• @Redacted
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    164 hours ago

    Yeah never got this. The nation’s favourite dish is curry. My favourite dish is curry. Isn’t it a running joke amongst Indians how much the Brits love curry?

    Things like beans on toast and fish finger sandwiches are cheap and easy lunch snacks for students but not our actual diet.

    • @thawed_caveman
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      83 hours ago

      But that’s just hte thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.

      • @Redacted
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        123 hours ago

        Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven…

        But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else’s cuisines.

        By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          01 hour ago

          Stops carving the Sunday roast

          Fun fact: Britain didn’t invent roasting hunks of meat. Or Sundays. Or the combination thereof.

          apple crumble

          That’s not a real thing. That’s just something English people say to sound whimsical.

          By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.

          Correct. Only Neolithic cultures have their own foods.

          • @Redacted
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            21 hour ago

            Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              21 hour ago

              Slightly ho-hum fact: I was being quite tongue in cheek throughout 😁

              • @Redacted
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                257 minutes ago

                Oblivious fact: Me

    • @[email protected]
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      113 hours ago

      Yep, just seems disingenuous to act like the history of the spice trade hasn’t affected our food culture when it clearly has massively. Hell, even curry in Japan is popular not because of India but because of British influence. The reason “Katsu Curry” is called Katsu is because of the English word “Cuts” referring to the cuts of meat in the curry, which is Japanese sounds like ‘katsu’.

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