This has to do with with the mixture of honeys and apples being associated with Vermont in Japan, though I’m not quite sure how wildly known that is or why.
It’s because there was a book called “Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor’s Guide to Good Health” that kicked off a health fad called the “Vermont health system” in Japan. It included drinking apple cider vinegar and honey. The curry then appropriated the name for its health connotations.
TIL! Blows my mind as just yesterday I was buying some more S&B Gold at the store and was really curious about this brand. Cool insight.
I hope this isn’t rude, but how did you know that?
I was curious too, did a web search, and found this:
Awesome! Thank you!
the default country syndrome strikes hard again, today it got even me!
Like how KFC is associated with American Christmas in Japan?
https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/whats-the-deal-with-kfc-and-christmas-in-japan
TIL if you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, go to Japan.
Similar to Green Mountain Salsa. Nothing says authenticly Mexican like Vermont Salsa
Better than NEW YORK CITY!
I mean that sounds kind of good though…
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Why does it always need to be about best or most popular?
Maybe this tastes good in its own way, hits the spot in its own way, and that doesn’t diminish Indian/Thai/etc curry in any way.
Then again, I do favor Thai curry over Indian curry, which I’ve been told makes me a monster no one should listen to…
Why are you a monster? Thai curry is fucking delicious!
There’s people who argue about pineapple on pizza and it’s ridiculous.
Food is food. And there’s no wrong way to eat it!!!
Except people who put mustard on their fries
It is actually a Japanese product. It is Japanese style brown curry with some maple syrup, honey, and apple, or at least those flavors, added to it.
I do favor Thai curry over Indian curry, which I’ve been told makes me a monster no one should listen to…
What? Why, though???
I also prefer Thai curry, because Thai food is incredible. I mean, so is Indian food, but everyone has their own favorite flavor profiles.
Indian curry is also a very vague description. There are so many types of curry of Indian origin and they’re all so different from each other.
Ok but when I think apple and honey Vermont does come to mind
And now enjoy apple honey curry
Not to be confused with Vermont Carry, which is Constitutional or “permitless” carry of handguns.
OP’s mind is gonna be blown when they discover there are multiple different types of rice, too.
That’s not the point. Vermont Curry is from Japan.
Chinese fortune cookies came from a Japanese person in San Francisco!
If the cheese and syrup have taught me anything, it’s that everything made in Vermont is better.
This isn’t made in Vermont though. It’s Japanese.
Switzerland and Canada respectively disagree.
There’s also Golden Curry, but there’s no gold in it.
Are you implying you need to have Vermont in Vermont Curry?
I’ve had real Canadian maple syrup and it’s better than New Hampshire’s but not better than Vermont’s. Sorry, not sorry.
I’ve not actually had real Swiss cheese, though. Just the cheese we have here in the states that we call Swiss cheese, which is really just a single type of Swiss “invented” cheese but since it’s not actually made in Switzerland doesn’t really count. Because it’s based on bacterial cultures, it really does matter where it’s made. Wisconsin cheese is very good, but I can’t think of anything better than extra sharp Vermont cheddar. Ideally, I’d have both on the same board. 🤤
Cheese from protected origins aside, it’s actually pretty common for cheeses to be made in a fashion where the specific origin doesn’t matter in the modern world. For repeatability the bacteria involved for a certain style will often be isolated and artificially introduced into the dairy to ensure different batches have uniform characteristics. This also ensures the changing conditions don’t result in the cheese suddenly being different.
As a result it’s perfectly possible to use bacterial cultures from anywhere to make cheese somewhere else.When it comes to Swiss cheese specifically, not even Switzerland claims that Swiss cheese needs to come from Switzerland. It’s usually accepted that it refers to Swiss-style cheeses. Switzerland would like the terms Emmentaler or Gruyère to be specific to Switzerland.
That very few countries agree with that request is a different matter.
In any case, “real Swiss cheese” makes about as much sense as “real Italian cheese” in reference to mozzarella.Its funny right because I agree with everything that you say, but its also just patently wrong. There is a kind of reductionist in modern technocratic thinking that we can just atomize things to their parts, and so long as we reconstitute them correctly, the thing we make is the same as the thing we destroyed.
Take Belgian beer as the example. I can and have bought Belgian yeasts and made beer with them. I’ve bought “New Belgian” beer, and bought Belgian style ales and beers from breweries all over the planet. There is one decent one coming out of the hitochino brewery in Japan and a few of the better breweries on the west coast of the US that are close, but still, no cigaro.
Drink these beers and compare them with a Belgian from Belgium. They simply don’t. Its like a childs 5th grade attempt at art compared to a master work. Comparison? There is none.
The idea that we can atomize things and reconstitute them and that they’ll be the same because we made it from the sum of its parts is a kind of toxic consumerism that disconnects people from being able to hold real identity to places and people; that its all transferable. You own nothing, not your identity or geography or anything. We can just chop it up into pieces and remake it if we know its constituent parts.
But its not true. Only a proper Belgian is a Belgian.
I don’t know if that hold true here judging by the picture on the box. It looks like brown gravy.
Vermont curry isn’t actually from Vermont. It’s a Japanese style curry, rather than an Indian style, so it’s a different spice composition.
