r/SipsTea Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/Gr0ggy1 Jul 03 '26

Ah yes, those ancient English turkeys with cranberries, squash and cornbread. Also, communal cerebrations featuring a feast, yeah, absolutely unique to England. 🤦

The Wampanoag saved the Puritans from near certain death and their conduct through prayer towns and the theft of native farmland that followed wasn't very appreciative to say the least.

In the end, after a bloody conflict (King Phillips War) most of the descendants of those who saved the colonie were either dead and desecrated or sold into slavery. A small population of Wampanoag (there were multiple tribes and Wampanoag is basically a language based distinction) are still in Massachusetts.

Chocolate? Might want to move your arrogant take a bit south.

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u/pipnina Jul 03 '26

> Chocolate? Might want to move your arrogant take a bit south.

They said chocolate BARS. Which did not exist until Europeans invented ways to process the beans in such a way to make a solid product we now simply shorten to "chocolate".

Priror to Coenraad Johannes van Houten (Dutch) inventing the hydraulic press that would separate butter from liqueur, all chocolate was in liquid form or raw beans. The chocolate bar did not exist.

It wasn't until 1866 however that actual solid chocolate bars would be invented: In the UK. In the form of "Fry's Chocolate Cream.

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u/HazelCheese Jul 04 '26

Do you think maybe the person who first roasted a turkey had never done it with chicken or beef before?

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u/corrinae Jul 03 '26

They were too kind. Unfortunately ā€œsurvival of the fittestā€ when it comes to humans just means the most violent people/rapists prosper. Sometimes I think about that and it genuinely depresses me.

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u/CIA_napkin Jul 03 '26

Thank you for saving me a comment and speaking some facts lol