A video of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani consuming Rajnigandha silver pearls, a popular Indian mouth freshener, has gone viral on social media.

The short video is from Brooklyn-based content creator Nicolas Nuvan’s show. The clip shows Mamdani stepping out of a black SUV and being asked if he has eaten. “I did eat today,” he replies with a smile, before pulling out a pack of Rajnigandha, a saffron-blended cardamom seed mouth freshener widely popular in India and adding, “I’ve also started having a lot of these, it’s like a mint.”

Mamdani then offered some to Nuvan, to which he said, “Oh wow, that’s delicious. It feels like I’m consuming perfume, but it tastes good. I like it.” Mamdani responds, saying, “Perfume you can eat.”

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