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| creator          = Ashok Vaidya<ref name="vaidya">{{cite news |last1=Mahadevan |first1=Asha |title=Nearly 50 years since its invention, the story of the vada pav hits the big screen at Jio MAMI |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/nearly-50-years-since-its-invention-the-story-of-the-vada-pav-hits-the-big-screen-at-jio-mami-2487580.html |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Firstpost |date=30 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="histoy-TOI">{{cite news |last1=Shankar |first1=Kartikeya |title=Vada Pav: History of the Popular Mumbai Snack |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/vada-pav-history-of-the-popular-mumbai-snack/articleshow/76973714.cms |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=The Times of India |date=Jul 15, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="scott thesis"/>{{rp|34}} and Sudhakar Mhatre<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta">{{cite news |last=Ghangale |first=Swapnil |title=World Vadapav Day: जन्मापासून लंडनपर्यंत मजल मारण्यापर्यंतची वडापावची कहाणी |url=https://www.loksatta.com/do-you-know-news/world-vada-pav-day-journey-from-mumbai-popular-street-food-to-london-scsg-91-2253519/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Loksatta |date=23 August 2020 |language=mr-IN}}</ref>

| year            = 1966<ref name="vaidya"/><ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>

'''Vada pav''', alternatively spelt '''wada pao''', {{pronunciation|Indian-vada-pav-pronunciation.ogg|listen|(|help=no}} is a [[vegetarian]] [[fast food]] dish native to the state of [[Maharashtra]]. The dish consists of a deep fried potato dumpling placed inside a bread bun (''pav'') sliced almost in half through the middle. It is generally accompanied with one or more [[chutney]]s and a green [[chili pepper]].<ref name=fpj36>{{cite news|title=Famous Vada Pav places in Mumbai|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/famous-vada-pav-places-in-mumbai/|access-date=10 August 2015|newspaper=[[The Free Press Journal]]|date=30 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817100436/http://www.freepressjournal.in/famous-vada-pav-places-in-mumbai/|archive-date=17 August 2015}}</ref> Although it originated as affordable street food in [[Mumbai]], it is now served in food stalls and restaurants across [[India]]. It is also called '''Bombay burger'''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bhattacharya|first1=Suryatapa|title=The world's best fast food|url=https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/the-world-s-best-fast-food-1.521775|website=The National|access-date=27 September 2017|date=12 January 2010}}</ref> in keeping with its origins and its resemblance in physical form to a [[wikt:burger#Noun|burger]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sankari |first1=Rathina |title=Meet Mumbai's Iconic Veggie Burger |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/11/04/500539626/meet-mumbais-iconic-veggie-burger |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=[[NPR]] |date=November 4, 2016 |language=en}}</ref>

One of the favourite snacks in [[Maharashtra]], vada pav is claimed to be a part of the culture of [[Marathi people|Marathi]]s.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sarma|first1=Ramya|title=In Search of Mumbai Vada Pav|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/article3657300.ece|work=The Hindu|access-date=27 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Graves"/>

Ashok Vaidya of [[Dadar]] is often credited with starting the first vada pav stall outside [[Dadar railway station]] in 1966.<ref name="scott thesis"/>{{rp|34}} One of the earliest kiosks selling vada pav is said to be ''Khidki Vada Pav'', located in [[Kalyan]]. It was started in the late 1960s by the Vaze family, who used to hand out vada pavs from a window (''Khidki'') of their house facing the road.<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>

The carbohydrate-rich snack catered to the mill workers of what was then known as [[Girangaon]]. This [[potato]] dumpling (''batata vada'') placed inside a [[Bread roll|''pav'']]. It was quick to make, cheap (~10-15 [[paisa]] in 1971<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/><ref name=NYT-best/>), and much convenient over the [[Bombay potato|batata bhaji]] and [[Chapati]] combo, which couldn't be eaten in overcrowded local trains.<ref name="histoy-TOI"/><ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>

Vada pav is intricately linked with the [[Shiv Sena]] political party. The [[Great Bombay textile strike|closing of textile mills]] in central Mumbai led to turmoil in 1970s. Shiv Sena, the homegrown party formed during this transformative time, based itself as a party with Mill workers' interests.<ref name="jamboree">{{cite journal |last1=Solomon |first1=Harris Scott |title="THE TASTE NO CHEF CAN GIVE": Processing Street Food in Mumbai |journal=Cultural Anthropology |date=May 4, 2015 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=65–90 |doi=10.14506/ca30.1.05 |url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14506/ca30.1.05 |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en |issn=1548-1360}}</ref>

Party chief, [[Balasaheb Thackeray]] encouraged Marathi people in the 1960s to become entrepreneurs, i.e. start food stalls in ways similar to the South Indians setting up [[Udupi cuisine|Udupi restaurants]].<ref name="vaidya"/><ref name="histoy-TOI"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Doctor |first1=Vikram |title=An attitude to serve: Why Marathi food lost out |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/the-leisure-lounge/an-attitude-to-serve-why-marathi-food-lost-out/articleshow/3047664.cms |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=The Economic Times |date=May 17, 2008}}</ref> Shiv Sena attempted to physically and ideologically claim the streets through agitations as well as neighborhood-level events such ''Vada pav sammelan (Vada pav jamboree)''.<ref name="scott thesis">{{cite thesis |last1=Solomon |first1=Harris Scott |title=Life-Sized: Food and the Pathologies of Plenty in Mumbai |chapter= Chapter 1. Fast Food Nationalism: Cleaning Mumbai’s streets with the vada pav |type=PhD |location=Providence, Rhode Island |date=May 2011 |institution=[[Brown University]] |doi=10.7301/Z0Q23XH9 |oclc=934517131 |chapter-url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11264/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|28}}<ref name="jamboree"/> This theme has continued even in recent years, e.g. 2009 introduction of ''Shiv vada pav''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pawar |first1=Yogesh |title=Shiv Sena's vada pav strategy |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/shiv-senas-vada-pav-strategy-396415 |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=NDTV.com |date=June 19, 2009}}</ref>

Mumbai alone has many variations of the food based on the locality.<ref name=NYT-best/> Large fast food restaurant chains such as ''Kunjvihar Jumbo King'' in [[Mulund]] and [[Goli Vada Pav]] also primarily serve vada pav.<ref name=NYT-best>{{cite news |last1=Thirani |first1=Neha |title=Searching For the World's Best Vada Pav |url=https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/searching-for-the-worlds-best-vada-pav/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=India Ink |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Narasimhan |first1=Anand |last2=Dogra |first2=Aparna Mohan |title=Goli Vada Pav story |publisher=IMD business school |work=The Financial Times |date=September 4, 2012 |url=https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/goli-vada-pav-story/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Outside of Mumbai, a variant of vada pav is ''pav vada'' which is famous in [[Nashik]].

Boiled potato is mashed and mixed with chopped green chilli and garlic, mustard seeds, and spices (usually [[asafoetida]] and [[turmeric]]). The mass is then shaped into a ball, dipped into [[gram flour]] batter and deep fried. The resultant fritter is served by placing inside a bread bun, accompanied with one or more [[chutney]]s and fried green chilli.<ref name="Graves">{{cite web|last1=Graves|first1=Helen|title=Vada pav sandwich recipe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/03/vada-pav-sandwich-recipe-potato-chutney|website=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|access-date=27 January 2015}}</ref>

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