Two wheeler, four wheeler: Culinary euphemisms used by Gujaratis and members of other traditionally vegetarian communities when they succumb to the pleasures of the flesh and order up dishes made with the bipedal chicken or the quadrupedal goat.
Example: When we went to Bade Miyan yesterday, we couldn't decide whether (sic) to have between two wheeler or four wheeler, so we ordered both.
I’m almost finished with Richard Tarrant’s Texts, Editors, and Readers (1,
2, 3), and I was brought up short by this passage in the concluding
chapter: “so...
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