Published 16:42 IST, September 20th 2021
Anand Mahindra's message on Kellogg's Upma meme strikes a chord with netizens
Anand Mahindra shared a meme about Kellogg's, an American global food manufacturing firm and how it adapted to Indian market over the years.
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Business tycoon Anand Mahindra is quite famous for sharing entertaining, informative, witty as well as funny pictures and videos with his followers on social media. Continuing with trend, Mahindra Group Chairman took to Twitter on Sunday, September 19 to share a meme about Kellogg's, an American global food manufacturing firm, and how it evolved over years since its inception in Indian market. Kellogg's came to India more than a dece ago intending to change Indians' breakfast habits by introducing a variety of cereals, most famous of which being Corn flakes. Realizing that such items do not appeal to Indian palates, American company resorted to Upma, a desi breakfast. viral meme shows Kellogg's Upma stacked on a shelf with caption, "Kellogg’s came to India challenging that y will change breakfast habits of all Indians. 10 years later, this happened."
Notably his post was quick to grab netizens' attention. As of now, it has garnered more than 12,000 likes as well as over 1,200 RTs and numbers are only increasing. Besides, it has also accumulated a number of reactions from people. Reacting to meme, one of users wrote, "Our recipes have evolved over 1000s of years. A new recipe can't just parrop and take over like hollywood movie [sic]." "People from West always come up with some colonization mindest but later on y do learn ir lesson in India [sic]," wrote anor. In reality, it is impossible for an Indian to leave "Ma ke hat ka khana" which his/her mor has been cooking for his/her entire childhood. We don't eat just food. We eat sentiments [sic]," expressed a third.
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Image: Twitter/ @Anand Mahindra/PTI
16:42 IST, September 20th 2021