If there was ever one unspoken rule of culinary dish-naming, it would probably be to never use the word “surprise” in the name if the meal. Here in India that rule has been downright trampled upon… and just yesterday I saw “Pumpkin Surprise” in an imported cookbook.
Whenever I see the word “surprise” on a menu (i.e. ‘Green Curry Surprise’) I get an ill feeling deep down inside and old painful memories arise of a YWAM school where we were fed Tater-tot Green Bean Casserole.
What is the deal here? Don’t people realize that the word “surprise” reminds us all of leftover-day in our public school cafeteria?
Honestly, I think I would rather just be told what my mouth is about to be subjugated to. Goat Brain Curry. Now that sounds nice.
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Reminds me of “curry” at a training center in Salem, Oregon in the US. Their “interpretation” of it was an overcooked stew of some sort of meat into which enough American “curry” powder had been dumped to make the entire concoction a fluorescent greenish-yellow. Most of it was left over, and sadly many that day were heard to exclaim that they would never again attempt to eat “curry”, even though it turned out they’d never actually tried the real thing. Pity.