The way to any person’s heart is through their stomach. And what better than ‘desi food‘ to impress your special someone. While some make the grave mistake of calling Indian food terrible, people around the globe appreciate the diverse flavors in our various cuisines.
Recently, US Senator Elizabeth Warren was asked to name her favorite Indian dish, reports Indian Express. The senator’s unusual response to this simple question was tweeted by campaign reporter Zohreen Shah, who was unsure about the name of the dish. She requested her followers to help her find the Indian dish that the senator was referring to.
Have a look at her Tweet:
.@ewarren is asked about her favorite Indian food at @vicenews' #BrownandBlack forum:
"It's like big tapioca. And you serve it with daal!" she says.
If you know what she’s referring to, feel free to chime in.
— Zohreen Shah (@Zohreen) January 20, 2020
Tapioca is a starch extracted from the storage roots of the cassava plant and is commercially processed and sold as a soluble powder, rectangular sticks, coarse flakes, or spherical pearls.
However, the weird combination of tapioca and dal has left ‘desi users’ confused. Have a look at some of the wild guesses for the name of the Indian dish:
https://twitter.com/RamdasSunder/status/1219816488447512576?s=20
Almost positive she means papadam b/c it looks kinda like Indian tapioca chips, but bigger.
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) January 21, 2020
Boondi raita pic.twitter.com/13qnMy5ioL
— Manish Vij (@manish_vij) January 20, 2020
Lol there is nothing like that in desi cuisine. Maybe she was referring to Gulab Jamun with the syrup as “daal?” Maybe she was referring to kardhi with the pakore as “tapioca?” Or maybe she had some sort of Taiwanese-Indian fusion dish lmao
— Rahul Sinha🧢☂️ (@RahulSinha95) January 20, 2020
I don't really know what Tapioca is. Google says it's some starch that goes into kheer, which confuses me further. How does that go with daal?
— Relentlessly Hasan (@RelentlessYapp) January 20, 2020
— REDACTED Human Scum/hand washer/mask wearer (@mrshellwinger) January 20, 2020
I think she's talking about Boba and doesn't actually know what daal is lmao
— Party Mom Jr. (@AnriAeterna) January 21, 2020
Daal and raita is my guess. Not too adventurous, but deliscious
— 🧢☂️🤖Bryan “TypoBot” O’Spark🤖 (@XVX151) January 20, 2020
She may well be talking about Idli with Dal! But don't know in what sense that looks like big Tapioca 😵 pic.twitter.com/BBJfuIXIJA
— UDAY (ง'̀-'́)ง (@mmo_uday) January 22, 2020
My (wild?) guess is saggubiyyam vadiyalu (or fryums, for non-Telugu speakers), which are actually made of tapioca and eaten with dal, rasam, or sambar.
— Lakshmi Bollini (@LBollini) January 22, 2020
She must have a brown friend cuz I think it's more of a home cook meal than restaurant, but sabudana is tapioca.
— Divya Amladi (@Divyamladi) January 21, 2020
I am not Indian but thinking she is referring to Chana masala, or bubble tea which is of course not Indian
— Primate Brains (@PrimateBrains) January 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/CBerthelot227/status/1219746495001317377?s=20
Tapioca is basically ‘Sabudana’ and the combination of sabudana and dal is unlikely. So, which dish do you think is the US Senator talking about? Let us know in the comments below.