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Needs disambiguation

The introduction to the article says "This article is on a general variety of spicy dishes". But in English, "curry" has at least two significantly different meanings. One of them is indeed, "a general variety of spicy dishes". But the other use of "curry" refers to the spice or seasoning itself.

In supermarkets all over the US, and even in the local Indian grocers around here (northeast US), you can buy "curry" in the form of jars or bags of powder. These powders are a mixture of different spices such as turmeric, cardamon, cumin, etc, and are used for seasoning all sorts of other foods.

I think some disambiguation needs to be added to acknowledge this other common use of the term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plnelsonwiki (talk • contribs) 16:12, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that should be noted as a misconception in the article. "Curry" is not a spice or a mixture of spices, contrary to what many American products advertise and many people here seem to think. 24.184.166.238 (talk) 17:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Neel[reply]

'Curry' is called 'Salan' in Ordou Language

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.181.167.165 (talk) 14:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Urdu , An "official language of North India" ?...

It is Hindi.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by an unspecified IP address 14:34, 09 June 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism / Protection proposal

I see a surprising lot of vandalism on this article. Strange.

Because the vandalism is mainly done from IPs, a half-protected site, editable only by users with registration since days, will help and is proposed by me. Wispanow (talk) 16:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Curry comes from a Tamil word khari? According to what?

Is this really true? The article doesn't even a real reference. Since the British were based in Bengal, I would imagine they got the world from their word in Bengali, thorcurry (thor-kaah-ree). You basically drop the "thor" and get the Anglicized version. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.162.84.24 (talk) 01:49, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's derived from Tamil, according to Oxford, Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage Dictionary, among others.--118.173.164.116 (talk) 10:35, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Curry in North India and Pakistan

I have clarified this with references. Curry is used as just another word for Tari in North India and Pakistan. Tari means a wet dish of any kind. So, if you cook meat only in Yoghurt and salt without any spices of any kind (which is sometimes done with things like Yakhni), this is a tari dish in Hindi-Urdu. And in English North Indian and Pakistani people will simply call the juice curry. Any British stew or Japanese udon will similarly be called a curry dish by North Indians and Pakistanis (unless they live in Britain and understand local usage), simply because it is wet. This is purely an accidental thing because curry happens to sound so much like tari that people assume it must be the English word for the same thing. --Cookmughlai (talk) 07:23, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indian subcontinent .

Do not understand what is Indian subcontinent mean to the writer.politicaly Indian subcontinent is compared to Indian,Pakistan,shrilanka,Bangladesh and napal.In curry section all the Indian state curry food is mention,Bangladesh west Bengal and orrisa is mention in onE SECTION as they have same kind of food.As we undarstand the writer is trying to discribe the same food culture as indin pakistan and Bangladesh have commen culture.But what is strange THAT Pakistan is mention here in a diffract section. why so, north Indian food and Punjabi food is their again Pakistan FOOD for what.so I am deleting it.pakistan has a long history from all the westan part of world like the persian,greek,turk,all the central asian and arab,in ancient time from the Aryan scythian the persian medas,irani people.pakistan is a central asian country colse to modern day indian.as told by pakistani historian.so plz do not mention pakistan in enything which is indian food culture launage ot enything their is other section for it.Hope the british writer and the english scholar will give attention to our concern.--59.162.59.66 (talk) 13:27, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]