indian food vs. italian food

I am a youngish indian male so old ladies behind the register in indian stores always feel pity for me or something whenever I show up to the counter w/ things to buy, like they figure out what I'm making by looking at the ingredients and bark out orders at me to pick the shit I'm forgetting up off the shelf back there, no to the right, above the yellow thing, the yellow thing to the left, and then they finally walk over and take it off and walk back to the register and ring me up with a big sigh

aero makes a v good point about the spiciness of italian food, but alas

I generally make my italian food kind of spicy anyway

i haven't been able to find fenugreek at the regular supermarkets, but i may break down and order some from the net.

Grew up with an Italian mom. Had my fill. Indian.

I am a youngish indian male so old ladies behind the register in indian stores always feel pity for me or something whenever I show up to the counter w/ things to buy, like they figure out what I'm making by looking at the ingredients and bark out orders at me to pick the shit I'm forgetting up off the shelf back there, no to the right, above the yellow thing, the yellow thing to the left, and then they finally walk over and take it off and walk back to the register and ring me up with a big sigh

this story made me laugh hard

a friend of mine was a dishwasher at an Italian place in California when he was sixteen and his boss was Mama D., aka the owner's wife who'd put her in charge of the kitchen. She was from Italy and made the dishwashers sweep the parking lot and the part of Foothill Boulevard in front of the restaurant before closing.

The speed limit on that part of Foothill then was, iirc, 50 miles per hour.

I recently got a mild infestation of those moths that come in on bags of rice from Indian markets. Any open spices or grains in the cupboard... ruined. Dead moths and larvae in the bags. I just discovered my fenugreek has moth larvae in it. I'm so pissed off because I didn't realize it and I have to make masoor dal later.

Italian, only because I'm pissed off.

I have always made masoor dal without fenugreek but that's because I never have fenugreek, is it mind-blowing essential and I am impure for not using it?

I am a youngish indian male so old ladies behind the register in indian stores always feel pity for me or something whenever I show up to the counter w/ things to buy, like they figure out what I'm making by looking at the ingredients and bark out orders at me to pick the shit I'm forgetting up off the shelf back there, no to the right, above the yellow thing, the yellow thing to the left, and then they finally walk over and take it off and walk back to the register and ring me up with a big sigh

LOL <3 damn xposts

I risked a Proper Indian Grocer the other day and bought some readymeals and some boxed "chana masala" powder which turned out to be SO FUCKING HOT I COULD SEE THRU TIME and I basically darent use it. I liked the idea it had powdered dried fruit, it made it seem different.

So I stick to the basic spices/masala mix. Though I'd like to try using powdered mango, that seems to come up a fair bit.

do indian grocers sell ghost peppers

M Bison, fenugreek is the secret to really good dal, but not essential. Put some... 1/4 tsp?... in the water w/ginger as you boil your lentils.

Yeah, Italian food doesn't have the constant ingredient and ingredient-sourcing problems that Indian food has for me.

This is utter madness, I became more vegetarian than I ever used to be thanks to proper homemade Italian food.

OKAY TO CLARIFY. I'm not vegetarian, nor do I care about even attempting to cook vegetarian, so the only time I think about it in connection w Italian food is when I'm eating out w a vegetarian, at which point it will be "a thing" that if we go to an Italian restaurant, everything will be about meat and/or cheese and it's not very nice for them.

Home cooking a difft story, as several people have said.

I'm still not sure how italian food can be more flavorful than indian food when indian food contains every single spice under the sun

italians were at their shit for just a few hundred years, indians have been at it since the dinosaurs grew feathers

indian, no contest

fuck this poll

i mean, come on

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gv3EvBgEeuo/TVUgPBvY26I/AAAAAAAAAGc/6J3GIS_S_gM/s1600/3-004_chef-boyardee_15_0Z_24_CT___22_90.jpg

(I could subsist entirely on either & not want for more, basically)

xp

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_chef_boyardee_gay

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•How many calories in chef boyardee?
500 calories

•Is chef boyardee good for you?
as long as its mini ravioli its probably one of the best foods you can eat trust me im a ravioli aficiando

•Is chef boyardee real meat?
Yes, it's real meat, what does it look like a bananna? Open your senses, they can help you answer simple questions such as these!

•When did Chef Boyardee die?
'Chef Boyardee' is a brand name and corporate mascot. The man it was based on, Ettore Boiardi, died on June 21st 1985.

•Is Chef Boyardee dead?
Yes, he died on June 21, 1985 at age 87

didn't read the thread not b/c of lack of love but rather lack of time but I voted for the BUNGA BUNGAS

yes he was gay, they say he had 3 boy friends in his early childhood and then grew up to marry his dad.

RIP chef boyardee ;_; *pours out a can of mini ravioli*

Once I was in a pizza place in Connecticut. There was this really hot waitress working the pies like no tomorrow. Something about the way she said sausage that made me horny. "Sauseeg". Man did my sauseeg get hard when she talked. We flirted through must of our interactions. At the end of the night I asked her for her number and waht time she got off work. She said she was hanging out late tonight to close up. It was her parents shop. She asked if I wanted to stay and help. I did. We stayed late and we were so attracted to each other that we started going at it right there on the counter. We pushed the Jimmy Fund Donation can aside and layed out some flour on the counter top. We stripped butt naked and I told her to get the meatballs and sauseeg. She proceeded to shove two meatballs inside my rectum. It was hot. I rubbed her all over with capicola and mortadell. I made her my little italian sub and ate the shit out of her.

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the chef boyardee mini "meatballs" are something i have enjoyed in my darkest moments

Laurel do you mean a vegan person because as a cheese loving vegetarian good Italian food is one of my favorite things on Earth.

italian food all inside my rectum

I can imagine Indian food being to 'Merkins what Mexican food is to Britishers.

yeah, i could see that

isn't there a relatively huge number of indian people in the US though, at least compared to the proportion of mexicans in the UK?

But curry in the UK is an institution in itself. It may be far removed from "authentic" Indian cooking, but like Italian food in the US, it's found its feet and in many cases is bloody delicious! (like blood sausage)

there are more indian ppl in london than there are in india, i read somewhere

yes but balti is invented in the UK and nobody from UK lives in america

oh xxpost

it's a shambles

i eat a lot more indian food than i do italian food so maybe voting indian

it certainly brings back more memories of joyous nights out. but then that is more to do with the beer that's consumed. plus italian food is very tasty and doesn't give me flaming diarrhoea

wait.. does dominoes count as italian food?

sorry domino's

as that does tick the diarrhoea box

I voted Indian food. Unless you go somewhere particularly special in the UK, Italian food is basically pizza OR pasta, which is nice enough I guess. I mean, I ADORE pizza, it's amazing, but Indian food is so much more flavoursome and varied when you go to a restaurant, and everyone's got a favourite and you can really tell the difference between restaurants etc.

I voted Indian food. Unless you go somewhere particularly special in the UK, Italian food is basically pizza OR pasta, which is nice enough I guess. I mean, I ADORE pizza, it's amazing, but Indian food is so much more flavoursome and varied when you go to a restaurant, and everyone's got a favourite and you can really tell the difference between restaurants etc.

but surely you can say "Unless you go somewhere particularly special in the UK, Indian food is basically gooey slop with rice OR bread"

jesus, really?

I live in a town of maybe 7k people and we've got two pretty good italian places

I mean, I ADORE vindaloo, it's amazing, but Italian food is so much more flavoursome and varied when you go to a restaurant, and everyone's got a favourite and you can really tell the difference between restaurants etc.

but i mean the eu basically covers us for these little luxuries tbf

I guess it's different in London. We have maybe five Italians and 5 Indian restaurants in our town. The Italian restaurants are mostly chains: Prezzo, Pizza Express, Strada etc. I can't really tell the difference other than minor changes in decor. The Indian restaurants are all independently run, offer very different menus, have their own style in general.

but even prezzo offers more than just pizzas and pasta...

http://www.prezzorestaurants.co.uk/menus

Yeah, but only wiseacres buy that.

http://www.strada.co.uk/menus/hitchin/main-menu

mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

I'm not slagging off Italian food in the UK - it's nice, I can't fault it - but for me, Indian food is just more interesting.