Stones in my Freezer?!

Let me frankly state that the thought of posting this up here didn't even occur to me until my husband pouted, did the elephant sniff and said:

Now you'll go put this up on The Times of London

SO, since I'm not going to waste such a sensible suggestion, let me tell you about the rocks in my freezer..

Breakfast at the Prasad's consists of biscuits and ginger chai every morning, come rain or shine. Now, in a land that can't do without teabags, Prasad managed to find a box of Tetley chai patti, which is passionately being consumed on a daily basis, sometimes even twice a day as one normally would in India. And it has to be ginger chai, or else it will be no chai, which is a terrifying thought for my husband. He simply cannot start his day without ginger chai and blames it on his health.

So when there was no ginger one morning, I conveniently made myself a microwave coffee - no gas, no crushing ginger, no waiting forever - hence, the convenience. But the husband takes no shortcuts with the most important meal of his day, even though the biscuits have been given the miss ever so often.. He goes down to a convenience store to get some inconvenient ginger, and lo and behold, there's ginger chai!

But then there's a mental battle that follows -

Where does the rest of the ginger go? Freezer/ fridge? Freezer/ fridge? Freezer/
fridge? .. Freezer, it is!

That's my version of it, in any case. To give him the benefit of the doubt, our refrigerator is a zhukna mat! model, i.e. fridge at the top with the freezer at the bottom. And I have actually seen Prasad deliberate on where any particular food item he has purchased has to be put away.

By the time I got to the freezer in the evening though, there was general concern and wonder on what these pieces of unidentifiable rock were doing in my freezer, when Prasad comes and asks me:

Is that not supposed to be there?

When I explained the difference between freezable food and non-freezable food, he very gleefully answered his own question, accidentally dropped some of the ginger rock on to the floor in all that excitement and exclaimed:

That sounded like a stone!

Hence, the title.