- KRAW ( @KRAW@linux.community ) English51•10 months ago
Can you give an example? I know that some people have a hard time with the strong smells, but I honestly have never heard it made fun of in any demeaning way. Maybe at worst a character has a bad time on a toilet due to the Indian food being so spicy, but I can’t think of how it would be made fun of. Seems well loved here in the States in my experience.
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.social ) 33•10 months ago
Indian food is very popular in the US and I have never heard anybody rag on it ever. Don’t know what kind of media you must be consuming.
- Very_Bad_Janet ( @Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social ) 26•10 months ago
I’m American and I can’t think of a comedy show that makes fun of Indian food. Can you name one of them so I can check it out?
I’d say most medium to large sized cities in the US have Indian restaurants, so it’s not so unusual.
- Thisfox ( @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ) 3•10 months ago
Friends did, Big Bang Theory does all the time, but yeah pretty much every yank comedy contains some negativity towards Indian food. I don’t watch much comedy, but it seems to be a meme in their shows.
- Ashtear ( @Ashtear@lemm.ee ) 25•10 months ago
Casual xenophobia/racism. Much like the whole MSG thing here.
- SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) 20•10 months ago
Do they? I rarely see jokes about it and if I do see jokes they are spicy diarrhea related which I will admit is odd because Americanized Indian food is not spicy at all.
- verdare [he/him] ( @verdare@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
Americanized Indian food is not spicy at all
Disagree. This is entirely dependent on the particular restaurant. None of them put Scoville ratings on things, so “hot” can mean “barely mild” at one restaurant and “this will absolutely wreck your colon” at another. This has been my experience, at least.
- sim_ ( @sim_@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
Agreed, seems like a weird comment. It’s easy to get incredibly mild Indian food here but plenty of places go up to inferno hot too if you want it.
exactly the spicey diarrhea jokes, as well as direct comparisons to vomit. American Dad and Family Guy writers spring to mind.
- H1jAcK ( @H1jAcK@lemm.ee ) 13•10 months ago
That’s the kind of jokes those shows make; cheap shots and poop jokes.
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•10 months ago
So 2 cartoons that are by the same people. So basically a single source.
Indian food is probably given less shit in the states than most other foods. Mainly just the smell it leaves permeating through everything.
British food is tasteless trash. Mexican food makes you shit your pants. Chinese food is eating cats and dogs. Thai will burn your butthole to death. German food is angry and has sauerkraut. Canada just has syrup on everything. Japan is fish they won’t cook. Irish is all potatoes and sheep belly. Indian is stinky and smells forever.
Americans deep fry everything.We’re an equal opportunity country. We’ll talk shit on everyone.
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.social ) 3•10 months ago
The German food stereotype is definitely that it’s all sausage.
- wildginger ( @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ) 6•10 months ago
The spice jokes happen in any nation that culturally lacks a pepper based heat as a common seasoning, towards any food with said spice. Southern states, who share food inspiration with mexico, do not have these jokes. They eat the hottest nonsense sauces, theyre used to the effect.
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•10 months ago
I’m an exceptional nut job from the Midwest, myself. I’m immune to spicy shits and the Mexicans I know won’t eat my hot sauces and think I’m crazy. I’ve seen people on the internet eat hotter stuff than me and enjoy it, but I’ve never met someone in real life that does.
As near as I can figure I just like spicy flavors and I’m not as sensitive to capsaicin as normal people are, because it doesn’t cause me pain like it seems to do to anyone else. Southern Thai food tastes pretty good after I add a splash of mad dog 357 gold edition to it.
- wildginger ( @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ) 2•10 months ago
You got the bird gene, lucky bastard
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•10 months ago
Half bird, at least.
It comes with downsides too, though. If I cook for other people, I have to make it bland and add my hotness afterwards. That one took a while to figure out because as soon as I could taste any spiciness, everyone else would moan and complain.
Then I can’t just buy some $5 sauce from a grocery store if I want hot sauce. I have to order stuff that’s generally north of $20 a bottle. Also, a lot of grocery stores don’t keep habaneros year round.
- BirdyBoogleBop ( @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•10 months ago
It’s also a joke because if you don’t often have spicy food you are going to get the shits when you do have it.
- wildginger ( @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ) 1•10 months ago
Right, but specifically that joke cannot be made successfully in regions where pepper based spice is common cuisine. Because those people dont have that reaction.
And a large portion of the US makes that spice a common part of normal meals, thanks to proximity to mexico, or international ports.
Basically, this is only funny to people in very isolated communities and the central northern states. Both coasts and the south have plenty of spicy influence.
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.social ) 1•10 months ago
When you say southern states, do you mean southwestern? Because I’ve lived in the southeast, and the food is not spicy.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@futurology.today ) English15•10 months ago
It gets the same jokes as Mexican food usually here. Really, some people’s guts just can’t handle any amount of spice, and poo jokes are always a hit.
- Veraxus ( @Veraxus@kbin.social ) 9•10 months ago
Maybe it’s that I don’t watch much comedy, but I’ve literally never seen anything dump on Indian. There is nothing more delicious than Indian. Nothing. Not even Mexican food. I do not say that lightly.
- clutchmattic ( @clutchmattic@beehaw.org ) 1•10 months ago
Eh, however on the Mexican side, it became kind of tradition to associate Taco Bell with uncontrollable, debilitating, liquid diarrhea
- Veraxus ( @Veraxus@kbin.social ) 3•10 months ago
Taco Bell is about as Mexican as Mac & Cheese. When I talk about Mexican food, I am talking about Mexican food.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) 0•10 months ago
Taco Bell isn’t “mexican food,” it’s fast food, and there was a time when it was even worse then it is now.
- pan_troglodytes ( @pan_troglodytes@programming.dev ) English9•10 months ago
odd, never heard of comedy making fun of foreign food.
I personally enjoy a fair bit of Indian food, it’s quite varied.
- Talaraine ( @Talaraine@kbin.social ) 7•10 months ago
Yeah I’d like to see some examples. Everyone I know loves Indian food. Hope you’re not some kind of troll. Give me that curry, man!
- Ashtear ( @Ashtear@lemm.ee ) 3•10 months ago
- Talaraine ( @Talaraine@kbin.social ) 2•10 months ago
Aww I sure hope you aren’t basing your opinion off of one of the most purposefully offensive shows out there haha. Indian food is known for its potential heat and the corresponding affects… and more often than not the joke is about stupid americans who think they’re chads who go for the multiple star rating and pay the price. Peter from Family Guy is beloved because of his stupid decisions and we laugh at the consequences!
Also, Indian food is not the only example of this… Thai Food is my particular masochistic joy =) Give me that pain! It tastes so good!
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.social ) 1•10 months ago
Thai food is so much spicier than Indian food. I’ve yet to encounter the Indian food that was just too spicy for me to eat at all, but Thai food…
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 1•10 months ago
It’s funny because Tikka masala isn’t Indian, but a British dish and it isn’t even spicy.
- TexMexBazooka ( @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ) 6•10 months ago
Dunno what you’re talking about there champ
- gatelike ( @gatelike@feddit.de ) English6•10 months ago
bland shows catering to bland tastes, maybe?
- Pistcow ( @Pistcow@lemm.ee ) 5•10 months ago
2 things.
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It’s food that is prepared in India (not essentially the cultural food). They have sanitation issues like other developing nations. Mexico- “don’t drink the water”.
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White people with their sensitive tummies think salt is spicy.
Am American and eat Indian food several times a month. Even here there’s hole in the wall restaurants that have sanitation issues and you have to do some investigating before choosing to eat at a new place.
- NoIWontPickaName ( @NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social ) 1•10 months ago
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? The dirtiest places have the best food it’s just like taco trucks. If it looks like it will give you food poisoning. The food will be delicious.
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- Shambling Shapes ( @SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one ) English4•10 months ago
What is the punchline you see in American media about Indian food?
The stereotype of Indian cuisine is that it sometimes has really strong flavor, sometimes a strong smell to match. Those are not bad things.
I don’t have any overall negative associations with Indian food. There are certainly dishes that don’t appeal to me, but if anyone wanted to go to an Indian restaurant for dinner, I would say “yes, please”.
Edit: I see some comments about “spicy diarrhea” jokes. I see those as a function of people not acclimated to spicy food, not that the spicy food itself is bad. I’m impressed by people who can eat full spicy level Indian food. I would be on a toilet for a day if I ate fully spicy level; that’s my problem, not the fault of Indian cuisine overall.
- Luke ( @lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml ) English1•10 months ago
No amount of acclimation will stop an ulcer from reacting badly to spicy food. There are plenty of people who love spicy hot food but physically can’t eat it, unfortunately.
- Apollo2323 ( @Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•10 months ago
Worldwide? I don’t think so. Idk I tried Indian food before it was good but I prefer Peruvian food.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English3•10 months ago
What? I’ve never seen anyone rag on Indian food.
At worst, the way they eat it, but never the food.