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

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Hmm - 'masala' basically translates as 'spice mix', so any given spice is fair game.

[artela.livejournal.com]

Now you know why when someone suggests Thai or Gurkha restaurants as places to go to eat my heart sinks several nothces...

[k425.livejournal.com]

Allergies aren't infectious.

However, repeated exposure to an allergen may cause an allergy to develop. Which is how someone can have a bee-sting with no effect, a second bee-sting with a reaction, and a third bee-sting with anaphyllaxis. It's a reet bugger.

I understand the hell of reading the smallprint now I'm having to look for gluten in everything.