At the perl conference in Monterey, (looking it up...) July of 2000 (Yep, Lingua::Romana::Perligata was introduced), my Indian co-worker and I were considering

At the perl conference in Monterey, (looking it up...) July of 2000 (Yep, Lingua::Romana::Perligata was introduced), my Indian co-worker and I were considering the conference lunch. Plastic boxes with a white bread BLT, ham, turkey, or just a plain LT for the vegetarians; an apple; and a bag of potato chips... it was pretty bland. So we decided to set out something better. The first restaurant we came to was an Irish pub. Looking at a map, it was probably The Crown & Anchor. We looked at the menu and I was starting to think that this wasn't going to be acceptable - it was all meat... and while that was fine for me, my coworker had other constraints... but his eyes weren't drawn to the fish and chips or steak sandwich that my eyes were - he immediately saw "curry" and "vegetable". It was a good lunch. One of the comments that he made was that with Indian restaurants, they are all very much a family's recipes and no two are the same. One shouldn't expect consistency of flavors between them. And then yes, it becomes a mix with the local styles too. But British pubs are all fairly consistent. The quality may be variable - but a British pub curry is likely going to be pretty much the same from one to another - east coast to west coast.