Our sailors introduced it to Japan when they opened up the country. So our curry is based on on Indian food, but adapted to our tastes. Then Japanese curry was based on the British version of curry, but adapted to their tastes. Both have their origin in Indian food but are now their own thing. Even the word curry itself is more of a British thing than an Indian one afaik.
The other poster seems to think that because the origin of a dish is not the UK then it doesn't count as UK food. I'm asking if the other poster, considering their opinions of food that came to the UK and was adapted, would they also hold the same opinion of a meal like Japanese curry and say that it isn't a Japanese dish.
Having said that, what im getting at would be like someone from a state far from mexico putting plain mince beef in a tortilla and someone from Mexico calling that a "white people taco".
Just a bit of banter about terrible kebabs some of our places make.
no chance it's better for that than the durum kebabs you can get in Spain. there's a reason they're exclusively by clubs, and they're as big as your head
True but in UK it's definitely worth mentioning we're relatively good at a variety of cuisines ranging from takeaway grade to world class restaurants. My mexican fiancé was blown away with the quality of some of the mexican food she had here (most of the chains are shit though) and also loves our drinks and snacks.
You get an enormous variety and there's a degree of fusion and adaptation to local palettes. We're far less nationalistic and traditionalist when it comes to food than most of our European peers which lets us be more adventurous and experimental. I think that's partly why British food gets mocked, because it's very much pigeonholed into what is and isn't British to a degree you don't see with other cuisines whereas we're quite eager to adopt and adapt other's dishes.
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u/ngms 22d ago
Did you ever get drunk and end the night with a kebab? Its not "good", but it is amazing.