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Food bloggers want to cancel the word ‘curry’ over British colonialism roots
Faster than you can say “Chrissy Teigen” comes word of the latest thing people want cancelled: Curry.
No, no, not the actual food, but the word itself.
South Asian food bloggers argue that the British colonial term is not only massively incorrect but massively overused.
Earlier this year, Chaheti Bansal posted a video on Instagram in which she called out the confusing word and suggested that we “cancel the word ‘curry,’” as she cooked up some delicious grub
“I have more important things to discuss like cancelling the word ‘curry,’ ” she says in the voiceover. “OK, not in all cultures but specifically in Indian cuisine ‘because I don’t understand what that word means.”
Well, to be fair, Bansal totally knows what the word means, whether it’s referring to the powder used to enhance certain dishes or when someone is attempting to “curry favour” and ingratiate themselves by using flattery.
What Bansal is referring to is the generalization of the word and lazy white folks who use the word because they don’t know any better.
“Like, there’s a saying that the food in India changes every 100 kilometres, and yet we’re still using this umbrella term popularized by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes — but we can still unlearn.”
‘Curry’ isn’t even South Asian. It was created by the British and has since become associated with dishes that are “smelly, messy and unrefined,” University of Vermont Professor Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst told NBC News.
“’Curry’ is one of these words that most historians attribute to the British bad ear,” said Morgenstein Fuerst, explaining that British colonizers likely misheard the Tamil word “kari,” which can mean anything from “blackened” to “side dish,” depending on the region.
But kari is definitely not the same as curry.
White people wanted food that was spiced but not too much, fragrant but not smelly, explained the professor, whose work focuses on South Asia.
“And that lack of temperance, in our food, or in our emotionality, is a problem,” Morgenstein Fuerst told NBC News. “That’s one of the things that is rooted in white, Christian supremacy.”
Bansal told NBC News she doesn’t want “curry” totally cancelled, particularly when it’s used properly.
“My partner is Sri Lankan, I have friends that are Malayali, friends that are Tamil, and, yes, they use the word ‘curry,’” she said. “I enjoy their curry. Even their curry names have very specific traditional names paired with it, or it’s referring to something very specific. But you shouldn’t just lump all of our foods together under this term.”
Fine, whatever, can we just eat? Who else is hungry?
Food bloggers want to cancel the word ‘curry’ over British colonialism roots
Faster than you can say “Chrissy Teigen” comes word of the latest thing people want cancelled: Curry.
No, no, not the actual food, but the word itself.
South Asian food bloggers argue that the British colonial term is not only massively incorrect but massively overused.
Earlier this year, Chaheti Bansal posted a video on Instagram in which she called out the confusing word and suggested that we “cancel the word ‘curry,’” as she cooked up some delicious grub
“I have more important things to discuss like cancelling the word ‘curry,’ ” she says in the voiceover. “OK, not in all cultures but specifically in Indian cuisine ‘because I don’t understand what that word means.”
Well, to be fair, Bansal totally knows what the word means, whether it’s referring to the powder used to enhance certain dishes or when someone is attempting to “curry favour” and ingratiate themselves by using flattery.
What Bansal is referring to is the generalization of the word and lazy white folks who use the word because they don’t know any better.
“Like, there’s a saying that the food in India changes every 100 kilometres, and yet we’re still using this umbrella term popularized by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes — but we can still unlearn.”
‘Curry’ isn’t even South Asian. It was created by the British and has since become associated with dishes that are “smelly, messy and unrefined,” University of Vermont Professor Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst told NBC News.
“’Curry’ is one of these words that most historians attribute to the British bad ear,” said Morgenstein Fuerst, explaining that British colonizers likely misheard the Tamil word “kari,” which can mean anything from “blackened” to “side dish,” depending on the region.
But kari is definitely not the same as curry.
White people wanted food that was spiced but not too much, fragrant but not smelly, explained the professor, whose work focuses on South Asia.
“And that lack of temperance, in our food, or in our emotionality, is a problem,” Morgenstein Fuerst told NBC News. “That’s one of the things that is rooted in white, Christian supremacy.”
Bansal told NBC News she doesn’t want “curry” totally cancelled, particularly when it’s used properly.
“My partner is Sri Lankan, I have friends that are Malayali, friends that are Tamil, and, yes, they use the word ‘curry,’” she said. “I enjoy their curry. Even their curry names have very specific traditional names paired with it, or it’s referring to something very specific. But you shouldn’t just lump all of our foods together under this term.”
Fine, whatever, can we just eat? Who else is hungry?
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