Flying Rice

We were at a Mama's daughter's house eating a rice & lamb dish. Traditionally you eat it with your right hand. You pull off a piece of meat and roll up your rice and meat in a ball and then you move it onto your thumb and push it into your mouth with touching any of your hand to your mouth.

Well after we'd been eating a while we were trying to flick the balls of rice and meat into our mouths like tossing up popcorn. Well, that got boring so we started trying to toss them into to each other's mouths.

So the first time we tried it a buddy tossed it to me. As soon as it left his hand it fell apart. So instead of a ball of rice flying up in the air, a wave of rice and lamb flew up above my head.

Naturally, I ducked out and move. Well Mama was behind me and was showered with rice and lamb.

So there stands Mama covered in rice. Oh the shame! You could have heard a pin drop. We were freaking out! We began apologizing like crazy. "Oh, Mama, we are so sorry. We will clean up the mess, don't worry."

The first thing out of Mama's mouth is, "no, you have to put a little bread in the ball and it will make it stick together better."

It is great. I love Mama. She understands us.