There is an old man in Sri Lanka who has a daughter who is already married. One day, he planned to visit his daughter's house to see how her life was going.
When the daughter saw her father coming to visit her, she entertained him with all her heart. The daughter made her father comfortable and ran to the kitchen to grind rice flour with water to make cakes. This cake is so delicious. The old man was very satisfied with the meal, so he asked his daughter: "What is the name of this cake?" The daughter replied: "Sweet rice cake."
After eating and drinking, the old man said goodbye to his daughter and hurriedly Go home. In order not to forget the name of the cake, he kept mumbling: "Sweet rice cake, sweet rice cake."
Every time he met an acquaintance, he would say "hello" as usual. , but also add the sentence "Sweet rice cake, sweet rice cake".
Walk faster, faster! The old man walked faster and faster, but his steps became more and more chaotic. Suddenly, his toe touched a stone, and the pain made him scream: "Ouch, my toe! My toe!" But he did not rest. After a break, he continued on his way with bumpy steps. From time to time he would stop and rub his feet, murmuring, "Toes, toes, toes." Unconsciously, he changed "sweet rice cake" to "toes."
Finally, he finally returned home. Before he could sit firmly on the chair, he hurriedly said to his wife: "Our daughter made me very delicious 'toes', which is a specialty of their village. It's really delicious. Go quickly." Make me some."
"What is a 'toe'?" said the old woman, "I have never heard of such a thing in my life!"
"You! What a good wife! I'm in my early sixties and I haven't tasted the 'toes' you made. Your daughter has even made it, but you haven't even heard of the name. You can't say it. !”
The old woman became anxious and raised her voice: “We have lived together for so many years, and I have never heard you say anything nice. You are so nagging! Annoying! No matter what I do for you, you are not satisfied. Do you have any conscience? You old man..." The old man became angry and yelled: "Old witch, you Get out of here!" The old couple became more and more violent, and their shouts and curses alerted the surrounding neighbors. People came to watch the excitement. A neighbor saw the old woman quarreling and said, "Hey! Look at her mouth, it's like a sweet rice cake!"
The old man was overjoyed and shouted: "That's it, that's it!" I'm talking about 'sweet rice cakes'!"