Daily Archives: May 19, 2012

Fresh chickpeas

This is a bunch of fresh chickpeas sold everywhere these days on the side of the road. Street cart vendors used to call on customers with a jingle that went like this: Um Elaibaneh (Mother elaibaneh) Khodra w-malieaneh (green and full) bet salleh al-za3laneh(will cheer up whoever is angry) btejoueh al-dekkaneh(will mess up the store) [...]
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