Dude. It's okay. You don't have to pretend to not be Indian and it's okay for you to defend your food if you like it. We are doing the same thing with our food.
We're going to shit on yours because it does pretty much all taste the same, for the exact reason you said, it developed as a way to hide the taste of rotting meat, just like western cuisine did, and it does it very well.
We are laughing because our culture doesn't need to do that anymore and yours does. We don't try to defend our past overseasoning as a culinary choice like you are, it was a necessity. You're trying to convince us that the stuff we moved past as a civilization 300 years ago is actually super great just because other cultures haven't advanced far enough to leave it behind.
It's okay to laugh at yourself, it's okay to admit some cultures are superior to others, and it's okay to admit that it's funny that people still do some things in 2020.
I’m American of European descent. You don’t have to be in a culture to enjoy other cultures foods.
You’re making a lot of generalizations and assumptions about things I didn’t even bring up.
By the way, I never said I don’t eat or make western food, far from it. Most of our food is standard western fare. But as a hobby chef, I love to make and try all kinds of food.
Oh, here we go. That explains it. You think Indian food is what you see on Food Network.
It's not. That is what gourmet chefs have turned it into. It is as much Indian food as Kobe burgers with truffle oil and radicchio are American.
Take a trip to India. Eat the food they eat. It's curry. It's all curry. It's curried goat, or curried chicken, or vegetable curry. Yeah, they have some dishes that sound like they're not curry, but do you know what every woman in India puts into every single dish she makes?
Curry. Lots of it. Because they think that's what food is supposed to taste like because that's what their food has tasted like for 1000 years and that's how their mother and grandmother and great grandmother taught them to do it.
Even the street foods are nothing but curry. I had chicken from a skewer roasted over open flame figuring at least that would probably not be full of curry after a week of eating nothing but curried everything. The guy pulls a skewer off the fire looking delicious, starts to wrap it up, and literally takes a handful of fucking curry powder and coats the whole thing in it before he hands it to me. Just raw fucking curry powder.
The foods you are going to make as a hobby chef in America are not what Indians eat, they're what American chefs came up with after going to India and coming home to make it all taste better. Sorry, but it's true.
No shit Sherlock. The vast majority of Indian food in the US is not authentic, much like “Chinese” and others.
This does not mean their food does not have variety or good flavor. Your argument doesn’t mean much. Even if the version of the food here isn’t completely authentic, much of the same ingredients and flavors are present and they are delicious.
People here aren’t cooking to mask rotten meat, they are using fresh ingredients.
Either way, the goal posts on this conversation have shifted and we could keep going round and round. If you don’t like the food, Indian, American-Indian or otherwise, fine by me. If you think they are sub standard people or culture, that’s your prerogative. I have issues with their culture and other cultures as well, including ours. Don’t forget the plank in your eye ;)
Dude. It's okay. You don't have to pretend to not be Indian and it's okay for you to defend your food if you like it. We are doing the same thing with our food.
We're going to shit on yours because it does pretty much all taste the same, for the exact reason you said, it developed as a way to hide the taste of rotting meat, just like western cuisine did, and it does it very well.
We are laughing because our culture doesn't need to do that anymore and yours does. We don't try to defend our past overseasoning as a culinary choice like you are, it was a necessity. You're trying to convince us that the stuff we moved past as a civilization 300 years ago is actually super great just because other cultures haven't advanced far enough to leave it behind.
It's okay to laugh at yourself, it's okay to admit some cultures are superior to others, and it's okay to admit that it's funny that people still do some things in 2020.
I’m American of European descent. You don’t have to be in a culture to enjoy other cultures foods.
You’re making a lot of generalizations and assumptions about things I didn’t even bring up.
By the way, I never said I don’t eat or make western food, far from it. Most of our food is standard western fare. But as a hobby chef, I love to make and try all kinds of food.
Oh, here we go. That explains it. You think Indian food is what you see on Food Network.
It's not. That is what gourmet chefs have turned it into. It is as much Indian food as Kobe burgers with truffle oil and radicchio are American.
Take a trip to India. Eat the food they eat. It's curry. It's all curry. It's curried goat, or curried chicken, or vegetable curry. Yeah, they have some dishes that sound like they're not curry, but do you know what every woman in India puts into every single dish she makes?
Curry. Lots of it. Because they think that's what food is supposed to taste like because that's what their food has tasted like for 1000 years and that's how their mother and grandmother and great grandmother taught them to do it.
Even the street foods are nothing but curry. I had chicken from a skewer roasted over open flame figuring at least that would probably not be full of curry after a week of eating nothing but curried everything. The guy pulls a skewer off the fire looking delicious, starts to wrap it up, and literally takes a handful of fucking curry powder and coats the whole thing in it before he hands it to me. Just raw fucking curry powder.
The foods you are going to make as a hobby chef in America are not what Indians eat, they're what American chefs came up with after going to India and coming home to make it all taste better. Sorry, but it's true.
No shit Sherlock. The vast majority of Indian food in the US is not authentic, much like “Chinese” and others.
This does not mean their food does not have variety or good flavor. Your argument doesn’t mean much. Even if the version of the food here isn’t completely authentic, much of the same ingredients and flavors are present and they are delicious.
People here aren’t cooking to mask rotten meat, they are using fresh ingredients.
Either way, the goal posts on this conversation have shifted and we could keep going round and round. If you don’t like the food, Indian, American-Indian or otherwise, fine by me. If you think they are sub standard people or culture, that’s your prerogative. I have issues with their culture and other cultures as well, including ours. Don’t forget the plank in your eye ;)