to think that a vegetable curry from a restaurant should not contain...

[cherryburton]

amongst other things; sweetcorn, kidney beans and sprouts. In addition to less weird things such as carrots and potatoes?

Don't get me wrong, I've put some fairly random things in a curry myself but I don't expect people to pay me £6 for it...

AIBU?

YANBU. I wouldn't like that TBH. It would seem odd. AFAIK, the two big curry makers - Indian and Thai don't use kidney beans or sprouts.
I do understand cost savings and seasonal eating, but sprouts?

Ok, forget the antelope analogy - I was in a rush.

Imagine you went to a Mexican restaurant and ordered a vegetarian burrito. Would you seriously be happy if it came with a nice traditional seasonal collection of carrots and sprouts in it? It's just not right, seriously.

I spent over a year in India and at no point did anyone sneak random bits of a traditional Sunday lunch into my curry.

(I know pumpkin goes well in a curry, I just wouldn't expect it to be in a curry that I ordered from a restaurant without it being called "Pumpkin Curry". )

NightLark and cwtch4967, thank god you get where I'm coming from.

To clarify, I know that there are more than Indian and Thai curry makers, but listing Bangladesh and Pakistan would be irksome.

i thought you were gonna post "should not contain prawns" or similar

i see no issue at all with those things being in a vegetable curry and the kidney beans will be there for protein

YABU

Don't need protein in my vegetable madras! If I wanted protein would order something with paneer or a dal.

It's just wrong.

i would be a bit at kidney beans in curry tbh, and also 'get' the point about any old green stuff being shoved in a pot as labelled a 'veggie' meal

but......

at £6, i think you got what you paid for, or at least i would have been surprised if it was more than reheated leftovers

i'm pescetarian so usually eat veggie food when i'm out, and am very aware that the vegetarian option on a menu is often the cheapest.

did you send it back? it sounds vile.

When you think how rich indian cuisine is for vegetable dishes, there is no excuse for that monstrosity!

sweetcorn and kidney beans AND sprouts? I bet you were not pleasant to know for a while!

YABU. If you were in France and ordered a veggie curry you'd at least get ham and prawns in it.

Actually, some curries do have kidney beans in it, but (a) this is a cheap option usually done in home cooking and not really expected from restaurants, and (b) kidney beans aren't generally accompanied by sweetcorn and sprouts - that combination sounds wrong.

A kidney bean curry could have peppers, tomato, onions, maybe even diced carrots (bite-sized pieces), most definitely not sprouts!

Sprouts AND beans. Did you notice an increase in your, erm, wind emissions?

£6 is slightly more than you would pay for a top notch dish in Rusholme. No blardy excuse for slinging left overs into a sauce.

I didn't send it back (as it was a takeaway with friends) but will never eat from there again! Fortunately there are a couple more restaurants opening soon and they cannot be worse...

Well it sounds a bit odd I have to say.
I love sprouts (and do not understand why people hate them), but even I would find them 'just wrong' in a veg curry.

All you posters who say that a "veg curry" can have any type of vegetable in it, regardless of how well they go together - CHANGE YOUR TAKEAWAY RESTAURANT! Indian (all right, Asian) food doesn't work on a bung-it-all-in principle. Ingredients have to be right, and complement each other. And, no, we don't just fling a handful of chilli powder in the general direction of the cooking pot. The spices have to be carefully added and blended.

This is why I avoid all but two local Indian takeaways, and most particularly the cheaper ones.

Punkatheart, I don't believe OP stated it was an Indian curry....there are other types of curry you know like Thai, Malaysian, Vietnam etc etc

Yanbu-especially regarding the sprouts. The combination you are describing sounds vile and any self-respecting Indian restaurant would not be serving that.
Sounds like they were trying to use up ingredients and just bunged everything together.
I don't know why people are saying you are being unreasonable, unless they think it would be perfectly okay to have say sunday roast with yam and okra, after all it's not that different from potatoes and carrots is it!

But Hevian, isn't curry shorthand for an Indian meal, at least in this country? If you mean any other curry, most people specify that it is a Thai curry or a Malaysian curry iyswim.

I'm afraid I also made an assumption that it was an Indian takeaway, and didn't think any more of it till I saw your post

The Op mentioned vegetable madras, so presumably she meant an Indian curry? Anyway, curry from any other place wouldn't have brussel sprouts unless it is a fusion-sort or restaurant.

I agree. I'm veggie and have had some truly dreadful things pretending to be a veggie curry.

I'd expect, mushrooms, peppers, onions. That sort of vegetable. Not carrots. Definitely not sprouts!

this reminds of the time i ordered a vegetable calzone and cut it open to find peas, sweetcorn, french beans and diced carrots (obviously from a bag of mixed frozen veg). Like you i was slightly taken aback as was expecting mushrooms, aubergine, peppers - Mediterranean type veg. I would be miffed too.

To clarify, it was an Indian restaurant and a vegetable madras.

Thank you Nan.

At the risk of sounding poncey, it's about authenticity.

Would you expect beansprouts in a vegetable lasagne?

Would you expect boiled carrots and peas in a veggie burrito?

Should you expect brussels sprouts and kidney beans in a vegetable curry?

I'm not sure if I haven't moved to the most veggie unfriendly town in the country. That was the only vegetarian dish on a whole menu of Indian food, which is mental considering some of the best veggie food in the world comes from there. The local Italian has one veggie option, the biggest restaurant and both chippys have none. (Apart from chips.) Don't think veggies are that common round these parts.

(As in vegetarians, not vegetables!)

Oh god don't mention authentcity

And also, re the leftovers, I don't think there was any other dish on the menu that array of veg would be left over from, so sounds like they just have a bag of assorted crap they fling into some sauce when a vegetarian comes in and they just hope said vegetarian has no idea about what a vegetable curry should be like.

katz, that sounds revolting! Really annoys me that people make next to no effort, or really know nothing about food, and then have the nerve to charge people money for it.

No that's weird. There are certain curry vegetables and they are not it. Kidney beans can be prepared with spices but not in a generic curry. Sweetcorn? Lovely in salad, vile in curry. Sprouts are european, gorgeous boiled with butter, vile in a curry.

thank you.

Sounds weird to me.

I once ordered a spanish omelette in a very strange lovely little cafe in the South of England. The meal arrived... I was given an omelette with peas, carrots and roast potatoes inside . Spent the meal trying not to catch anyone's eye so I wouldn't descend into hysterical giggles...