It’s bad enough to have chai appropriated as chai tea latte in the west, but when one Indian airline advertised poha as “fresh salad,” a lot of people couldn’t digest it. IndiGo referred to the beloved Indian breakfast dish as “fresh salad” in a post on January 28, drawing the ire of Twitter users who rushed to inform the airline that poha is, in fact, very different from salad.
“Fresh salads. Made today, served today,” IndiGo wrote alongside a picture of a bowl full of poha. Poha is a dish of flattened rice tossed with spices, veggies and peanuts, usually garnished with a squeeze of lemon.
Salads that are prepared and served on the same day, do try them. You’ll toss everything else away. #AiromaticFresh #goIndiGo https://t.co/9BuLhqnq2f pic.twitter.com/9QANRafwWl— IndiGo (@IndiGo6E) January 28, 2023
If you are talking to Indians, by no measure this is a salad- it's "poha". You used to sell "upma"/ "poha" ready to eat versions by mixing boiling water so far; perhaps this version is freshly prepared poha with lime juice. It's not salad @IndiGo6E. Please get your facts correct.— Vijaya Moorthy (@vmoorthynow) January 30, 2023
“IndiGo has renamed poha as salad,” another remarked.
Indigo has renamed Poha as salad.— Jigar Sampat (@JigarSampat) January 31, 2023
Indore will become the Salad capital of India— Dr Sumeet Shah (@DrSumeetShah) January 30, 2023
Today I learnt that poha in the sky becomes a salad.— Kiran Manral (@KiranManral) January 29, 2023
It has been brought to our notice that there has been a sly attempt to feed people poha by calling it same-day salad- President, International Anti-Poha League https://t.co/HsuAgRbgtm
— Sanjeev Sanyal (@sanjeevsanyal) January 29, 2023
“Poha” soon began to trend on Twitter as more and more people joined the meme fest
Poha is trending.Poha: pic.twitter.com/375aQ0uhUd
— Mehul Fanawala (@MehulFanawala) January 30, 2023
pic.twitter.com/x6siJgGhgJ— Amit (@busyamit) January 29, 2023
