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Subject: Re: [Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?
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There were some icon
In our good old golden years in the 60's and as a young person I was often
taken by my parents to Café Central a proper coffee restaurant which was
situated and where now stands the horrendous bharati era Filhos da mae
building. Bun pao coated with Polson butter, was the order of the day. As
Of course, you're right on that Venantius. Event hough we romanticise the
"good old days", the 1960s were tough times for many (almost all?) of us in
India.
I don't quite agree with Eric that this was because of India's
'socialistic' approach. Rather, this was a country just emerging out of
A consideration:
Most Christian homes did not have butter on the table. Perhaps such was the
case in certain enclaves. I know many people who did not, and nether did
we. And there were many other things we and they did not partake in. It was
not financially possible. We did not have a fridge, nor
There were some iconic brands in the consumables category in Bombay during
Nehru's socialist era. Not all of them were indigenous, but even despite
foreign goods being banned, a very few because of their popularity, continued
to be imported in limited quantities.
Polson's butter, Waterbury's
They were Parsees. They were forced out of business to protect the
co-operatives. It was ruled that dairies were not eligible to sell casein.
That primary milk/protein derivative was the 'bread and butter' of the
trade, not fat/butter. Viva socialism !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polson_(brand)
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