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

[artela.livejournal.com]

I only have problems with ingestion (although I have never tried handling chillis, and if I do handle peppers when preparing things for other people to eat I'm always very careful to make sure I wash hands and where I've worked and the knife straight away when I've finished). It's a severe stomach reaction to ingestion, but definitely an allergy as it responds to the antihistamines I take for my hayfever (ie. it's not as bad a reaction if I'm on anti-histamines) - it would be a terribly good way to diet, except I suspec that things wouldn't remain in the stomach long enough for me to get any nutrients out *LOL*. Luckily it isn't of the anaphalaxis level - just uncomfortable and needing of me not being far from a bathroom within about 1.5 hours of having eaten the stuff!