Retromike's "Fear and Hockey in Las Vegas."

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I dislike Indian food

What the hell is wrong with you, man?

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This looks like a place where Grumps would have grown up:

Nah.  Grumps is from the lush, wet, snowy mountains on the other side of the continent.  His neighbor was Loretta Lynn when he was growing up.

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?!?!?!?!

I sat on a bus next to an Indian dude who wouldn't eat any meat except veal.  It was a hell of a long trip.  Cleveland to Fort Worth.  Nearly 24 hours.  This guy wouldn't eat a steak or a pork chop or a lamb shank, but he'd eat veal.  Seriously, veal. 

I'm assuming that RR1997 is Dravidian.  About 30 percent of the folks from the indian subcontinent are Dravidian.  They are the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, for example, and the Telugu-speaking people of the South.  They may not like to think of themselves as "white" the way the Hindi and the Bengali and other Indo-Europeans of Northern India do.  Actually, in US, UK, and German atlases they do not show up as Aryan, so it's not necessarily an Indian thing.  Clearly, the Europeans historically don't consider Dravidians "white" either.  Why any of them wouldn't like Northern Indian cuisine I can't imagine.  Maybe RR1997 is just radically anti-Aryan.  Like, I don't like the Hindustani people of Northern India or the Marathi of Goa, therefore I don't like Saag Paneer or Chicken Vindaloo. 

There may also be some animosity.  I know many people from Nanjing.  Most of them who are over 40 won't have anything to do with Nikon, Toyota, or Mitsubishi.  Nevermind that a good camera is a good camera, or a good car is a good car, or a good stereo is a good stereo.  All they can think about is the Rape of Nanjing.  To be sure it was horrific.  Probably the most horrible acts of Man's inhumanity toward Man that had ever occurred to that point.  When they found out that Obama refused to visit Hiroshima they applauded.  That, I can understand.  The reluctance not to even test drive a Toyota I cannot.  Well, I can sort of.  Old prejudices die hard.  I also know a filipino girl who won't eat anything except Chef-Boy-R-Dee Ravioli in a can.  She wants so badly to be "American" and to be accepted by all her American friends that she turns down the savory and hard-prepared meals her mother gives her in favor of partially-hydrogenated cottonseed oil posing as cheese. 

Of course Hockeydude is just being Hockeydude.  He's not bigoted toward Indians of any stripe.  He has deeply-entrenched bigotries, but they include only Republicans and anyone who believes in any religion or gods.  Hindus may be collateral damage, but they aren't the primary target of his anti-religious bigotries, Christians are.   If he genuinely doesn't like Indian food I can only assume that he has some DNA damage, a conclusion that is supported by several other lines of evidence.

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haha.  To each his own, I suppose.  Man, I love all the Indian food I've eaten.  Some of it was better than others, but it was all so complex and tasty.  I have a good friend that I see about once every two years, and every time he has us over his wife makes the most wonderful omelettes for breakfast.  Kitchen Sink.  Purple onions, white onions, mushrooms, cilantro, mango bits, the white cheesy substance that Indians like, red pequin chiles, green chiles, and tomatoes--nevermind the Columbian Exchange, or that the tomato wasn't known in India, or that corn wasn't known to the Chinese, or that Chocolate wasn't known to the Belgians, or that potatoes were not known to the Irish, etc., before circa AD1500--her omelettes are the best.  And for lunch, oh, my, the yogurt-encrusted chicken and green chutney and homemade samosas are like Nirvana for the tongue, and the biriani and spinach and beans and all the rest.    What a feast!  I could eat it every day!  It is hard, therefore, for me to imagine anyone, especially an Indian, who doesn't like Indian food.  Nevertheless, I do not like Budweiser Beer.  Alas, I am a gringo who doesn't like Budweiser.  Imagine that!  I suppose that there are Frenchmen who do not like Champagne, and Australians who do not like vegemite.  (Actually, I suspect that there are a good many Australians who do not like vegemite, probably a bad example.)  Anyway, I do not like Budweiser, nor do I enjoy Big Macs or Cheese Whiz or Ketchup on french-fried potatoes, and therefore I should accept that there are Indians who do not like Indian food.  I surrender.  Peace.

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Buffets are good.  Especially Indian ones.  Here's the ad I got at the top of my forum page this forum. 



Slightly more relevant that the advertisements for Russian mail-order brides that I usually see.

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Larry, Moe, and Curly?  Or Shemp?