Indian Restaurant Forced to Close Due to Odor Complaints (Can't make this shit up).
(vancouver.citynews.ca)
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All food tastes best when Western food standards are applied to them.
I'm guessing 'authentic' didn't include that in this case.
Authentic Indian spices includes actual honest to God cow shit.
I imagine there's plenty of human (well jeet) shit in there as well.
Have to use enough spices to qualify as a chemical weapon to cover up the bad quality of the ingredients.
I've seen videos of the piss drinkers arguing that it's superior, and that makes them superior to the cow dung lovers. And, in a sad way, that's true. But, they also argued the same vs milk drinkers, so...
How about we ransack the place, do a fast 80% of all the world's archaeologists on hand excavation of the big cities, to get everything of value, from like 4000+ years ago, and nuke it from orbit?
Skip to the last step. I don't think there's anything worth preserving.
Most things are worth preserving as long as they are properly contextualized. The exceptions being those that are an active threat and those which are too costly to maintain. India is a shithole but that itself makes it worthy of documentation. Think of the wealth of knowledge that it could provide to writers of many high concept genres.
As much as I hate them I have to admit that Indians are one of the most fascinating peoples I've heard of, if not for seeing how they live and act I would never have thought it possible for such a group to survive.
"authentic" Indian means cooking with your feet on the ground (and I don't mean that in the "well where else would your feet be" sense).
The feet don't go on the ground. They go on the food.
I'd honestly like to see ethnicity, economic, and regional, backgrounds of different Indians, wrt disgust.
One of my favorite hole in the walls ever made Indian street food, and it was delicious. They had open doors to the kitchen, which always looked hygienic, a single always clean bathroom, 100 health inspection scores every time, and it didn't smell any stronger than a typical Thai or Vietnamese restaurant. The food wasn't spiced to Hell and back, and they instead relied on the pungency of fresh veggies for much of the flavor and aroma. But, it was still Indian AF.
Other places have been in between that and needing a hazmat suit. I make a point to go to the bathroom, on the first visit to any Indian or SEA type place, grocery stores included, and sometimes I've noped right out, from that. Given how much disgust response appears to be genetic, it would be a safe bet that they are from not only different caste origins, but likely very disparate in other ways, too.
I've done that not just ethnic food but western too. Had friends go to a place in a more run down area, looked inside, skin crawled, noped out and just settled with a chocolate bar from a shop nearby.
It's those instincts that means I have to date NEVER had food poisoning.
Good trick re the toilet.