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Default How Britain got the Hots for Curry

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:25:05 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:

>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> "Goomba" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Oh to be back in London having the absolute best curries of my life!
>>> (One day I must get to India!)
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8370054.stm

>>
>> You can have my share. If I ever get to India, I'd be looking for the
>> American hotels for my meals. I'd love to visit there for many
>> reasons, but the food is not one of them.

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>
>Try as I might, Indian food is a cuisine I could simply never dig. A *big*
>turn - off are the filthy conditions I've noticed in the Indian restaurants
>and stores I've visited...Indians simply have filthy habits. I won't even
>the visit the heavily Indian section of Chicago (North Side, along Devon
>Ave.) anymore because of the appalling amount of street litter that those
>people produce, it is *disgusting*...
>
>A whiles back one of the Wednesday paper food sections had a big cover
>article about the street and snack foods of India. The writer, from Bombay,
>was visiting her family there are taking one of her daughters for a first -
>time visit. She was describing some street vendors and I read no further
>when she was rapturously describing a fruit stand complete "with flies
>buzzing around the juicer"...


What's an Indian fruit juicer? Are you saying the gal was crushing
fruit between her legs and letting the juice run down into the bed pan
on which she was seated... do those saris really strain out all the
pips? LOL