Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Nothing English about them
May 20, 2022 08:43 PM IST
When we call such vegetables as broccoli ‘English vegetables’, we forget that so many of our everyday staples such as cabbage, rajma, aloo, tomatoes and chillies also came to India via Europe
If you buy vegetables from a sabziwallah then you may have heard the term ‘English vegetables’. It is used to describe such vegetables as avocado, broccoli or asparagus. These are increasingly sold by fancy sabziwallahs who can’t find the Hindi (or any Indian language) name for them. So, they use the English names and describe them as ‘English vegetables.’
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