Your nasty experiences with PITHA?

[Zeeshan]

I love pitha!
I love to eat pitha!
I want to eat all the pithas of the world!
I AM PITHA!

Share your dirty stories with pitha.
Can't stop thinking about these following:

Warning:Rated R !!

Pitha home made cakes. Many kinds of pithas are made in Bangladesh. These are not part of the daily menu. They are served on special occasion such as receiving bridegrooms or brides, entertaining guests, and arranging special get together of family members, relatives or friends. Sometimes children or senior members of the family especially ask for pithas and accordingly, mothers or grandmothers make them. Pithas are of many different types. In some cases, neighbouring families jointly make pithas and use the occasion for chatting and having lunch or dinner together.
Most pithas are sweet and a few are hot. Some are made throughout the year but some are seasonal. Pithas of the winter season are the most delicious. Date juice and molasses from date juice and sugarcane are available in the winter. These are important ingredients of pithas that are loved by people of almost all regions of Bangladesh. The pitha season in Bangladesh starts in late autumn, when farmers procure paddy from the field.
In 1991, the Shishu Academy arranged an exhibition of pithas, where 106 categories of pithas were displayed. Pithas are popular all over the country and each area has its unique type of pithas. Sometimes the same pitha has different names in different areas. Some pithas are nationally known and familiar to all.

Full entry below

http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/P_0183.HTM

[Zeeshan]

Regional variation

Pithas vary considerably across the regions of the eastern Indian Subcontinent.
In Bangladesh and West Bengal


Bhapa Pitha.


While some pithas can be made any time of the year in Bengal (Bangladesh and Indian West Bengal), there are special pithas strongly associated with harvest festivals such as Nabanna (Bengali: নবান্ন nôbanno, lit. "new rice" or "new food") and the Poush parbon (the Poush festival). Pithas are often served with sweet syrups such as date tree molasses (Bengali: খেজুরের গুড় khejurer guṛ). Some of the most common pithas found in Bengal (both in Bangladesh and West Bengal) include the following:

• Chitui/chitoi piṭha
• তেলের পিঠা Teler piṭha (lit. "oil pitha")
• ভাপা পিঠা Bhapa piṭha (lit. "steamed pitha") or dhupi
• Pakan piṭha: fried
• পুলি পিঠা Puli piṭha: dumplings
• বেনি পিঠা Beni piṭha (lit. "braid pitha")
• দুধের পিঠা Dudher piṭha (lit. "milk pitha") or ভিজা পিঠা bhija piṭha (lit. "wet pitha")
• চন্দ্র পুলি Chôndro puli
• মুগের পুলি Muger puli
• দুধ পুলি Dudh puli
• Paṭi shapta
• Mug pakon
• Gokul
• Chui Pitha or Chutki Pitha (Traditional Old Dhaka Pitha)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitha

[Rifat]

Nice thread Zeeshan you got a good collection there, maybe someday you can open a shop in California and become the 53rd and 6th version of NYC...an easy way to make millions if you are really good at it huh.

[Rifat]

subhan Allah! I just realized how Rich and vast our(Bengali) culture is... Allahu Akbar!

[Rifat]

পাটিশাপ্টা ইয মাই অল টাইম ফেভারিট

[Maysun]

It seems the R stuff has got to Rifat

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by Rifat
পাটিশাপ্টা ইয মাই অল টাইম ফেভারিট

My favorite is fooler/nakshi pitha. Once I was eating it and it fell on cow-dung as in gobor, not to confuse with Gabor of hologram fame... and without breaking a beat i picked it up and ate it.

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by Maysun
It seems the R stuff has got to Rifat

Mia chup thaken. FB-te to likhlen you try pithas like 1 night stand but forget their name. /endidumbbait

[One World]

Yeah Chitoi instantly from the indigenous oven in the yard with hunted Parrot meat in a moonlit night.

[ReZ_1]

Nasty experience with pitha? _- none...
My fav pitha is pakwan,

[Zeeshan]

what did you do there? what what.... tell me what did you do there?

[Ajfar]

Originally Posted by Rifat
পাটিশাপ্টা ইয মাই অল টাইম ফেভারিট

Last year when I was in BD, I think I had at least 5-10 patishapta from bonoful every time I went out. BANGING! That's all I have to say.

[simon]

I am fond of pithas like naam ta ki jani ? it's chitoi pitha but having a bath on a rich sweet sauce made of gur+milk

btw, reading the title reminded me of a scene from "American pie 1 "