Talk:Chicken tikka masala

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• "even by Indians" Should we really call them Indians? I have a feeling that the word is more associated with Native Americans than people living in India Leszek 23:34, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Only a USAsian would be so ill-educated, self-centered and racist as to think that the word Indian referred to an American.

• • Then what would we call the people of India? India-ers?
    • Maybe Hindus? That's what the Indians disambiguation page says is an altenative name for them Leszek 19:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Hindi is a language. Hinduism is the religion, and its practitioners are Hindus. The word you're looking for is Hindustani ("-stan", land)

• • Clue: can you work out why the European visitors to the Americas called the indigenous peoples "Indians"? -- ALoan (Talk) 18:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

All this talk about Indian is non-sensical. World isnt America and Wikipedia isnt America. It is not upto non-Americans to accomodate American misnomers. अमेय आरयन AMbroodEY 07:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Fun fact! Lessek appears to be from Poland, not the U.S. Don't you think it's stereotypical to assume it's always Americans who think this way, then go on jeremaids about how the world isn't the U.S. and how "Wikipedia isn't America?" Apart from the fact that Wikipedia was concieved by Americans, of course.

What are you talking about, more associated with Native Americans?! That's the most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. An Indian is someone from India, how could you ever misunderstand that?

Seconded. The more problematic issue is that many (most?) "Indian" restaurants in the UK aren't run by Indians but by people from neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh. The language lacks a decent word to refer to all people from this region - "asian" seems to be the best we've got, but it doesn't sound right to my ears and also has the minor downside of confusing Americans. It's a shame Desi isn't more widely used. PeteVerdon 18:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

South Asian, surely? That covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and maybe Bhutan (though Bhutan is culturally fairly different). BovineBeast 19:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

In the UAE, subcontinental (subcon for short) is often used as a shorthand for people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Well, the British taste for Indian (Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Punjabi, ...) cuisine started in British India before Partition, so "Indian" is not entirely inappropriate, unless you are suggesting that "Italian" restaurants have to be staffed by people from Florence and Naples? -- ALoan (Talk) 23:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't saying it was a particular problem with this article, just making a general observation. (And airing my dislike of the term "asian" in this context.) PeteVerdon 00:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

It never ceases to amaze me how Americans are blind to that small bit of land between the Middle East and China commonly referred to as "Asia" by the rest of the world. Perhaps it was institutionalised in the 1950s as a cunning plan to disguise the true size of the USSR. Although it still doesn't explain how India has managed to end up in North America. --JamesTheNumberless 13:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I am interested in the correct meaning of the word 'tikka', in general and in this particular context. -- coolbox@hotmail.com

"Tikka" is a method of cooking meat marinated in yoghurt and spices in a tandoori or clay oven. Whereas tandoori chicken is cooed on the bone in large pieces for tikka the meat is cut into bite-size pieces.

Incidentally I ate tikka masala -- chicken I think, but it may have been lamb, in New Delhi in 1971. I was curious about the name (as I knew both tikka and masala separately) and asked the waiter for an explanation. He said the tikka'd meat was then cooked in a masala sauce.

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This is also true of claims that "Leo and Oasis" from KUSU first invented the dish, Tom Smith however disputes this claim intently.

Sounds like a vanity edit to me --AW 22:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origins

The British TV Programme QI revealed the origins of Chicken Tikka Masala as being from a curry house in Scotland (Glasgow or Edinburgh I think). It could probably be found on this site's QI Transcripts if you look closely enough. I initially put this on as fact, which it is - it was done by extensive QI researchers. That should go on as the true origin of Chicken Tikka Masala, as it has absolutely nothing to do with Pakistan or India apart from the ingredients used. Similarly, it is more important than "possibly from the British Isles" - it DID come from the British Isles. If WikiBooks has "The QI Book of General Ignorance", you may even find it in there. Alex Holowczak 13:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC)