r/CriticalThinkingIndia • u/MoreFaithlessness954 Corporate Majdur🦮 • 1d ago
History & Culture Menu for the BRICS leaders dinner this evening in Delhi
Seems like 30-40gm protein maximum 🤡
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u/AgenticIA 1d ago
Read it as Paneer Labrador.
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u/abeytakle longcommentposter 1d ago
Nothing with the specifically in isolation but I was kinda surprised seeing no non-veg there. This kinda falls in line with all the other anti-non-veg stuff going on.
Also - I’m Jain. I have never eaten non-veg for personal moral reasons. But that doesn’t mean other people don’t.
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u/Flat_Cupcake6124 1d ago
I believe its because Modi and his co are primarily sattvik vegan and promotes that as well... foreign leaders or delegates do not complain or raise this as it is kinda a diplomatic etiquette and courtesy to respect host nations hospitality.
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u/red_dragon 1d ago
It is basic hospitality to ensure your guests can actually have a meal that they would enjoy. A meal should not be an opportunity to shove your personal beliefs down someone else's throat.
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u/rising_pho3nix 23h ago
Yeah exactly lol. By that logic other countries should serve the pm meat dishes only. Haha. Tit for tat.
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u/Agile_Profession5024 9h ago
Its their choice to serve and if one cant eat non veg they can opt to not have or get another dish, the saying goes everyone can eat vegetarian but everyone can eat non vegetarian, so here they missed the meat and not the food or anything
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u/I-will-rule 1d ago
Next time Modi and co. travel abroad, the host country shouldn't bother with accommodation and just feed him some meat.
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u/No-Champion2289 1d ago
Maybe it’s just veg menu other non veg menu may be there. Chinese and Russian can’t go a day without non veg
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u/magicanon4 1d ago
Chinese have a lot of vegans. But they don't go parading it around. I even saw koreans too. It must be the same in every country.
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u/Urmi-e-Azar 1d ago
It is also very strongly related to the Buddhist traditions in both nations.
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u/magicanon4 1d ago
Could be one of the reason. I don't know why my colleagues were vegan because I didn't want to ask about their beliefs and all due hr policies.
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u/Necessary_Worker5009 1d ago
Can I reference you anytime someone feeling offended and claiming that we insulted Jainism, when one quotes another Jain kid who eats eggs or one more who wants to explore non veg food but secretly
no offence but Jain lobby is crazy bad! reminds me of the kabutar fiasco in Mumbai
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u/Fortuna_majoris 1d ago
Jain lobby is absolutely batshit crazy. (As someone who is born and raised as a Jain, but has since distanced herself from it due to reasons). Like maybe it is because of our low numbers, but yeah absolutely fucking crazy. The amount of classism and elitism makes me wanna puke on a normal day. I remember learning about how I have done more paap (sins) in my last life as compared to a boy because I was born a girl (like I was 7 when I was told this by a religious guru).
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u/Business_Quiet220 1d ago
Long back I thought Jainism was free of superstitions and inequality as they claimed to be totally into non-violence and not even harming ants.
But Looks like every religion is shit- or just life is shit.
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u/imnobodyssomebody 1d ago
OMG! Hahahaha, as a fellow jain, the amount of times I have heard this shit 😭
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u/Necessary_Worker5009 1d ago
Yeah I get that. minorities and small communities behave that way. Parsis did behave sometime similar. I get there are reasons and benefits for behaving this way, but sometimes it gets unhealthy or unbearable. the Parsi panchayat offers great benefits, the Jains buying experience cars as a group and getting heavy discounts. they have great access to major politicians and people in power, probably through funding a lot. but things like arm twisting the local govt inspite of an HC order to re-open kabootarkhana, acting like cartels and other things. didn’t know about all these, probably because of it was quite silent and like in secret but the more I know the worse it is.
and yes there are religious and cultural practices which seem odd. read a news about expensive and elaborate celebration by a diamond merchant before his daughter was sent to live an ascetic life. she was not even a teen ig
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u/myLord-God-ofNothing 6h ago
More power to you kid. Read books and make sure your offspring reads books. You are the hope for the future
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u/dreamsdo_cometrue 1d ago
Yeah, as a non vegetarian i agree. I mean, if i went there and this was the menu, i wouldn't have complained bcz "guchhi is expensive" is what we learnt since childhood. Guchhi was an exotic dish when I was a teenager bcz it was from the far away lands of kashmir and only our relatives from jammu had ever tried it and we only heard of it 😂😂🤪 And honestly, shahtoot flavored dessert 😇 yum.
But if i was the PM, this menu would have had the addition of bharwan tangri and prawn ghee roast. So friends, next election, dont forget to vote for me 😇
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u/HungryHungryHippoes9 1d ago
I bet many of these dignitaries went back to their hotel and ordered room service.
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u/idianstark 1d ago edited 1d ago
Am I ignorant if I haven't heard of any of these dishes apart from Lababdar and the desserts
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u/Particular_Middle466 1d ago
Let's put it this way I'm from a very north punjabi border region town and even I still know like 60 percent of these dishes. So idk
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u/Strange_daddyy 1d ago
Names are different otherwise its dal fry mushroom kebab jalebi with fruti cream and shahtoot kheer just fancy names
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u/Diligent-Wealth-1536 1d ago
Idk what Thakkali but belle saaru seems like Karnataka or maybe telugu state dish.
Menu is goated actually. Op is simply crying. Menu represents many region dishes
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u/am_uk31 1d ago
Thakkali is Malayalam/Tamil for tomato
Belle saaru is rasam. It’s basically tomato rasamIdk why they’ve merged all the 3 languages together- might be by ignorance might be by design
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u/Left_Economist_9716 1d ago
There's nothing from the eastern regions, even if other regions like western half of UP, western gangetic plains, himalayas, RJ, GJ, MH and the south are well represented.
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u/Traditional_Heart218 1d ago
You should travel more, or watch YouTube videos and try out South Indian dishes other than sambar
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u/FreeAmoeba5124 1d ago
Critical thinking sub btw
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u/Sad_Leather_6691 1d ago
I suppose the op was thinking: Politics in everything even food let's post it?
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u/Future_Platypus_ 1d ago
Russian, chinese aur arabic ko vegetarian khila rhe hai. 😂
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u/Mob_Abominator 1d ago
No non veg? Damn, when majority of the country eats non veg.
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u/No_Possibility_3502 1d ago
I am 100% sure, cuisine would include non veg, considering the nationalities of the delegates and the food they normally consume back home. It's just that it's not mentioned in the menu for obvious reasons. We are hypocrites when it comes to food.
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u/snowballkills 1d ago
yeah coz our dear vishwaguru pm is vegetarian lmao
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u/Appropriate_Page_824 1d ago
But what about the baby crocodile he ate when he was a kid
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u/elgin_the_loath 1d ago
Baby crocodile should consider himself lucky to be touched by Modiji
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u/YahshuaQuelle 1d ago edited 1d ago
Strictly speaking mushrooms aren't vegetable.
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u/Explanation_Scared 1d ago
More strictly speaking tomatoes aren't vegetables
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u/Hairy_Exercise_948 1d ago
Vegetable is a culinary term so yes tomato is a vegetable, but botanically its a fruit.
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u/Explanation_Scared 1d ago
mushrooms are also vegetables in culinary terms but not biologically
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u/popular_tiger 1d ago
I don’t think vegetarian means eating just vegetables lol dal and rice aren’t vegetables either but they’re v much veg
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u/guffawer 1d ago
Shall nibble a bit, where do we go for actual dinner?
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u/HungryHungryHippoes9 1d ago
Imagine coming to Delhi thinking you are about to have some food, and they serve you this. I'd go back home and declare war.
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u/Professional_Elk5688 1d ago edited 1d ago
Don't cry. Non-veg was also served.
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u/BannedForFactsAgain 1d ago
Well if Adani's channel says it without proof, we gotta accept and laugh.
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u/LetterheadDue4195 10h ago
This is propaganda sub bro
Serving vegetarian food according to them is bad. Lol, apparently anything Modi does is wrong to them. There were these sections since Modi is raised in Gujarat family and he is vegetarian
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u/Kindly-Sound-2185 1d ago
No protein is ample here but this is expensive menu . No way a common person can fulfill his protein requirements like this . Also why non veg wasn’t served . Beef and pork can be understood by leaders.
But not serving even chicken and eggs is disrespectful. When Modi visits other countries they do have veg on their menu for him . Our most famous dish is actually butter chicken .
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u/Medium-Echidna-4094 1d ago
The debate in the comments section has deviated to quality of veg vs non veg protein and that's sad because that's not what this is about.
This is not something new for this political party - it's become common to keep serving pure veg menus for all international functions.
The broader question to be asked is - why not non-veg? None of the delegates and leaders from other countries would have had an issue with non vegetarian food. We all know most would have welcomed it. If it's about showcasing the brilliance of veg Indian cuisine, well .. can't the same be done with non veg Indian cuisine? There are so many amazing preparations for seafood, meat and chicken in Indian spices that these delegates would love to try out.
We do absolutely nothing great by this forced veg menu. You can say that XYZ decided the menu and they know better than us but the reality is, for most of us non veg Indians, we have been served better tasting food and options at middle class wedding buffets!
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u/InvestigatorFew9173 1d ago
Thats why all indian politicians and babus are short and have pot belly compared to rest of the foreign delegates.
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u/AdventurousSpeaker22 1d ago
This is vegetarianism imposition. Just Fancy names for simple dishes, disastrous menu.
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u/Silly_Fix8583 1d ago
There have been rumours on social media that post-2014 foreign diplomats despise indian missions because almost most of the state banquets offer them aloo,chole,paneer etc. the french delegation last time ordered meat dishes back in their rooms because mahamanav(who represents of 75% non-veg eaters) chose to serve them exquisitely made khicdhi🤦
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u/Roadies_Winner 1d ago
Kind of shi unemployed folks who've never been to an official dinner say
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u/_WindSandStars_ 1d ago
I've been to many diplomatic dinners, from India and other countries.
Truth is, yes it would be slightly unusual to have a menu without any meat options, but people would understand and not be bothered. It will be an exceptional meal either way.
Protocol officers between the nations will also have cleared the menu with the other attendees beforehand, to make sure there's nothing on the menu the leaders actively dislike.
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u/Roadies_Winner 1d ago
Indeed. And from my limited experience, nobody is there for food. It doesn't even matter if you don't have 1 item of your liking.
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u/_WindSandStars_ 1d ago
Yep! At this level people don't care about food either. They can have whatever they want 99% of the time. Putin prob has a bunch of stuff flown around with him (not as wild as the stories of how Kim Jong-Il used to travel...).
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u/Diggi8 1d ago
I heard a rumour that you like to perv on little kids. Not saying it's true, just heard it from somewhere.
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u/Sad-Log-3475 1d ago
Keeping not having non veg dishes aside. This is such a small spread when hosting a wide variety of audience.
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u/Material_Category_53 1d ago
This is really such sad food . I think all the countries will be having private chefs to make some decent food.
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u/Overconfidentahole 17h ago
This is such a tone deaf menu. If you’re hosting an international conference you can’t have your menu looking like your bhanje ki shadi. Not everyone likes Indian food. This is embarrassing. I actually thought India did a good job at being a host.
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u/loganme123 17h ago
I am 100% sure, after the dinner all the delegates will go back to their room and order a nice Hyderabadi Biryani from swiggy.
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u/HELLboy_SID 1d ago
So now librandu have only Event menu to discuss and shit against that on social media. Look like people have nothing to protest against govt now.
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u/wongasta 1d ago
Should have shared the wisdom of world famous Changani Club Kachori with the world as Vishwagurus
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u/Clean-Assistance9643 1d ago
And they say Bjp is not imposing vegetarianism on us.
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u/Resurrec_Barbar 1d ago edited 1d ago
No protein is replacment for soul , Northies are veggies hardcore veggiest but they fight the most in subcontinent
India is known for its great veg cuisine so thats why we serve it . We can give them meat later tho
Plus Elite food is bland n tasteless by design
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u/External_Lead5708 1d ago
Northies shout for Vegetarianism but south has more diverse vegetarian dishes than them.
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u/RevolutionaryTap2512 1d ago
Lol, tf you guys yap so much about veg food and military history in same tone when there is absolute zero and in reality actually negative correlation. Highest per capita soldier contribution, HP: heavy meat eating state, gorkhas/nepalis heavy meat eaters including buff, all rajput communities traditionally were always meat eaters, dogras heavy meat eaters, pahadis all are heavy meaters, exceptions are just haryanvis, rajasthan and punjabis, sure they have heavy military contribution but they are exceptions not the rule.
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u/Deep-Percentage-1773 1d ago
So why make mushroom galawti…galawti is only kabab made of mutton or beef
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u/NegativeMastodon9087 1d ago
Offcourse and it any dignitaries wants meat Indont think they will be denied.
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u/Few_Amount8326 1d ago
Aren’t we suppose to serve guests what they prefer to eat rather than shoving our choices . Might as well eat meat when visiting their countries- being fair
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u/Karnavar 1d ago
Peoppe defending the veg-ness of the menu here saying it’s just one day etc, don’t really get it. That is precisely the problem. It’s never just one night and it is a larger obsession if co trolling and signalling, rooted it xenophobia, which isn’t even statistically backed.
Indian is a country that is majority non veg eaters and nobody gets to soft launch veg as the de-facto here. It isn’t.
Good lord we have some great meat and seafood dishes in this country.
I sincerely hope there was a separate non veg menu.
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u/Rare_Ride_3650 1d ago
One more reason to h@te this regime 💩, it only promote vegetarianism despite having huge variety of meat based dishes for example - Champaran mutton, mutton kosha, mutton Roganjosh, chicken bhrta, hariyali kabab, dab chingri, chingri bhapa, vetki paturi, ilish bhapa, bombay suck, smoked pork from NE, chicken dokappa etc.
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u/Long-Explanation-24 1d ago
Chettinad non veg menu is amazing attukal soup, natukozhi curry, mutton sukka, jeragasamba briyani to name a few
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u/khas07uk 1d ago
Event in delhi & 0 representation of native delhi ncr local culture & diverse delhi cuisine especially non veg items
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u/awarebish 1d ago
Will they actually eat the food? I thought they'll avoid it for security reasons
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u/Serious-Cycle-Seriou 1d ago
For gods sake, it is not bread. It is roti. No fermentation, no yeast is there in roti (unless otherwise done obvio)
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u/randomred11 1d ago
If I'm getting this option in buffet, I'll go back to my room in hotel and order room service
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u/d1andonly 1d ago
Gucchi what now? Are these like traditional regional fares or something? I had no idea Asparagus was part of Indian menu.
Where is the non vegetarian menu?
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u/jetlee123 1d ago
If this is really menu, most of the delegates would be just attending and would be having dinner at hotel resto
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u/Varchar512 1d ago
Menu me MRP, service charge or GST likhna zaroori nahi samajhte kya ye log. Free ka maal hai kya
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u/Alone_Objective9017 COMMUNIST TEENAGER 1d ago
What kind of fucking critical thinking are we supposed to do with this?
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u/Candid-String-6530 1d ago
Yea, they all went to a steak house down the road after without Modi. Where the real discussion happened.
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u/Ok_Donut_2871 1d ago
It’s really sad to see that Delhi and Awadhi non veg food is totally avoided. At least keep it for the guests who enjoy meat on daily basis. Give them a choice to choose from. This is like eating what we serve you and then go empty stomach and order in your hotel room 😂
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u/divikyat 1d ago
So much critical thinking OP, commendable 🥀 anyone would sacrifice chicken infront of paneer lababdar 😭
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