The most common item for Iftar

In the late 1970s, a trader in Tangail was selling stale dates on Eid day. An old man asked him how much the 'tamarind' cost, because that was what it looked like to him. The indignant trader exclaimed: "Bangalis do not even recognise dates from Arabia!"‘Bangalis’ have come a long way since then! The dates are now a common household item, if not widely round the year, but...