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This meal trend is taking over Sri Lankan social media-by ChriShalle Shalini Source:Dailymirror 2022 has been the year of cutting back. Cutting back on the little joys life has to offer. For many young people, Sri Lanka’s severe economic crisis meant that they had to forego casual meet-ups with friends and cut back on their comfort food deliveries. Why? Everything is double the price! Over the last few months, however, one of Sri Lanka’s traditional ways of packing meals with a banana leaf, better known by its native name “Kesel Kole Bath ‘, has been making regular appearances on social media, with a new twist. Packing a meal in a banana leaf has been an ancient practice followed in the food culture of Sri Lanka. Over the last few months, videos of at least five individuals serving and eating together on banana leaves began to circulate virally on social media ...