Topic: Atmosphere in a BIR.

[SnS]

If that were true Bobby, wouldn't there be pork on the menu. This is a popular meat in Goa and some southern areas of India. A Muslim will not touch pork.

The cow (beef) is also a sacred animal to the Hindu??? In India they eat buffalo rather than cow. It is unlikely that a Hindu restaurant would offer beef on a menu.

I also know that there a lot of restaurants that advertise using halal meat, which also suggests Muslim owned.

According to the Guardian 2002, there are 8,500 Indian restaurants in UK, of which roughly 7,200 are Bengali.

[Cory Ander]

I talked to the Muslim shop keeper near my house and he said that Pakistanis tend to buy shops and Indians tend to open restaurants...

Bobby, the vast majority (> 80%) of British Indian Restaurants are Bangladeshi owned and run.

The vast majority of Bangladeshis (about 98%) are Bengalis.

The vast majority of Bangladeshis (about 90%) practice Islam and are Muslim

Hence no pork vindaloo on your local menu I'm afraid (pigs are sacred)!

Whereas the vast majority of Indians (about 80%) are Hindu.

No beef vindaloo on your (significant minority) local menu then I'm afraid (cows are sacred)!

Now what was this thread about again?

Oh yes!  Atmosphere!  BIRs don't REALLY play Robbie Williams music nowadays do they! 

Surely it HAS to be Indian music or nothing? 

[Bobby Bhuna]

I am very curious as to how you know all this and as always, thank you for the comprehensive answer! Another question put to rest!

[Cory Ander]

I am very curious as to how you know all

Well, the simple and sad fact is, Bobby, that many people here have been eating and cooking BIR curries for longer than you have been alive! (I see you're 23?)  ;D

Oh, and that the likes of the internet, Google, Wikipedia (and what an amazing reference source THAT is!?  ) )  make fact-finding somewhat simpler 

..and NOW onto that atmosphere question!.....

...hmmm, but maybe you were refering to the piped Robbie Williams music...

[SnS]

The vast majority of Bangladeshis (about 90%) practice Islam and are Muslim

Hence no pork vindaloo on your local menu I'm afraid (pigs are sacred)!



I don't think you meant to say that. Muslims consider pigs to be dirty scavengers. They certainly don't consider them sacred.

Probably a freudian slip CA !!

[Cory Ander]

Yes, thanks for correcting me. 

Muslims are forbidden from eating pork by the Quran (Allah), I believe, maybe for the reasons you suggest. 

And the Bible says the same thing, too, I believe! 

Anyway!  OFF-TOPIC!  I'm out of here!  :

...off to listen to my Robbie Williams CD! 

[Bobby Bhuna]

Well, the simple and sad fact is, Bobby, that many people here have been eating and cooking BIR curries for longer than you have been alive! (I see you're 23?)  ;D

I had a look to see just how long you have been eating and cooking BIR for but it seems like it's been so long that your age is not applicable!!! ;D Lol, I'm just kidding, we've all seen your youthful (are dare I say slightly hairy ) hands in your very helpful recipe walk throughs!
Boy am I glad this isn't RCR because from what I hear I would have been banned weeks ago!

[Cory Ander]

Boy am I glad this isn't RCR because from what I hear I would have been banned weeks ago!

Yes Bobby, we're trying to get you introduced to the crew over there! Only kidding of course!  ;D

[mike travis]

I am beginning to wish I hadn`t mentioned the Robbie Williams thing  :-[ . There are two BIR`s local to me. The one that had RW music playing is sited next door to a pub, but is not licenced to sell drinks. So everyone stumbles out of the pub {cans and bottles in toe}and into the Indian. Nice clean place, very good food, friendly {all Indian} staff. I think they put the music on they think we want to here, after all it was one of our party that asked for some Xmas music  :-[ . The other one however, featured in the local newspaper on its grand opening. A large converted pub nice clean place, excellent food, friendly {all Indian} staff. No music. If you looked through the window when the place was empty, you wouldn't`t know it was a BIR. That was the point I was trying to get across. I preferred the old style restaurant with the Indian music with red flock wallpaper and candlelit tables. It was a taste of India.......mike.  ;D

[Graeme]

Hi

"It was a taste of India"

do they or have they
ever had red flock wallpaper
and candlelit tables in india ?
to the normal peeps anyway.

I dont like the uni-forms that some posh bir's
make the staff wear, so OTT and way back to the wars.

Some things should be left behind, some of the young
waiters have never been to india and are more
local than me

The younger staff may wish to move forward too.

sorry for being a party pooper (Sorry Mike)

respect.

 :-X