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Colonization and Spiced Food: A Correlation
I have a theory.
Most areas that have been colonized throughout history have been areas closer to the equator. These areas have been inhabited by northern European peoples.
There is a correlation that I believe no one has paid attention to, which is that the cultures that did most of the colonizing had less spiced food. The English, the French, the Dutch, and the Spanish had far less spiced food than the cultures they were colonizing. The cultures that got colonized, those cultures closer the the equator, of course, had much more spiced food as the heat of the climate and the sweating that ensued demanded spicy food for health. People in hotter climates need to eat spicier foods to ward off the possibility of heat stroke. It’s natural.
And I think the reason these northern cultures were able to colonize these southern cultures was because they had less spiced food. And therefore had to take less poops during battle.
The armies of these southern cultures had to take more poops because of their spicier foods and were, therefore, less prepared on the day-to-day, to fight, than those of the north, who were taking rare poops because of their low-spice diet.
