Technically they came from the Spanish Empire. Pizarro brought them to Europe from the Incas.
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Citation needed. AFAIK, Pizarro died 10 to 30 years too soon for that.
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Let’s call the whole thing off.
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Ok, but, I mean, in this context we were discussing curry.
As for coffee drinking, I’m not sure that has much to do with Britain’s seafaring culture, besides crossing the Channel. Coffee came into Europe via the Middle East to Italy, and then spread to the rest of Europe.
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Ethiopia> North Africa> Spain> rest of Europe.
Well, but surely it also would have come via the middle east, too, yeah? Coffee culture was big in the Ottoman Empire, for example, and given the Elizabethan interest in forging alliances in both North Africa AND with the Ottomans, there would have been some interest from there as well. Not to mention that the Ottomans were themselves a European empire… 
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I mean, I guess this is a minor point and probably historians disagree, but Wikipedia has it as:
By the 16th century, coffee had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa. The first coffee seeds were smuggled out of the Middle East by Sufi Baba Budan…
Coffee had spread to Italy by 1600 and then to the rest of Europe
My point was more about how coffee got to England, though, and going through Spain works too.
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I like glebekitchen.com for such things. Y’all really ought to make some hotel gravy.
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Mix it up with something Scottish, like Chicken Tikka Masala.
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Deep fried tikka masala
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Wrapped in bacon.
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shoved into a sheep’s stomach.
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That is a pretty intimidating piece of naan. Not gonna lie. But it looks delicious.
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Hmm. I feel as if Randall made a mistake because I’m pretty certain that there’s one too many nas for Katamari Damacy.
There’s also a missed opportunity that Journey’s na-ful hit song Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ wasn’t included in there.
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And it was exported too!
[Japanese-style curry and rice | Let’s Cook Japanese | NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN]
Don´t you forget the tea…
[The true story behind England’s tea obsession - BBC Travel]
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http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/bradley_adam/History.htm
500 years ago, Incan villagers tilled the land in the Andes Mountains in South America. Potatoes were a staple of the Incan diet, but were unknown outside of the Andes until Francisco Pizarro of Spain traveled to South America in 1531.
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Including a staple in many curries – tomatoes.
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