Can A Curry Be Racist.

[webbo3]

Can a curry be racist, really?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6351085/Sainsburys-accused-lazy-casual-racism-golden-Persian-curry.html

\\Sainsbury's accused of 'lazy, casual racism' over its 'Persian curry' recipe//

\\But the dish sparked fury among some readers who labelled it a poor attempt at traditional Persian cuisine, and pointed out it featured ingredients that 'no Iranian will ever mix into a stew.'//
Fury ?

\\Readers took to social media to share their outrage after spotting the recipe.//
Outrage?

I wonder who made the recipie ?

[hereIam]

^ Me too, I used to love 'em !

[douglas9401]

I'm sure the 'chicken' was swan. :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Doug lights up the discussion :-)

[ichkeria]

They’re complaining, rightly or wrongly, about the authenticity of the dish. Not wholly unlike stew being called “Irish” because they’ve added Guinness :-)

[webbo3]

ichkeria.@15:21 and Jno @15:37
\\None of the comments quoted that I can see mention racism//
see the last line.the last line.
\\British Iranian Banafsheh Hay wrote to Sainsbury's chief executive, Mike Coupe, asking for an apology.

She told The Observer: 'To treat Iranian and Indian cuisines as virtually indistinguishable, despite knowing in reality they are very different, in order to save their readers the effort to learn about a new Iranian cuisine which the magazine wants to promote on its front cover smacks of lazy, casual racism and is abhorrent//

[jno]

it's not the curry that's being called racist, it's Sainsbury's, on the grounds that they think all Asians are alike. That's a pretty dumb thing to do if you're trying to sell regional dishes. If they tried claiming fish and chips were French they'd get an equally hostile reception.

[bainbrig]

Yes. It’s sloppy reporting, but it is also casual racism, or at least casual denigration of Johnny Foreigner, isn’t it.

[webbo3]

Bainbrig
\\Yes. It’s sloppy reporting, but it is also casual racism, or at least casual denigration of Johnny Foreigner, isn’t it//

whats racist about it.
definition of racist.

\\a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.//

[Jackdaw33]

I was going to say you couldn't make this up but obviously you can.

[sunny-dave]

I don't understand the problem - surely we've got the recipe now (from about 60 secs in) ...

[bainbrig]

Well, the denigration of Johnny Foreigner’s cuisine is bunging a spoonful of curry powder in a stew and calling it a curry.

Not sure how it works in reverse, UK ‘cuisine’ being so low-brow.

[pastafreak]

There's also the matter of putting pineapple on pizza...aarrgghhhhh!! Does that make it Hawaiian?

[douglas9401]

Not sure about curry as such but I had a black bean dish once and they were clearly white but coloured with a Magic Marker.

Poor taste.

[gulliver1]

Had a Edwina Curry last night, tasted of Salmonella

[bainbrig]

Ah, well I don’t eat salmon myself.

My old mum used to serve up two oven-baked beefburgers sprinkled with Empire Curry Powder on a bed of oven-baked pudding rice.

My old man, bless him, born and bred in Bengal, cheerfully ate it, and no, never once told her of curries he’d enjoyed in his youth.

Dear gentle man he was.

[-Talbot-]

Why didn't he teach her to make a better curry?

[bainbrig]

Because he was no chef, I suppose. He could make porridge.

[zebo]

The curries served in India bear no relation to the westernised curries, nor does the food served in China relate to your local take-away. Can we stop Chinese take-aways selling chips and fish?