--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Bharat Shetty <bharat.she...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 10:43 AM
> Clashes between North-Indian and
> South Indian food in the vast Indian
> diaspora in America has become fairly common. You'd see
> debates on how
> the other type of food sucks etc among Indian communities
> in and
> around Universities. Funningily enough for me, I've liked
> the variety
> of food I've tasted here -Tamil types with sour flavour,
> heavy north
> Indian meals, spicy andhra stuffs in addition to Thai,
> Italian food.
>
> -- B
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com>
> wrote:
> > Venkat Mangudi wrote, [on 3/13/2009 10:21 AM]:
> >
> >> You'll be surprised that many communities in the
> US hesitate before
> >> letting Indians (all of us are the same to them)
> live there. I have
> >> heard nasty comments about the smell of "curry" in
> the neighbourhood. I
> >> am not saying that this discrimination is
> acceptable. But it's present,
> >> is all I am saying.
> >
> > Data point:
> >
> > When I closed on an apartment in Campbell, CA in 1999,
> the super (a
> > LARGE black woman) gave me an obviously well-rehearsed
> spiel on the
> > lines of "do what you want, cook what you want, but
> don't make me come
> > remind you that you're late with your rent."
> >
> > For extra irony points, my then-roomie (also Indian)
> said to me, "I
> > don't like South Indian food." To which my response
> was "Great. You cook
> > then."
> >
> > :)
Hoo, boy, this started for me while still in the Institute, with opinion
fiercely divided between SI and NI food. Both felt the other was inedible, and
there was no meeting ground. East and West India stayed strictly out of this
'food fight'.
Ironically, we kept getting excluded from apartments for rent when we were
looking for these, because of the fear of Bengali food
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