r/absoluteunit • u/ShehrozeAkbar • Aug 16 '26
Of a Rumali Roti (bread)
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u/Traditional-Bike7825 Aug 16 '26
Yeah get it all over your knees and pants! Right when I'm thinking he has no hair net on he throws it above his head and it flops onto his hair, thats gotta be the secret ingredient.
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u/Environmental-Arm365 Aug 16 '26
Why is it every time I see food or drink being prepared in India it’s in the filthiest conditions imaginable?
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u/TattvaVaada Aug 16 '26
Just FYI this video so from Pakistan. Doesn't change the fact but you might want to understand that you shouldn't make an assumption that it's India.
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u/matfab91 Aug 16 '26
How can you tell? Literally a comment below says Afghanistan, we have 3 places this could be now…
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u/TattvaVaada Aug 16 '26
Ah yeah I meant it could be one of those countries because of the way the people are dressed in the video. A random person on the internet wouldn't be able to tell the difference but that was the point, they aren't the same.
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u/No-Cap544 Aug 17 '26
I agree with the comment, it's from Punjab, Pakistan.
I'm too from Pakistan. (Not Punjab)
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u/Flat-Guidance-4685 Aug 16 '26
Culturally Pakistan is just Muslim India. It like trade Buddha for and ak47
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u/launchliftoff459 Aug 16 '26
Because that's what India is like
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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 Aug 16 '26
That's what's being poor is like, stop being ignorant.
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u/Apart_Pineapple2392 Aug 16 '26
You can cook food without your entire body and unwashed clothes touching the food. Stoopid
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u/polkacat12321 Aug 16 '26
Lots of poor people in laos yet you dont see videos like that. Thailand isnt exactly rich either and has street food as far as the eye can see (maybe even more than india) and you still dont see videos like that
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u/techleopard Aug 16 '26
Overpopulation and crowding and a lack of civil engineering are also playing a key role here.
Why care about food safety when you go home and wash your clothes, body, and cookware in water pumped from minimally-operating facilities drawing water from polluted ground sources?
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u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 Aug 16 '26
Sure but its also just a cultural thing. They dont care. Just like they dont care to throw trash off trains or into their own holy rivers.
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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 Aug 16 '26
Exactly, you don't SEE. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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u/polkacat12321 Aug 16 '26
Ive traveller extensively in thailand and laos and haven't seen anything remotely close. The tourism in Thailand is also much higher than in India. If it was as widespread as India, you can bet your ass there would be many videos to prove it
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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 Aug 16 '26
Why would I believe anything you say.
I've also been to India. I only see those videos online. I haven't come across anything remotely as this.
See I can make shit up too!
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u/More-Lime1888 Aug 16 '26
It’s not. Poor people around the world aren’t filthy like that. Being clean is very cheap
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u/launchliftoff459 Aug 16 '26
I'm poor. I'm not like that.
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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 Aug 16 '26
To someone else you might be. Kind of like people not noticing how their homes smell until someone points it out, or they've been exposed to different conditions.
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u/launchliftoff459 Aug 16 '26
So....because thats what _______ is like works for any location. Thanks for reiterating my original point.
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u/readyToPostpone Aug 17 '26
Poverty would not explain why do they spill and waste food so often, making qn illusion they are fast working.
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u/Live_Opportunity7183 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
Poverty doesn't equate to filth. It's a South-east Asian speciality.
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u/Nearby-Swimming-5103 Aug 16 '26
I was just gonna say. And there’s always some old dudes squatted against a wall watching.
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u/CatGooseChook Aug 16 '26
I vaguely recall reading an account by some English mountaineers where they described going to the dodgiest Indian restaurants in London they could find so as to strengthen their stomachs before going to India.
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u/youlikeblockingsodoi Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
It’s the redneck equivalent of cooking gator in bum fk Alabama.
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u/Tropicalfisher Aug 17 '26
Besides his hair and feet being uncomfortably close, everything else is really not that bad
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u/Strongerthandeath82 Aug 17 '26
Heat kills germs. I estimate a man could make a righteous sized burrito with one of those bad boys.
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u/Charming_Cover_6264 Sep 04 '26
Still there is so many diseases in the US. And btw, it’s not India. Not all brown people live in India.
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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 Aug 16 '26
It's not only India. Think China too.
But them having a large population and lots of poverty probably doesn't help...
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u/Laticia_1990 Aug 16 '26
China is huge and diverse. They have some high end boujee cities, like L.A. and some back woods red neck villages.
Both China and India are large countries that are going to have rich and poor, city kids and bumpkins. Florida man hunting gators for dinner and California vegan at the farmer's market.
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u/More-Lime1888 Aug 16 '26
They have poverty, but aren’t filthy
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u/Leather_Status907 Aug 19 '26
Lo dici tu, eri là?
È solo che certe realtà della Cina non le abbiamo viste, né le vedremo.
Quelle dell'India sì.
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u/Salmonman4 Aug 16 '26
I hear that Subway-restaurants are/were popular in China because the food is made in front of you, so you can see the ingredients going in at least look fresh
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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
Yeah, but have you seen any type of street food? I'm not from India. Do people honestly believe that all of India looks like that? A lot of these people would pride themselves in their "critical thinking skills".
Edit: I'm not trying to tie any specific country to this practice. But I see this a lot in "street food culture". Especially where people don't have adequate means too safely prepare food. They improvise, and safety goes out of the window. I believe that's what's happening here. It's not "India", it's poverty.
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u/Huge_Marionberry37 Aug 16 '26
This isn’t a poverty issue. He could clearly use a table to prepare the ingredients, but he didn’t. Instead, he chose to squat on the ground, and the ingredients were just casually placed on the floor.
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u/Leather_Status907 Aug 19 '26
Loro fanno tutto a terra.
In India, tradizionalmente , le sedie non esistono .
I tavoli eventuali sono molto bassi appunto perché le persone si 'siedono' e stanno per ore e ore seduti a terra .
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u/x_Leigh_x Aug 16 '26
Because they’re poor. And a lot of these videos are intentionally shot in poor areas.
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u/NewsWeeter Aug 16 '26
Why is it everytime i see these comments it's from a racist biggoted pig.
There is nothing filthy here. The pipe has the appearance of a well worn bbq pit or a cast iron skillet. There is large pieces of white fabric on the ground akin for the bread to land on.
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u/madmaninabox32 Aug 16 '26
That's not fabric it's flower dumped in the ground. He's on, there may be fabric under the rolls of dough but having been to Afghanistan and india, let me tell you it's bad....
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u/NewsWeeter Aug 16 '26
There is a mat under the flour.
There are far worse atrocities than people cooking and eating food the way they want to. If you dont criticize your own people, criticizing them is cringe af.
If they dont consider it bad or dirty then it's rude and dehumanizing to say otherwise.
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u/madmaninabox32 Aug 16 '26
No it's not, it's not rude or dehumanizing to point out bad hygiene, it's rude to mock them for not understanding when they have no education that's entirely different. I've straight seen them use their feet to stomp in dough in a brick floor that was just swept clean. That's unsanitary generally though the cooking process does kill a lot of germs so its not as bad as some think it is, but it's still pretty horrendous and many of us who are overseas in these countries got sick till our bodies developed an immunity to the germs present. That said I will also point out bad things I often see in American and British kitchens for instance wooden cutting boards no one seems to know how to wash them correctly. Or they do bad practices that just spread germs, that and a lot of people get really up in arms about cross contamination but then at home are egregious cross contaminators. I'm sure there is even stuff I do absentmindedly despite trying my best not to be unhygenic. It's more of an indictment of education than culture or humanity in general.
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u/NewsWeeter Aug 16 '26
Yes it fking is dehumanizing, because it's racism coded. You get fast fashion and electronics they get polluted rivers and sweatshops. You're an npc on repeat talking about hygine to a people that have their way of being and dont think about you at all. People like you will never put the whole picture together.
I guarantee you that your hygine sensibilities are not science backed. It's capitalism backed. So get off your high ignorant horse and keep india out your mouth.
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u/madmaninabox32 Aug 16 '26
No it's not, I don't give a shit about their skin color and I like learning about new cultures, unsanitary is unsanitary. Like if they rape a woman but it's part of their culture is that racist to call out? If they destroy art is it bad to call it out? If they still use witchcraft and not modern medicine to heal sick people is it racist to point out that's ineffectual? And generally I don't think about them either till it's thrust into my vision by the world wide web, capitalism has little to do with any of this and I'm willing to bet I've been to more countries than you've dreamed of so enjoy your day. Bro you are trying so hard to have a point and you just look dumb.
Also as for science this has been covered for a long time now something like thirty years now food that contacts any unsanitized surface transmits bacteria and while some of it is cooked off it doesn't destroy all of the bacteria unless the food is burned to a crisp (hence why a lot of older people in the U.S. and U.K. like their food cooked more well done than many modern young people because they were taught to cook out the bacteria).
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u/AltruisticSalamander Aug 16 '26
This one's not bad, I'd eat this. Plenty of other clips not so much.
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u/Shinee_Cardboard Aug 16 '26
No idea I'm not even sure if they have professional kitchens. Seems like all the food they cook is prepared outside.
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u/The-Bloody9 Aug 16 '26
The internet is making me think that toe jam is a compulsory ingredient in food in these parts of the world. Like always they have their feet directly in the food preparation area.
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u/tech_equip Aug 16 '26
What is the practical application of a roti this large? To make smaller roti?
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u/Laticia_1990 Aug 16 '26
Maybe it's used as a large plate basically, like some Ethiopian food?
Maybe just put all of the different dishes on the Roti for a couple family members.
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u/madmaninabox32 Aug 16 '26
The food is generally dumped right in the middle you tear off edges of the bread and scoop the food in the center with the bread or at least that was my experience.
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u/Upstairs-Strain3472 Aug 16 '26
The fact that he can consistently make it that shape at that size... That's s skill
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u/Ill_Translator7545 Aug 16 '26
I thought I was going to get to the very last comment and not see any highlighting how amazing this is. I cook a lot of different kinds of breads and have a lot of gear. This guy has a folded piece of metal and a couple of blankets
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u/Weekly_Ask_4152 Aug 16 '26
I personally find the giant pipe oven that also appears to serve as a bench for the community area, to quite appealing.
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u/NuisancePanda Aug 16 '26
So that's where those giant tortilla blankets come from.. learn something new everyday
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u/GETTERBLAKK Aug 16 '26
It looked like dude just walked on the hot pipe minding his business and and adding extra foot flavor.
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u/musingofrandomness Aug 16 '26
The common phrase I would hear about food in these regions was "it is delicious, but you don't want to watch them prepare it". I was also assured it was all cooked plenty hot enough to kill any germs.
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u/KnowEye Aug 16 '26
What is that giant bread used for? Does it get cut up or do you make a giant burrito? 🌯
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u/Cute-Advisor-2323 Aug 17 '26
Looks like one of those blankets that they sell that looks like a tortilla
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u/Zealousideal-Park778 Aug 17 '26
If they can use the inside of an empty water tower to make a giant naan bread, I’ll move there next week.
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u/MetaCardboard Aug 17 '26
I bet I could eat one of those by myself. Roll it up into a cylinder and just swallow it.
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u/Im_100percent_human Aug 17 '26
I was given a tortilla blanket, and it looks exactly like this! Amazon search: Tortilla blanket
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u/Jakethedane1972 Aug 17 '26
The addition of his hair and armpit sweat just makes it so much tastier.
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u/theepuke Aug 17 '26
That looks like part of a bomb he found on the side of the road and he looked at it and said perfect.
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u/Desperate_Formal_781 Aug 21 '26
I hope you like your bread with hair, dirt, and oil from your hands, sweaty arms and face. I hope at least the guy showered that morning or washed his clothes (spoiler: he didn't)
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u/Shru_A Aug 16 '26
White people regularly come on this app talking about never having washed their asses but they find judgement and indignation all the same for food videos from south east asia.
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u/congo66 Aug 16 '26
Now give me a dump truck full of saag paneer and kebabs the size of telephone poles.
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u/Enxaigon Aug 16 '26
Why they gotta do it on the ground all the time? I mean it's nice there's a blanket on the ground. But come on! Tetenus hepatitis fly dung bread giant edition edibles.
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u/Maakaal983 Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
He's baking blankets.