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 <[email protected]> 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." > > :) > > Udhay > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > >
