foodfoodfood

*to the sounds of clapping hands*

egg roll
mutton roll
chicken roll
french fry
fried chop
ice cream

the younger girls are sitting in a circle in dance class playing a hand game featuring some of the favorite street foods. all oil soaked n calorific (well ok no oil in ice cream). but the dancer-guy who i will call luscious-locks because of his well-kept, truly luscious locks of hair that fly in his face and force him to dance blind (somehow he still manages to be incredible) and who has confided to me more than once his internal battle between belly and sweets raised his trumpet-like voice in objection--nonono! you have to sing about healthy foods! and tries to call out over their voices,

salad
apple
guava
vegetables

or something like this. they laugh and ignore him. i admire his health-mindedness, in the land of rosogolla faces and rosogolla bellies and the rosogolla roll of these larger ladies walking, you might even call him truly courageous.

(see image of rosogolla, also known to non-bengalis as rasgulla, above)