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When euphemisms get tasty: How people have used words to combat food taboos
Many years ago, on a family visit to Ahmedabad, we stayed with friends who were strict Jains. Being a bratty teenager, I wanted a non-vegetarian meal and their son offered, with alacrity, to take me. At the restaurant, he ordered chicken for himself but …