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I get a lot of Indian takeaway menus through my door and one thing has always puzzled me. Why can't they all choose one way of spelling the food and stick with it?
poppadom/pappadum/puppadom etc.
nan/naan
dansak/dhansak
masala/marsala/massala etc
bhaji/bhajee
paneer/ponir/poneer
biryani/biriani
chapati/chapatti
And when they do "English food"... why is it always omelettes?
Just wondering really...
poppadom/pappadum/puppadom etc.
nan/naan
dansak/dhansak
masala/marsala/massala etc
bhaji/bhajee
paneer/ponir/poneer
biryani/biriani
chapati/chapatti
And when they do "English food"... why is it always omelettes?
Just wondering really...
chrismcg1 said:
It's been a long day Cali, hasn't it?
Yes it has! Usually Sunday is my "doing feck all" day. Not today!1) Had a long lie in, watched the Grand Prix, cooked lamb roast.
2) Weeded the driveway, trimmed the bushes at the side so they don't scratch the car.
3) Then some car maintenance... Replaced the coolant cap seals with viton rings, fixed a problem with my headlights (intermittent connection causing them to switch off under braking!), replaced both sidelight bulbs, cleaned out the passenger bulkhead plenum (a design fault means drain hole can easily get blocked, then it fills up with water... and what's in the plenum? Only the ECU...!), and fitted a driver's side grab handle (it was not fitted as standard due to MGR trying to save costs).
4) Watched Top Gear.
So, nothing major, but compared to a usual Sunday it feels like I've done a marathon!
calibrax said:
I get a lot of Indian takeaway menus through my door and one thing has always puzzled me. Why can't they all choose one way of spelling the food and stick with it?
poppadom/pappadum/puppadom etc.
nan/naan
dansak/dhansak
masala/marsala/massala etc
bhaji/bhajee
paneer/ponir/poneer
biryani/biriani
chapati/chapatti
And when they do "English food"... why is it always omelettes?
Just wondering really...
Theres also pillau/pilaw/pilau and I'll cough to having considered the same thing too....poppadom/pappadum/puppadom etc.
nan/naan
dansak/dhansak
masala/marsala/massala etc
bhaji/bhajee
paneer/ponir/poneer
biryani/biriani
chapati/chapatti
And when they do "English food"... why is it always omelettes?
Just wondering really...
OT - OP - I can never look at your name without immediately thinking of the internet legend that is 'Malodrax'
paolow said:
Theres also pillau/pilaw/pilau and I'll cough to having considered the same thing too....
Pilaf. AKA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilaf#Other_names
One thing that bugs me is nan/naan. My indian freind says nan translates to bread, so if you ask for a nan bread you are basically asking for bread bread.
My argument is there are so many different types of bread that if someones asks for bread how do you know which one to give them. I say we have named that flat bread as nan in our language to differenciate it from other breads. His opinion oviously differs.
So if I took my indian freind to a UK supermarket and asked him to get me bread would he bring me a nan or ask what sort of bread? If he asked what sort of bread what, should my answer be? If I say nan he would just say ok but which sort of bread. We could be there all day
My argument is there are so many different types of bread that if someones asks for bread how do you know which one to give them. I say we have named that flat bread as nan in our language to differenciate it from other breads. His opinion oviously differs.
So if I took my indian freind to a UK supermarket and asked him to get me bread would he bring me a nan or ask what sort of bread? If he asked what sort of bread what, should my answer be? If I say nan he would just say ok but which sort of bread. We could be there all day
pacman1 said:
Care to expand on that?
Heard it on a radio 4 programme about modern India.
It was the BBC, so it must be true.
At worst, it would be pronounce Bum-bye, at best as Bombay (as it looks).Heard it on a radio 4 programme about modern India.
It was the BBC, so it must be true.
Until some retard decided to change the name (along with Madras to Chennai), no one had heard of it being called Mumbai, not even my friends who had lived there.
A lot of people still refer to it as Bombay rather than Mumbai.
Cotty said:
One thing that bugs me is nan/naan. My indian freind says nan translates to bread, so if you ask for a nan bread you are basically asking for bread bread.
My argument is there are so many different types of bread that if someones asks for bread how do you know which one to give them. I say we have named that flat bread as nan in our language to differenciate it from other breads. His opinion oviously differs.
So if I took my indian freind to a UK supermarket and asked him to get me bread would he bring me a nan or ask what sort of bread? If he asked what sort of bread what, should my answer be? If I say nan he would just say ok but which sort of bread. We could be there all day
Whilst your friend is correct , there are many types of bread in the uk as well as India. Nof all Indians would eat a naan. They might eat chappatti or tandoori rotiMy argument is there are so many different types of bread that if someones asks for bread how do you know which one to give them. I say we have named that flat bread as nan in our language to differenciate it from other breads. His opinion oviously differs.
So if I took my indian freind to a UK supermarket and asked him to get me bread would he bring me a nan or ask what sort of bread? If he asked what sort of bread what, should my answer be? If I say nan he would just say ok but which sort of bread. We could be there all day
Most amusing is the word balti. Where I come from in India it means bucket
sinizter said:
Because there is no right way to spell a Hindi word in English.
I doubt they actually want to serve omelettes, but there must be some customers who keep asking for them. And chips.
People like my aunt whose idea of exotic food is a cheese pizza, and has Scampi and chips in the Indian restaurant.I doubt they actually want to serve omelettes, but there must be some customers who keep asking for them. And chips.
Doesn't like Indian food, but has never tried it. You know the kind.
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