Tribute to Canada’s Sikh defence minister in a chicken burger
Monday, 07/03/2016
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TORONTO: Canada’s first Sikh defence minister Harjit Sajjan now has a chicken burger named after him and it is called ‘The Minister of National Deliciousness’.
Sajjan (45), who was in November named Canada’s minister of national defence, stopped by a Vancouver eatery to sample the burger.
“National Deliciousness indeed! Tried my namesake burger at #Vancouver’s @ TheCannibalCafe and was not disappointed,” Sajjan tweeted.
Sajjan, who represents Vancouver-South, was in town last week for the Liberal government’s first ministers meeting, but made time to visit ‘The Cannibal Cafe’ and try out his namesake burger.
“I approve,” Sajjan said after taking the first bite. “It’s got pakoras on it. Who would’ve thought to put it into a burger?” he was quoted as saying by CTV News. The chicken burger also features a tandoori-spiced patty doused in butter chicken sauce and pressed yogurt with mint, cilantro and cucumbers.
It was introduced as February’s ‘ Burger of the Month’ but the eatery’s owner said it was so popular they added it to the regular menu. Sajjan, who called the experience “very humbling”, also shook hands with the chef behind the burger, Zai Kitagawa, and signed off on a chalkboard featuring a drawing of him in sunglasses.
Kitagawa told reporters on Wednesday he star ted thinking about the burger shortly after the minister’s appointment.
“If there’s a man that a Canadian can be proud of, it’s definitely Sajjan,” he said. Sajjan is a combat veteran who served in Bosnia and had three deployments to Afghanistan. He was born in India and moved to Canada with his family when he was five years old.
