mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around

[partis]

Let no one sneer at the bruisers of england - what were the gladiators of rome or the bull fighters of spain, in its palmist days, compared to englands bruisers" - George burrow.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Curry and peppers where gathered and used in cooking to hide the fact that the meat was oft-times rotten..... As far as I know the UK doesn't have a native spicy plant to deal with the flavor of rotten meats.

[Genersis]

Curry and peppers where gathered and used in cooking to hide the fact that the meat was oft-times rotten..... As far as I know the UK doesn't have a native spicy plant to deal with the flavor of rotten meats.

Closest we have is mustard as far as I know.

[partis]

A lot of the spices & ingrediants we have come from foreign invaders, the romans, then the franco normans - vikings.

[southbiochem]

Boy, I bet you don't like all the French blood that still runs through your monarchs veins..:eek:

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Well, obviously spices are not native to Europe, they were brought there by European colonizers mostly...

you can thank the Ottoman Turks for conquering the Eastern Mediterranean and forcing christian nations to seek other routes to the East heavenly spices..

Curry was brought from India and South East Asia by Brits and Dutch, so it's no surprise that curry has been part of these countries cuisine..

same kinda thing happened here, damn Spaniards brought some stuff (wheat and bovine products), Amerindians were growing other stuff (corn, potatoes, etc)...bam...you have Latin American cuisine as a result!

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