The Dutch haven't always been a calm and moderate people.....

[betty swollocks]

......in 1672, they ate their prime minister.

 

[Cycleops]

They're much more laid back since they opened their happy baccy cafes and got into the porn industry.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

......in 1672, they ate their prime minister.

Did they end up Wittless?

 

[betty swollocks]

Did they end up Wittless?

So it seems.

 

[Globalti]

Few people realise that for 100 years England and Holland were deadly enemies fighting for the control of the spices, mostly nutmeg, that came from the East Indies. In the end we came to terms with Holland; we got a small island called Manhattan and they got what later became Indonesia but we pushed them out of their service station in a place called Capstaad, or Cape Town. Even today lots of important spices and essential oils especially the very valuable patchouli oil come from Indonesia.

There's a book about it called Nathaniel's Nutmeg: https://www.amazon.com/Nathaniels-Nutmeg-Incredible-Adventures-Changed/dp/0140292608

 

[Tin Pot]

......in 1672, they ate their prime minister.

Hmm. I’m not sure they did.

The only source I can find is a respected biographer, but it doesn’t say what his source is for this. Herbert Rowen’s 1978 John de Witt,

What’s not disputed is that the mob that attacked him and his brother were brutal, mutilated them and hung their bodies up. Which is bad enough I suppose.

It’s not like they turned up with condiments and cutlery.

 

[Drago]

Compared to The Danes The Dutch are a bunch or slavering, violent, light fingered loons...

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

So Carlsberg is a better antidote to crime than dope!