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How Britain got the Hots for Curry
brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:25:05 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
> > wrote:
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>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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>>> "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
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>>> 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"...
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> 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
Heehee, Sheldon...
;-)
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Best
Greg
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