Question of the day: Curry exists in India, true or false?
The food in India is very spicy, I don’t think I need to add more than that. The food isn’t like the Swedish food at all and I’m not sure yet if it is for the better. The pain food in India is placed on a plate of steal which has different parts that are divided on the plate. You fill these different parts with food; like in one part you can have rice, the second turmeric, the third chili etc. But the Swedish plain food in the other hand could be potatoes with meatballs and brown sauce.
Something that is very common in India are the dishes chapatti and parathas which both are bread. Chapati is made of wheat and looks like a pancake. Parathas is like chapatti, they just add butter and oil to the course. I think the food in India is pretty amazing, you can see their culture through their dishes. But in Sweden there are so many influences of other countries that you can’t understand its culture, maybe on midsummer, but how many times to we celebrate that. On the same time I’m happy we have been influenced by different countries, I would have died if I was forced to eat potatoes every day.
How they eat food is different from Sweden as well. They eat with their hands, or one hand to be correct. And to be precisely, they eat with their right hand, because with the other hand they do something else…
To sum up everything I think that India has a beautiful food culture. But it isn’t something for me. I like that Sweden has been influenced by many other countries, we have a rich food selection. But with that said, we don’t have the amazing food culture that India has. My prejudice for the food of India was pretty much correct. Their food was spicy and gave me stomach disease sometimes. I think I’ve loosen 20 pounds so far.
The answer to the question:
False: We have been influenced by India, like the spice curry. But the curry that exists in our kitchen doesn’t exist in India. Curry is a mix of many different spices, but the Indian spice masala which means mixture is pretty close to our spice.
// agnes
It seems that the Indian food is very spicy just like the African food. Even if not the South African food is that spicy as it sounds that the Indian food is. I think that the food culture in South Africa is smaller and more influenced by other countries then India. But still it have their typical dishes exact like India has. Even if it’s not the same.
It seems like there is a big difference between the food in the United States and the food in India. The Indian food seems to be more spicy. In the United States, fast food is more common than in India.
