Hi Barry, good to hear from you
Unusually I did have spicy food as a youngster, when most other British kids were having Windsor soup followed by meat and two veg. British food has changed phenomenally, for the better, since I was young. My Grandfather had served with the British Army in India and Afghanistan and brought home with him a taste for exotic food. I remember going with him to Bradford in Yorkshire, where there is a large Asian community, to buy spices. The best part was that my Grandmother would cook the curries but never ate any herself. She was a wee church of Scotland Scott and anything exotic was frowned upon.
Going thru my Grandfather's service record, his campaign medals and diaries, is an interesting exercise in history repeating itself and us not learning lessons from the past, the two most noticeable postings, other than his active service in the Somme, were the North West Frontier in Afghanistan and as Provost in Palestine.
