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Never mind haggis…Chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow!?
India’s top chefs have warned Scottish MPs to keep their hands off the rights to chicken tikka masala.The MPs, led by Mohammed Sarwar, claim the dish was invented in Glasgow in the early 1970s and now want official European Union recognition through a “Protected Designation of Origin”. It would put Glasgow’s chicken tikka masala on a par with Parma’s Parmesan cheese or French ‘Champagne’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/5972643/Chicken-tikka-masala-row-grows-as-Indian-chefs-reprimand-Scottish-MPs-over-culinary-origins.html
First the English trying to steal Scottish food,now the Indians.
Whatever next?
They’ll be saying that Mel Gibson fellow in Braveheart wasn’t Scottish either!
Outrageous.
Mohammed Sarwar has “form” for this sort of thing, and he is an opportunistic fule. Not sure why the Glaswegians keep electing him, must be for the comedy value.
What they fail to appreciate is that even if it DID originate in Glasgow, Chicken tikka masala isn’t either (a) named after Glasgow or (b) produced exclusively in Glasgow, so the “Protected Designation of Origin” rules do not apply.
Examples of foods with protected origin status include Stilton cheese, Single Gloucester cheese (but not Double Gloucester or Cheddar cheese as they are too generic), Scotch beef, Scotch whisky, etc.
And there’s been a long running dispute between a Czech brewery and an American brewery over whether “Budweiser” is a protected designation of origin, a registered trademark, or just a generic name of a style of beer.
Newcastle Brown Ale used to have PDO status, but then the brewery moved across the river to Gateshead so they had to apply to have it revoked.
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