Bandar Foods

it started like a bad joke: a suburban, white guy from philly (dan) walks into an indian restaurant and asks for hot sauce because his food isn't spicy enough. the server looks puzzled and then runs next door to borrow a bottle of tabasco for his heat-craving guest. how is this possible? indian food is naturally very spicy - was it possible there was no such thing as indian hot sauce?! he goes to his smart, better-looking indian friend (lalit) and inquires if this scoville scandal was true. together, they go to a local indian grocery where lalit points out that instead of hot sauces (as most americans know them), most indian use chutneys such as pickled mango and mint-coriander preserves to spice up food. over a billion people in south asia can't be wrong - right? dan found these products amazingly tasty - but completely baffling to use. these were oily, chunky, and did not look very appetizing by american standards. how do we even eat this stuff?! wait... we have an idea. so we pureed