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>the Portuguese "pão" (bread) In India, the word pao or pav in street food / snacks like vada pav and pav bhaji, probably comes from the Portuguese. https://e
by fuzztester 3y ago
>the Portuguese "pão" (bread)
In India, the word pao or pav in street food / snacks like vada pav and pav bhaji, probably comes from the Portuguese.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vada_pav https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vada_pav
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pav_bhaji https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pav_bhaji
My favorite variant is khada pav bhaji, in which the vegetables are in chunks, not mashed.
- jghn 3y agoThat's interesting. I would have assumed they were cognate from PIE but it appears not.
- fuzztester 3y agoThe icing on the vada pav is the fried chillis, so to to speak.