Part of the reason for the imperialism in the first place is to *get* the spices! Shame it's simply not possible to equitably trade for desired resources without doing a genocide or three, oh well
was thinking about how japanese curry isn’t really spicy and am now going crazy trying to think of any imperialist country with spicy food (from minorities doesn’t count)
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Other than that, if you think outside the box, the closest might be really strong cheese or fermented goods?