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our society has historically been poor, for centuries at end but only recently in the past 30 odd years, "wealth" has seen our doors and that has somehow change
by 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
our society has historically been poor, for centuries at end but only recently in the past 30 odd years, "wealth" has seen our doors and that has somehow changed the whole scenario.
in the past, when no one had any money, cooking oil was a luxury and having oily food was a public display of your "considerable wealth so many generations grew around the notion of "oily food is a status symbol".
fast forward it to today coming from the last 30 years, when everyone could now afford cooking oil, the idea in the minds of old people stuck around.
we still find the old generation in offices and shops eat "oily food" because their wives at home who prepare the food still imagine if "someone sees non-oily food that they would think they are poor".
i personally know people who have become obese and developed related diseases because of being fed "extra oily food" during their lunch-tiffin.
- selimthegrim 4y agoAre haakh, lotus root, kohlrabi (sorry forgot words for the last two) still considered poor people food?
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoNope. Haakh has historically been associated with good income because it was never cheap. Haakh-batte is sign of good fortunes even if people might indicate they are not. Lotus roots are like 300-350 inr /kg. That is more expensive than chicken which is around 200 and cottage cheese (pander) which is also at around 250. Lotus roots is called nadru (nadur) while the last one I can't place. Potatoes are very cheap, food for the masses. Like 20/kg. And it has been there for ever. Onions and tomatoes get seasonal price hikes but they are also generally affordable. I am talking about a time when Kashmiris used to have meat once a year and that was not some 200 year old story but just 50 short years ago. The oil was being bought at the quantity of 50-100ml on a daily/weekly basis because no one could afford a litre or 5 of it at once. (Til veain) or oil sellers used to sell oil like currently our milk retailers do.
- selimthegrim 4y ago> while the last one I can't place Munj, apparently
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agomonji-haakh are a single dish so they are counted together as such edit: while there is still a lot "confusion" of what the western name of our local "haakh" is, we have settled at kale for now because the pictures suggest it is similar to that species. so haakh=kale and monji=kale roots/stems. the potato shaped roots
- selimthegrim 4y agoYou don’t have word for ganth gobi?