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container in which there was an Ice cream The fisherwomen who came to the door
on a stick. The above two have completely with fresh catch. After the usual haggling,
disappeared. Thirdly, there is still a she cleaned the prawns and cut the fish.
handcart that sells hand-churned Ice cream She also could get you homemade fish fry
sold under the brand name of Mewad Ice masala.
Cream. Our meat man comes to the door with fresh
Also have disappeared a lot of vendors cut meat and other organs, this is a second
who came to the door. generation vendor, and his father would
a.The Pao and eggs man brought oven-fresh come twice a week. I remember the father
pao, bread and eggs. one day brought his son to the door and told
The Khaari Waala who brought Khaari us that he had become too old to go house
Biscuits, crispy crunchy in the mouth, to house and his son would now take over
round-baked puffs that are called butter the business. A few years later, he came and
biscuits and assortment of chivdas, fried said goodbye to us saying that he was going
dal that he carried in a large trunk on his back to Akbarpur, his village in UP. They
head and went house to house. All the were emotional parents. My parents gave
stuff is now sold in packs of various sizes him some tissues, a towel and a blanket.
by companies like Haldiram, Lakshmi Much later, the old man died and we
Narayan Chivda etc. This man still has a condoled with his son. The meat vendor’s
few old-timers who buy khaari biscuits sons no longer want to be in this business.
from him but otherwise this vendor will His elder son is a software engineer and
soon disappear. younger son is a qualified chemist wanting
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