The Curry Club saw one of the largest turn outs tonight. Bill, Tony, Jim M, Colin M, Ian, Dan, Adam, Brian G, Brian B, Alan, Colin and Jim squeezed into two cars for journey to Rothwell. Jim M had a look of horror as Bill and Colin attempted to sit on his left in the back of Tony’s car. This wouldn’t have been so bad if there wasn’t already two other people sitting on his right. We welcomed Adam for the first time and considered whether Sandra Fall might try to sneak along to make the full family complement. Bill to check all beards for false ones from now on.
We arrived and extracted ourselves from the cars. As is often the case, Brian B arrived under his own steam in comfort. Having sat around a long table 6 facing 6, there was the usual requirement for the man in the middle to take a call of nature. On this occasion Ian was told to hold on. We decided not to go for poppadoms as we have been caught with extras on the bill in an establishment some time ago and 60p a pop (adom) was a bit steep.
Having ordered drinks and our food, the banter began. Early subjects included best films and food (no change there then). It appeared that several people had taken a trip to the Bell Pub in Lt. Addington. Several commented on the size of the mixed grill. We then realised that Prof Brian B had not ordered prawns! The meals arrived for all except Bill. This is quite a common occurrence so we weren’t too concerned. Bill had ordered a lamb dish along the lines of Kooshboo, not a spiced sneeze just phonetically spelt to get the idea. Coincidentally Dan, sitting right next to him, had ordered the same dish. Having reminded the waiter that one meal was missing, we tucked in. Bills food did arrive quite swiftly, too swiftly in fact because it was nothing like Dan’s! Bill was happy enough with whatever it was he ate.
What is fast becoming a regular feature then took place, the Times Newspaper research moment. The article stated that latest research confirmed that a curry is better for a headache than aspirin. Apparently, salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, occurs naturally in Indian food. Further, the hotter the curry is the greater the possible benefits. Next month we are all on the Chicken Phall!
The general agreement was that the food was ok. We sat right under a large air conditioning vent and this prompted calls of anyone for igloo making? We also noticed that the takeaway waiting area allowed smoking and this blew over from time to time. There was a reasonable wait for the food, but given there was 12 of us all the food came out together. Well, all except one that is.
We calculated the bill and collected the money. Ian thought his drink order of a shandy, which was not on the menu, would confuse the adding up; it didn't of course :-)