VIDEO: Birmingham seeks to claim "Balti" curry name (From Asian Image)

VIDEO: Birmingham seeks to claim "Balti" curry name

12:04pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

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Indian restaurants across the country could be banned from selling Balti dishes as council chiefs in the city credited with its invention seek to protect the name.

Birmingham City Council wants to help eateries in the city, which it said was the "birthplace" of the popular curry dish, by applying to protect the Balti name.

The bid could mean a ban for restaurants outside Birmingham's "Balti Triangle" from serving a Balti.

The first ever Balti, named after the wok used to cook it, is thought to have been created in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham by immigrants from northern Pakistan in the 1970s.

It has spread across the UK and became the basis for the name "Balti Triangle", given to the area around Sparkhill and Moseley with a large number of restaurants specialising in the dish.

The council claims that Birmingham, as the origin of the Balti name, has the same right to protect it as Champagne and Wensleydale cheese.

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