This'll lead to a fun game of Woke/Snowflake/ Cancel Culture Bingo

Don't think there's going to be many going down this rabbit hole.
It's a clickbait article about a clickbait source.
If it's a curry call it a curry. If it's something different call it that. If you don't know the difference and are expecting a curry caveat emptor.
Much ado about absolutely nothing.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39633603

"87 years ago, on 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment."

Now that's the definition of a different time.

Globalisation and the World Wide Web have a huge number of positives but deliberately controversial and divisive news going viral is definitely not one.

If you Google this subject you see news outlets from both sides of the divide preaching to their base. What we need to do is stop listening to the s**t stirrers on both sides.

 

Most interesting... from a Californian food blogger.

I'm sure there may be some partial truths in some quarters to some of what they are saying, but there will be plenty of people very aware of the rich and diverse food from "south east asia". Seems a very big catch all to lump such diverse countries, regions and provinces.

They'd do extremely well to find anyone with the slightest experience of say Vietnam or Laos, probably Cambodia and Malaysia too that would refer to any of their cuisine as "curry". You'd think such a vocal food blogger may be aware of that.

 

So I've just taken a look at 3 menus I have in the house.

All authentic Indian takeaways 2 of which are restaurants.

And all 3 mention on the menu the word Curry more than once.

And all 3 refer to this as one of the main traditional dishes with one even referencing a staff curry.

So.....

 

Just an aside. The cuisine we most often refer to as Indian.... is generally Bangladeshi.

 

If you're eating curry and call it curry then that's fine, obviously, but if you're eating something that's not curry but still call it curry, even when the menu or waiter tells you it's not curry, then that ignorant.

Don't really get why that's a controversial statement. Feel free to educate me as to where I went wrong with it

 

This is true.

As it was the Bangladesh community who decided to begin opening restaurants. Most other areas of India didn't want to go abroad and cook (if my memory serves me right)

 

Most of the takeaways and restaurants round here are pretty bog standard Bangladeshi in style. Down the years we've tried numerous and they are all pretty much of a muchness. A couple have "specials", the best one seems to have changed hands sadly and went down hill at a speed of knots.

We have got pretty good at cooking various asian dishes.

My favourite bar none is Nyonya, an old style cuisine thats sadly quite rare and dieing out in Malaysia. Had it in Kuala Lumpur. Fiery and aromatic but bursting with flavour.

 

It was my intention to call people ignorant. Because that's what it is. Too many people make excuses for others lack of care, it really should stop.

I'm not on a pedestal and if I am, it's definitely way lower than yours.

 

All part of the staple Scottish diet along with the deep fried Mars bar and Irn Bru.

 

It’s not ‘news’ it’s the ‘attention economy.’

Social media is an endless stream of distractions intended to keep you hooked because behind every distraction is someone trying to make money from your attention. The more extreme the distraction the better and polarising opinions is great because it draws in more attention. In short human beings, staring at a piece of glass, being battery farmed for profit.

 

Think you have misintepreted what he said. Didn't come across that way at all.

Came across to me that there's a small minority of folk that refer to all Asian food as curry... a bit like the woman Matt Lucas pretends to be when he's doing the fat fighters sketch in Little Britain... not criticising the masses for not being foodies as you appear to have interpreted it

 

Red Hot topic is this , think I will keep my opinion of a decent Ruby to myself , its called damage limitation !!!

 

I always liked that David Rogan Josh that used to play for us , tache was naff though

 

Sometimes ignorance is bliss!