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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Two Indian restaurant chains are battling it out in court over claims to the dish's origins.

Butter chicken — one of India’s best-known dishes globally — is delicious and apparently also contentious, with two Indian restaurant chains doing battle in court over claims to its origins.

The lawsuit — which has become a hot topic in India — was brought by the family behind Moti Mahal, a famed Delhi restaurant brand that has counted the late U.S. President Richard Nixon and India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, among its guests.

It claims restaurant founder, Kundan Lal Gujral, created the curry in the 1930s when the restaurant first opened in Peshawar before it moved to Delhi. In a 2,752-page court filing it has sued rival chain Daryaganj, accusing it of falsely claiming to have invented the dish as well as dal makhani, a popular lentil dish that is also laden with butter and cream.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 30 points 9 months ago

If I know Curry history, it's someone in the North East of England

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

If I'm remembering right, it was someone from Pakistan that created it in England...

So I'm sure the Indian courts will say someone from India created it in India because India is a world power.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Butter chicken is indisputably from India.

Tikka masala is what you’re thinking of, which is generally recognized to have been created in the UK. Scotland, I believe.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I think you're thinking of chicken Tikka masala.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Phall & Balti as well though they're from Brum

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The lil yellow car with eyes?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

Never forget what that mini Austin's adventures gave us as a nation not so much those criminals Rosie and Jim

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

People think English food is bland. In fact, we got fed up with it and went looking for new flavours. We then named our new food styles after the country/area we stole it from, then force exported it back!

British "Indian" food is very different to Indian food. Chinese food bears very little resemblance to British "Chinese" food etc.

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Similar story in the US, except instead of a global colonial empire, we just welcomed immigrants from all over the world. They came here and made food that reminded them of home using ingredients they could source locally. So many of the "international" dishes we enjoy here would be unrecognizable in the countries they are associated with.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In some ways, it's an inversion. I. The UK we used a wide range of ingredients with a limited set of cooking methods. The US it was reversed, multiple older methods being used with a new limited ingredient set.

It's an interesting compare and contrast.

[-] Graphy@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It’s funny that they’d note Nixon as a mentionable guest when Nixon hated India more than the normal baseline amount of hatred at the time.

“The most sexless, nothing, these people. I mean, people say, what about the Black Africans? Well, you can see something, the vitality there, I mean they have a little animal like charm, but God, those Indians, ack, pathetic. Uch.”

Lol

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago
[-] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

Sexless? I have definitely never heard Indians described that way before...

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