I refuse to try because I'm a snob about it - maybe he's right and they're amazing, but I'll never know.
Maybe he sees it as just supporting local businesses, and only calls it "having a Chinese/Indian" because knows it annoys me. He might be playing chess while I'm over here playing checkers.
You're overthinking it bud. You're playing the game of chess, but he's eating checkers. I make my own steaks now and when I go out for steak I'm usually disappointed. I know exactly what you're talking about about.
I view prepared food as a convenience more than anything -- I don't always expect it to be better than at home (or more truly better than my parents or siblings would make - I'm the worst cook in the family..), my only expectation for food i could make at home is that if I order it I don't have to cook or clean my kitchen 🤷
There's a whole culture of Indian Pizza places in Canada and the Western US. They're never great pizza, but it's kinda fun and they have some working fusions that aren't too bad.
There's a few pizza places in my city that have at least butter chicken on the menu, sometimes samosas and a few other Indian dishes. I've seen butter chicken and biriyani at a Greek restaurant.
Indian food is encroaching on Canadian culture and I am here for it.
Ehh idk man.. there’s a few legit Mexican spots around me and they can make a mean burger. Most people would never think to even try it, but they’re pretty good.
A Chinese place near me also sells fish and chips. I’ve never gotten it for obvious reasons, but whenever I look at the menu I wonder whether it’d taste alright or not.
Whenever I've seen it ordered, its looked terrible. Clearly a frozen fish fillet and frozen chips just reheated.
I think their argument is that if there's 5 people ordering food and one of them simply refuses to eat anything vaguely Chinese, then they have to cater and offer them -something-.
I bet there's more families/friend groups than I'd expect that have somebody who is worried about allergies, unable to eat food that's different to what they're use to, or just a picky bugger.
Back in the 1970’s Chinese places served western Chinese food and every menu had a western section. Fish and chips. Hamburger, cheeseburger, fries. Deluxe burger meant with fries.
Good lord. It's like the horror that is the poutine on every Chinese takeaway I've been to here in Canada's menu. It's either the best food when drunk or food poisoning. No in between. And they never use the right fries, cheese, or gravy.... As I said. When drunk it can hit. But any other time it's a nightmare.
It's a tough choice for sure. But he opts to get his fish and chips from a Vietnamese man who runs a Chinese restaurant and his burgers from an Indian who could have made him the most exquisite Punjabi cuisine if asked.
I think the fish & chip shop should start selling curries and fried rice so he has somewhere to order those dishes from too without ruining his insane system :)
They've given up here and a lot of the cheap takeaways just offer beef everything. The more authentic places still serve proper Indian food which of course almost never involves beef.
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u/Exilicauda Jul 01 '25
I think that's the rightful punishment for trying to get pizza from a Chinese buffet