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The sandwich might be well-bread or working class, white, brown or virtually black. Any which approach, it’s at all times filling, regardless of the filling. Let no toadie inform us that the Raj launched this frog into our pond, together with the Railways, the babu-cracy and the dak bungalow. Each tradition has its age-old model of carb encasing protein/veggie, although admittedly, the Empire helped ‘gobbalise’ it past its native shores. Crepe, pizza-base, puff-pastry, pita, paratha, tortilla, bun, bao, bap, any-grain wrap, every holds anything-goes from roast beef to refried beans. It may be halal, kosher, gluten-free, veg, vegan, pure Jain or pure cardiac arrest. Vada-pav, Jai ho! Bravo la burrito! And, bear in mind, the People instructed the Brits to ‘burger off’, that too at a really English ‘tea social gathering’ in Boston.
The skinny cucumber sandwich (at all times white bread, please) is the cliché of the ‘excessive tea’ to which each literate vacationer to Britain genuflects. Should you aren’t shuddh shakahari, you’ll add the ‘coronation rooster sandwich’, invented to rejoice that of Queen Elizabeth. The hordes who turned out in 1000’s would want one thing that could possibly be readily assembled and didn’t need to be served sizzling. It was additionally symbolic as a result of the chopped cooked rooster was smothered in mayo spiked with ‘Veeraswamy’s curry powder’.
Each time the following coronation occurs, there’ll be a staggering, and much spicier array of contenders, going by the multicultural ‘sandwiches’ to select from at London’s weekend markets. You can go dwelling hungry, unable to resolve from the ‘road meals’ of the world, dished out often by the corresponding immigrant. After agonising over this halloumi wrap, that bacon bap, and so forth and so forth, I lastly selected a loaded Venezuelan arepa, the crisp corn bread pocket full of shredded meat, beans and a chilli-sprinkled fried banana slice. However, hey, the adjoining ‘Baba-G’s Bhangra Burgers’ stall was doing brisker enterprise. Should you dare to know, it was a beef patty, ‘topped by an onion-bhajji and doused in tamarind and raita sauces’. Sikhening?
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