 France is now the first country to codify abortion rights and their constitution. Cool. Now you have to choose. Where do you wanna live? Montgomery, Alabama, Paris, France. Montgomery, Alabama, Paris, France. Which destination is gonna be more attractive to you? Alabama, France, Alabama, France. Bamma, for sure. Yeah. Just. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction to Corbyn. I'm Rick. Let me follow his Instagram Twitter for more juicy content. Thank you for what's on Patreon. Follow us on Twitter to subscribe, like, button. And this is a video. It's called How Curry from India Conquered Britain. Interesting. As opposed to how Britain conquered India. Right. Which we. Right. No. And I hope this is just as violent. So you get some sweet, sweet revenge. I guess it is because when British people eat spicy food, it's probably a lot like when Corbyn eats spicy food. And it's interesting because it is very popular in Britain. Which is so strange. And the Brits are not known for flavorful food. Like they have some of the most bland food in the world. Famously. Famously. And then one of the most popular dishes. Right. Is Indian food. Indian food, which. It's very interesting. It's not bland. But I understand a huge reason for that is because there's a very large percentage of Britain's population that's Indian. So I don't know how many of it are the Brits. Yeah. Here we go. Going for an Indian or having a curry is almost as stereotypically British as roast dinners or British. Yeah, can we never say going for an Indian. I'm going for an Indian. I think you Brits just need to know. 86, that saying. Completely lose that saying. Just terrible. I'm going for an Indian. I'll take that one. Wow. Know your history and say better things. Here we go. Going for an Indian or having a curry is almost as stereotypically British as roast dinners or fish and chips. There are around 12,000 curry houses in Britain. Yes, colonialism. The word for the Tamil curry, which meant a spiced sauce, but gradually the term was adapted and used as a generic term for any stew-like food from the Indian subcontinent. Rather ignoring such subtleties as regional differences and the different ways that you use cooking methods and ingredients. The first definite mention of curry in English is 1598. But the first recipe for curry published in Britain wasn't until 1747, at which time Brits, long-time traders with India, were slowly taking over the country. Thousands of British men and women bought time in India for Indian cooks and servants. And while some tried to maintain Western eating habits, most quickly embraced the taste of their new home. When they returned to Britain, they brought their new love of Indian food back with them. Those who had lived in India knew very well that not all Indian dishes were curry and when the first, albeit short-lived, Indian restaurant in Britain opened in London in 1810, its menu contained kitchery, chutney and palau, dishes later known by the Anglicised names Kejri, chutney and pilaf. Manuscript books kept by those in the know also differentiated between dishes, but they were very much a minority and in Britain, curry became a catch-all term for almost anything with Indian spices. Slowly, certain dishes as part of chicken curry, which used an elderly fowl which had stopped laying eggs, entered the mainstream repertoire. Ready-made curry powders were widely sold. British palettes were not used to Indian spices and the early recipes are more like gently-flavoured meaty stews laden with turmeric to your gangar with cayenne bracket. By the 19th century, curry was in every cookbook, mainly as a leftover dish. The Anglo-Indian cuisine of this era was a hybrid, using pickled cucumbers to replace mango, apple instead of tamarind and ready-made spice blends galore. It was great, but had very little in common with its Eastern roots. Queen Victoria took a different approach, regularly eating Indian dishes prepared by the cook to her Indian attendants who joined the royal staff at her Golden Jubilee in 1887. There were a few eating houses run by Indians, mainly for other Indians in port towns, but it took until the 1920s for high-profile restaurants to open, catering for a British market. By 1946, there were around 20 Indian restaurants in London. Boom time for curry came after the Second World War when the partition of India brought migrants from Punjab and slit Britain. In the 1970s, civil war in Bangladesh saw many Bangladeshis flee to Britain and even today, many apparently generic Indian restaurants are really Bangladeshi. Curry in its 1970s form was cheap and cheerful, adapted to British tastes. In 2001, the then foreign secretary, Robin Cook, declared boldly that Britain's national dish was chicken tikka masala, a classic example of an Indian dish, buttered chicken, meeting British tastes, in this case with the addition of cream and allegedly cream of tomato soup. In the last decade or so, the British relationship to Indian food has changed. Most of us have grown out of wanting something so hot it'll hospitalise us. Leading Indian chefs are teaching us that there is so much more to Indian food than the comforting predictability of the average restaurant menu. Maybe after 250 years, we've simply come full circle. Have you, because you still call it getting an Indian? Yeah. And if you really have gone full circle, I'd recommend returning the jewels. That would be really lovely. It was actually a nice video because I've always wondered. Obviously, I'm like the actual reason behind why it's so popular in Britain. Obviously, I know because you conquered them, you brought a lot of them over. And so naturally, it's gonna be like when obviously black people were brought from Africa to America. Southern food is heavily influenced by black cuisine and so many other things in American culture are Mexican influenced or African American influenced, whether it's in the culture or whatever. So it's a natural thing that happens, but the actual history behind it is intriguing. Because Britain has conquered everyone. So are other cuisines as popular? So is there like African cuisine that is that also really popular in Britain as well? Never heard it was. Any other Asian country that they've conquered? I believe Chinese food is, but it always has to be taken with a grand assault per se. I say that figuratively because a lot of people here thinks a lot of Chinese dishes that we think are stereotypically really Chinese have no origins in China at all. Think of the Indian food here. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, we have to be interested to know what are the most popular cuisines in Britain and are they authentic? It sounds like, with the end there and also what I've heard from other places is that Indian cuisine is becoming more representative of the totality of India, not just the North. Yeah, which is great. Yeah. Wish that would happen here. Well, I mean, we just had a video at a delicious South Indian restaurant. It was wonderful, but that's far and few between. Yeah. It'd be interesting to see if I can find some like Bengali restaurants or... Well, I know a Punjabi restaurant. That's the thing is you'll find a Bengali restaurant here, but it's going to be Bangladesh-Bengali, not necessarily West Bengal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like if it was at the Lugu, Canada. More region-specific. Yeah, the predominant speakers of Bengali here in America are Bangladeshi. Yeah. I wonder what's more authentique. Do you think American Indian food or British Indian food? I would actually think it would be British. I would lean that way as well as far as it being more close to home. Just because, like we said, the history of it. I mean, we got a lot of Indians here in America, but percentage-wise with the general population, it wouldn't surprise me. My Mickey may know. I don't know how much Indian food he had when he lived in England, but he was in England for seven years. So something like that. I wonder if it's the exact same. But that was a while ago. So I wonder if it may have changed. Maybe it's the exact same as well. Yeah, for any of you stupid babies who are there, because we know they're stupid babies that are in England, let us know what's it like there. Are they doing justice to the cuisine? 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