Social media activists are demanding people stop using the word “curry” to describe one of their favourite take-out meals..Critics say calling it curry is a “British colonial” food description..California food blogger Chaheti Bansal, 27, who shares her home-cooking online, shared a video recipe recently where she called on people to “cancel the word curry”..In the video, watched by 3.6 million people so far, Bansal added: ‘Not in all cultures, but specifically in Indian cuisine because I don’t understand what that word means..“There’s a saying that the food in India changes every 100 km and yet we’re still using this umbrella term popularized by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes. But we can still unlearn,” she is quoted in the Daily Mail..Bansal also told NBC “curry shouldn’t be all that you think about when you think about South Asian food.”.The Mail said there are many different explanations for where the word curry came from, with the most popular being it was invented by the British who misheard the Tamil word ‘kari’ which means “sauce.”.Its first use dates back to the mid-eighteenth century when members of the British East India Trading Company were trading with Tamil merchants in southeast India..Indian food is the third most popular takeaway of choice for Brits during 2020, beaten only by Chinese and pizza..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
Social media activists are demanding people stop using the word “curry” to describe one of their favourite take-out meals..Critics say calling it curry is a “British colonial” food description..California food blogger Chaheti Bansal, 27, who shares her home-cooking online, shared a video recipe recently where she called on people to “cancel the word curry”..In the video, watched by 3.6 million people so far, Bansal added: ‘Not in all cultures, but specifically in Indian cuisine because I don’t understand what that word means..“There’s a saying that the food in India changes every 100 km and yet we’re still using this umbrella term popularized by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes. But we can still unlearn,” she is quoted in the Daily Mail..Bansal also told NBC “curry shouldn’t be all that you think about when you think about South Asian food.”.The Mail said there are many different explanations for where the word curry came from, with the most popular being it was invented by the British who misheard the Tamil word ‘kari’ which means “sauce.”.Its first use dates back to the mid-eighteenth century when members of the British East India Trading Company were trading with Tamil merchants in southeast India..Indian food is the third most popular takeaway of choice for Brits during 2020, beaten only by Chinese and pizza..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
