Aber, wie war Curry Powder in Deutschland nach der Krieg? Und wer hat Ketchup damals?
Beide Zutaten kamen von die Alliierten.
Ein kulinarische Katastrophe auf jeden Fall! 
Translation - Bollocks!
If i had to eat that, i would need hot chillie sauce!
Yes, @cynicaloldgit can take us as he promised us a proper curry. I am still waiting for @Alright_Now_Legend to turn up.
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I do like German cakes though, especially Bienenstich😋
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I’m afraid you won’t get a curry in that place Maria.
Please send photos of yourself enjoying the meal and Cynical enjoying the bill.
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Presumably there have never been people from India in Germany and Germans have never been in India? Wow
I am out of here
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Not really a serious discussion, but it’s hard to imagine that Germany was importing a lot of curry powder in the 1940s what with one thing and another.
There’s an Austrian restaurant near Bayswater, in terms of German, there used to be one in Fulham but not sure if it is still there. There is the Munich Cricket Club near St James Park station (used to be on Strutton Ground, but has moved and not sure of the new address)
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Oh ja, how could I forget Tiroler Hut.
Why do they even have a spice cabinet for?
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As if traditional British food is particularly spicy or tasty.
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Salt and Pepper. All other spices and seasoning is just wasted space
Food is certainly an important part of culture. After all it’s one of the first things we associate with home and family. Grandma bakes the best cakes and so on.
I’ve lived in Berlin for thirty years and have been subjected to a torrent of ill informed opinion on the awfulness of British food. I’m sure the opposite would be the case for a German in the UK.
The funny thing is that, as usual, we are remarkably similar. There’s a lot of beer, meat and potatoes. The climate is not too dissimilar, particularly in Northern Germany, and we are closely connected genetically, linguistically, and in religion and culture. Therefore we pick on the dissimilarities and magnify them to strengthen our sense of self. Black pudding? Yuck! Weisswurst? Aaargh! Etc.
In my experience it’s difficult to get anything decent to eat in either country once you stray from the large cities. I’ve eaten awful crap in Yorkshire and Brandenburg. Neither country can really claim superiority in that way.
Living with an Indian I realise that food is not as anchored in my cultures as it is in hers. She can spend a whole evening chatting with friends and family about dishes from Kerala, or how to cook dal. I know there are a lot of foodies in the UK and in Germany, but it doesn’t saturate the culture in the same way.
Anyway, I don’t care at all who invented currywurst, it’s not something I ever wish to eat again, but I was told the story about the curry powder coming from the Brits and the ketchup from the Yanks by an old Berliner who was strongly claiming it’s provenance in his hometown and it’s rather touching. Enemies coming together in a time of hardship and creating something new together with what they could rustle up.
Liebe, Frieden, Eierkuchen!
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Nein.
FIFY
Stimmt, aber…
Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen 
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People arguing over food. Love it.
Wish food racism would be the only racism in the world 
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People get very passionate about food from their culture because it’s one of the very first markers of identity and is closely tied with the most basic aspects of who we are.
I wish you a happy heavenly fährt, or as one of my students once translated; Jesus Sky Drive.
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Nah, I’d take a diss about food culture from almost any country in the world. But not from a Brit. This is dead serious stuff.
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Oh, Christi Himmelfarht, I’d forgotten about that, or more the associated Vatertag (Father’s Day).
I’ve just been walking with the dog in the forest and it is already full of pissed up men with beer carts.
Vatertag - forestry and beer.
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