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Brits: Salt is a spice (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I look at it the other way around. The food was so horrible, England sent entire fleets of ships just to get takeout from India. It didn't matter that it took months on end and people lost their lives along the way, it was still worth it.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made the British the best sailors in the world.