvatsar¨¡di and is the New Year's Day for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka in India. It is festively observed in these regions on the first day of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Chaitra.
The name 'Ugadi' originated from two Sanskrit words, 'Yuga' and 'Adi', translating to a new beginning. The vibrant festival of Ugadi is celebrated to welcome abundance, prosperity, and happiness in the new year.
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