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Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CanadaPlus 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gee, how far back does it have to go to be authentic? Tomatoes weren't in Italy until after Columbus brought them (of course after 1300), and didn't catch on until well after the later date mentioned of 1700, so there goes all of Italy's most famous dishes.

Hamburgers are American food. Not Native American food, but American. Next you're going to tell me baguettes are Middle Eastern food because grain was domesticated there, or that camel meat is Native American food because they evolved in America before crossing the land bridge in pre-human times.

[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Mate, naan wasn't invented in India...

It just wasn't.

It's Iranian food.

The only reason naan is in India, is one of the many people who conquered that area brought it there.

You can say it's popular there, but it's still not Indian food. Just a dish that's popular in India.

And I have zero idea what the tomatoes rant was about...

Italians got a new ingredient and incorporated it into existing dishes or made completely new ones. It's not like someone shiped spaghetti sauce to Italy and Italians just decided they should claim they invented it like you're doing with naan.

Or that someone from another country moved there and showed everyone how to make it like Butter Chicken.

They're just not comparable examples...

[–] CanadaPlus 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, tandoori naan is apparently popular across neighboring countries too. I'd say India can still claim some co-ownership, just like Europeans and their various loaf breads, but I guess that's a matter of definition, so sure, it's not exclusively Indian.

The dal dishes are Indian, though. Curries in general are Indian - that one goes all the way back to Harrapa IIRC. Since you seem intent on keeping score, that's 2 to 1.