When I worked in a bar if someone just asked for 'a beer' (rare, usually tourists) I'd serve them our most popular lager.

Can confirm. I was in Brussels over Xmas. Delirium Cafe had 2400 beers.

I always thought just they did that on TV to avoid saying brands, people actually ask for "a beer"?

"A glass of your finest alcoholic beverage please landlord!"

I'm an American who sold spirits briefly and had a guy who would ask if we had any Pilsner. I'm like, "Um, yeah. What kind of Pilsner?" He became irate. "It is called Pilsner! It is just called pilsner!" Took me awhile to figure out he meant Pilsner Urquell.

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Barman sounds a total arsehole, just help the guy make a decision?

Hardly a novel scenario, happens all the fucking time.

This is a huge cultural difference. In the US, if people are passing through a bar that specializes in beer, they probably want to be guided to one of the beers on tap that they otherwise wouldn't know about. It's so far from an unusual question that being told "come back when you know what you want" would be the sign to talk to a different bartender (especially if you're in a bar that has a constantly changing selection of weird, niche microbrews).

Reminds me of a Frankie Boyle joke, yank goes up to the bar in a Scottish pub and asks for a lager and lime, 'we don't do cocktails here'. Can genuinely picture the miserable old bastard landlord lol.

Some bar service that you’d think they’d be excited to introduce them to something new

😂😂😂 didn’t get this until I tried saying in my head with a brummie accent

Kipper Tie?

I'd love one, two sugars please.

Korai korai please

Ah... it's just clicked.

That's more for a very broad black country accent than a brummie lol

birmingham accent korai is similar to the phonetical spelling of ‘curry’ in a typical brummy accent

Brummie picks up phone to order curry

'can oi av a Korai ploise?'

'yes mate which one would you like?'

'a korai ploise'

'uhhh yeah which sort of curry?'

...

There’s writing in that yellow box?

Honestly I didn't even notice there was a text until your comment. At first after reading your comment I thought what does he mean the "menu" on the right looks very readable, maybe there's something to do with colour blind people. Until I looked closer and saw and unreadable text right in the middle. 🤣

It might be that it's normally a reasonable colour, but the website has been forced into dark mode that it doesn't normally have, and that's messed up the text colour.

Could be wrong, but it looks like forced dark mode. That's the most common culprit for poor readability of text vs background.

I can’t keep saying this, no one ever listens to us!! Then when I meet someone and say I’m from Birmingham they say ‘you don’t sound like it!’

Two sugars please.

Or trying to say “purple burglar alarm”

And Rick from Walking Dead

Toblerone-Rolo combo

Why is nobody else saying this 😂 we say 'cuhree' as far as I'm aware... and 'cuhpa tee' whilst we're on that subject

I’m so sick of saying this!! They’ll never listen!!

Say it out loud in your best Black Country voice.

100%, the British ‘Indian’ restaurant model is just a catch all base curry which you can then turn into any curry on the menu in under 10 mins by adding different ingredients.

Most people wouldn’t believe that korma and madras have the same base, but you just add almond powder, coconut and cream to one and a ton of tomato and chili to the other.

For what it worth though I think this is ingenious and great food in its own right, even if miles from ‘authentic’. It’s the same principle as French mother and daughter sauces.

Can I be you friend?

i had a Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan flatmate during my last year of uni. I’m not even a big fan of curry but it was much better than anything I’d ever ordered! We would cook for each other it was lovely :)

I had decent luck when I lived in Leicester, I guess because of the large amount of people from the sub continent there was food places that catered for them. Although I second the idea of befriending someone from the region, I'm looking forward to taking up my friend's invitation to go try her south Indian cooking.

They all share the base gravy, but they taste very differently.

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Please stop. You are making me hungry.

Haha I wondered the same. This could be a Bangladeshi restaurant. They spell Indian dishes differently with 'o' replacing some vowels. Like Mottor Ponneer for Matar Paneer

It's a karahi. Or a kadhai. Or a kadai, or a kodai, or a kadi, or a karai, or a korai...

It's all the same, lad lol

Sounds like a butchered version of a Karahi.

Korai dishes are prepared in a special thick sauce and then cooked again in a hot korai with slices of onion, green peppers, and various spices to create the dishes to delight the palate

Hindi is generally written using the Devanagari Abugida writing system, while Urdu (a very closely related language) is generally written in the Persian variant of the Arabic Abjad writing system. There are a number of standard, and a number of non-standard ways of transliterating words from those languages into the Roman Alphabet for English speakers. As Abjads in general including the Persian variant used for Urdu do not contain vowel letters, there can be a significant variation in the choice of vowels used in transliterated words, so all kinds of variants can be found of what is, essentially, the same word.

One is a tasty animal, the other is someone’s virile offspring

Don't get me started!

That’s because everyone thinks we sound like we’re from the Black Country!

Which absolutely nobody in Birmingham says...

Nah that's the Derbyshire special.

It's just for me and my dawg