Talk:Mulligatawny

Molagatanni

is a variant spelling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.168.184.3 (talk) 00:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Judging by Google this is vanishingly rare. Equinox ◑ 14:38, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Edit 1/19/11 Questionable?

New to Wikipedia, but the new edit for this article seems of dubious quality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Almostdone6789 (talk • contribs) 19:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Soup or Not soup

This is hardly authoritative, but I throw it into the conversation anyway. My mother was born and brought up in Burma in the 20s and 30s. She lived there till she was 18 then in India for a further 4 years. They had an Indian cook in Burma and she inherited many of that cooks recipes. In her old, hand written cook book, a Mulligatawny is a chicken curry with a soup like sauce made with both extracts of coconut milk. It often consisted of large chicken pieces (on the bone - all chicken curries were traditionally cooked on the bone), though some recipes would be made with Mutton. It would have been very unusual for many Indians (those who are Hindus) to cook the dish with Beef! When she came to this country she was a little surprised to find a rather bland soup of the same name!

It is also important that the reference to Pepper Water is handled with care so not to create confusion. Pepper Water (or Rasam) is a tamarind based thin soup or drink that is poured over rice and is sometimes seen as a digestive. Typically it was served with a dry beef curry. Joss (talk) 23:28, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 24 September 2016

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The result of the move request was: Move (back) to Mulligatawny. Technically the March move is being countered here, and traditionally, the move is done without question. Weak oppose received reply and no further feedback. (non-admin closure) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 01:59, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

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Mulligatawny soup → Mulligatawny – SOUP is not part of the name, and the desired target is only a redirect pointing here. Equinox ◑ 14:16, 24 September 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 16:00, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Also note that the article itself says: "The original Indian dish was not a soup." Equinox ◑ 14:18, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

• Weak oppose - It is more often referred to as a soup. Originally it was not referred to as a soup but now it is? Meatsgains (talk) 00:42, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Where is your quantitative evidence that it is "more often" called a soup? Check any major dictionary and you will find "mulligatawny" as a word. It doesn't have to have "soup" after it. Equinox ◑ 10:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

In a Google Books search, "mulligatawny and" gets 1,310 results while "mulligatawny soup and" gets only 536. Equinox ◑ 10:50, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Doesn't need the addition. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:03, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

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No discussion of what the soup actually is now

This is a strange article. It relies on a couple of droll British Victorian quotes to discuss what the soup WAS but says nothing about what it currently is. In Indian restaurants in the US it’s a lentil based curry soup, I can tell you that. Why is there no actual discussion of this popular soup’s ingredients? Alexandermoir (talk) 08:54, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

I like your suggestion and believe the addition of some current info would be good. Why don't you make the addition to the article? Note that citations will be needed to support your addition. Christopher Rath (talk) 13:59, 5 July 2022 (UTC)