Is The Bbc Becoming Just Too Precious?

[naomi24]

Len Goodman's little anecdote about his granny, years ago, describing curry powder as 'foreign muck' has been met by the BBC with disapproval. They have issued an apology - to whom is unclear. Perhaps to people like me who like curry, but I'm not offended . I too think some food is foreign muck.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/len-goodman-jubilee-curry-bbc-b2094641.html

Daft innit ... or isn't it?

[ichkeria]

Anyone who really appreciates curry should never use curry powder!

[TantP]

The people I know who have 'curry' as their National dish would have laughed at the statement, not be offended.

[TantP]

ichkeria exactly, Curry powder, as such, is an invention for the Western palette .

[ichkeria]

That reminds me:
I didn't really watch much of the jubilee stuff, but I caught a bit of the pageant, being commentated on by Clare Balding and at least one other. One of them apologised at some point to "anyone who might have been offended by my remark", but I didn't catch what was being referred to. Did anyone else hear this?

[ToraToraTora]

TBH Ruby is pretty well a British national dish these days anyway!

[barry1010]

Clare Balding apologised during the show, there was much Twitter outrage. It's not as if the Beeb halted the news so that an official representative could make a formal apology to the nation, it was just a second of Balding's time

[aelmpvw]

how many snowflakes have to complain to the bbc before an apology is given?

[naomi24]

//Anyone who really appreciates curry should never use curry powder! //

Ich, he was talking about his granny who lived in an age before supermarkets, when fresh spices weren't available here, and when curry powder was probably the most exotic it got.

[TantP]

I think it may have had something to do with the Māori procession -she seemed to think they had come from a different country, I think there was a reference to jungle , then she corrected herself to New Zealand.

[ichkeria]

"Clare Balding apologised during the show"

So was what I heard referring to the curry scandal?
I thought she was apologising for something she had just said

[ichkeria]

Ah

[youngmafbog]

It's becoming ridiculous.

We had curry powder in the 70's - pretty much all you could get.

Now we walk up to the Asian shops and can buy anything (including great quality meat).

[sandyRoe]

Anyone remember these Vesta products, Curry and Chow mein? Vesta could issue a belated apology for selling goods under false pretences. Both of those were nothing like the original.

[davebro]

ah - Currygate !!!

[MargoTester]

I do Sandy, and very exotic we thought them

[sandyRoe]

Margo, so did I. But with hindsight...

[davebro]

Vesta?

[dannyk13]

Dave
https://www.amazon.co.uk/vesta-meals/s?k=vesta+meals

[youngmafbog]

Yes, I remember the Vest curries. Me Mam used to stick the curry powder into them to pep them up.

Like most things, its a journey. Problem is kids of today want it all done yesterday.

[MargoTester]

The height of sophistication in the seventies, before Chinese and Indian restaurants arrived in my town