why nobody knows what curry is

India has curry dish ( Kadhi made of chaas or dahi and gram flour with curry leaves )

Curry literally means meat and gravy.

I think that every culture just has a few dishes which are generalized like that too. Some recipes just have a room to free-style and because of it there are many varieties. Just like curry is different in each country, I'm willing to bet that in each individual countries the curry is prepared in a little different way in each home. In Poland we have a dish called 'bigos'. And being a Pole, I can just say that it is a kind of hotpot in which cabbage is the main ingredient. You go to any home in Poland and you will not find two families who cook it the same way. In some homes there will be two or more ways to cook it - the easy, in-one-sitting way, or hard three-days-of-preparation way. In my family, often males cook the 3-day-prep bigos - since they do not spend much time in the kitchen, cooking bigos once a year for an occasion is a fun change of pace for them :) So yeah, polish bigos is a little like the curry in that aspect :)

Thank you for sharing this beautiful quest to your personal questions, 🥰

It really irritates me when other Desis (or worse, white people) feign offence at the term curry.

Such a sweet video
Thank you :)

Wow. So by that logic, any food that we put black pepper on should be called pepper.

Curry is such a misnomer, as an Indian never could identify what constitutes as curry. Eating at a western restaurant serving Indian food everything tasted the same slop where's every single dish tasted different at home, maybe it is the different recipe or spice blend. In the end I concluded that it's the western people with bland taste buds and no sense of flavour and aroma could come up with something as ridiculous and bland as butter chicken and calling it sauce or curry.

Being Indian I never heard the word 'curry'

Our dishes are either
Dry
Semi Gravy
Gravy

No mention of Word curry in any of the dishes. Go to your local Indian restaurant and check the menu..

British jerks don't have their own cusine and they stole the Indian food like many other things and coined the term curry....

Beautiful video, and I'm very glad you acknowledged all the bits of family history. Hope you can pass it on to the coming generations too!

Curry is a 13th century English cooking technique that involves serving meat in gravy over rice. That doesn’t seem very ambiguous

kiełbasa is a polish word meaning "sausage". Any kind of sausage. However, when the word in used in English, it refers to a specific kind of polish sausage. Noone would call this racism.
Salsa is a spanish word meaning "sauce". Any kind of sauce. However, when the word is used in english, it refers to a specific kind of mexican sauce.
köttbullars is the swedish word meaning "meat balls". However, when the word is used in english, it refers to a specific kind of swedish meat balls.

That's the same effect with the word "curry". calling this racism just because this time india is involved shows how sensitive some people are.

You have to take it like you do with pizza. It may have originated in Italy, but the rest of the world is going to make it in the way that is authentic with those individual places. Hell even within Italy pizza varies place by place.

Im also half-Goan, half-Trini! Its such a rare combo, so Im really glad to see a creator like this making such meaningful content about our culture.

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Inshort Any thing Europe saw has liquid and other ingredients are curry😂

5:42 As a Jamaican this touched my soul

What fking nonsense! Who tf told this “professor” that pepper is called curry? Curry is a loanword from Tamil that means “meat” - could be the meat of veggies or animals. So it is always “something kari” not “curry something”. Don’t care what the Guyanese or Japanese or “Canadese” call it, it’s wrong. “Curry powder” - don’t care that it’s your mom’s “curry powder”; it’s an abomination! “Curry” is a low effort, racist word invented and used by the low iq westerners and it is telling that you consider that your “culture” that you grew up with. I don’t mean to gate keep here but you ABCDs should not talk about Indian culture unless you are actually connected to your roots and/or you are capable of doing proper research.

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People see an Indian spicy gravy like thing and just assume that's curry.

Absolutely wrong.... When the British came to india they reach at Bengal....
This is a colonial history... British teasted indian food their ....
In bengal the dishes are basically divided into two parts ... One which is dry dish is called " Vaja" and the other wet or soupy dish is called " tarkari" . And both contains adequate and very precise amount of spices .... Bengali dishes are one of the most delicious dishes in India. So from "Tarkari" they saw that every wet dishes with juice Bengali called them "kari" like "Machr Kari" or Macher jhol ( fish cury)" , Alur kari or Alur dom ( potato cury)" etc.
Thats how the word cury came from.

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We don't use dairy products in non veg food in India. It's westernised version like butter chicken. I never ate butter chicken but it seems popular abroad 😂

As a South Asian person who grew up in the subcontinent, to me, ''Curry'' has always been a foreign word, an English word, used to cater to foreigners. Here, every dish has its own name, and I hate it when a south asian person labels something as curry because it feels like they are erasing their culinary heritage and identity to fit in with the Western masses. I firmly believe it is a term created for the convenience of foreigners (The British Colonizers) who couldn't bother to learn the actual names of the dishes, and so that our cuisine would be seen as less ''barbaric'' by them.