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777IRON t1_j8bo62h wrote

Reply to comment by Nanojack in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone

I once had a British woman get very upset with me when I informed her that curry and kebabs are not “British Cuisine”. She strongly disagreed.

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pineappleshnapps t1_j8bpxfs wrote

That’s awesome. They’ve adopted something so thoroughly that it’s become their national dish.

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psymunn t1_j8c70te wrote

Also many of the curries they eat were indeed invented in Britain (by Indian migrants). Butter chicken is British in the same way orange chicken is form California not China

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pseudangelos t1_j8ff44h wrote

I disagree too. Food culture travels and evolves. We have been eating curries in the UK since the 18th century - at what point do we get to call it our own?

It's as silly as telling an American that he can't consider pizza a national food because it comes from Italy.

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777IRON t1_j8fm08q wrote

I never said it wasn’t or couldn’t be a “national food”. I said it isn’t British Cuisine. Indian cuisine thriving in Britain doesn’t make it British cuisine.

There isn’t an American alive who calls Chinese food American, or Pizza American. They’ll call it’s Italian American cuisine at most.

Beef Wellington is British cuisine. I don’t claim it’s Canadian just because I can get it at the pub down the road.

Serious imperialist attitude on you. I can see you’ve kept that from the 18th century along with the curry.

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pseudangelos t1_j8hhk2j wrote

Embracing and celebrating influences from various world cultures is a 'serious imperialist attitude'? I suppose we're not allowed to consider tea part of UK culture either since we got it from trading too. Maybe we should also force India to rework most of its country's recipes to remove all the chillis and tomatoes they got from the Americas.

In fact, let's just force every country to only use ingredients and techniques from their own borders, and see what a marvelous world foodscape we have then.

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777IRON t1_j8kdq1o wrote

You are so dumb. If you go to an Indian restaurant in the UK, it’s still an Indian restaurant. It’s not a British restaurant.

It’s an Indian restaurant in Britain. No one’s advocating for banning curries in the UK.

Victim mentality is strong too you big baby.

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pseudangelos t1_j8krqmv wrote

Personal insults and an apparent inability to comprehend what I wrote. Bye.

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