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ULTA PULTA
In Indian or Punjab’s history, one
doesn’t remember any king or city in Punjab in whose remembrance the
parantha was named. As far as the sandwich’s story goes,
people say 250 years ago the Earl ordered beef slices to be served
between the slices of bread. He never thought that in times to come
the serving will become the most popular convenience food. I don’t
know much about the eating habits of Earls and Dukes but I have tried samosa
and tikkis between the bread many times. Practically, any
vegetable or meat can be stuffed between bread slices to make a
sandwich. A restaurant boasted of serving anything in the world. Two
friends went to this restaurant and called the waiter. One friend
asked to the waiter, "You say you can serve anything in the
world." "Yes sir," replied the waiter proudly.
"Bring us a sandwich of roasted elephant ears". The waiter
rushed inside the kitchen and came back after couple of minutes.
"Sir, could you order something else?" "We knew you
couldn’t have served elephant ears." The waiter replied smugly,
"Sirs, we have got elephant ears but we have run out of
bread."
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Recently the sandwich celebrated its
250th birth anniversary. Dishes like parantha, dhokla, vada and
dosa went into depression, "Yaar, hamara birthday koi
yaad hi nahi rakhta." The sandwich was named after John
Montagu, the forth Earl of Sandwich. Sandwich is a small town in Kent
county in south-east England.