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There has always been a crossover between urban music culture and the British Asian community but this is a classic.

BTW I showed it to my mum and first she said “what language is he singing in?” until it became apparent he was singing in a Bollywood style but with a London Asian accent. BTW mum used to be an English teacher and normally speaks with a perfect SE England (RP) accent (although when she is in Malaysia she sounds slightly more Indian).

In the 2000s I tried to get work experience with BBC Asian network but when they found I didn’t speak Urdu, Punjabi or Hindi they said “somewhat apologetically” I was the “wrong kind of Asian” :crazy: To be fair this wasn’t their fault but a peculiar British quirk of classing Chinese as a separate ethnic group, and completely overlooking (until recently) the existence of the SE Asian nations (probably still embarrassed about the war)

@know_hope 479216 wrote:

come on ladies, come on ladies, £1 fish

lolz

this might not sound PC but it is culturally appropriate for the area. In Asian communities, especially in a large family group, the oldest ladies take it upon themselves to organise all food shopping. even if they have grown up daughters who are perfectly capable of it (and men today also do help with cooking), they will insist on taking charge of the entire operation.

Old granny ladies generally do not like having to go upon the light railway or metropolitan railway of any nation, as it is noisy and crowded. so they prefer to walk the streets with them shopping trolleys which are sold the world over (I think the chinese adopted the British design and their womenfolk liked them).

So it is these ladies our Punjabi friend is trying to attract. I asked my mum about this, and after she first said “he should speak proper English here if he wants to sell those fish!” (her laptop sound is a bit flaky and she was an English teacher), she also said implied that he could sing as sweetly as he wanted but she’d still want to check those fish were decent quality, but accepted that £1 for a fish of that size wasn’t a bad deal. Two way smaller ones are 88p here and the North Sea is closer!

any idea what the fish actually are? I thought they were mackerel but could be any food fish caught around the North Sea. I’ve seen similar ones in Asian shops but they are labelled in the local languages, none of which I understand (as in SE Asia they are way different than those used IN or PK even if the fish are the same).

years ago my mum was on the blower to my Nan in KL and said “multiculturalism in England is good, but my son and daughters white friends can cook better sag aloo than they can”.

Which was true, but why on earth would me or my sister want to cook sag aloo anyway when we were both either working or at uni and didn’t have time to cook, and in Malaysia the same dish has a completely different name anyway :laugh_at: