Curdistan - the Happiest Place in Universe

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(in light of the World Happiness Index and the unsocial media outrage over what to call certain milk products, first posted March 2023)

 

Jai Ho! Honorable MEA has already opined,

Foolish rankings occupy feeble phoren minds.

Lactose-intolerant, feeling low, quite butthurt.

With matters that matter... this slimy yoghurt.

The entire notion is patently absurd,

Taking perfectly good milk, turn it into curd.

No, just NO! It's thayir. Quit stalling.

No dahi! Hands off, STOP! Says MJ Stalin.

It's thayer, naysayer, you stupid hindiwalla!

We don't want dahi. Never! In Kerala.

Kadu! Kadu! perugu, perugu, perugu, 

A thousand times! My brother, in Telugu. 

In Carnatic music, we sing of mosaru

All together now! ellaru ellaru!!

Add doi to papod & mishti with meals.

In Kolkata, for parfect kalcharal feels.

Iogurte, Joghurt, jogurtti and yaourt,

тараг, said Genghis, sitting in his yurt.

γιαούρτι to Zorba, and to the rest of barbaricus,

It's just plain Lactobacillus bulgaricus.

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