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by srssays 3339 days ago
Chilies are popular around the world for exactly this reason, that you can take cheap ingredients and, with some chilies, create an appetising meal.

Because Britain lacks a (good) cuisine of its own, we tend to eat exclusively the food of other countries, and those dishes are often spicy.

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> Britain lacks a (good) cuisine of its own

Comrade Orwell wrote a valiant little essay trying to fight that idea.

Plucky fellow.

(e.g. http://orwell.ru/library/articles/cooking/english/e_dec )