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Battle of the Balti is hotting up
8 hours 57 mins ago
Indian restaurants across the country could be banned from selling Balti dishes as council chiefs in the city credited with its invention seek to protect the name.
Birmingham City Council wants to help eateries in the city, which it said was the "birthplace" of the popular curry dish, by applying to protect the Balti name.
The bid could mean a ban for restaurants outside Birmingham's "Balti Triangle" from serving a Balti.
The first ever Balti, named after the wok used to cook it, is thought to have been created in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham by immigrants from northern pakistan in the 1970s.
It has spread across the UK and became the basis for the name "Balti Triangle", given to the area around Sparkhill and Moseley with a large number of restaurants specialising in the dish.
The council claims that Birmingham, as the origin of the Balti name, has the same right to protect it as Champagne and Wensleydale cheese.
A spokeswoman said: "The idea that Birmingham should trademark the term 'Balti' is certainly an interesting one, which is not without its merits.
"The city is not only the birthplace of the dish, but also home to the UK's premier community of Balti restaurants and businesses - The Balti Triangle.
"The City Council is always seeking new and imaginative ways to promote the city regionally, nationally and internationally, which, if judged to be feasible and to the benefit of local people or businesses, we would not hesitate in pursuing."
Battle of the Balti is hotting up
8 hours 57 mins ago
Indian restaurants across the country could be banned from selling Balti dishes as council chiefs in the city credited with its invention seek to protect the name.
Birmingham City Council wants to help eateries in the city, which it said was the "birthplace" of the popular curry dish, by applying to protect the Balti name.
The bid could mean a ban for restaurants outside Birmingham's "Balti Triangle" from serving a Balti.
The first ever Balti, named after the wok used to cook it, is thought to have been created in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham by immigrants from northern pakistan in the 1970s.
It has spread across the UK and became the basis for the name "Balti Triangle", given to the area around Sparkhill and Moseley with a large number of restaurants specialising in the dish.
The council claims that Birmingham, as the origin of the Balti name, has the same right to protect it as Champagne and Wensleydale cheese.
A spokeswoman said: "The idea that Birmingham should trademark the term 'Balti' is certainly an interesting one, which is not without its merits.
"The city is not only the birthplace of the dish, but also home to the UK's premier community of Balti restaurants and businesses - The Balti Triangle.
"The City Council is always seeking new and imaginative ways to promote the city regionally, nationally and internationally, which, if judged to be feasible and to the benefit of local people or businesses, we would not hesitate in pursuing."
Why not?
If you ask some sheeple of any high street where the Balti came from I doubt they'd be particularly accurate in the answer.
Don't forget Birmingham is the UK's 2nd City (IE: if the big smoke got nuked then Brum would be the capital ((I so hope I'm right in saying that
)) so s
t like this will be good for tourism.
If you ask some sheeple of any high street where the Balti came from I doubt they'd be particularly accurate in the answer.
Don't forget Birmingham is the UK's 2nd City (IE: if the big smoke got nuked then Brum would be the capital ((I so hope I'm right in saying that
)) so st like this will be good for tourism.If this sort of rubbish is taken to the kind of extreme suggested, the good people of Birmingham might be able to eat Baltis and precious little else!
All of the following would be off the menu:
Hamburgers
Frankfurters, and Weiner sausages
Pretty much every cheese on earth
Nearly all French wine
All of the following would be off the menu:
Hamburgers
Frankfurters, and Weiner sausages
Pretty much every cheese on earth
Nearly all French wine
Big Rod said:
So even though it was named after the DISH it was originally cooked in and not the geographical location?!?!?!?
Hope they don't apply it the 'curry' either then eh?!?!?
You beat me to it Big Rod... I believe the rough translation of Balti in English would be "bucket" ?? I seem to recall hearing that way back when. Hope they don't apply it the 'curry' either then eh?!?!?
Any so-called balti I've ever eaten outside the West Midlands has never born even the slightest resemblence to the real thing from Sparkbrook in Birmingham.
Really, the ignorant southern bds down here where I live now have not the faintest clue what a proper balti is. They might as well call it cat sick. Oh and the acrual balti dish isn't six inces wide and made from chrome steel, it's about a foot wide, made of stained mild steel with a tide mark round it and comes from the kitchen so hot it burns the wrist of the unwary when they dip in a lump of the doormat size naan bread. Proper traditional Balti houses don't provide cutlery.
Really, the ignorant southern b
ds down here where I live now have not the faintest clue what a proper balti is. They might as well call it cat sick. Oh and the acrual balti dish isn't six inces wide and made from chrome steel, it's about a foot wide, made of stained mild steel with a tide mark round it and comes from the kitchen so hot it burns the wrist of the unwary when they dip in a lump of the doormat size naan bread. Proper traditional Balti houses don't provide cutlery. Big Rod said:
So even though it was named after the DISH it was originally cooked in and not the geographical location?!?!?!?
Indeed. Apparently, it means "bucket" according to a friend and enthusiastic cook from Mumbai. And it tasted like authentic balti... which makes begs the question, "If it tastes like authentic lamb balti, how can it have been invented in Birmingham?"ShadownINja said:
"If it tastes like authentic lamb balti, how can it have been invented in Birmingham?"
So, campaign successfully that regional dishes can only be sold locally, get proof that this dish is from Mumbai, and all of Birmingham's Balti Houses have to take their signs down! 
It's never going to happen, but it shows how moronic the suggestion is.
Edit- spelunking...
Edited by grumbledoak on Wednesday 1st July 20:39
jamiebae said:
Muntu said:
No more spagehetti Bolognaise for us either at this rate
I once went to a restaurant in France where they had helpfully translated it as 'Spaghetti Hacked Beef Sauce' on the menu. I think we should adopt that terminology anyway Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff