You joke but today Curries are one of the most popular takeaway options in the UK. Only took us til after decolonisation.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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Some of them were invented in the UK. Unheard of in India
As a second gen Indian in the UK, so much of my family's dishes are based on sauces with tomatoes and chilli, many of them have potato. But none of these are actually native to India, these would have been brought over after the colonialisation of the Americas.
I vaguely remember some TIL post awhile back that essentially blamed some aristocrat with a sensitive stomach for the meme version of traditional British cuisine, under the auspices of WWII rationing. He apparently recommended cutting spice and overcooking veg both for "health" and import cost/availability reasons during wartime rationing, and this got swept up in the unified national "keep calm and carry on" wartime rhetoric as quintessentially British. Supposedly prior to the war, traditional cuisines in the isles generally were more flavorful and varied
so going backwards isn't just a new fascination for Brits
This is outrageous, it's unfair. How can you have tasty spices and not use them in your cuisine?
They used them for tea
FISH AND CHIPS INNIT
Curry on chips! 
I’m not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better.
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
"cheese"
You're not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better...what? What aren't you going to let it do?
Well if you don't going to, then definitely neither.
That’s a very good point, and will teach me for not proofreading when rewriting half a sentence twice!
I’m not going to let them mock our “cuisine”. There.
It was implied, but it's nice to have confirmation!
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
don’t worry this has never not been my plan 😸
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