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00:00In some of the poorest parts of the country, still if you get good delicious food to eat,
00:07they will say it is very meatha.
00:09Now it could be a salty dish, it could be a dish involving not even a grain of sugar.
00:14Still to praise it, it would be said meatha.
00:17You see the reason, there was no sugar.
00:19Sugar was so scarce that sugar itself became the symbol of some kind of prosperity or abundance or goodness.
00:27If something is good, then it is sugary.
00:31So whatever is good is being carried down in culture as meatha, sugary.
00:35Those situations no longer exist.
00:37The situations of scarcity and yet we behave as if they do.

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