I don't like spicy stuff. I don't like anything that's a bit higher on the 'hot' side. Yet there is this snack - roasted peanuts in a hot green chilly sauce and dried. It's really, really spicy. If you hold a bunch of these peanuts near your nose, you will sneeze. It has a spicy smokiness about it whose fumes make your cough.

I LOVE them. Weird, but true. They are not all peanuts actually. Few types of lentils are also thrown into the mixture and the tattling sound it makes when I chew, is another enjoyment.

It's not very popular snack for obvious reasons but it still has its own market. I happen to know a woman who makes this at home in bulk and sells it to local bakeries and other middle men. As per her, this particular snack is mostly served in a lot of street side bars which bear names like - "Sri Venkateshwara Wine Shap" or "Rama's bar". Yes, its 'shap' and not 'shop'. Most of these bars aren't the kind of establishment one would have seen in television. It looks like a grocery store which sells alcohol.

Anyway, the said snack is supposedly a favorite amongst those who drink chilled bear. Along with onion. And potato chips. It didn't make sense to me before and it doesn't now either but that's what I came to know.

Not fascinating but it made me look up overall alcohol consumption in the state and the atrocious spellings the names the shops carry.