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[–] UltraMagnus0001 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I remember John Oliver jokingly said on Steven Cobert that his favorite British food is a good curry.

[–] gmtom 8 points 5 months ago

That's not really a joke though? There are lots of curries that were invented in the UK and the British are actually the ones that introduced curry to most of the world and the curries you get pretty much anywhere outside of South Asia are British curries or based on British curries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That’s what Padme wants in this image macro though

Brit’s do pies though, anything in a pie then it’s British. A curry pie then there you go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Tikka Masala is a British dish.

It is the colonialism you see.

[–] undergroundoverground 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You think that's bad, wait until you hear Americans trying to claim apple pie or pizza.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

American style pizza actually has an interesting history and impact on cuisine.

[–] undergroundoverground 4 points 5 months ago

Its as American as British curry is British.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Wait until you hear the Italian story

[–] Jumpingspiderman 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, pizza in its best known iteration originally was from Naples and parts South. When Italian-American GI's (most were descended from immigrants from Southern Italy where they had pizza) were helping to rid Italy of Nazi's during WWII, they were aghast that places North of Naples didn't have pizza. These formerly pizza-free zones then started making pizza to sell to the GI's and thus to this day you can find pizza even in places as North as around Lake Como. So pizza is more American in Northern Italy than it is Italian.

[–] undergroundoverground 4 points 5 months ago

I mean, not being that popular in the place it was invented doesn't mean Americans can claim to have invented it which is the subject at hand.

[–] samus12345 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Italian pizza is pretty different than American.

[–] undergroundoverground 1 points 5 months ago

British curries are very different to Indian ones. Far more different than "more cheese and bread", like American style pizza.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

very possible for a region to validly claim a certain iteration of a food, even if it originated elsewhere.

for example, anglo-indian food would not exist without british influence. in the same fashion, american pizza, hamburgers, american-italian beef and US “chinese food”, while not utterly distinct from their precursors, are iterations of the cuisine that would never have come about in their countries of origin.

[–] undergroundoverground 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Youre kind of making my point. My point was much more "if you think that's bad, you should see this" as opposed to "it can't be done." For example, the curries from the UK are very different to anything youd get on the Indian sub-continent.

Claiming apple pie is a outrageous though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

fair enough lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They can keep whatever that shit they do in Chicago is though. Nobody else wants credit for that.

[–] FenrirIII 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] UltraMagnus0001 1 points 5 months ago