Saturday, July 7, 2012

Samosas

   What category does a samosa fall under in Canada's Food Guide? According to wikipedia, a samosa is "a fried or baked pastry with a savory filling such as spiced potatoesonionspeaslentils, ground lamb or chicken". So bearing that in mind, I pose the question, is a samosa a vegetable?
   I guess thats like asking if a minced meat pie is equivalent in meat qualifications to a steak or if maple syrup is a wood product. But for real, what is a samosa? Maybe its more free spirited than North American foods, and like a Rob Pattinsion and Kristen Stewart, cannot be defined by labels. Its definitely not a pastry, when I think of pastries they have a savoury filling but we can easily run into difficulty with this when we contemplate the vast universe of quiches. 
   The only people who try to classify tricky foods into healthy categories are the wildly unhealthy such as myself. Living alone, I no longer eat anything that is easily classified so I find myself faced with these questions everyday. Perhaps I just need to write a guide for all the unhealthies called Is A Samosa A Vegetable?

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