>>48013193Hey there, bud, did you know that in Japan, curry is classified as British food and not Indian or Thai food? It's because in the late 1800s, when Japan built up their first modern navy, they encountered the same problem as every other seafaring country: over long voyages, feeding their sailors nothing but rice (or hardtack) gave them all crippling malnutrition. They commissioned some bigshot from the British navy to help unfuck their shit. He devised a program wherein the sailors would be served a free meal of beef and veggie stew at least once per week so they'd get enough vitamins, minerals, and protein to stay healthy. The britbong styled the stew roughly after the curries the British encountered in the rest of Asia because he knew it would be served with rice. But at the same time, since neither England nor Japan likes 9999999999 scoville units of spice in their food, he didn't try very hard to authentically match the curry recipes from these nations. Which is why Japanese curry is so different from all the others. And why Japan treats curry as a type of British food. Thus was curry introduced to Japan.
