Taking Politics to the Kitchens of India

The Shiv Sena is now all set to glorify the humble vada pao, a favourite snack of Mumbaikars. Calling it the patent of the party, Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in Saamna on Monday that the snack would be renamed “Shiv vada pao”...Sanjay Gurav, president of the newly formed Maharashtra Vada Pao Vikreta Sena, told The Hindu that for the past four months it had been working on organising the existing and potential vendors. “Vada pao is the patent of the Shiv Sena. Mr. Thackeray had called on people to set up vada pao stalls way back in the 1970s. No one else can take it away from us,” Mr. Gurav said.

From The Hindu. And I thought "freedom fries" were silly.