• n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    England had to utilize military force to control India to get the spices, to make the blandest food on the planet.

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      1 month ago

      What’s that old saying?

      British women and British food made British sailors the best in the world.

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      1 month ago

      They sold the spices to other nations for major profit to enrich themselves. They never intended to eat said spices.

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        That’s what the Portuguese and the Dutch did. By the time the British finally defeated the Dutch in… like… the seventh war, the spice trade was no longer the most profitable. It was then the Atlantic Triangle… or whatever it was called.