Battle to 'save great British curry'

Thousands of protesters in London's Trafalgar Square insisted they were on a mission - to save the great British curry.

And among the crowd were warnings for the government to take notice, or pay the price at the ballot box.

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Shut the lot down for all I care. Or at least make it law that there can't be two take-aways/restraunts within half a mile of each other. Talk about Tesco popping up everywhere! There's more take-aways along just one road near me, than there are Tescos' in Manchester. I mean, you don't see a road full of newsagents, post offices', chemists', funeral directors (maybe that's to come? ), the list go on and on.

Junk food is the new crack, and we can't seem to get enough of it, what happened to self-control?. The NHS is snowed under with patients who have serious diseases a lot of the time caused by addiction to crap food.

And no joke, if I get another piece of junk mail advertising junk food, like pizza, curry, chicken burgers, pasta and chow main, I'm going to lose it in a bad way!!

No wonder the ozone is in such a state!

[danielf]

Food is the new crack???? I'll have some of what you're smoking...

[Rob]

Sorry, but I can't see that there is any problem with immigration rules affecting the ability of these outlets to find staff. This year so far my postcode area has seen one new Indian Restaurant open. Last year we had a KFC, and another Indian Takeaway.

So in my area we now have:
3 Indian Restaurants
1 Chinese Restaurant
3 Pizza takeaway
4 Indian Takeway (plus the restaraunts)
4 Chinese takeway (plus the restuarant)
3 burger / kebab takeaway
2 fried chicken takeaway
3 fish & chips

Nearby areas still send their menus through our front door, so we can't have reached saturation yet?

Oh and yes we have a big Tesco, but with all those other places I'm amazed that reportedly, for it's size it was supposedly one of the highest customer footfalls in the country.

[bopdude]

Oh dear, another race row brewing, it's not about the curry, curry houses or the amount of curry houses, it's about who cooks the curry.

Originally Posted by bbc

The demonstrators - under the banner of the Ethnic Catering Alliance - say a new points-based system for non-EU immigrants has led to a severe shortage of kitchen staff.

Under the scheme, migrants can only work in the UK if they meet criteria including the ability to speak proficient English.

"It's crazy," said Salim Chowdhury Miah, a restaurateur and local councillor from Derby. "My chef can't speak any English, but he doesn't need to. He's there to make curry.

Don't get me started, when I emigrated, I at least made the effort to learn some of the lingo's 3 out of 11 official, now I never, never thought I would do / say this, but to quote Arthurgre@ I'm not a racist but........................ this is getting daft.......er

---------- Post added at 00:50 ---------- Previous post was at 00:48 ----------

Originally Posted by Rob

Oh and yes we have a big Tesco,

Bigger Tesco's

Originally Posted by danielf

Food is the new crack???? I'll have some of what you're smoking...

I don't smoke, my body is a temple. I should have said "junk food is the new crack."

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Enuff

I don't smoke, my body is a temple. I should have said "junk food is the new crack."

Ah, fair enough. A good curry is a gift of the Gods though

[frogstamper]

What about the workers from eastern Europe, as said above, I don't believe for one minuet this is about finding ethnic staff for restaurants, if I has to hazard a guess Id say its more to do with non Europeans finding it harder to get members of their family into the UK.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

What about the workers from eastern Europe, as said above, I don't believe for one minuet this is about finding ethnic staff for restaurants, if I has to hazard a guess Id say its more to do with non Europeans finding it harder to get members of their family into the UK.

No, you think so I think you may have it Now I'm all in favour of world travel, but

It baffles me how some of them manage to stay in business due to the amount of competition? Just look at the curry mile in Rusholme.

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Enuff

It baffles me how some of them manage to stay in business due to the amount of competition? Just look at the curry mile in Rusholme.

It's called demand.
If there was no demand, they'd go out of business.
People seem to have forgotten that.

I'm going to add something to what Rob has said about the amount of Takeaways in one area. In Sutton in Ashfield there is a street called Outram Street, it's not one mile long in fact it's not even half a mile long. From one end to the other there are 21 takeaways these include a KFC, MacDonalds, pizza / kebab shops, Chinese takeaways / restaurants, Indian restaurants, Italian restaurants. With all these takeaways you'd think we'd have a town full of nightclubs and pubs?? There's not one nightclub in this town, there's one pub which makes a profit. How can all these takeaways make money when there's that many in one small area???


Outram Street in Sutton in Ashfield is now called China Town by the locals.


Oh and by the way Sutton in Ashfield has a high rate of adult / child obesity.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by Nidge

Oh and by the way Sutton in Ashfield has a high rate of adult / child obesity.

OK, fair enough, but that's no excuse!

[PeteTheMusicGuy]

I thought curry was an indian and not a british dish

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by PeteTheMusicGuy

I thought curry was an indian and not a british dish

The roots were, I have some Bangladeshi friends and what they eat is so different to what you get in the restaraunts/takeaways UNLESS YOU ASK FOR IT as the dishes are all different, normally sweeter to meet our Western expectations

[Rob]

Originally Posted by PeteTheMusicGuy

I thought curry was an indian and not a british dish

And if you read the original bbc article it's origins are agreed, but the debate that the indian, and chinese, foods have now become so absorbed into our culture that they are part of the British way of life.