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Yes, I just found it so funny that his name also spells masala! He was born to make that dish!
This man has brought so much joy to my taste buds over the years. >

This man made me fat >

You must've had it's milder cousin, butter chicken >

And how is vindaloo related to the lot? Aggressive uncle? >

Having had all three, yes >

At the same time? You culinary hussy! >

It's all very consensual I assure you. >

I always assumed this was something that has been around for centuries.
Crazy it’s fairly new. >

A surprising number of "traditional" dishes are actually fairly modern creations. Tiramisu is from the 60's or 70s, carbonara is from the 1940s, Japanese ramen is from the early 20th century. >

Same as Pad Thai, that was an organized effort by the Thai government to make a recognizable national dish >

Japanese curry was pretty much invented by their military in the mid 19th century to create a basic, non-regional "soldier chow". >

And they got it from the British instead of directly from India. >

British used to eat boiled potato with salt and pepper tbh, he was from Subcontinent >


USED TO

Sure...yeah >

Still do... But used to too >

The British really love hippopotamuses, or as they like to call them, “really cool optamuses” >

I'm the hip-hop-opatamus, my rhymes are bottomless... >

His name. A. Aslam is an anagram of masala 😵‍💫 >

Happy coincidence, though masala is an ages-old term basically meaning “spice blend”.