My parents are firmly in the camp of “Indian food is too strange and/or hot”. My wife and I love Indian food, though she can handle far more heat than me. We took my parents out to our favorite restaurant, and while they ate their meals and expanded their horizons, they also made a lot of faces, didn’t finish it all, and insisted we could keep their leftovers lol. If I had to guess, they might’ve gotten burgers after we parted ways 🤣 Different generations, at least they tried. My biggest pet peeve is people who won’t even entertain the idea of something new being good.