Don't believe what you've read, Rob - "Vindaloo" was originally a folk song heard by English troops being sung by an Indian mercenary soldier at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The soldier's command of English wasn't very good and he misheard Waterloo as Vindaloo - it's a common mistake. When the Napoleonic Wars were over, he stayed with his English comrades and opened a curry house in Nine Elms. His descendants taught the song to Fat Les.

I'll get me shako...