Curry Fact No. 75

[Vincent]

Just heard this on the radio:-

The word "Curry" derives from the word "Sauce".
So, when you ask for curry sauce at the local chip shop, you're actually asking for "Sauce Sauce".
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[Jayy]

Let me just get my mate down here who's an expert on cool stories and see what we're dealing with here.

[CaNsA]

It's not a cool story.

[temeluchus]

Also not really a story.
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[Vincent]

It's also not a "story".
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[andyscooter]

[Pete.]

[Vincent]

"The origin of the word itself is the stuff of legends, but most pundits have settled on the origins being the Tamil word ‘kari’ meaning spiced sauce. In his excellent Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson quotes this as a fact and supports it with reference to the accounts from a Dutch traveller in 1598 referring to a dish called ‘Carriel’. He also refers to a Portuguese cookery book from the seventeenth century called Atre do Cozinha, with chilli-based curry powder called ‘caril’.

In her ‘50 Great Curries of India’, Camellia Panjabi says the word today simply means ‘gravy’. She also goes for the Tamil word ‘kaari or kaaree’ as the origin, but with some reservations, noting that in the north, where the English first landed in 1608 then 1612, a gravy dish is called ‘khadi’."

Rick Stein is a TV Chef...never trust a TV chef, most talk bollox.
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[Triton Thrasher]

[Rogue_Shadow]

WHERE ARE THE OTHER 74 FACTS !

[Lord Percy]

[Andy_Pagin]

I though 'curry' came from the name of a round bottomed cooking pot, the British though the natives were referring to the meal they were cooking when in fact they meant the cooking pot.

Bit like when the Aussies asked the natives what the weird bouncy animal was called and they said 'Kangaroo' which actually meant something like 'no idea mate' in Abo. Or is that an urban myth?
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[Vincent]