On curries

[bellinghman]

Last night, I was looking for some pre-made curry sauces (because I'm lazy) and remembering artela's moan about finding chilli in a masala, I thought I'd check the list of ingredients.

Of the 4 Indian manufacturers - and I include Pataks here because I've met them and eaten with them and I know they're not blacked up Yorkies - three of them list chillies as an ingredient in their masalas, whereas only Pataks don't, and they merely list 'spices' in the relevant place, so quite probably including them.

I think that if I were suddenly to develop an allergy to the noble fruit, I'd have to be extremely careful around any form of curry. Which would be a bugger, because I like curries, and I like also Thai food, and even some Chinese dishes have chillies in them.

No Malaysian, either.

Pretty please, tell me allergies aren't infectious.

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I should note that if you're a friend with another intolerance (excepting to stupidity - that's a given) that I've not mentioned, I just haven't remembered it.

[artela.livejournal.com]

caerleon is violently allergic to anything in the salmon family.

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

And Warwick is very allergic to cumin. I don't _think_ we have any major food allergies (there are foods we dislike and won't eat, but that's different).

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

He can't be - it's the Welsh National Fish!

(And family - so that's trout as well, I assume. Bad news, but probably not as restricting as the chilli.)

[k425.livejournal.com]

oldbloke is allergic to brazil nuts (properly, they make his throat swell and he gets wheezy) but there's no reason you'd know this unless you're expected to know telepathically of friends' partners' allergies...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Just Brazils, or is it that he got that far into the nut family and decided not to risk any more?

[k425.livejournal.com]

Well, he makes korma with almonds and cashews, and loves peanut butter, so I think it's just brazils. I like brazils myself but don't eat them any more because I don't want to take any chances with OldBloke!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure almonds are really nuts either - they're peach kernels on steroids - and I'm not entirely sure about cashews. But I expect he's tried walnuts and hazelnuts and others, then, and if he is specifically off brazils, then brazils it is.

Ah, a check indicates that neither almonds not cashews are true nuts. On the other hand, nor are brazils, though all three are tree nuts. And peanuts are actually peas.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Picky picky! He can eat anything generally considered to be a nut - tree or otherwise - except brazils!

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

it's not actually food, but it's in way too much food... aspartame. instant level-10-take-me-to-the-ER-now migraine.

had to be really really careful over there, most of the flavored (sparkling or still) waters have it. and yoghurt. couldn't eat the yoghurt at the Con breakfast, dammit.

my other allergies (at the anaphalaxis level) are medications: penicillin, and sulfa; many other meds give me severe problems, but it's listed as side effects rather than allergy, can't remember why, but can't have, among other things, most antibiotics (!), and any of the statins for my slightly elevated cholesterol.

and no, not infectious/contagious, thank ghods :)