A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat

Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by dendrite9 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:17PM (#35364625)

There's also kiviaq: "a dish made by packing 300 to 500 whole dovekies—beaks, feathers, and all—into the hollowed-out carcass of a seal, snitching it up and sealing it with fat, then burying it under rocks for a few months to ferment. Once it’s dug up and opened, people skin and eat the birds one at a time."

Here is one of the articles I found that wasn't too focused on how gross it is that these people eat this and instead digs into the history and purpose of the food. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-kiviaq

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by eternalban on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:31PM (#35364789)

am ~ashamed that that description immediately made me wonder how gross it must be :}

https://modernfarmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/fermente...

But seriously, the extraordinary power of hunger and culture are on full display with the items discussed in this thread.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by dendrite9 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:13PM (#35365269)

Don't be! I think that's a completely normal response to something like this. But you aren't writing about it. And I think why and how it became a thing is far more interesting than just "Look at this gross food. And here is why it is gross"

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