“You can not eat beef and be an asshole, or you can eat beef and follow everything else,” he says. “I think she was more about the principles.”
Hari Kondabolu, an American comedian with an Indian-Hindu background raised in New York, is recalling his days eating at a local Burger King, where his mother used to take him to in order to get a taste – literally – of the new American culture she was still unfamiliar with.
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