Curry is something that can't be made in Hurry! Well, that rhymes and that's what makes it spicy!:D

It’s definitely a confused term. Nowadays it seems to mean any Indian or Indian influenced dish with a sauce of some consistency or the dry seasoning that the British made to attempt to replicate the flavors of Indian food or anything that is made with curry seasoning. So we have curried potatoes that don’t have a sauce and now we also have Thai curry (I think that’s influenced by Indian cuisine, but I’m not sure). Even many Indian people in the US now call any Indian dish with a sauce curry because that’s what people here understand.

The two things I know that have a closer relationship with the word curry are the curry leaf where the name is I think the same Tamil word you mentioned where the word came into English from. The other is Panjabi kadi which is a thick sauce made from yogurt, besan (chickpea flour), onion, and seasonings. Even though that has no relation to the English use of the word curry, the sound of the word is similar and my wife thought that’s what people were referring to when they ask her if she likes curry.

I’ve always wondered the same thing. To me, curry is a vaguely Indian vaguely gravy-ish type thing.

Reminds me of “chai tea”. Took me a long time to figure out why people were ordering “tea tea”.

I am onboard my yacht right now, and the idea of water rat does not curry any favour with me. )))

I have other, more interesting ingredients, and frankly, I think the local mussels would be healthier.

I enjoyed the soups I had in Yekaterinburg and in Belarus. Particularly I liked соляна and would like to find the recipe one day.

I'm not a fan of curry. I have never understood the idea of adding hot spice to food, whether curry or chiles, but then again I love freshly cracked black pepper on my spuds and tomatoes. Not on water rat though.

Som, jsut thought about Irish stew in "Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" which was supposed to include all the available ingredients to be genuine (with an argument over whether it should include the water-rat brought by the dog).

Actual Irish stew is not very different from what they cook in Russia and Belarus sometimes.