Woman cooks Maggi in milk and internet is angry: Are we overreacting?

01/4Love for Maggi is matchless

We love Maggi so much that it has ceased to exist as a brand for us. It is part of our childhood memories and a comfort food that we go back to, again and again. We are so possessive about it that when three years ago, in 2015, food safety regulators from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, reported that several samples of Maggi were found to have unexpectedly high levels of monosodium glutamate (which was actually 17 times the permissible limit), we were heartbroken, angry and incredulous! And when there was a nationwide ban on Maggi, we were not ready to believe that our ‘ideal’ comfort food could ever ditch us and that it all was a ‘conspiracy’. Maggi was eulogised in verses, celebrated in memories and talked about on social media as a love lost! This incident interestingly doubled up the popularity of Maggi. 

02/4Maggi in milk? Internet is puking!

We do not love, but we worship Maggi and no wonder when the video of sweet Maggi got viral, people took it personally and got offended. Internet was flooded with comments that were sometimes hilarious and even menacing and people were ready to puke on this Maggi made with milk and sugar. Originally posted on YouTube by Hemanshi’s World, this video became viral when it was tweeted by Desi Gooner on September 12. In the video, blocks of Maggi were broken into a simmering pan of milk to which water, condensed milk and rose petals were added. The final dish was somewhat like seviyan kheer and the YouTuber claims that this dish is a family favourite. 

03/4Everyone has a unique Maggi recipe

Are we too harsh on judging the YouTuber for putting milk in the noodles when we all have our own ways to make Maggi? Yes, she did add milk and it looked overtly unique, but there are so many of us who put whatever we like in our Maggi. We spoke to a number of Maggi lovers and this is what we found!

Kalpana Sharma, a journalist by profession, says she loves Maggi Pakora and also loves it when her cook adds Maggi to Sambhar. Gunjan Verma, an interior designer by profession says she likes to stuff Maggi and Eggs in capsicum and tomatoes. Fashion blogger Ankita Shukla says she likes to load Maggi with cheese and then fill it up in sandwiches. According to Navya Anand, a chef by profession, she deep fries Maggi and prepares Maggi Bhel and also Maggi Bonda. Other favourites that we found out from our readers were-Tadka Maggi, Dahi Maggi Chaat, Anda Maggi, Maggi Dosa, Maggi Pancake, Maggi Curry, Maggi Kadhi and even Maggi Bhajia!

04/4Rightfully angry, are we?

Adding milk and sugar was actually taking the experiment to far, but we do that in case of ‘Meri Maggi’, don’t we? We add our own favourites to it, the blogger added her own. Taste is a very personal thing and she has a right to prepare her Maggi the way she wants. We do add milk to our Soups, Sugar to our Dals and Curries and Garam Masala to our Chai! We even go gaga over experimental stuffs like Turmeric Latter, Butter Coffee, Tamatar ka Halwa and even Garlic Kheer. So why not let someone try Maggi kheer too?

‘Meri Maggi’ is an appellative we have taken too seriously and no wonder we are up in arms when we see any ruffle in our scheme of loving our very own Maggi. Our love is blind when it comes to Maggi but although the spurt of internet messages were hilarious, but were at the cost of the YouTuber who shared her personal recipe. Lets not judge her and lets not stop experimenting, after all our ‘Meri Maggi’ is hers too!