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How to make chana masala, a fragrant Indian dish of chickpeas and spices

So, Madge and I got totally into it the other day over my chimpanzee butler. Something about the way he dresses, Madge found it, I don't know - "unseemly."

"What, the bowtie?" I asked. "Too much?"

"Not just the bowtie," she said, shaking her head. "It's the whole 'chimps as butlers' thing."

"What are you talking about? Mandrake likes being my butler, don't you, Mandrake," I said, with an appreciative nod in the direction of the smartly attired primate.

"Oh, for the love of ... " said Madge, "What do chimps even know about buttling?" Madge turned to face me directly: "It's like an Irish American rube like yourself writing about something like ... like ... "

"Chana masala?" said I.

"Chana masala," said she.

Et, voila.

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