Pakora, may you grow up deliciously

Pakora, may you grow up deliciously
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​​The swaddled-up baby with a woollen cap, Pakora - the Irish preferring to go easy on the heavy 'r' - does look like a fritter and delightfully edible. But it turned out that Pakora was no customer's daughter, but The Captain's Table owner Hilary Braniff's first granddaughter who was born last month.

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The lovely Jalebi Bai - who comes in the shape of Mallika Sherawat in an 'item number' of the 2011 film Double Dhamaal - would highly approve. A restaurant owner in Glengormley, Northern Ireland, shared a photo purportedly of a satisfied customer's baby named after the mother's favourite khana, pakoda.

The swaddled-up baby with a woollen cap, Pakora - the Irish preferring to go easy on the heavy 'r' - does look like a fritter and delightfully edible. But it turned out that Pakora was no customer's daughter, but The Captain's Table owner Hilary Braniff's first granddaughter who was born last month.

She put up the photo of her darling grandkid and made up the rest 'to bring a little cheer to the [restaurant] industry' at a time of rising costs and energy bills throughout (non-Russia) Europe. Well, good on her.

Thankfully, social media hasn't hurled fire and brimstone at the 'white lie'. Instead, many have shared pictures of their own kids cracking jokes about them, too, named after favourite edible items. Children of proud mothers include 'Eggroll' and 'Watermelon', 'Chicken' and 'Tikka'.

Considering favourite foods are something everyone is especially fond of, it makes sense to at least nickname one's offsprings after them. Jalebi Bai and Rabri Devi apart, we can consider the whole menu. Momo the better.
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