Just by the by, chicken tikka masala is NOT Britain’s favourite dish.
It was tossed in to a political speech, in 2001, by our then Foreign Secretary, the late Robin Cook, when he was speaking about how diverse our country had become. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1316537/Cook-argues-for-immigration-into-tikka-massala-Britain.html
Then, as now, there was absolutely no evidence to support the claim. And, in fact, when you consider the British restaurant and takeaway industry, it’s clear that it was a nonsense claim. That said, it may well be the most ordered dish in “Indian” restaurants. As I suspect most folk here probably know, it’s a bastardised British invention. The most usual claim is that it was invented at the Shish Mahal restaurant in Glasgow. Cook was born just 10 miles south of Glasgow, so may well have had an affinity for a local dish.
