Adil Najam
What is the most appropriate word for ‘GanDeri’ in English?
I have puzzled over this for long and asked a number of friends. In fact, this is a re-post of the question I had posed at this blog 3 years ago. The best I got was ‘sugarcane cut-piece’; where ‘cut-piece’ is itself a peculiar Pakistani-ism, if not Pinglish.
Do you have a better suggestion?
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“Nugget” sounds better than slice or cuts.
sugar canettes?
I dont think there is any joke behind hoor choopo. This is a sort of satire, that can losely be translated as, “why did you do this (or that). Now suffer.” I dont know if there is any joke associated.
Shirazi, yes, you are right. But what was the joke? The story, I mean?
Yes, axiom is this: “hoor choopo!”