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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with others - find out about food restrictions and otherwise do what you're good at. Agree on avoiding too much garlic. [/quote] What are you talking about? Garlic and ginger are the basis of most South Indian cooking.[/quote] Ginger, yes, but not garlic. Many orthodox South Indians don’t eat onion or garlic. [/quote] I am a South Indian. I have no idea what an "orthodox South Indian" is. Garlic is common in all foods except desserts.[/quote] There are certainly many families who don't eat onion or garlic. You may not know that, PP, but there are plenty. OP, I would say that if your friends are in that group, they would have let you know and not accepted a dinner invite blind. My family in India is like this. They don't eat at many people's houses, for various reasons. My parents started eating onion and garlic when they came here, so they're more flexible as long as it's vegetarian. Anyway, I would not worry about that, but PP just doesn't know (which is fine, lots of diversity in S India; I'm sure I don't know the traditions of certain groups). It really comes down to family traditions. My in laws (also South Indian) use garlic in everything, but my family definitely does not. They use onion in their own cooking, but I don't recall a time they have put garlic in anything. [/quote] Perhaps they are jain? If that is the case, then yeah, they don't eat anything that grows in the ground (garlic, onion, potatoes). [/quote] Different PP. They aren’t Jain. They are Hindu. It doesn’t matter for this discussion, as I doubt it’s an issue. But India is incredibly diverse. Just because you don’t know something happens, doesn’t make it not true. For that matter, this discussion is about South Indian and each state is incredibly different (and within that vegetarians vs non, etc). Not important for this but just FYI. Your experiences don’t cover everything. [/quote]
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