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10695046 No.10695046 [Reply] [Original]

Why the fuck is Indian food so god damned expensive? I've tried it in three different cities and it is always overpriced. A bunch of poorfag Indians who don't even wash their hands before they cook want to charge more than any other ethnic restaurant. I could get a plate of sashimi for the same price as a dish of curry.
I can cook it just fine myself, problem is I don't want my entire apartment to smell like it for a week.

>> No.10695052

>>10695046
Curry leaves are expensive to import.

>> No.10695065

>>10695052
It can't be more expensive than lime leaves, tea leaves, or any other spice. Why curry leaves? What makes them so faggoty when half my produce comes from Chile or Mexico just fine?

>> No.10695077

>>10695046

I'd like to idealize this and assume that it's because you're a cunt and they've seen you coming so charge you more.

>> No.10695093
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10695093

>eating indian food
Seriously that stuff is gnarly

>> No.10695098

>>10695046
Maybe it’s a conspiracy...

>> No.10695102

>>10695093
Sorry it's not a McDonald's cheeseburger, tubs

>> No.10695111

>>10695065
He's fucking with you anon. Curry leaves arent necessary to make Curry and are only commonplace in specific places even in India. We're talking about food where most of the dishes were peasant/poor foods. They just overcharge you because it's exotic for a lot of people and most wouldn't have a clue where to start if they wanted to make it at home.

>> No.10695129

>>10695046
Any restaurant food is expensive. Make it yourself

>> No.10695137

It is expensive and they really don’t give you much of it either but fucking damn is it delicious

>> No.10695144

All of the best indian restaurants get shut down for health violations. I imagine they need the extra cash to pay for the bribes.

>> No.10695147

>>10695046
>I don't want my entire apartment to smell like it for a week
I want my place to smell like curry forever. I can't get enough of the flavor or smell.

>> No.10695366

OP has returned. 2 takeout entrees and a dessert for $40. It was delicious though. I have enough for 4 meals easily. Ridiculous when $20 will get you a meal at a nice sit down restaurant.

>> No.10695375

>>10695102
You're right, it's objectively worse. That's how low on the totem Indian """food""" is.

>> No.10695545

>>10695111
>Curry leaves arent necessary to make Curry and are only commonplace in specific places even in India
They probably just grow wild in India. I live in a 7B growing zone in the US and they sell curry plants at the local nursery. Fwiw, I've collected the seeds the last few years and wander through the neighborhood throwing them everywhere since in short order, climate change will have turned us into india.

>> No.10695558

>>10695046
because indian food is patrician tier and they know that your hamburger helper ass is willing to pay up

>> No.10695575

>>10695366
>2 takeout entrees and a dessert for $40.
jesus christ dude thats awful

>> No.10695577
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10695577

>>10695046
get thai
cheap fuck

>> No.10695587

>>10695046
I'll quote my mom here. "I like to get things when I'm out to eat that I can't make at home."

Flyovers and boomers think there's some kind of magic potion that loos have to make curry. I made my mom curry once and she dropped her panties in a manner of speaking. Make it at home, who cares if it smells? It smells good

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>>10695587
been trying to get my mom to drop her panties for a while
thanks for the tip

>> No.10695607

>>10695577
aka babbys first taste of spicy

>> No.10695610

>>10695587
>My mom
>She dropped her panties in a manner of speaking

Of all the phrases you could have used, that is the one you went with

>> No.10695619

Best Indian food I had was in Japan. Decent prices and they didn't Jew you on the naan.

>> No.10695625

>>10695610
nothing quenches the parch quite like mama's juices

>> No.10695644

>>10695610
and you ended a sentence with a preposition, we all have our flaws

>> No.10695682

>>10695644
check out goodwill hunting over here

>> No.10695698

>>10695682
ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put

>> No.10695711

>>10695698
kek

>> No.10695720

>>10695577
I love Thai but Indian is just good, mang. They're different.
>>10695587
It's ridiculously hard to air out my apartment. It's a studio. I don't want everything I own smelling like curry. Anyway I ordered something with goat, which is literally not sold in stores. I don't know where the fuck they got it. Best Indian food I had in the city so far but you just can't find Indian for less than $15 a dish.
>>10695575
Yeah, and the dessert was like 3 bites.

>> No.10695739

>>10695587
I'm just so god damned lazy though

>> No.10695746

>>10695366
Sounds like Canadian dollars.

>> No.10695762

>>10695720
>Best Indian food I had in the city so far but you just can't find Indian for less than $15 a dish.
where the hell do you live that it's that expensive? that hasn't been my experience in the multiple cities I've been to an indian restaurant in

>> No.10695767

>>10695720
Let us know where you live so we can help you or mock you

>> No.10695899

>>10695720
You realize if you eat indian food you start to sweat out that smell? why do you think loos are smelly? they wash their clothes same as you and me, that curry exudes from their pores

everyone at work thinks you reek

>> No.10696450

>>10695093
>judging all Indian food off of that one time you had it
The sub-continent is one of the most culinary diverse regions on the planet with relatively close regional cuisines having next to nothing in common with the one next door.

>> No.10696820

>>10695046
learn to make it yourself, its easy as shit

>> No.10696861

>>10695046
The trick is to make it yourself.
I have a crockpot recipe I've worked out to make a fuck ton of butter chicken really easy.
Then I just eat it either with rice or those premade naan breads that you just heat up in the oven.
You can work out a way to make pretty much any curry in a slowcooker and have it taste restaurant quality.

>> No.10697032

>>10696861
Well share the recipe fucktard!

>> No.10697073

>>10695093
>amerifat who's only ate msg and processed food his whole life

You're parents ruined your taste buds

>> No.10697096

>I could get a few pieces of fish on rice barely enough as an appetizer that'll leave me hungry in two hours for the same price as a tasty and filling meal enough for two

>> No.10697177

>>10695046
It might be that you're going to places that try to be more upscale and the higher prices reflect that, even if there's nothing particularly expensive in the dishes. Other restaurants do the same thing. An Italian restaurant I've been to charged $13 for spaghetti and meat sauce, and that was the cheapest thing on the menu. Most dishes were closer to $20.

>> No.10697194

>>10697073
hey man leave based msg out of this

>> No.10697240

>>10695698
alternatively if you aren't a retard you could say "I will not put up with ending a sentence with a preposition."

>> No.10697381

>>10695052
>>10695111
>>10695545
am I being rused? curry has nothing to do with the curry plant

>>10695046
because indian food is like 50% spices and spices are expensive

>> No.10697638

Indians are Jews 2.0.
I worked retail next to a credit card call center once, I had a guy actually return something because it was one cent more then he thought it would be. I wish I was joking. They always looked over every single thing they bought for any imperfection so they could ask for a discount.
Just make Indian food at home OP, don't fall for the scam.

>> No.10698657

>>10696450
Not really. They basically just make everything taste like cumin or caraway.

>> No.10699377

>>10695147
Have a teaspoon of fenugreek every day and you'll be a walking curry scented candle. Takes days to get it off you.

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10699394

>>10695046
>mayo-americans don't understand what labor is

It's because it takes more labor to make something taste good than to use ingredients that already taste good (like steak or salmon)

>> No.10699465

If it's so expensive elsewhere how is it so cheap in the uk? I can get a good chicken vindaloo with popadom and nan bread for £5 at the right place.

>> No.10699626

>>10699465
It's much more popular in the uk.

>> No.10699784

>>10696861
Post that shit you ripe cunt I just got a pot. Even got a few pounds of chicken ready in the freeze

>> No.10699819

>>10695046
Whud iz dee finool prize foor diz? Cann Ai pay eu en goats. Nalini! Ged pajeet off the table!

>> No.10699983

>>10695046
>just pretend you have an indian gf

>> No.10700081

>>10697096
ask me how i know you're american

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>>10695698
>ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
Wew lad