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Chilies are popular around the world for exactly this reason, that you can take cheap ingredients and, with some chilies, create an appetising meal.

Because Britain lacks a (good) cuisine of its own, we tend to eat exclusively the food of other countries, and those dishes are often spicy.

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> Britain lacks a (good) cuisine of its own

Comrade Orwell wrote a valiant little essay trying to fight that idea.

Plucky fellow.

(e.g. http://orwell.ru/library/articles/cooking/english/e_dec )