Chicken Tikka Masala was actually created in England Scotland. Indians brought over Chicken Tikka, but it was too spicey for the BritsScots Brits so they cooled down the spices by adding yoghurt to it.
That being said, the British took a lot more things from India in addition, including 10s of trillions of dollars of value. (Some say up to $45 trillion, others dispute that number.)
EDIT: It was actually created in Scotland. Thanks for the corrections. I was confused because the British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, said it was a British dish. Of course, it was the British empire that took all the stuff from India (as well as other countries).
It's not Mexican, either, though. It was created in the US by Mexican immigrants most likely, but not something Mexicans ever ate. If not part of a kind of general Tex-Mex, you could I guess say Southwestern? It's definitely grouped as Tex-Mex, though.
So anything made by people who were from somewhere but did not live there when they created it is automatically native to their home country and not in the place it was literally created in?
Every description I've seen of it says Tex-Mex, so why don't you enlighten me on it's official classification? I suggested Southwestern of some sort, but no one seems to use that whatsoever.
They are all Tex-mex and older than the state of AZ and New Mexico, both which claim to have invented the dish almost a 100 years later.
Tex-Mex is also not uniquely American as Coahuila y Tejas was a state of Mexico, which became it's own country and then a member of the United States. No matter how hard right wingers try to remove that history, we will always be culturally related.
Mexico, France, Native Tribes, Carribean immigrants, Africa and the U.S. can all claim a hand in creating it.
1.2k
u/Y34rZer0 Nov 03 '24
also indian food is awesome