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by setr 3377 days ago
>Masala is a popular indian dish here in the US...

Huh? Masala just means the dish uses a bunch of spices (ie masala chai is just tea with cardamom, maybe pepper and cinnamon and other things depending on whose making).

I'm pretty sure regarding film its used to say a "standard movie" or even "boring", thats been "spiced" to taste better, with spices being a set of tropes that most people like.

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Haha, such an appropriate comment thread in a post about linguistics!
I prefer Alien Tikka Masala myself, with a side of xenophobiNaan.