>>15890158Are you Black yourself? I can't think of any other reason to be so disingenuous about this. People in the British Isles used herbs and spices long before they began colonizing the New World. As trade routes and production sources became more developed, they acquired cheaper and easier access to a greater variety of herbs and spices. You can't use what you can't acquire.
My argument isn't that Anglo-Saxons were dousing every dish with peppers from the New World that they wouldn't have had access to or known about. It's that they were not ignorant of herbs and spices before observing niggers in the antebellum South. If slaves had access to all these 11 different herbs and spices, then that means massa did to, and there's no reason the assume that massa copied his slaves and not the other way around, unless you want to engage in some motivated reasoning. The spice trade didn't develop so that mammy could season her fried chicken on the plantation. It was developed because the people setting up these trans-continental trade networks wanted more access to spices.
