“I have no idea why Trinidadians say it this way,” Richards-Greave says referring to the “chicken curry” leaning (Richards-Greave, who is Guyanese, says the Guyanese prefer to say “curry chicken”).

While it may roll off of the tongue easier to say Chicken Curry because of how you you are used to ordering it in your favorite restaurant, traditionally in Jamaica you would refer to this tasty dish as Curry Chicken.

While curried goat is often the more celebrated Jamaican dish, curried chicken is a simpler yet equally delicious staple. Curries appear in the Jamaican diet courtesy of East Indian indentured laborers who were brought from India by the British to work on plantations after the end of slavery.

Yet, the most solid answer would ultimately depend on whether you consider curry more of a noun (as in the dish itself, where chicken curry works) or an adjective (as in the spice preparation, where curry chicken works, too). “The proper (English) way is 'curried chicken,'” says Richards-Greaves.