Chicken tikka masala would like a word.
Was gonna say, didn’t the Brits basically invent some curry dishes? Still, there ain’t any British restaurants, tells me what I need to know.
That the name of their unofficial national dish is in Persian/Hindi also suggets something, but I’m sure I don’t know what…
Colonization. But that was the insinuation of the post, that they colonized the world and have nothing to show for it. But in reality there is a lot of cultural exchange that happened.
Well, there’s no “British cuisine” per se, but there are British restaurants. For example a pretty famous and influential one. Also, most pubs serve food and those are now pretty much everywhere in the world, that’s quite British, isn’t it? Dunno the history, but I always associated it with the Brits, maybe I’m wrong.
British people love curries and other spicy things. For most people curries, biriyanis are going to be in the rotation. Even “traditional” British food will usually have things like black pepper, nutmeg, mace, ginger, cumin, cloves, mustard, bay leaves, juniper berries in it. More recently cumin, paprika, tumeric, coriander, curry powder might be thrown into dishes.
Reminder that curry is british.
Cleopatra ate curry. A Scottish chef, of Indian descent, just happened to invent Chicken Tikka Masala in Scotland.
Cleopatra was British.
Edited.
So Americans eat Scottish cuisine sans haggis?
