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[–] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 104 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Cops and work trucks. Both drive around constantly and eat lunch on the road. My family uses this trick when travelling in the US, it has not let us down.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 88 points 3 months ago (13 children)

In Germany, that's more likely to lead you to an early heart attack than good food.
To find good food here, go to a restaurant with food from another country, where people from that country eat.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Indian food restaurants have been a blessing in this although there are many Pakistani-Muslim owners posing as Indian ones in US.

[–] addie 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's been a perpetual source of surprise to me that curry houses are so 'non-specific'. Pakistan and India together make about 1.7 billion people, about a third of the planet's population, and I'd have thought an easy way to distinguish a restaurant would be to offer something more region-specific, but it's fairly rare.

Here in the UK, the majority of curry houses are Bangladeshi - used to be the vast majority, now it's more like 2/3rds. We've a couple of 'more specific' chains - both Bundobust and Dishoom do Mumbai-style, and they're both fantastic - and there's a few places that do well with the 'naturally vegan' cuisines, but mostly you can go in to a restaurant and expect the usual suspects will be on the menu.

Same goes for Chinese restaurants - I don't believe that a billion people all eat the same food, it's too big a place for the same ingredients to be in season all the time. Why are they not more specific, more often?

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It’s the stigma actually since 9/11 or the fear from it that can negatively affect their businesses including vandalism if not less attraction to their places.

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