AIBU to think they shouldn't put raisins in curry sauce?!

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Is this a thing?! And if so WHY WHY WHY
Just got some chips and curry from a chip shop while down the beach and there's SO many lumps of what looks like raisins?! If they're not raisins what are they?

Think I'll be sticking with Chinese or Indian curry sauce from now on

Tesco tinned chicken curry used to have raisins in, in the late eighties. I bloody loved that curry. It's not the same now.

I don't object to nuts in any food but I cant do cooked fruit in any form, not even apple crumble. I literally only eat raw fruit. Not even lumpy yogurt.

Raisins are a traditional element of a British curry, as in Coronation Chicken. At one time curry was often served with bowls of sliced banana and coconut to add as a garnish.

Kashmiri chicken curry usually includes banana in the restaurants round here.

I like meat dishes with fruit, pork or rabbit with prunes, tagine with lemon or apricot, roast pork with apple sauce, duck with orange or cherries, are all classic combinations.

Salted caramel ?

I also hate cooked fruit - except strawberry crumble
Raisins are very wrong in anything

Raisins in a curry sauce from.tbe chippy? Wrong. Wrong and three times wrong.

Yet another example of broken Britain

Agree with Hopping raisins shouldn't be in anything!

Salted caramel?

I feel like I'm the only person in the country to hate salted caramel. It's everywhere! You can't even buy normal caramel now it has to have salt in. It's one idea thats gone crazy. I hate it.

I remember that this was very common for some reason in the 70s. I suspect that the chip shop owners are quite old and never actually eat Indian food themselves.

Heinz curried beans- in a yellow curry sauce with raisins. I am now going to Asda to see if they are still for sale.

I feel like I'm the only person in the country to hate salted caramel. It's everywhere!

been around for years ... (more a US thing). But then those little crystals of salt you get in digestive biscuits ? Or shortbread ?

Salt makes sweet sweeter, if Dr. Michael Mosley is to be believed in one of his documentaries ...

Can't bear salted caramel. Hopefully this weird trend will end soon. Or at least subside a little.

Can't bear salted caramel. Hopefully this weird trend will end soon. Or at least subside a little.

(sugar-free) salted caramel syrup in milk, frothed up and poured onto a strong Earl Grey (1 tsp honey optional) is divine ... London Fog apparently.

Our coffee machine is basically a milk frother which happens to do coffee too

suspect that the chip shop owners are quite old and never actually eat Indian food themselves

I suspect if you think that then it is you that never eats Indian food, or you would know that sultanas are a perfectly authentic ingredient in many dishes.

I suspect if you think that then it is you that never eats Indian food, or you would know that sultanas are a perfectly authentic ingredient in many dishes.

I eat plenty as I live in an area where a very high proportion of the population are Asian. I haven't had a curry with raisins in it since the 70s when my mother cooked it. I don't doubt that authentic dishes with raisins exist but putting it in every curry including chip shop curry sauce seems very 70s.

My family are of Indian origin and never put raisins or sultanas in a curry.

A dry green banana curry is a fine thing, though.

I got taken by surprise this way last month (also in a chippy!) must admit my first thought was along the same lines as upper but closer inspection was raisins or sultanas. Lucky dd1 didn't get curry she would have freaked

*My mum always serves her curry with-
Raisins
Peanuts
Banana
Mango chutney
And sliced boiled egg....

I thought it was the norm as a child growing up!!!*

ojoj - are you my sister? Surely no-one else had a mother who served up boiled eggs?!