Pakistan Elects Gulab Jamun As Its National Sweet, But People Aren't Too Happy About It
Gulab jamun won the poll with 47% votes while the second position was taken by Jalebi with 34% votes. Around 15000 people voted in the poll and gulabJamun was officially declared the &lsquoQaumi Mithai&rsquo.
Our neighbouring country Pakistan's sweet fate has been decided all thanks to a Twitter poll. They have now declared their national dessert to be the gulab jamun.
What is the National Sweet of Pakistan?
¡ª Govt of Pakistan (@pid_gov) 1 January 2019
Gulab jamun won the poll with 47% votes while the second position was taken by Jalebi with 34% votes. Barfi secured 19% of the total number of votes.
Around 15,000 people voted in the poll and gulab jamun was officially declared the ¡®Qaumi Mithai¡¯. But not everyone was entirely satisfied with the decision.
Some claim the poll to be rigged.
Pakistani internet sours over ¡®one-sided¡¯ national sweet poll, demands fresh vote#SamaaDigital #GulabJamun pic.twitter.com/irFsaa5dd2
¡ª Samaa English (@SamaaEnglish) 6 January 2019
Pakistanis have also been contemplating over the origins of gulab jamun. Some say it has 'foreign identity', introduced by Central Asian Turkic invaders to the subcontinent.
Others claim that it was discovered accidentally by Shah Jahan¡¯s personal chefs, while they were conducting experiments with a Persian sweet dish.
Either way, the poll left many miffed and many slammed the frivolity of the topic.
You people don't have other things to do?#joblessphds
¡ª Dr. Munir Ullah Khan (@DrMunirUllahKh1) 1 January 2019
are protesting on roads and You people are asking about National sweet. What a shameful act.
¡°Really? Govt could be doing better than this. For example how many people are unemployed or how many PhDs finding jobs, how many households eating on alternate days, and how many dropping out of schools because their parents are unable to support education,¡± wrote a user.
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