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The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« on: November 23, 2013, 02:45 PM »
Found this so put it onto YouTube.. An interesting celebrity talking heads documentary on the British love of curry. Includes a potted history of the evolution of the BIR as we know it, with the odd glance inside restaurant kitchens. Mostly it's just TV celebs trotting out cliches about curry houses. Still, worth a watch

http://youtu.be/c5q9yJrDXXg

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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2013, 08:06 AM »
The glimpse inside what I suppose to be an 80s BIR kitchen is from 3:15 in the video by the way. A ladle of "one pot" curry sauce which looks fully spiced and rich in oil is added to a dry pan and a scoop of shredded roasted chicken breast is added.
 Presumably the customer had paid the de rigeur "50p extra for breast meat only"


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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2013, 10:24 AM »
Haha - PLJ! Now THAT takes me back! :)

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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2013, 10:51 AM »
It must've been before my time naga, because I don't remember it at all. What was it, some kind of lemon juice like Jif?


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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2013, 11:06 AM »
No, NJ, it was a very sharp lemon cordial-juice which was heavily promoted as a slimming aid in the late 60s and 70s. I'm sure every house must have had a bottle of PLJ sitting beside the gin in the cupboard in those days! :)

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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2013, 11:12 AM »
"PLJ" stood (?stands?) for "Pure Lemon Juice" and I always used it with my pancakes; I thought it a sad day when it ceased to be promoted, since it was a far more economical way of buying lemon juice than (say) a Jif squeezy plastic lemon ...

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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2013, 10:26 PM »
I remember PLJ and watching a chef add it to my phall  :).  Great find Natterjak.  Enjoyed the vid and the stroll down memory lane  ::)


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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2013, 08:49 AM »
Great - loved watching -

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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2013, 10:36 AM »
Enjoyable watch.

12:45, Heinz tomato soup in the tikka masala. The flock wallpaper bit reminds me of the first indian restaurant I ever went in which was either in York or Hull at a lunch time around the mid 70's. Green flock wallpaper with curry stains all over it. Can't remember what I had.  :(

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Re: The Joy Of Curry, TV documentary on YouTube
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2013, 10:02 PM »
Glad some of you are liking it  8)



 

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