Food for thought

Last night in a half-stupor after a few nights of very little sleep, I watched an episode of the Simpsons on late-night programming. There was a little bit in the beginning about Homer getting into a feeding frenzy of sorts and ending up eating a pair of slacks. When Bart points this fact out to him, Homer remarks "oh well, still tastes better than Indian food!". For the remaining 25 minutes of the episode, I found myself obsessing over this, wondering why that was funny. Perhaps it was my own ethnocentrism at finding my home country's food among the most yummy and complex in the world that I was unable to (pardon the pun) stomach this insult! The range of thoughts running through my head included (in roughly this order):
1) Whoa! Is the rest of America laughing at that statement and agreeing?
2) Why would it be a given that Indian food tastes bad? Or is this is a given or just the opinion of Matt Groening and his writers?
3) If more of an individual opinion, then what is Mr. Groening basing this on? Indian restaurants in his hometown? I mean, I don't have a particularly high opinion of most Indian restaurants, and besides they're mostly one-trick ponies with the same range of bland (to the Indian palate) dishes. Besides every community in every state in India has their own cuisine, accounting for probably a couple hundred in total, so how could he make such a blanket statement about 'Indian food' when there's no such single identity? And has he ever tasted Indian home-cooking? Any idiot would know that home-food is very different from restaurant food, and I for one vastly prefer the former to the latter when it comes to Indian food.
4) What ethnic cuisine does Mr. Groening prefer? Does he think boiled potatoes and meat is far more sophisticated and tasty than the wildly varied range of Indian food? (Here I got defensive and mean obviously!) Once in my Wisconsin days, I tried a local 'delicacy' of Scandinavian origin called a 'fish boil'. It turned out most disappointingly to be just that, chunks of fish thrown into a cauldron of boiling water with salt, and served just so...
5) I'm so disappointed in Mr. Groening for making such an uneducated and disparaging statement in a show that most intellectuals I know revere. I mean, this isn't Family Guy for heaven's sakes!!
6) Wait a second, would I have laughed at that joke if it were about any other kind of ethnic food? I think I may have...I disappoint myself :-(
7) Am I being one of those touchy fools I hate? Was I not supposed to take that statement to heart seeing how the dumbest character on TV made it?

At this point I nodded off to sleep...