They become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it

The predilection of Europeans for Indian ideas went beyond the co-opting of knowledge. Most remarkably of all is that, when captured on the northern frontier of what was to become Maine, fr instance, the English preferred the Indian way if living .... Benjamin Franklin, fir one, was quite clear about this, writing in 1753:

when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho' ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail them to stay among the English, yet in a short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good opportunity of escaping again into the woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them.

J.H.C. King, Blood and Land: the story of native North America (2016), 183

Jewish refugees from Portugal and Spain ... introduced Britain to the street food that would become their national dish - fish fried in flour

We might think the great double act fish and chips is as British as Torvill and Dean, Morecambe and Wise or wind and rain. But in fact it was Jewish refugees from Portugal and Spain, arriving in the seventeenth century, who introduced Britain to the street food that would become their national dish - fish fried in flour. It was French and Belgian Huguenots, coming shortly afterwards, who introduced fried potatoes in the form of frites. What the British did was bring the two together. And what led to the duo becoming a legend was the Industrial Revolution.

V. Franklin and A. Johnson, Menus that made history (2019), 38