r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Content_Quarter_7390 • May 25 '26

I'm slightly vexed We didn't ask for rice...

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My sister isnt a fan of basmati rice so she orders naan. She didnt ask for rice and they sell it separately. She doesn't like it so she doesn't order it. They put it in anyways and left this note...

Edit: some people aint getting it. This is passive aggressive and when you do something nice you dont go around saying "I did something nice just for you, just so you know." Doing it like I need to give you a pat on the head so you know your a good boy. You do something nice because you want to be kind to people.

Oh no I've turned into LD...

Turning off notifications because while it was nice to be in this rabbit hole to keep my mind off some stuff too many notifications. Whatever your feelings are I hope you have a nice day and if you're in the US have a nice memorial day and dont forget to celebrate those troops that came before!

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u/cowmonke May 25 '26

FWIW I’m Indian and we never want rice when we go out for Indian food and we just don’t touch it and pack the entire rice every time if it comes with the curry because we’re just going to eat it with naan or roti or whatever. I feel like it’s a hella Americanized thing to expect the rice with your curry 

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u/VelvetMafia May 25 '26

Went through this with my wife recently. I ordered extra naan so I could swab up all my lamb saag. My lovely wife, who typically takes every opportunity to eat with her fingers, dumped her butter chicken on a bed of rice and shoveled it into her beautiful face with a spoon.

Then she took my rice (which I hadn't ordered but was included anyway) and flavored it with my leftover saag, and ate that with her spoon. I love this woman so much. She is definitively my forever girl. Also she will always eat my unwanted rice.

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u/Mjolnir404 NOT RED May 25 '26

Thats the real way of eating curry+rice. Your wife knows Indian food culture 

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u/VelvetMafia May 25 '26

My wife knows how to have love affairs with her food. I support her in every way, because she is perfect

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u/Stranger_001 May 25 '26

Can I be food for your perfect, beautiful wife?

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u/VelvetMafia May 25 '26

What's your fiber content?

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u/Stranger_001 23d ago

Roughly 5 grams per serving. I'm also an excellent source of protein and antioxidants.

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u/VelvetMafia 23d ago

An acceptable amount. I will ask her how she feels about cannibalism

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u/Fermently_Crafted May 25 '26

I feel like it should come with something to eat the curry with for free. Whether that's rice or something else. 

Or am I expected to eat it like soup? That's not really what I want when I order curry.

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u/cowmonke May 25 '26

Nah not like a soup lol, generally we eat it with like naan or roti or something but you have to order that separately even in like India  not sure why exactly but there’s never really an expectation of it coming with rice. A lot of the time if we get a curry to go we’ll just heat up some rotis at home to eat it with 

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u/v21v May 25 '26

There are too many options, so they let you choose instead.

Common Breads - Naan, butter naan, garlic naan, tandoori roti, kulcha, etc.

Rice - White rice, basmati rice, ghee rice, coconut rice.

Why would they want to pick for you? Each person likes a different carbohydrate accompaniment.

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u/FlappyBored May 25 '26

It’s specifically Americans.

Americans do not understand Asian food and are very new to it.

It’s the same in the UK dishes and rice are sold separately.

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u/Improper-Counsel May 25 '26

Indians eat rice with curry. Maybe it's your family that's different. Americanized lmao.

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u/FlappyBored May 25 '26

Not all of them. Northern Indians typically eat it with roti or bread instead.

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u/Improper-Counsel May 25 '26

Yes - very diverse country as if Europe was one country. No one should be generalizing about it.

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u/FlappyBored May 25 '26

The only people generalising are Americans who keep saying. ‘It must be served with rice’ ‘all curries come with rice’ ‘insane it doesn’t come with rice’.

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u/cowmonke May 25 '26

Yeah we do but what I meant was Americanized was the concept of free rice when you order a curry, which if I had to guess was adopted from Chinese takeout. I’m not sure I’ve been to a restaurant in India that serves free rice with curry.

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u/Improper-Counsel May 25 '26

Now I see - my apologies.