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Samosa

A triangular fried pastry filled with spiced potatoes/World Cuisines

The samosa is a fried or baked pastry with a savory filling that originated in the Middle East and became a staple snack across South Asia. The classic Indian version is filled with spiced potatoes and peas. The triangular shape is formed by folding a semicircle of dough into a cone, filling it, and sealing.

Measurements

Height1 tenths m
1.1 tenthsWindow widths
3.5 thousandthsBasketball court lengths
4,000Pollen grain widths
Base width8 hundredths m
5.6 millionthsStrait of Gibraltar widths
2.5SD card lengths
Side length1 tenths m
5.6 trillionthsLight-minutes
3.33Olive lengths
649 millionDiamond bond lengths
Mass8 hundredths kg
1.1 hundredthsThanksgiving turkeys
224 quadrillionthsMount Everest masses
Shell thickness3 thousandths m
88.2 billionthsBermuda lengths
8.3 thousandthsHip widths
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