India, Oct. 25 -- An Amritsar phirni seller's resemblance to Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has caught the internet's fancy, with an X post garnering 37,000 views and prompting witty wordplay inspired by the Colombian author's books.

"Had the pleasure of buying excellent phirni from Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Amritsar," wrote X user @Stereotypewriter, setting off a flurry of literary puns in the comments.

Keshav Das quipped, "Love of phirni in the Time of Cholera," riffing on Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. Sakshi Singh came up with "One Hundred Years of phirni-tude," a play on One Hundred Years of Solitude, while Piyush Gupta commented, "Chronicle of a Dessert foretold," an apparent reference to Chronicle of a Death Foreto...