India's numbers are vague, because they don't even know how many people they have...

But the low end of the estimate is 20% vegan, and Mexico is 19%...

And while dishes based on Pakistani immigrants caught on all over, they were trying to support their families and just sold what people would buy

But even if you call that "Indian food", it has nowhere near the reach as Me Ivan cuisine, which is often vegetarian

They're doing the real heavy lifting if you want to clap someone on the back.

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Like, it's just wild that those Muslims were driven from their home in the first place, obviously that was worse and the segregating of India to create Pakistan is waaaay more fucked up.

But it really grinds my gears when India wants to claim that as a feather in their cap, when most of the shops were from people India's government forced out due to their religion.

Interestingly India has lower vegetable consumption levels than you might think.

Image description: line chart showing the average annual vegetable consumption per capita in kilograms for China, India, USA, UK, Italy, Mexico and Russia between 1961 and 2023. China has roughly 4 times the levels of the other countries. Mexico has the least, and India second least.

Source: Vegetable consumption per capita, 1961 to 2023, for China, India, USA, UK, Italy, Mexico and Russia