Question mark moment

[lexin]

I'm looking at Tesco's site, ordering my food delivery for Thursday, and under "British meals" I find the following:

Katsu chicken curry
King prawn and chicken paella*
King prawn linguine and
Shredded hoisin duck noodles

Obviously their working idea of what constitutes "British" is a bit different from mine.

* I've tried it and and it was revolting.

Comments

[watervole]

I could almost believe the curry, but noodles?

[lexin]

I thought the same. And the fact that the curry was such a specific flavour of curry - if it had just been 'chicken curry', I think I'd have let it pass.

[sollers]

Sounds about right for this neck of the woods (judging from people ahead of me at the supermarket checkouts)

[aunty_marion]

I understood that Chicken Tikka Masala had taken over from Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pud (+ All The Trimmings) as the National 'British' Dish... *g*

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Chicken tikka masala. Mmmmmmm....

[actionreplay.livejournal.com]

Curry is British. Not so sure about the lunguine or hoi sin duck noodles.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose that's true. I've had curry in Indian people's houses, but it's not the same kind of curry...

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

Curries back in Malaysia are very different too. Quite apart from adaptations for local tastes, a British Indian friend once told me that most curry houses in this country were run by people of Bangladeshi descent whereas I believe the Indian descent population in Malaysia are mainly from South India.

Actually, somewhere on my shelf I have a book simply called Curry which is supposed to be a history of how Britain and India have influenced each other's cuisines. Really must get round to reading it some time!

[lexin.livejournal.com]

As I said to someone on my DW account, if they'd just listed it as 'chicken curry', I think I'd have let it pass. It was the fact that it was such a specific flavour of curry which make me go "?"

[grandad42.livejournal.com]

chicken tikka masala was invented in scotland when somsbody asked for gravt with tandori chicken. a couple of years ago an enclish style curry house opened in india

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

It's the weird mixtures of different cuisines that get me - Iceland do a chicken tikka lasagna. Ick!

[aunty_marion]

I've seen that. Also, chicken tikka pizza.