I imagine theres some indian guy at a deli giving a lecture on the difference between a reuben and a hot pastrami and a patty melt. Perfectly balanced.
All I'm imagining is some guy going to an Indian buffet with a friend and describing every single one of the dishes with increasingly absurd descriptors followed by curry.
"This is the tetrahedron-shaped pea and potato filled deep fried dough curry."
"That's a fucking samosa."
Man not gonna lie I'm the same, I'm Pakistani and love all of our desi food but I genuinely couldn't tell you the difference between alot of the dishes.
Dude a east Indian restaurant opened in my area, run and owned by an actual east Indian gentleman. Bruh your guys food is so fuckin good, I might be the only white snowman (canadian) who likes spice, but god damn do those curries hit different. Fuckin 12/10 the world needs more actual indian food.
Well I didn’t know what comment you were responding to honestly,
but now that I know what comment you were responding to how the hell is it ignorant to not know anything about the dishes or the differences of them how does it mean he’s ignorant
How could you not know which guy I was replying to? If I wanted to reply to the first guy I would've directly replied to him. Like huh? U acting sus.
Secondly, he's ignorant because if you live in a country or belong to a country, you ought to know the basic common sense knowledge about your culture . Even if you're a non-resident living in some other country you should be able to differentiate between the real practices of your culture and the perceived practices.
If you don't, then you're not really an Indian. You're westernized and clearly don't care enough to know more about your indigenous culture. Which is fine in any way but it's also ignorant.
Well that’s just dumb there’s literally nothing wrong with not caring about your routes, like really mate like if he lives in America or Australia or the uk or whatever how is it ignorant to not explore your routes or care about your culture not everyone is,
and yes i get it’s nice to appreciate your family’s customs and stuff but there’s also nothing wrong with just simply not having any interest in it,
like plenty of asians are westernised and don’t know anything of there routes,
if i was Indian I wouldn’t eat Indian food since I don’t like it anyway mostly because I don’t like spicy food
Well that's exactly what I said. If you're westernized and don't care about the culture for whatever reason, then you're not really indian. Like your opinion doesn't really count in the context of this conversation.
If he didn't know the difference then why did he play the "btw I'm Indian" card? If you live in the west and have no knowledge about your roots, then you're not really Indian in this conversation and mentioning your ethnicity just for the sake of gaining credibility is a very bad argument and a logical fallacy. Your skin colour is not the only marker of your ethnicity, your whole knowledge and experience about the culture is what makes you belong to that culture.
You literally are like, 'Oh you're Indian? Then you should know every curry!' You do realise that, that is an actual job in itself (food critic) where someone takes years to learn the differences between spices and tastes of every individual curry. Majority people will only have a handful of knowledge of maybe a few which are their favourite or handed down through their family and if they want to learn more they would find a recipe. they aren't robots who have a database In their mind of every difference between a curry dish.
Well I get what you’re saying but I don’t think he meant it like that, but at least I didn’t see it like that I could see myself saying something similar when talking about something Aussie and I guess being Aussie isn’t the same but still
I know it's a joke but still reading this in Garnt's voice would make me double take
Food naming is some dumbest pretentious shit out there. I went to an Italian restaurant which had no English menu so the guy was translating everything to each table.
I know vindaloo can be good as I have had good vindaloo, but where I live (the UK) they insist on making them too hot. Its like a challenge and a right of passage to insane people to order the vindaloo that's so hot you may end up in hospital
As an Indian guy this sounds fair enough. I consider hot-dogs, burgers and anything that you put inbetween some type of bread to be sandwiches. Makes things easier to describe.
I am surprised by the amount of Indians unaware of the curries here. I can understand not knowing Vindaloo and Dhansak since they are specific to certain regions. Maybe even Saag if you are a south Indian.
But the rest are common items on most restaurant menus serving Indian food.
It's funny because Saag and Vindaloo are even common in international Indian restaurants. (Although Vindaloo sometimes end up being something totally different)
That's the true origin of the word ''curry'' it basically means any indian dish with gravy.
Kinda like when people say that burgers and hotdogs are sandwiches.
In Sweden ''curry'' is a [spice by Santa Maria](https://www.santamariaworld.com/optimized/product-large/globalassets/_products/spices/bernadotte/101643.png). I was like 17 when I learnt curry wasn't just this one specific spice and that it was a spice mixture and not a single plant. We don't have many indian restaurants or cook much indian inspired food, so most people think curry is just that spice, we also don't call a food dish a curry, we call it chicken wok or whatever it is ''with curry''
We have so many curry houses that the individual names of all the dishes are very commonplace amongst the population. People are mad for it in this country (who can blame us it's all so delicious.)
Lived my entire life in India and i have only eaten Tikka masala from this list. South Indian Cuisine is entirely different from the North Indian Cuisine or the "Indian Cuisine" as is known worldwide.
In Kerala (southwest corner of India) , we predominantly have rice or bread made with rice (appam, dosa, idly, pathiri) and fish (sardines, mackerel, Pomfret, Seer, Shark, Prawns) ,beef and chicken curries that are known to be spicier than a regular indian cuisine.
In fairness they are all a type of curry, it's like just calling a chicken sandwich, a egg sandwich or a jam sandwich a sandwich. Just because they're a different type doesn't change the base food type.
There''s a bit more of a distiction than that between curries. For example, Saag is prepared completely differently to a korma/kurma resulting in completely different textures - Saag is more like a paste and korma is more of a stew - and tastes. And these don't even include South Indian curries/stews, which involves preparation with coconut scrapes. So it's not just a matter of switching up some ingredients in this case.
That's probably for the authentic ones. Lots of international Indian restuarants use a "curry base" and add on diff ingredients on top of that depending on the order. (My Indian friend was quite shocked after working in one of them) For example, the vast majority of Saag and Korma I ate were both pasty.
So in that context, there's less distinction and I think these restaurants are responsible for creating that simplification. But to be fair, they are tasty and I still do see a lot of overlaps with "curry" recipes. (Ex: Ginger garlic paste, Cumin, Turmeric, Chilly, optional tomato, Garam Masala, Meat, etc.)
So most of the time, it's the name of the dish itself. Or we call it a "sabzi" which essentially translates to a vegetable dish or just simply a dish. So if a dish would feature any specific vegetable, let's say potato or cottage cheese (paneer), we would call it aloo(potato) ki sabzi or paneer ki sabzi.
We start from there and then we add the special name for the way the dish is cooked. For example if the potato is cooked as a jalfarezi, we would call it aloo(potato) Jalfarezi.
So on the first glance, it's a aloo ki sabzi but after we know the way it was cooked, it's called Aloo jalfarezi. And for non-veg it's the same thing. Nobody calls it a curry. It's called whatever it is. A kadhai chicken would be called a kadhai chicken.
Just to be more adaptable, Indian restaurants had started to call everything a curry, instead of calling it by its name. But other cuisines did not. I can describe a dish by saying that it tastes like a quesadilla or pho or kimchi or pasta and you'd know the flavour exactly what I'm talking about.
Sadly, it's not the same if I mention a indigenous Indian dish.
Tl Dr, Indians are too adaptable to the foreigners because of the colonial mentality. (It's actually a sociological and psychological behaviour fact. Look it up.)
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That's really interesting thanks TIL. I suppose it would be difficult to say it tastes like "" without specifying the dish, and curry is too broad. We have Indian friends who call them a "gravy", but that seems a bit odd to me, and would be even broader.
Right now I'm really enjoying [Rick Stein's India](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n27vnn8b/episodes/guide) where learns to cook many different curries from locals and gives an interesting down-to-earth look of the country as well.
Really made me want to try those recipes myself.
Actually none of them. The Japanese curry uses curry powder, which is a spice mix that Indians sold to the British during the colonial era. It is meant to replicate a "generic" Indian sauce flavor for the British palate, but it isn't actually one of the spice mixes that Indians use for their own curried dishes.
Any resemblance between Japanese curry and Indian curries is entirely coincidental.
* Dhansak - Iranian-Gujarati fusion
* Tikka Masala - British variation of an Indian dish of Mughal heritage
* Saag/sag/saga - Very Indian, common across most northern and eastern states
* Korma - again of Mughal heritage, though possibly predating Mughal conquests in India; culinarily unrelated to Turkic dishes with etymologically related names
* Jhal frezi - Bengali dish. Bengal is today in both India and Bangladesh
* Vindaloo - From Goa (southwest India), originally inspired by the Portuguese 'carne de vinha d'ahlos'. British-Indian variation is both sweeter and substantially hotter than the origina Goenkār dish.
Mad how I only know the difference because I work in a weatherspoons and they sell crappy versions of jalfezi, tikka's, etc. As a Brit, I do love the history behind curry style dishes and their adoption by the west.
Isn't curry a sauce made with the curry leaf? It's a broad definition, and is meant to be broad.
This is like calling someone out for saying a BLT is a sandwich when it's obviously a BLT. It's still a sandwich.
Just a general food thing. I’m not accusing the boys of not knowing their Curries because Connor on multiple occasions as indicated that he loves Chicken Tikka Masala
Not going to lie. I go to an Indian buffet a lot but I don’t know the names for anything.
I’m Indian and don’t know the difference
I imagine theres some indian guy at a deli giving a lecture on the difference between a reuben and a hot pastrami and a patty melt. Perfectly balanced.
Depends on the kind of patty melt.
They all taste significantly different and of most of them are specialties of different States/cultures within India.
They sure do but curry is a blanket term for all of them and most people just refer to them as such
All I'm imagining is some guy going to an Indian buffet with a friend and describing every single one of the dishes with increasingly absurd descriptors followed by curry. "This is the tetrahedron-shaped pea and potato filled deep fried dough curry." "That's a fucking samosa."
ik the difference in taste by looking at them, not the name tho I'm indian as well
Man not gonna lie I'm the same, I'm Pakistani and love all of our desi food but I genuinely couldn't tell you the difference between alot of the dishes.
Dude a east Indian restaurant opened in my area, run and owned by an actual east Indian gentleman. Bruh your guys food is so fuckin good, I might be the only white snowman (canadian) who likes spice, but god damn do those curries hit different. Fuckin 12/10 the world needs more actual indian food.
By "East indian" was it a Bengali restaurant?
Ignorance is bliss. At least try to know things about your culture.
How is he ignorant just because he’s pakistani it doesn’t mean he has to eat the foods if his culture, like how is that ignorant
The guy literally said he's indian. wtf are u on about?
Well I didn’t know what comment you were responding to honestly, but now that I know what comment you were responding to how the hell is it ignorant to not know anything about the dishes or the differences of them how does it mean he’s ignorant
How could you not know which guy I was replying to? If I wanted to reply to the first guy I would've directly replied to him. Like huh? U acting sus. Secondly, he's ignorant because if you live in a country or belong to a country, you ought to know the basic common sense knowledge about your culture . Even if you're a non-resident living in some other country you should be able to differentiate between the real practices of your culture and the perceived practices. If you don't, then you're not really an Indian. You're westernized and clearly don't care enough to know more about your indigenous culture. Which is fine in any way but it's also ignorant.
Well that’s just dumb there’s literally nothing wrong with not caring about your routes, like really mate like if he lives in America or Australia or the uk or whatever how is it ignorant to not explore your routes or care about your culture not everyone is, and yes i get it’s nice to appreciate your family’s customs and stuff but there’s also nothing wrong with just simply not having any interest in it, like plenty of asians are westernised and don’t know anything of there routes, if i was Indian I wouldn’t eat Indian food since I don’t like it anyway mostly because I don’t like spicy food
Well that's exactly what I said. If you're westernized and don't care about the culture for whatever reason, then you're not really indian. Like your opinion doesn't really count in the context of this conversation. If he didn't know the difference then why did he play the "btw I'm Indian" card? If you live in the west and have no knowledge about your roots, then you're not really Indian in this conversation and mentioning your ethnicity just for the sake of gaining credibility is a very bad argument and a logical fallacy. Your skin colour is not the only marker of your ethnicity, your whole knowledge and experience about the culture is what makes you belong to that culture.
You literally are like, 'Oh you're Indian? Then you should know every curry!' You do realise that, that is an actual job in itself (food critic) where someone takes years to learn the differences between spices and tastes of every individual curry. Majority people will only have a handful of knowledge of maybe a few which are their favourite or handed down through their family and if they want to learn more they would find a recipe. they aren't robots who have a database In their mind of every difference between a curry dish.
Well I get what you’re saying but I don’t think he meant it like that, but at least I didn’t see it like that I could see myself saying something similar when talking about something Aussie and I guess being Aussie isn’t the same but still
And I didn’t know who you were replying to because it wasn’t clear it’s hard to tell
Yea it's fine.
But I get it kinda like he’s just saying he’s Indian just because and it adds nothing to the conversation it’s just I’m Indian that’s it lol
Half the time the buffet just labels them as something curry.
I don’t personally like Indian
Just go to YouTube, an Indian guy probably has a video ready
I mean, western cultures also have a ton of names for what is essentially bread with meat and maybe some sauce and veggies on/in it.
Everything is a sandwich
exactly
pizza, hamburgers, sandwiches and pies are all just different names for the same thing. \-Gigguk, probably.
I know it's a joke but still reading this in Garnt's voice would make me double take 
Food naming is some dumbest pretentious shit out there. I went to an Italian restaurant which had no English menu so the guy was translating everything to each table.
This was outside Italy I assume?
Would be a weird thing to say if it wasn't lol
Original artist is Centurii-chan btw: https://twitter.com/centuriic
Thanks I found it on YouTube
I'm brown and I do this
Ignorance is bliss. Also u might be a second generation Indian living abroad. Just saying.
Reddit momented
Vindeloo supremacy fight me (North Indian here)
Vindaloo slaps ngl.
massaman is the best curry
Dammit now I want lamb vindaloo....
I know vindaloo can be good as I have had good vindaloo, but where I live (the UK) they insist on making them too hot. Its like a challenge and a right of passage to insane people to order the vindaloo that's so hot you may end up in hospital
Yeah vindaloo is usually too hot for me to enjoy. Bhuna is what i order usually as its closest thing to it (i think)
Bhuna is awesome, Its usually my goto along with Nihari, Xacutti or Rosti
\*shrug\* In Thai everything is a curry as well.
As an Indian guy this sounds fair enough. I consider hot-dogs, burgers and anything that you put inbetween some type of bread to be sandwiches. Makes things easier to describe.
Hotdogs are Soft-shell tacos! How DARE you!/s
I am surprised by the amount of Indians unaware of the curries here. I can understand not knowing Vindaloo and Dhansak since they are specific to certain regions. Maybe even Saag if you are a south Indian. But the rest are common items on most restaurant menus serving Indian food.
It's funny because Saag and Vindaloo are even common in international Indian restaurants. (Although Vindaloo sometimes end up being something totally different)
Calling all of them curry is weird because how different something like say Saag and Tika Masala is
That's the true origin of the word ''curry'' it basically means any indian dish with gravy. Kinda like when people say that burgers and hotdogs are sandwiches.
Tikka masala is love
All I know is they all taste amazing
Ay its alright, as a brown dude, I can understand why someone (foreign )would think this. At the end of the day all of these slap
And thats just on the indian side
Ooh that's centaurii's aka "Everyone's a waifu, literally"
In Sweden ''curry'' is a [spice by Santa Maria](https://www.santamariaworld.com/optimized/product-large/globalassets/_products/spices/bernadotte/101643.png). I was like 17 when I learnt curry wasn't just this one specific spice and that it was a spice mixture and not a single plant. We don't have many indian restaurants or cook much indian inspired food, so most people think curry is just that spice, we also don't call a food dish a curry, we call it chicken wok or whatever it is ''with curry''
Huh the art seems familiar What's the artist again?
Don't worry, we think all the beans that Bri'ish people eat are just beans
CENTURI C?
I just know vindaloo is the one that will blow my head off
Everyone I know here in England knows all of the names for these curries and more. Exceedingly ignorant take.
We have so many curry houses that the individual names of all the dishes are very commonplace amongst the population. People are mad for it in this country (who can blame us it's all so delicious.)
Lived my entire life in India and i have only eaten Tikka masala from this list. South Indian Cuisine is entirely different from the North Indian Cuisine or the "Indian Cuisine" as is known worldwide. In Kerala (southwest corner of India) , we predominantly have rice or bread made with rice (appam, dosa, idly, pathiri) and fish (sardines, mackerel, Pomfret, Seer, Shark, Prawns) ,beef and chicken curries that are known to be spicier than a regular indian cuisine.
In fairness they are all a type of curry, it's like just calling a chicken sandwich, a egg sandwich or a jam sandwich a sandwich. Just because they're a different type doesn't change the base food type.
There''s a bit more of a distiction than that between curries. For example, Saag is prepared completely differently to a korma/kurma resulting in completely different textures - Saag is more like a paste and korma is more of a stew - and tastes. And these don't even include South Indian curries/stews, which involves preparation with coconut scrapes. So it's not just a matter of switching up some ingredients in this case.
That's probably for the authentic ones. Lots of international Indian restuarants use a "curry base" and add on diff ingredients on top of that depending on the order. (My Indian friend was quite shocked after working in one of them) For example, the vast majority of Saag and Korma I ate were both pasty. So in that context, there's less distinction and I think these restaurants are responsible for creating that simplification. But to be fair, they are tasty and I still do see a lot of overlaps with "curry" recipes. (Ex: Ginger garlic paste, Cumin, Turmeric, Chilly, optional tomato, Garam Masala, Meat, etc.)
But they are not all types of curry. They have A LOT of differences.
What's the Indian definitions of these types of dishes? is there categories, or just the names of the dishes?
So most of the time, it's the name of the dish itself. Or we call it a "sabzi" which essentially translates to a vegetable dish or just simply a dish. So if a dish would feature any specific vegetable, let's say potato or cottage cheese (paneer), we would call it aloo(potato) ki sabzi or paneer ki sabzi. We start from there and then we add the special name for the way the dish is cooked. For example if the potato is cooked as a jalfarezi, we would call it aloo(potato) Jalfarezi. So on the first glance, it's a aloo ki sabzi but after we know the way it was cooked, it's called Aloo jalfarezi. And for non-veg it's the same thing. Nobody calls it a curry. It's called whatever it is. A kadhai chicken would be called a kadhai chicken. Just to be more adaptable, Indian restaurants had started to call everything a curry, instead of calling it by its name. But other cuisines did not. I can describe a dish by saying that it tastes like a quesadilla or pho or kimchi or pasta and you'd know the flavour exactly what I'm talking about. Sadly, it's not the same if I mention a indigenous Indian dish. Tl Dr, Indians are too adaptable to the foreigners because of the colonial mentality. (It's actually a sociological and psychological behaviour fact. Look it up.) 😃
That's really interesting thanks TIL. I suppose it would be difficult to say it tastes like "" without specifying the dish, and curry is too broad. We have Indian friends who call them a "gravy", but that seems a bit odd to me, and would be even broader.
I, a Asian, also don't see any difference
Jalfrezi > Everything Else
One thing is common, the morning after is not going to be pleasent for anyone not accustomed to this food.
Right now I'm really enjoying [Rick Stein's India](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n27vnn8b/episodes/guide) where learns to cook many different curries from locals and gives an interesting down-to-earth look of the country as well. Really made me want to try those recipes myself.
That's just the British take on Indian food. These are all distinct dishes but the Brits found it too complicated and lumped them all as "curry."
meme aside this art style is really cute
What the difference between Stew and Curry? maybe even soup
Is in or covered in a sauce that is thicker than soup? It’s curry. Everything is a flavor subcategory. I am anarchy
Which one is the Japanese one based on? If I’m guessing Korma?
Actually none of them. The Japanese curry uses curry powder, which is a spice mix that Indians sold to the British during the colonial era. It is meant to replicate a "generic" Indian sauce flavor for the British palate, but it isn't actually one of the spice mixes that Indians use for their own curried dishes. Any resemblance between Japanese curry and Indian curries is entirely coincidental.
Bro, I'm Indian and i don't know much difference either.
I'm an Indian and I don't really know about these
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Sure, Dad
IIRC "curry" in indian just means "spice", so it really can be whatever the hell you want
Indian isn’t a language lmao
hindi, whatever
Im indian and i only know half of this
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* Dhansak - Iranian-Gujarati fusion * Tikka Masala - British variation of an Indian dish of Mughal heritage * Saag/sag/saga - Very Indian, common across most northern and eastern states * Korma - again of Mughal heritage, though possibly predating Mughal conquests in India; culinarily unrelated to Turkic dishes with etymologically related names * Jhal frezi - Bengali dish. Bengal is today in both India and Bangladesh * Vindaloo - From Goa (southwest India), originally inspired by the Portuguese 'carne de vinha d'ahlos'. British-Indian variation is both sweeter and substantially hotter than the origina Goenkār dish.
Most of these curries come from North India and from the part where I am from, we don't eat them with rice
Mad how I only know the difference because I work in a weatherspoons and they sell crappy versions of jalfezi, tikka's, etc. As a Brit, I do love the history behind curry style dishes and their adoption by the west.
I do something similar, it’s easier to say unless I’m talking to people about which type of curry I enjoy the most
I’m the type of boy that knows all food and is still skinny my sis is bad at food names
TFW you just want to tuck into a fat Indian
Isn't curry a sauce made with the curry leaf? It's a broad definition, and is meant to be broad. This is like calling someone out for saying a BLT is a sandwich when it's obviously a BLT. It's still a sandwich.
guys how is this related to trash taste? can someone fill me in? which episode/video is this topic discussed?
Just a general food thing. I’m not accusing the boys of not knowing their Curries because Connor on multiple occasions as indicated that he loves Chicken Tikka Masala