On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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> Hah. There are people out here who think onions and garlic are "non
> vegetarian" (or at least "vegetarian food that good brahmins dont eat"
>
> Plenty of the older people in my family, for example.
My grandmother never could eat water melons... the red pulp of the
fruit seemed horrifically similar to bleeding flesh...
She also had a problem with some varieties of pumpkins which were
reddish on the inside (the kind that are painted to simulate a human
head and then smashed for removing the evil eye ('drishti')... )....)
