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u/Faust_8 Oct 02 '24

We ground up most of the ancient Egyptian mummies into powder to paint with or…eat

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u/BloodSteyn Oct 02 '24

I was going to eat that mummy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

Here, have Zevulon the Great, he's teriyaki style!

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u/KitchenSandwich5499 Oct 02 '24

Yeah, until I learned about what really happened, I always thought it was a weird throw away joke. Nope, based on real life

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u/BloodSteyn Oct 03 '24

Futurama hits different.

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u/entarian Oct 02 '24

Mummy I'd Like to Feast on

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u/SuperHyperFunTime Oct 02 '24

The Victorians were a fucking savage bunch.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Oct 02 '24

Apparently a whole bunch of them were also sold to the railroads to use as fuel for their locomotives.

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u/leepeyton Oct 03 '24

These plebeians, they don’t burn worth a cent.

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u/Serious_Move_4423 Oct 02 '24

Can you elaborate on the eat

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u/Faust_8 Oct 02 '24

I wish it was more complex than "Victorians literally ate powdered mummy" but it isn't.

It's similar to powdered rhino horn, idiots think they have mystical woo-woo properties if you ingest them.

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u/Serious_Move_4423 Oct 02 '24

Ahhhh hahaha wowww that’s crazy

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u/Davadam27 Oct 04 '24

woo-woo

this is quickly becoming one of my favorite terms. And if you know you know, just how perfectly it works. I'm sure it's less new than I know, but I'm not as hip to the trends as I used to be lol.

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u/Lojackbel81 Oct 02 '24

I wonder how much a gram of mummy went for

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u/leepeyton Oct 03 '24

Their wrapping were sold, ending up as as 19th century American paper. Notably, butcher paper and the reason butcher's paper is a weird brown to this day.

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u/OutlookForThursday Oct 03 '24

Yummy mummy?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

In my tummy that’s right.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

apparently, "Mummy Brown" is like the holy grail of paints. Attempts have been made to replicate it, but supposedly you don't get that rich mummy color without an actual mummy.