• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    I heard once that when spices became so cheap that even the commoners could afford it, the upper class in Britain started to claim that really good food doesn’t need any spices to taste good and that bland food is the best. This supposedly made the British cuisine way blander.

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      3 months ago

      I thought it was cuz they lost a bunch of ships during wwii and then they had the rationing of foods, and hadn’t recovered their flavor palate since then.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t think flavor palates degenerate that quickly. Especially with that many Indian residents.