Well, as Indian-based cuisine is based on curry (a ****load of curry) her question may not be as dumb as it seems. You know, India Pale ale. Not everyone now the origins of beer names...Me, to my sister: "I started brewing my own beer again. I'll bring you one when I come into town."
Sister: "Oh, great. What kind is it?"
Me: "It's an india pale ale"
Sister: "It doesn't have curry in it, does it?"
I wanted to tell her that an IPA has lamb and yogurt in it too!
that hurts
(sorry) That's a very Americanized way of determining if someone is an alcoholic. There are plenty of things I crave everyday and depending on the situation will either act upon it or not. The fact that someone would like to have a drink each day when they come home from work makes them habitual drinkers but not necessarily physically dependent on it (read: alcoholism.) What about those individuals who drink a glass of red wine every night for the antioxidants?
Not exactly a comment, but still made me die a little inside. SWMBO's long lost high school friends met us for dinner at Oggi's Pizza in San Diego. They ordered the beer sampler, even though they're not exactly "beer" drinkers. They liked the Hefeweizen sample ok, with the obligatory lemon wedge spritzed in. When they got to the pale ale, IPA, stout, and brown ale, they were holding their noses and basically drinking them like shots.
The killer part is when they ordered a bowl of lemons and proceeded to add them to all the above beers and then chug. Said it helped the taste
I have no reason to make up some story to a bunch of people I don't even know. I was just relating a funny experience. I'll try and get the picks up. I wish I had pictures of all the crazy ish I have seen/done, but that doesn't mean that they didn't happen.
