A noble dish that once graced the banquet tables of the imperial Mughal court, rich with cream and nuts and heavily scented with expensive spice, has become a byword for bland, a "starter" curry, beloved of children and others with unadventurous tastes.
The issues were those that the politically unadventurous think are all that matter – and which we've heard over and over again for the past three years: immigration, the economy, the NHS.
But inversions account for only 9% of M&A activity so far this year.Meanwhile, there are lots of relatively unadventurous deals, says Roger Altman, the boss of Evercore, an investment bank.
With 80% of its banking controlled abroad, a big difference from most of its OECD peers, Poland is grappling with unadventurous lending, to say nothing of an equity gap.Poland needs flexibility to grow fast.
It is the place of a media boss's dreams cosmopolitan, with an affluent population and a newspaper industry still shackled by the unadventurous ways of yesteryear.
Mr Blair's Britain is prosperous, content and, for all the self-regarding talk about "Cool Britannia", relatively unadventurous.
He has long trailed in the polls, but the gap appears to be narrowing, giving his government a fighting chance of re-election.In this section The unadventurous eagle Sarkozy's wars Show trials again Scars, scares and scarcity To vote, or not to vote?
The average British cheese-eater is an unadventurous beast.
One of Mr Sannikov's aides, Dmitry Bondarenko, got two years.In this section The unadventurous eagle Sarkozy's wars Show trials again Scars, scares and scarcity To vote, or not to vote?
These days Angela Merkel, the chancellor, may be treated in Brussels as an empress, but in Berlin she is just one of many warring nobles.In this section The unadventurous eagle Sarkozy's wars Show trials again Scars, scares and scarcity To vote, or not to vote?
"When people call for their liberty, France will be at their side".In this section The unadventurous eagle Sarkozy's wars Show trials again Scars, scares and scarcity To vote, or not to vote?
