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Garlic mustard used 6000 years ago.

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23-08-2013 10:26pm

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23769911

Europeans had a taste for spicy food at least 6,000 years ago, it seems.

Researchers found evidence for garlic mustard in the residues left on ancient pottery shards discovered in what is now Denmark and Germany.

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#2 26-08-2013 10:00am
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Colour me impressed!

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#3 26-08-2013 10:02am
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Wow, Germans in mustard shocker !!

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