First-generation American Saira Rao wrote: "Having white people trash Indian food is extremely triggering as an Indian who has been told that I smell weird, that my food smells weird and that Indians [expletive] on the street which is why everything we are smells bad."
Some noted that in the US, international food - sometimes called "ethnic food" - is often marketed as "cheap eats". Therefore many people are more familiar with pared-down, "Americanised" street dishes that lack authentic ingredients.
"There is no 'Indian' food'," wrote one commenter.
"Also there is no curry flavour. There is no chai tea," she added, referring to the fact that chai is simply a word meaning "tea" in Hindi, and "curry" is a style of dish, rather than a flavouring.
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People are, of course, free to like and dislike what they will, but yeah, the kind of tasteless (pun intended) generalizations of cuisines more diverse than entire continents (China and India, to be clear) is laughable.
Joke's on them, I adore Chinese and Indian food, both.
