Calls to boycott the word 'curry' over claims it's rooted in British colonialism

Californian food blogger Chaheti Bansal says the term 'curry' has been long misused to describe any dish made on the Asian subcontinent.

“Curry shouldn’t be all that you think about when you think about South Asian food,” Bansal said.

"There's a saying that the food in India changes every 100km and yet we're still using this umbrella term popularised by white people who couldn't be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes.

"But we can still unlearn."

According to Ilyse Morgenstein Furest, a professor at the University of Vermont, the word 'curry' doesn’t actually exist in any South Asian language. "Curry is one of these words that most historians attribute to the British bad ear," she said.

"There’s a long history of imagining what we would call Indian food as exotic and sought after… and that lack of temperance, in our food, or in our emotionality, is a problem. That’s one of the things that is rooted in white, Christian supremacy," Furest added.