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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Fake Kashmiri chillis
« on: September 05, 2023, 05:28 PM »
Not a hint of bitterness taste-wise - so if you wish to avoid the bitter taste found with online bought Kashmiri chillis as experienced by me & others - route to success is grow your own.

Ye that's interesting. I find some brands of kashmiri chilli powder unpleasantly bitter an I've always wondered if it may contain fake kashmiri chilli. So you're saying the whole dried kashmiri chillies can be bitter as well?

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: End of the boom for Birmingham’s Balti Triangle
« on: September 05, 2023, 05:19 PM »
This time, I thought it reminded me of times at home when things go wrong and I end up with a sub-standard anonymous tasting curry.

You've just described exactly what I thought after having made balti.

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: End of the boom for Birmingham’s Balti Triangle
« on: September 05, 2023, 05:15 PM »
I complained the last time I dined there, they made me a new one on the spot, with the owner preparing/cooking it, but sad to say it was not better ...

So they took your curry away, faffed around for ten minutes, and brought the same curry out to you again.  :lol:

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / Re: The Hamburger
« on: August 30, 2023, 06:48 PM »
At the risk of appearing to be more familiar with street slang than I would wish to seem, isn't the idiom "gagging for it" normally used with reference to a lady of one's acquaintance, and is not also the suggestion that it is not food which she seeks but something rather more carnal ?

You're not wrong but, at least in my circles, it's also just a generic expression of craving, as in I'm gagging for some bacon, meaning I'm craving bacon. Although there's a double entendre there too.

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / Re: The Hamburger
« on: August 30, 2023, 03:47 PM »
"smash it" is a (probably) US idiom meaning "enjoying with great relish, eating like a barbarian".

I generally try to avoid Americanisms but they're so ubiquitous it's easy to find you're using them without being aware. One I really like though is jonesing, as in I'm jonesing for some bacon, meaning having a craving for. Probably better than the English equivalent which is gagging for.

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Product Reviews / Re: The Maze plate by Gordon Ramsay
« on: August 30, 2023, 10:59 AM »
A portion of Farm Foods Cooked & Cut Donner kebab meat, doused with a little Basaar masala and runny honey.

Honey on doner meat ... OMG! That's worse than livo's pineapple on a burger. You'll be telling me to slather maple syrup on my bacon next. Not bloody likely!

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / Re: The Hamburger
« on: August 30, 2023, 10:55 AM »
It is not like raw beetroot but more or less cooked and pickled in a very basic way with minimal spices ... I always say don't knock it till you've tried it but if you can't get the beetroot or you really hate it then you can always leave it off.

Yes we have that over here and I love it. Now I come to think about it I also love gherkins or what the Yanks call dill pickles on my burger so it wouldn't be such a far stretch to imagine pickled beetroot slices on a burger. I still draw the line at pineapple though ... blech!

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Lol very funny SS

I have neither the time or the crayons to bother trying to argue with you

It was a serious question, but, whatever.

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / Re: The Hamburger
« on: August 28, 2023, 07:20 PM »
While the traditional Aussie Plain Hamburger does have beetroot, there are many who simply order it without.

Why, just why, would you pollute a decent hamburger with beetroot of all things? And pineapple? Seriously? It's almost like you're having a joke or something.

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Actually Ive just googled it and some places do a mixed balti.

Its not something I have tried

What? I thought you were a balti connoisseur. It's well known that with balti anything goes, quite literally, as you can (or at least could), mix and match to your heart's content. And that's coming from someone who's never had a real balti despite my Brummie origins. So if I know this how come you don't?

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