I went to the Royal Garden Mall with my amma today after classes to buy groceries and batteries, where purchased buns for the dreaded hot dog. Devotees of the journal will know the delight I experienced in tasting this particular Sri Lankan culinary delicacy. Today, hoping to persuade my amma at a later date to put tomatoes, chicken, and - in a perfect world - cheese in a hot dog bun, I told my amma to buy the bread but that I preferred different ingredients. I am not sure whether or not she understood my request. Previously a hot dog consisted of sausage, tomatoes, onions, hardboiled eggs, and butter. This time amma replaced the sausage link with ketchup (or sauce, an abbreviation from the British tomato sauce) making the sandwich a tomato, raw onion, hardboiled egg,
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