Cassava is a tropical plant with starchy roots from which tapioca is obtained. Tapioca is in fact a starchy substance in the form of hard white grains and is used for making puddings. Do you ever wonder how tapioca cake is made? ( Of course you don't.) (No, they do not grow on trees.) Well, today's your lucky day.
First of all, Maniam will plough the ground. (Note : Maniams have potential to become future ground-ploughers). Then, the stalks will be pushed into the ground (I think). After some attentive nurturing from our caring Maniam, the cassava plant will grow leaves. When the plants are big and mature enough, Maniam will proceed to pull them out, thus ending their short and unproductive lives. ( Maniam usually has to fight back tears to do this task, it saddens her so, sniff!) After that, the roots, or better known as tapioca, will be cut off from the stalks.
The lorry will then take the roots to the factory. (The lorry here refers to a particular lorry. THAT lorry will be the only one to ferry the roots to the factory. Note : the same also applies to the factory) At the factory, the workers will remove the skin of the tapioca. After that, they will clean the roots. (No, they don't use soap as a matter of fact). The roots are then dried under the hot sun. ( No again, the roots do not have to apply sun-screen to protect themselves from damage caused by UV rays). After having a tan under the sun, the workers will crush the roots by putting them (the roots, not the workers) in the machine. The machine makes the roots into flour. Finally, workers put the flour into bags, grain by grain.
An unsuspecting and innocent housewife will then buy the flour and mix the ingredients together to bake a yummy tapioca cake only to be gobbled up by Melissa in one go. "Wunnerful" ending to a "factual" story, don't you think? =)