Oh no! Jamaican food did not come from India! Yes, curry came to the islands with indentured peoples from India. Many spices and herbs found and are indigenous to the Caribbean. Grenada is the spice island of the Caribbean.
It's funny because although Jamaicans and African Americans are both Diasporan, we've grown to develop our own unique styles in food. Our "Soul Food" everyone love. It's also funny how what started in slavery, as what our colonizers threw out we ate and made best of it. They gave us what they didn't want. TODAY, what they threw away back in the days, they travel from miles and miles away to OUR neighborhoods to eat our food what their Ancestos never wanted 😂 We always kept our ways to gain spices to flavor our food from our ways from Africa but we had to use new spices over here. Jamaican food is good too! Both of us, got our own swag 😊 Bro you tried Jamaican food, you have to try Soul Food 🤘🏾 Bro look typical A.A. salutes to him, he remind me of OG's i see around the way 😂👏🏾
@shawnebradley6542..Not only Soul Food in the Deep Southeast states. what About the Blk Louisiana cuisines and the Gullah Geechee cuisines?African Americans are very diverse when it comes to food..
@@Adrian-xb1rx And it's funny you say that 🤣 You do your homework heavy! My Mom is from Louisiana and grew up French Creole. All i know is her foods. I grew up, up North cuz parents moved. Til this day i STILL laugh at my Mom and Dads accent cuz they sound from South w strong accents. I sound totally North 🤣🤘🏾 Because of the "French" influence and the mixing is why i got 19% white in me. I tell my Mom til this day i'm mad at her for giving me that 🤣 It's weird but cute at same time. "Mommy we use to be more African but your Ancestors watered us down." 🤣👏🏾 I still look African so i'm gucci!
Is this restaurant owned by Jamaicans? Oxtail and Curry Goat is served with rice not fries. The hibiscus drink is called Sorel. Mostly made around Christmas, but can drink other times also.
Look brother I just want us to talk about African people we need to unite and work together I don't want to hear nothing about any other group...we love our brothers and sisters from Africa so let's get to know each others....I love Africa so much I will give my life to defend her
Everything had to be imported, even the Ackee and Saltfish. The only thing indigenous was the Tainos people's. Jamaica's first people were the Taínos, who came to the island from the northern coast of South America and settled in Jamaica around 600 AD. They spoke a dialect of Arawakan and named the island, "Xaymaca", meaning “land of wood and water”.
@@DNSWRLDthey don’t eat Ackee in Ghana. Ackee comes from Ghana. However, Ackee cuisine was created and developed in Jamaica. Same thing for Jerk. Jerk marinade was created and invented in Jamaica by Africans. Tainos invented barbecue but jerk which was created by Africans in Jamaica is slightly different from barbecue. The seasonings used and cooking on pimento wood is different. The reason we know this is because pimento wood is not used in any barbecue method in any Latin countries. The seasoning used in jerk is not used in any Latin countries. If tainos had anything to do with the jerk process, you would see it replicated in Puerto Rico, DR, Cuba, south and Central America and it’s not. Jerk is popular now and many countries are doing it but if you went to any Latin country in 1920- 2000 that have taino descendants you would never see any cooking process like jerk. You would see barbecue and that’s it. So jerk was created by Africans in Jamaica with scotch bonnet peppers, allspice, pimento wood etc. scotch peppers, allspice and pimento woods are not used in any Latin country cuisine.
👍🏾 Nice review but you got some things wrong. Its rice & peas because most dishes you eat with rice and you're adding the peas thats y its rice & peas, also Corey is yellow And we say curry chicken or curried goat not chicken curry. Because the chicken is being carried hence the name. it's not the chicken that's making curry..
Jamaican food is rice and peas, oxtail, jerk meat, peas soup, bammy, breadfruit, patties, ackee and saltfish, collaloo, etc. No Indians showed up and brought these
Curry goat came from India with the indentured workers who came to replace the Africans on the plantations after slavery was abolished. Ganja also came from India!
You was eating oxtail and not goat curry, but it's called curry goat, the other friend looked like he was eating jerked chicken, not curry chicken, also chips is not a jamaican meal, but it's nice that you tried the food but next time try to get the name of the food your eating right 😊
Jamaican food is a blend of African, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Indian and Chinese. Ackee comes from Ghana, Jamaican beef patties comes from British meat pies, gizzarda comes from Portugal, Escovitch fish comes from Spain. Jamaican spice bun comes from British fruit cake. Curry came from India, however, Jamaica curry powder has scotch bonnet peppers in it. Indian curry does not. Jerk marinade and jerk style of cooking was invented by the Maroons in Jamaica. Maroons came to Jamaica from Ghanaian and are from the Ashanti tribe.
U are talking Sh$@ my friend Our good has Nothing European about it! I am a Jamaican who have spent the majority of my life in the U. K. But my roots remain in the land of my birth.
@@wiltonmcdonald2399how did Jamaicans come up with Escovitch, Gizzarda, spice bun, beef patties etc. spice bun was inspired by English hot cross buns. Beef patties were inspired by English meat pies. All we did with was upgrade the English meat pies and add our own Jamaican flare to it and that was how the beef patties were created. Escovitch came from the Spanish and Gizzarda came from the Portuguese. All we did is add our Jamaican twist to it. Please do your research. I am 100% percent Jamaican and I know how these cuisines were developed. Jamaican black cake idea came from English fruit cake. All we did is add our Jamaican twist to it and upgrade it by blending the fruits and adding rum.
@@wiltonmcdonald2399jerk chicken, jerk pork, jerk marinade, run down, Ackee and salt fish, ital stew, ital cooking was 100 % created in Jamaica, however beef patties is an upgraded English meat pie, black cake is an upgraded English fruit cake. The reason why we know this is because Jamaicans came from west Africa and west african countries like Ghana and Nigeria do not make black cake or fruit cake. Nigerians do make meat pies so the Africans that came to Jamaica from Nigeria could have brought over the meat pie with them and then they put the Jamaican twist on it. Jamaican beef patties are an upgraded meat pie and meat pie was not invented in Jamaica.
Its just like what Morocco did with their architecture. Its mostly black African architecture with their own added touches and flair.@@wiltonmcdonald2399
@@Stewy-xw9fzJamaican patty is a modified version of the English ‘Cornish pasty’ - hence the Jamaican name of patty. Ghanaians don’t eat Ackee so why do Jamaicans constantly give them credit for something they don’t eat? They maintain that it’s poisonous and even Wode Maya was scared of tasting it when he first went to Jamaica because he said they’re told not to eat it because they will get poisoned!
Chips is not on a Jamaican menu that’s Euro/British food Not Jamaican. All meat dishes are always accompanied with what we call Hard food ie yam, banana dumplings etc not Chips or fries. Enjoy all the same.
Jamaican food does not come from India. The only thing Jamaicans use in their cooking that comes from India is Curry. Goat is eaten all over west Africa and Jamaicans are from Ghana and Nigeria and west Africa. That is why Jamaicans eat goat. Ackee comes from Ghana. Jamaican beef patties comes from British meat pies. Escovitch fish comes from Spanish Escovitch. Gizzarda comes from Portugal. Jamaican food is a mixture of African, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Indian. That’s it. Trinidad and Guyana food comes from India not Jamaica. Roti is not a popular meal in Jamaica but it is in Trinidad and Guyana. Plus Jamaica curry is far different than India curry. Jamaican curry has scotch bonnet peppers in it, India does not. So please get your facts right.
Jamaican food is ackee and salt fish, patties, rice and peas, jerk meat, bammy, collaloo, oxtail, peas soup, breadfruit,festival etc. Indians came over and brought these to Jamaica? 😂😂😂
@@Stewy-xw9fz Curry goat came from India with the indentured Indians who were brought in to replace African slaves after abolition. Africans may eat goat but they don’t cook it in the same way. ‘Patty’ is a modified version of the English ‘Cornish Pasty’ which was taken there by the British settlers. While Ackee may come from Ghana, they don’t even eat it there, so it’s not worth giving them credit for it. Even the Ghanaian RUclipsr (Wode Maya) who visited Jamaica recently, refused to taste it at first because he said in Ghana they still say it’s poisonous and don’t eat it. So why give them credit for something they don’t even eat?
@@cleo63100my bad. I didn’t give Ghana credit for Ackee. I just wanted to show that the fruit Ackee came from Ghana and not India. India does not know anything about Ackee. But you are correct Ackee cuisine is created and developed in Jamaica and Ackee and salt fish is probably the most eaten meal in Jamaica. I just wanted to show this guy that Jamaica food has nothing to do with India. Plus most Jamaicans eat their rice, starch and meats separated. My rice is separated from my oxtail. My curry goat is separated from my dumplings and banana. My wife is Guyanese Indian and everything they cook is mixed up together. Meat mixed up with rice mixed up with vegetables. And I keep telling her that I don’t eat my food like that. Even my kids don’t eat their food like that. I want my oxtail and gravy separate from my rice. Please don’t mix it up together. I will put it in my mouth and mix it up in my mouth. But that is the Indian way of cooking. They mix up everything together. I still love my wife though but me and the kids had to tell her not to do that. That is how you know Jamaica didn’t take anything from India.only curry because we don’t mix up starch, rice, meats, vegetables together. Roti and doubles is not a popular thing in Jamaica.
My American bro. I am surprised he has never tasted Jamaican food because there are a lot of Jamaican restaurateurs in America.
Blessings to our Kenyan brothers and sisters enjoy ❤️❤️❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲
Nice to see you my friend we might have differences, but that does not limit us from waving to each other.
Hehe... idhi nade😂😂
I'm soo happy to see myself in your channel,it was a nice experience doing this together.Nice content
I really enjoyed this video brother. It really was in the spirit of Pan-Africanism. Next time you go try the jerk chicken.
Oh no! Jamaican food did not come from India! Yes, curry came to the islands with indentured peoples from India. Many spices and herbs found and are indigenous to the Caribbean. Grenada is the spice island of the Caribbean.
NOT CHICKEN NOR GOAT CURRY ;it is curry goat /curry chicken.
kenyans needs to start eating nigerian food. Jolloff rice, puff puff, amala, shen shen etc...
We love Nigerian food here in SA.
Hello please share your constructive thoughts on Jamaican Food...
It's funny because although Jamaicans and African Americans are both Diasporan, we've grown to develop our own unique styles in food. Our "Soul Food" everyone love. It's also funny how what started in slavery, as what our colonizers threw out we ate and made best of it. They gave us what they didn't want. TODAY, what they threw away back in the days, they travel from miles and miles away to OUR neighborhoods to eat our food what their Ancestos never wanted 😂 We always kept our ways to gain spices to flavor our food from our ways from Africa but we had to use new spices over here. Jamaican food is good too! Both of us, got our own swag 😊 Bro you tried Jamaican food, you have to try Soul Food 🤘🏾 Bro look typical A.A. salutes to him, he remind me of OG's i see around the way 😂👏🏾
@shawnebradley6542..Not only Soul Food in the Deep Southeast states. what About the Blk Louisiana cuisines and the Gullah Geechee cuisines?African Americans are very diverse when it comes to food..
@@Adrian-xb1rx And it's funny you say that 🤣 You do your homework heavy! My Mom is from Louisiana and grew up French Creole. All i know is her foods. I grew up, up North cuz parents moved. Til this day i STILL laugh at my Mom and Dads accent cuz they sound from South w strong accents. I sound totally North 🤣🤘🏾 Because of the "French" influence and the mixing is why i got 19% white in me. I tell my Mom til this day i'm mad at her for giving me that 🤣 It's weird but cute at same time. "Mommy we use to be more African but your Ancestors watered us down." 🤣👏🏾 I still look African so i'm gucci!
There are no such things as chicken curry or goat curry. It is called curry chicken and curry goat, the word curry goes before the item.
Is this restaurant owned by Jamaicans? Oxtail and Curry Goat is served with rice not fries. The hibiscus drink is called Sorel. Mostly made around Christmas, but can drink other times also.
More to point - is it a Jamaican chef or someone who’s familiar with Jamaican food?
Thank you for the shout out brother
Any time brother.
I think you had oxtail and jerk chicken; I did not see curry goat.
Tell him to apply for the class K permit online. He needs to be earning at least 24k USD/year . Be careful of scammers.
Jamaican Food Is The Best!
Also Rastaman Ital Food is delicious!
Look brother I just want us to talk about African people we need to unite and work together I don't want to hear nothing about any other group...we love our brothers and sisters from Africa so let's get to know each others....I love Africa so much I will give my life to defend her
Jamaican food come from Jamaica ok. majority of Jamaican are of African decent so don't talk shit. curry come from India that is it ok
Everything had to be imported, even the Ackee and Saltfish. The only thing indigenous was the Tainos people's.
Jamaica's first people were the Taínos, who came to the island from the northern coast of South America and settled in Jamaica around 600 AD. They spoke a dialect of Arawakan and named the island, "Xaymaca", meaning “land of wood and water”.
@@DNSWRLDthey don’t eat Ackee in Ghana. Ackee comes from Ghana. However, Ackee cuisine was created and developed in Jamaica. Same thing for Jerk. Jerk marinade was created and invented in Jamaica by Africans. Tainos invented barbecue but jerk which was created by Africans in Jamaica is slightly different from barbecue. The seasonings used and cooking on pimento wood is different. The reason we know this is because pimento wood is not used in any barbecue method in any Latin countries. The seasoning used in jerk is not used in any Latin countries. If tainos had anything to do with the jerk process, you would see it replicated in Puerto Rico, DR, Cuba, south and Central America and it’s not. Jerk is popular now and many countries are doing it but if you went to any Latin country in 1920- 2000 that have taino descendants you would never see any cooking process like jerk. You would see barbecue and that’s it. So jerk was created by Africans in Jamaica with scotch bonnet peppers, allspice, pimento wood etc. scotch peppers, allspice and pimento woods are not used in any Latin country cuisine.
@@Stewy-xw9fz I Agree 👍 💯
Curry meats goes best with rice
Side dishes
Soup is called mannish water
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👍🏾 Nice review but you got some things wrong. Its rice & peas because most dishes you eat with rice and you're adding the peas thats y its rice & peas, also Corey is yellow And we say curry chicken or curried goat not chicken curry. Because the chicken is being carried hence the name. it's not the chicken that's making curry..
Ur spoiling our dishes name
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Tell the American guy I'm coming
Jamaican food is rice and peas, oxtail, jerk meat, peas soup, bammy, breadfruit, patties, ackee and saltfish, collaloo, etc. No Indians showed up and brought these
Curry goat came from India with the indentured workers who came to replace the Africans on the plantations after slavery was abolished. Ganja also came from India!
@cleo63100..You are correct about the curry goat and weed coming from India..Also locks come from India
@@Adrian-xb1rx I was actually going to mention about the locks.
Jamaican food comes from jamaica that is it
Why would a Jamaican restaurant serve soup in a cup I have never seen that unless they put it in a to go container.
Is there (ACKEE & SALTFISH) on the menu ?
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Where exactly is this Jamaican restaurant located in Kenya?
The drink is Sorrel.
You needs to go to Jamaica and taste the real Jamaican food, you would eat till your belly pop,then lick your ten fingers 🤣🤣😋
You was eating oxtail and not goat curry, but it's called curry goat, the other friend looked like he was eating jerked chicken, not curry chicken, also chips is not a jamaican meal, but it's nice that you tried the food but next time try to get the name of the food your eating right 😊
Jamaican food is a blend of African, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Indian and Chinese. Ackee comes from Ghana, Jamaican beef patties comes from British meat pies, gizzarda comes from Portugal, Escovitch fish comes from Spain. Jamaican spice bun comes from British fruit cake. Curry came from India, however, Jamaica curry powder has scotch bonnet peppers in it. Indian curry does not. Jerk marinade and jerk style of cooking was invented by the Maroons in Jamaica. Maroons came to Jamaica from Ghanaian and are from the Ashanti tribe.
U are talking Sh$@ my friend Our good has Nothing European about it! I am a Jamaican who have spent the majority of my life in the U. K. But my roots remain in the land of my birth.
@@wiltonmcdonald2399how did Jamaicans come up with Escovitch, Gizzarda, spice bun, beef patties etc. spice bun was inspired by English hot cross buns. Beef patties were inspired by English meat pies. All we did with was upgrade the English meat pies and add our own Jamaican flare to it and that was how the beef patties were created. Escovitch came from the Spanish and Gizzarda came from the Portuguese. All we did is add our Jamaican twist to it. Please do your research. I am 100% percent Jamaican and I know how these cuisines were developed. Jamaican black cake idea came from English fruit cake. All we did is add our Jamaican twist to it and upgrade it by blending the fruits and adding rum.
@@wiltonmcdonald2399jerk chicken, jerk pork, jerk marinade, run down, Ackee and salt fish, ital stew, ital cooking was 100 % created in Jamaica, however beef patties is an upgraded English meat pie, black cake is an upgraded English fruit cake. The reason why we know this is because Jamaicans came from west Africa and west african countries like Ghana and Nigeria do not make black cake or fruit cake. Nigerians do make meat pies so the Africans that came to Jamaica from Nigeria could have brought over the meat pie with them and then they put the Jamaican twist on it. Jamaican beef patties are an upgraded meat pie and meat pie was not invented in Jamaica.
Its just like what Morocco did with their architecture. Its mostly black African architecture with their own added touches and flair.@@wiltonmcdonald2399
@@Stewy-xw9fzJamaican patty is a modified version of the English ‘Cornish pasty’ - hence the Jamaican name of patty.
Ghanaians don’t eat Ackee so why do Jamaicans constantly give them credit for something they don’t eat? They maintain that it’s poisonous and even Wode Maya was scared of tasting it when he first went to Jamaica because he said they’re told not to eat it because they will get poisoned!
Chips is not on a Jamaican menu that’s Euro/British food Not Jamaican. All meat dishes are always accompanied with what we call Hard food ie yam, banana dumplings etc not Chips or fries. Enjoy all the same.
Can u stop saying goat curry, we don’t have goat curry . And chicken curry , it curry chicken
Fries is not Jamaican food ppl for the 100 times ,,,
Yo it gets under my skin to see u spreading wrong info about our food that’s definitely not curry
Jamaican food came from india. Indians brought the spice and curry over to the caribbeans. Including goat meat.
Jamaican food does not come from India. The only thing Jamaicans use in their cooking that comes from India is Curry. Goat is eaten all over west Africa and Jamaicans are from Ghana and Nigeria and west Africa. That is why Jamaicans eat goat. Ackee comes from Ghana. Jamaican beef patties comes from British meat pies. Escovitch fish comes from Spanish Escovitch. Gizzarda comes from Portugal. Jamaican food is a mixture of African, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Indian. That’s it. Trinidad and Guyana food comes from India not Jamaica. Roti is not a popular meal in Jamaica but it is in Trinidad and Guyana. Plus Jamaica curry is far different than India curry. Jamaican curry has scotch bonnet peppers in it, India does not. So please get your facts right.
What? From India? DWL lol
Jamaican food is ackee and salt fish, patties, rice and peas, jerk meat, bammy, collaloo, oxtail, peas soup, breadfruit,festival etc. Indians came over and brought these to Jamaica? 😂😂😂
@@Stewy-xw9fz Curry goat came from India with the indentured Indians who were brought in to replace African slaves after abolition. Africans may eat goat but they don’t cook it in the same way.
‘Patty’ is a modified version of the English ‘Cornish Pasty’ which was taken there by the British settlers.
While Ackee may come from Ghana, they don’t even eat it there, so it’s not worth giving them credit for it. Even the Ghanaian RUclipsr (Wode Maya) who visited Jamaica recently, refused to taste it at first because he said in Ghana they still say it’s poisonous and don’t eat it. So why give them credit for something they don’t even eat?
@@cleo63100my bad. I didn’t give Ghana credit for Ackee. I just wanted to show that the fruit Ackee came from Ghana and not India. India does not know anything about Ackee. But you are correct Ackee cuisine is created and developed in Jamaica and Ackee and salt fish is probably the most eaten meal in Jamaica. I just wanted to show this guy that Jamaica food has nothing to do with India. Plus most Jamaicans eat their rice, starch and meats separated. My rice is separated from my oxtail. My curry goat is separated from my dumplings and banana. My wife is Guyanese Indian and everything they cook is mixed up together. Meat mixed up with rice mixed up with vegetables. And I keep telling her that I don’t eat my food like that. Even my kids don’t eat their food like that. I want my oxtail and gravy separate from my rice. Please don’t mix it up together. I will put it in my mouth and mix it up in my mouth. But that is the Indian way of cooking. They mix up everything together. I still love my wife though but me and the kids had to tell her not to do that. That is how you know Jamaica didn’t take anything from India.only curry because we don’t mix up starch, rice, meats, vegetables together. Roti and doubles is not a popular thing in Jamaica.