do americans eat curry?

[gatso]

I was speaking to one of my translators (a ukrainian who's lived in new york for the last 12 years) last week and told him that as soon as I got back to the UK I was going to have a curry. He had no idea what I was talking about even after a lenthy description was given. Surely it can't be true that americans don't eat the stuff, I thought they eat anything.

[Claw75]

yeah, i had an american friend that liked curry.  he just called it 'indian food' though

[gatso]

did he know it from the US though or from travelling? this guy had no idea what indian food might be

[Dewi_cool]

indian food is buffalo no?

[Claw75]

did he know it from the US though or from travelling? this guy had no idea what indian food might be

He'd eaten it there - he lives in LA.

[bobby1]

Americans do eat curry but obviously think they invented it and call it spicy US food. They also have curry eating contests that only US people can enter and then call them 'World Champion'....or is that just all their other sports??

[gatso]

indian food is buffalo no?

lol

did he know it from the US though or from travelling? this guy had no idea what indian food might be

He'd eaten it there - he lives in LA.

that's such a relief, I've been worrying about this all week.

[Laxie]

I do, but to be fair, was never exposed to it until I moved to Ireland.  In Ohio you'd be looking long and hard for a good curry house.  We lived in New York for 7 years and they had them there (called Indian restaurants) but we never called in.  Pity it took me so long to appreciate 'other food options'.

[Royal Flush]

I remember living in the states whenever we went to pickup at the Indian half the people in the restaurant were always English.