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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“Ganderi” is a real local Pakistani word,please don’t try to change everything in English.
Enjoy Ganderi as such and enjoy some thing original for a change :)
Sugar cannets souds good…
I actually like the Sugarcane Cut Piece the best.
How I wish I had some ganderis to chuppo right now!
I also think that gandeeri should be gandeeri in english :)
Some comments posted at the ATP Facebook Page:
– “sugarcane chops :p”
– “sugarcane bites”
– “Gandairi Gandairi Meetha Ras Tha Thu Thee Thas :-P :-D”
– “we have taken so much from english now its our turn….Ganderi will remain Ganderi in english….dont ever think changing Ganderi or Gulli danda……):):”
– “pieces ov suger cane”
– “lol…den wts gola ganda called in eng?”
– “sugarcanettes”
– “sAB anGraIz hAin YaHaN :-S”
– “:D:D:D Sugar canettes sounds Kool……..:D:D:D”