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Now I aint sayin British Curry’s a golddigger

By: Santosh :+: Under: Culture, Entertainment, Humor
On: ⋅ March 5, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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Kanye loves curry??
(img: via SouthFlorida.com)

Rappers potray a larger than life image replete with bling on-screen. Now this persona extends offscreen - ordering a $17.50 meal for $3900.

If Kanye West were to walk into the British Raj’s dining room and order dinner, it would cost the rapper about $17.50. But since the restaurant is delivering — from Wales to New York — it’s going to cost a bit more.

The meal is nothing more than appetizers and a fish curry to-go but the restaurant’s chef gets a free trip ot New York on someone else’s bill - desi ishtyle.

For a feast of onion bhajees, chapati breads, biryanis, pappadums, a specially prepared fish dish and vegetables on the side, the bill will top $3,900, plus travel and accommodation for the restaurant’s head chef.

To be fair to Kanye, someone else placed the order.

The meal was requested for West and seven guests by a music promotion company, the restaurant said Sunday. The company had previously ordered food from the restaurant near Cardiff, Wales, for an after-show party for a Snoop Dogg concert in London.

After some initial apprehension about the whole endeavor, the restaurant decide to bite the bullet for the larger good.

“I was horrified when I heard about this request because of the distance involved,” said the restaurant’s head waiter, Tarik Mohammed. “It’s a long way, and our reputation is on the line. We are doing every thing to make sure the food gets there safely and every thing is aboveboard.”
The meal will be prepared, cooled, shrink-wrapped and packed in dry ice in the British Raj’s kitchens and — along with head chef Kaysor Ahmed — will be helicoptered from Wales to London’s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.

Speaking of which, one wonders about the carbon footprints ………

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