Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale...
by atomicnumber3 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:44AM
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I suspect that a lot of our tolerance of this stuff in prehistory stems from a combination of:
- spices and seasoning was a lot less common and meat was gamey, not the well-fattened meats we're used to. So this stuff already tasted bland and not amazing as a baseline
- it was preferable to starving, and hunger is the best spice of them all
- spices and seasoning was a lot less common and meat was gamey, not the well-fattened meats we're used to. So this stuff already tasted bland and not amazing as a baseline
- it was preferable to starving, and hunger is the best spice of them all