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As a Brit. I see nothing wrong here
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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.
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'.
We also gave currywurst to the Germans
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But that's just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.
Good luck getting a decent fry-up in any of those hellholes.
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.
Exactly.
And India doesn't have chillies add Italy doesn't have tomatoes... Where do we stop?
Fun fact: Britain didn't invent roasting hunks of meat. Or Sundays. Or the combination thereof.
That's not a real thing. That's just something English people say to sound whimsical.
Correct. Only Neolithic cultures have their own foods.
Edit since it's apparently not as obvious as I thought it would be: jk π
Apple crumble is 100% a real thing and itβs delicious with warm custard.
I know lol, I was kidding around π
Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.
Slightly ho-hum fact: I was being quite tongue in cheek throughout π
Oblivious fact: Me
Except all the most popular curries in the UK aren't Indian, they're British, and infact pretty much any curry outside of southern Asia was introduced by the British (or occasionally Portuguese) like Japanese curry for example.