The real proof BA is no longer 'British'...
Jun 25, 2017, 2:41 pm
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It's also a matter of practicality. It's easier to eat items like rice, mash potato and beans using the fork with your dominant hand in the "scooping" style.
Jun 25, 2017, 2:44 pm
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FYI the American style also originated from Europe. It's like blaming us for calling football "soccer" when the word "soccer" also originated in the UK.
It's also a matter of practicality. It's easier to eat items like rice, mash potato and beans using the fork with your dominant hand in the "scooping" style.
It's also a matter of practicality. It's easier to eat items like rice, mash potato and beans using the fork with your dominant hand in the "scooping" style.
Jun 25, 2017, 2:55 pm
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Thankfully in the UK it was released as 'My Life As A Courgette".
Jun 25, 2017, 3:08 pm
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FYI the American style also originated from Europe. It's like blaming us for calling football "soccer" when the word "soccer" also originated in the UK.
It's also a matter of practicality. It's easier to eat items like rice, mash potato and beans using the fork with your dominant hand in the "scooping" style.
It's also a matter of practicality. It's easier to eat items like rice, mash potato and beans using the fork with your dominant hand in the "scooping" style.
BTW eating with hands brings you closer to your food ( nourishment) and allows you to feel the texture, temperatures etc, enhancing the pleasures of eating!
Jun 25, 2017, 3:21 pm
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But the only dubbed versions I can find call him zucchini. I want to watch the French one again anyway but I can't find it, so I'll wait til DVD. I absolutely loved this film. We have a fab independent cinema in sheffield (showroom) which plays many foreign films so it maybe on again soon. Sorry to go off topic!!!
Jun 27, 2017, 10:28 am
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But the only dubbed versions I can find call him zucchini. I want to watch the French one again anyway but I can't find it, so I'll wait til DVD. I absolutely loved this film. We have a fab independent cinema in sheffield (showroom) which plays many foreign films so it maybe on again soon. Sorry to go off topic!!!
Jun 27, 2017, 8:35 pm
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As in, was it invented in the UK? Then quite British 
Or is the question "is it liked by many British citizens/ residents?", then it is the most British of dishes.
One reading of the post suggests we should look beyond citizenship and residency to ethnicity at which point you need to seriously ask how British any food with Norman and/ or Viking links really is. This would suggest it's the potato which is the real foreign cancer.
Or is the question "is it liked by many British citizens/ residents?", then it is the most British of dishes. One reading of the post suggests we should look beyond citizenship and residency to ethnicity at which point you need to seriously ask how British any food with Norman and/ or Viking links really is. This would suggest it's the potato which is the real foreign cancer.
Jun 28, 2017, 12:47 am
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The late Robin Cook, and former UK Foreign Secretary, certainly described it as a true British national dish, the context of a conversation where various other dishes associated with the UK seemed to be of foreign origin. Since there is no record of the dish existing before 1971, which is unusual given India's cultural traditions, this lends credence to it being invented in Glasgow about that time, and Glasgow is not that far from Robin Cook's former constituency. One Glasgow MP made a half hearted attempt to get Tikka Masala EU "protected designation of origin" status, would would have restricted future manufacture of tikka masala to the Glasgow area. I can't think of anything else with PDO status in Glasgow (even Buckfast is English).
Jun 28, 2017, 2:17 am
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Jun 29, 2017, 5:18 am
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Jul 2, 2017, 8:13 pm
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The late Robin Cook, and former UK Foreign Secretary, certainly described it as a true British national dish, the context of a conversation where various other dishes associated with the UK seemed to be of foreign origin. Since there is no record of the dish existing before 1971, which is unusual given India's cultural traditions, this lends credence to it being invented in Glasgow about that time, and Glasgow is not that far from Robin Cook's former constituency. One Glasgow MP made a half hearted attempt to get Tikka Masala EU "protected designation of origin" status, would would have restricted future manufacture of tikka masala to the Glasgow area. I can't think of anything else with PDO status in Glasgow (even Buckfast is English).
BTW I do recall the dish Chicken Tikka Masala on Indian menus a long long time ago , predating 1971.
Jul 3, 2017, 3:08 am
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