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Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

According to your source

Naan as known today originates from Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt.

The word Naan originates from Iran.

Anyway you might as well try to make the case that any Indian dish that contains tomatoes, potatoes, chillies, squash, and much else isn't really Indian because they didn't exist there until a few hundred years ago.