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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by exfatloss on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:44AM (#35358019)
The book The Fat of the Land by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson) describes how the Eskimos he lived with ate rotten fish all the time. It was a delicacy for them.

Kind of like we eat "rotten/spoiled" blue cheese and dry-aged beef.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by jojobas on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:15PM (#35365895)
Not just fish and not just Eskimo. Northern tribes rot whole deer, seal and even whale.
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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by exfatloss on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:41AM (#35373399)
Interesting.

But yea, it seems our digestive systems can adapt to it pretty well, given that we've been doing this since long before doctors were around. I suppose the acid kills all the bacteria in the rotten meat unless you're super weak immune wise.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by jojobas on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:44PM (#35379200)
Not just that, there are toxins lethal to "normal" humans (i.e. cadaverine) that one can adapt to by eating small amounts as a child. Chukchi babies would get ever more rotten bones to suck on (i.e. pacifiers) presumably for that purpose.
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