How much do you know about Brahmins?Let me tell you there are times when the priests do this to Brahmins as well.This particular thing may be peculiar to castes in Kerala but I as a brahmin and of high status can tell you that I hasd similar experience in Varanasi when I was a kid! If you think that Priests represent the entire Brahmin community then you are extremely wrong. The local priest in the temple while visting my home commented something which was not in right taste.I am a brahmin but not the priest class but the old rular class.And I tell you about my all the parentage it will baffle you. Priests are different catogory of Brahmins.