Masala Voted Most Popular Curry As National Curry Week Gets Under Way

It's National Curry Week, so we decided to ask our followers the impossible question: which curry is the very best?

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To make things a little easier, we whittled it down to eight: vindaloo, korma, rogan josh, masala, jalfezi, bhuna, dhansak and madras.

Masala ran out a comfortable winner in the first semi, claiming almost half of the 9,000+ votes cast.

Madras staved off stiff competition from jalfrezi in the second semi to set up a tasty final showdown with masala, but ultimately the latter came out on top, winning narrowly with 56.1 percent of the 10,218 votes cast.

At this point, you're probably hankering for a curry - which is a good job, because that's essentially the point of National Curry Week. It's been running since 1998, when it was set up by curry-mad journalist Peter Groves as a means of increasing awareness and appreciation of the burgeoning Indian restaurant industry, while also raising funds for charity.

The National Curry Week website reads: "Since the 1970s, curry houses have become a staple of highstreets up and down the country and millions of curries are consumed every single week. The love affair shows no signs of slowing and that's what we're celebrating with National Curry Week!

"It's been a difficult year but for one week only, let's talk about curry instead of coronavirus. Whether you're heading out to your local curry house or cooking up a storm using our official recipe book, we want you to be rejoicing in all things curry!"

Conveniently, if that craving has become uncontrollable, you can find your local curry houses on the National Curry Week website here.

Topics: Food, UK News

Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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