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recent bookmarks from jmHow Philly Cheesesteaks Became a Big Deal in Lahore, Pakistan2023-04-27T11:22:57+00:00
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/04/08/philly-cheesesteaks-lahore-pakistan/
jmAn establishment with a legacy such as [The Lahore Gymkhana Club, founded in 1878 under British rule] needed to continue revamping itself and serve exclusive dishes for its high-end clientele. And the club, along with restaurants aspiring to serve continental food, was bolstered by a growing taste for a new ingredient in town: processed cheese. “Sandwiches gradually started becoming popular in the 1980s because of the [wider] availability of cheese and mushrooms,” says Chaudhry.
Until the 1980s, processed cheese was largely imported, and its use was limited to the rich, who would frequent establishments such as the Gymkhana. As Lahori taste buds adapted to and appreciated cheese, production was initiated locally. Demand for cheeseburgers and sandwiches skyrocketed in the 1990s, with a growing number of Pakistanis who’d traveled to the U.S. aspiring to re-create offerings from various popular American chains. One of these is exceptionally familiar. Even today, online food groups in Pakistan are peppered with people asking the community where they can find a cheesesteak in Lahore “like the one at Pat’s.” Many of them post images of the cheesesteaks from the original shop at 9th and Passyunk.
]]>food cheesesteaks philadelphia history pakistan lahore sandwicheshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b5c3a5e02992/Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class - The New York Times2019-01-17T12:46:01+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/sunday/brexit-ireland-empire.html
jmPoliticians and journalists in Ireland are understandably aghast over the aggressive ignorance of English Brexiteers. Business people everywhere are outraged by their cavalier disregard for the economic consequences of new borders. But none of this would surprise anyone who knows of the unconscionable breeziness with which the British ruling class first drew lines through Asia and Africa and then doomed the people living across them to endless suffering.
]]>britain india brexit ireland pakistan asia partition history colonialism pankaj-mishrahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e6730366fbb/Fraandship2018-05-05T23:17:14+00:00
https://melmagazine.com/the-south-asian-men-sliding-into-your-dms-in-hopes-of-fraandship-2faca1162da5
jmManish is definitely aware of how he and his other fraandship-seekers are perceived by Western women. But he says, “It’s a difficult problem to solve because men speaking to women they aren’t married to — or who aren’t in their families — isn’t usually allowed.” In fact, he later tells me that he’s spoken to very few women in his life, and that the internet has finally allowed him and others like him to speak to women without being worried about their parents or family finding out.
It’s this inexperience with women that leaves them defaulting to what they know best: “What we see in movies, [especially] Western movies.”
“We think if we talk about sex, or we try to act like people we see in films, we will be like them,” Manish explains. “So then, we get [upset] and confused when we’re blocked, or when these girls don’t talk back to us.”
Still, Manish and his friends are undeterred. Blocked or not, rejected or not, they continue to spend hours on other people’s Facebook and Twitter profiles, imagining what their lives are like — and how those lives could be theirs one day. “I will still go to America, or maybe London!” he says as we finish up our Skype call. “Soon, I will go. I do not want to stay here. I want to see the world. By [talking] to you, I’m already doing that.”
]]>fraandship fraands south-asia india pakistan internet chat dmshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:03212493d681/Donald Rumsfeld wrote the best memo ever: "Issues w/Various Countries"2016-04-19T10:12:19+00:00
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