Insight Into Anarchy's Subtle Nuances. London. 2011.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The Great Eartha/Capt Utopia Sub Continental Take Over Conspiracy...remember that one?

Christ it sounded like a meeting of Paranoid Delusionals Anonymous.

What you fail to realise is that these conspiracy theories are born out of a blind optimism most of the posters taking part will deny possessing.
It's easier to handle the return of a previous troll, deliberately being a fuckwit to upset, than to acknowledge the existence of more than one such character. It makes me sad to consider that both you and CU exist. When you were both CU, I could more easily dismiss the fuckwittery as anomalous and keep my palm off my face.

This. Not to mention the flickering hope that someone professing to be a friend of Charley and Badbeast wasn't actually such a shitstain.

Also, again, her reading comprehension is ASTONISHINGLY bad; I wasn't claiming Indians don't eat peppers, I was pointing out that, as chili peppers are a New World food, it's absurd to criticize an Old World recipe for using "untraditional" peppers.


Also, I don't think she knows what cayenne pepper IS. She clearly doesn't know much about either the botany or history of chili peppers in Old World cooking, which makes it extra funny that she's trying to act all superior about it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Someone has never heard of Lal Mirch, then 

Well, she's an Australian who used to have a neighbor from Indonesia, which makes her an expert, and if she's never heard of it, IT DOESN'T EXIST. 

[East Coast Hustle]

In the strings of PMs I have exchanged with her she has both attacked me for posts that were actually made by other people and complained to me about horrible things Dok has said to her that were actually said by me.

Like I said, I've got five amerocentric dollars on "raging alcoholic".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In the strings of PMs I have exchanged with her she has both attacked me for posts that were actually made by other people and complained to me about horrible things Dok has said to her that were actually said by me.

Like I said, I've got five amerocentric dollars on "raging alcoholic".

Yep, her inability to understand what's being written, or to keep track of who wrote it and when it was written, kinda points to "drunk most of the time and fucked-up hungover the rest".

[Cain]

Someone has never heard of Lal Mirch, then 

Well, she's an Australian who used to have a neighbor from Indonesia, which makes her an expert, and if she's never heard of it, IT DOESN'T EXIST. 

Well, you know, Indonesia, India...all those countries starting with I are pretty much the same.  And of course, her neighbour's testimony counts for a lot more than my friends (who backpacked around India for a year) because, er, it does.  No, it DOES. Shut up, it's TOTALLY more credible. 

Also, nice catch by Trip.  Can't believe I missed that blatant mistake about Goa...I'm going to put it down to Eartha-ly's stupidity being too painful to read in depth.  Or I was tired.  One or the other.

[Freeky]

Someone has never heard of Lal Mirch, then 

Well, she's an Australian who used to have a neighbor from Indonesia, which makes her an expert, and if she's never heard of it, IT DOESN'T EXIST. 

Well, you know, Indonesia, India...all those countries starting with I are pretty much the same.  And of course, her neighbour's testimony counts for a lot more than my friends (who backpacked around India for a year) because, er, it does.  No, it DOES. Shut up, it's TOTALLY more credible. 

Also, nice catch by Trip.  Can't believe I missed that blatant mistake about Goa...I'm going to put it down to Eartha-ly's stupidity being too painful to read in depth.  Or I was tired.  One or the other.

Possibly both, and more of the first one.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Someone has never heard of Lal Mirch, then 

Well, she's an Australian who used to have a neighbor from Indonesia, which makes her an expert, and if she's never heard of it, IT DOESN'T EXIST. 

Well, you know, Indonesia, India...all those countries starting with I are pretty much the same.  And of course, her neighbour's testimony counts for a lot more than my friends (who backpacked around India for a year) because, er, it does.  No, it DOES. Shut up, it's TOTALLY more credible. 

Also, nice catch by Trip.  Can't believe I missed that blatant mistake about Goa...I'm going to put it down to Eartha-ly's stupidity being too painful to read in depth.  Or I was tired.  One or the other.

Yeah, same here. I remember being vaguely aware of something wrong when I read that from ED, but I think it was so skullfuckingly stupid that I mentally filtered it out and did not take the opportunity for mockery.

[Triple Zero]

So, what's the connection with Indonesia now, then? Because they don't make vindaloo there. And they didn't get colonized by the Portuguese but by us (wasn't very nice of us btw), and we didn't bring our cuisine over there, but we took their cuisine to over here, which was a much better idea cause Dutch cuisine was kinda boring at the time.
(see it's actually true what I said with my Dutch-o-centric history lessons, I know this from the top of my head but I had to look up the Portugal/Goa connection)

[Cain]

All non-European countries starting with an I are exactly the same.  India, Iran, Indonesia, Israel...spicy food and nuclear weapons and funny religions and brown people.  All of them.

Stop being so Americancentric, Trip.

(seriously though, while Indonesia and India do have a lot of shared culture and history, it doesn't mean someone from Indonesia is necessarily up on what Indians are using in their cooking )

[East Coast Hustle]

Especially since Indonesian cuisine is most heavily influenced by the Chinese and Malay traders that have been active in the region for a few hundred years, whereas "Indian" cuisine (again, this consists of 7 or 8 sometimes wildly differing mother cuisines) is, for the most part, pretty indigenous with the notable exception of Goan cuisine.

[Cain]

Indeed.

In the case of Indonesia, I was mostly think of Sumatran dishes having some overlap with India (and the Middle East), but even there a lot of Malaysian influences can be readily seen. 

This thread is reminding me I was going to learn Indonesian as well.  I should get on with that. 

[East Coast Hustle]

One of the starkest differences is that though both regions rely heavily on curries (an extremely broad term to begin with), Indian curries tend to be made from dried/roasted/ground spices while Malay/Thai/Indonesian curries tend to use fresh ingredients ground into a wet paste.

Also I have never seen galangal used in any Indian curries while it is a staple in very nearly every SE Asian curry I know of, whereas Fenugreek is completely absent from those but present in many if not most Indian curries.

(waiting for ED to pop in and tell me I'm wrong because of all the coconut and galangal-based curries to be found on the Kashmiri coast.)

[East Coast Hustle]

Of course, since this thread is about anarchy I probably shouldn't be talking about culinary traditions that border on being RULES.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't actually recall if she said her neighbor was Indonesian, I just threw that into the logic-salad of nonsense she was spouting because I didn't feel like going back and looking it up again.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, and didn't she throw something in there about having taken a cooking class once?  During which, she apparently learned that the Portuguese didn't import Capsicum Annuum to India.