Calls to cancel curry

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Don't you just love it when the media are reporting on some irrelevant rubbish that someone said "earlier this year".

Because... yanno, someone on Instagram is going to change a national pastime.

I really wish someone would just tell these journos to get in the sea.
 
I think it's also worth noting that 'cury' was an English word (copied from French and anglicised) referring to cooking that dates back at least as far as the high medieval period. Hence, for example, The Forme of Cury. An English cookbook written c1390. That was likely an influence on the modern English word 'curry'. Mashing a couple of languages together to make a new word is hardly a new thing for English.
 
dLockers said:
Your jump to be offended was misplaced :cry:

It is a Dickens phrase used to mean bogus or disingenuous. It was popularised to make fun of Brexiteers.
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It's a racist term the left have adopted for white middle aged men from predominantly working class backgrounds, similar to how they call white middle aged women "Karens".
 
sigma said:
Prime example below, also, absolutely didn’t vote for Brexit lol
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I was replying to someone that you agree with.

Someone telling others what they can call something is dictating to other people.

What as Brexit got to do with curry? The last I heard curry wasn't native to the EU. Or are you doing some cultural appropriation of your own? ;)

As Trevor Philips as said on similar matters, these people will end up removing any black or asian contribution to western society.
 
Junglist said:
They need to leave curries alone though. Indian, Jamaican, Japanese, Malaysian, Thai and any another cuisines that I'm yet to try. There is no food that sits above a good curry
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Spoken by someone who’s never tried amêijoas na cataplana in Portugal, a flamiche in Picardy, France, or a cassoulet in Languedoc, France.
 
Bluecube said:
Why? What are they made of?
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Even when fresh they are both exceptionally bitter dishes, and one has nasty slimy texture, the other isn't pleasant either. There's a reason why south asian kids grown up hating such dishes.

Oh in English, bitter gourd, and regular gourd with aubergine curries. They are overcooked into zero texture slimy mush, and mainly consist of bitter spices on top.

Then theres stuff like fermented soy beans and whatever else.

You really would not like carrot and turmeric stick pickles. Its immediate puke inducing to anyone unfamiliar with pure bitter and zero pleasant food.
 
BallistixOnZ490 said:
Even when fresh they are both exceptionally bitter dishes, and one has nasty slimy texture, the other isn't pleasant either. There's a reason why south asian kids grown up hating such dishes.

Then theres stuff like fermented soy beans and whatever else.

You really would not like carrot and turmeric stick pickles. Its immediate puke inducing to anyone unfamiliar with pure bitter and zero pleasant food.
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What's it like in respect to lime pickle? Because I could nail a bucket of lime pickle.
 
Tefal said:
I don’t think anyone on earth thinks Japan on eats sushi.
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A little experiment for you, next time a group of you go out to eat, especially when there are new people in the group, just say "Let's go eat Japanese". Or just ask someone "Do you like Japanese food?"

And see how many have an immediate answer with "I hate raw fish."

Completely skipping over Ramen, Sukiyaki, Shabu Shabu, Yakiniku, Katsu, Tampura, don etc exists.

And no, it's not the be all and end all watermark to measure/judge all 7 billion people on earth whether they know, same as I know your comment don't really mean the entire planet knows all the dishes in Japanese cooking.
 
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dLockers said:
What's it like in respect to lime pickle? Because I could nail a bucket of lime pickle.
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Lime pickle is like the tastiest juiciest most wonderful thing in comparison.

There is nothing pleasant about pickled turmeric and carrot sticks, they are only done for the colour presentation of bright orange and yellow sticks.

Carrot alone not really gonna taste of anything, but its only done both together for the look and not the taste.

It was actually super difficult to find an image of too because no one actually can stand munching on pure sticks of pickled turmeric:

https://www.padhuskitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/turmericmangogingerpickle.jpg

Feel free to eat a spoonfull of turmeric powder then imagine it 10x stronger and pickled to get an idea.
 
Diddums said:
Don't you just love it when the media are reporting on some irrelevant rubbish that someone said "earlier this year".

Because... yanno, someone on Instagram is going to change a national pastime.

I really wish someone would just tell these journos to get in the sea.
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They live on social media, didn't you know that? They'll be stalking for every bit of trash on there.
 
Dis86 said:
Tuna melt with lime pickle. Food of the gods.
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I love a tuna melt, and I put lime pickle on almost all rice with meat dinners that I or my wife cook, now I can’t wait to try a tuna melt with lime pickle on the side, Dis won’t put me wrong I’m sure.
 
BallistixOnZ490 said:
'kadhi' isn't just similar to 'curry', its literally the origin of the word.
Also 'Kachumber' = Cucumber and such.
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Theres some dispute over that it appears to be an original english word rather than an indian one a recipe from Henry VIII's kitchen mentions curry but its nothing to do with indian food it seems to be a word meaning to hash something together i.e. as in the saying to curry favour, to cook something up.
 
soundb0y said:
Why the hell has this hit the news? Some random idiot with 500 followers on Instagram?!

Makes me irrationally angry the press keeps trying to find **** stories and stoke a fire over non existant issues.

Anyone who leads a mainstream news story with what someone said on social media needs removing from their position and ideally be strung up.
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Completely agree... But trying to cause anger and division while obfuscating relevant information with incomplete half truths seems to be a core part of our media's business model. Absolute disgrace, and feeds a lot of the extremism you see in other places like twitter imo (even though the twitter format is probably inherently toxic).

There are some journalists who like to claim that 'alternative' media are a threat to society, but they really need to take the plank out of their own eye first...
 
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