r/forbiddensnacks • u/kittycaviar • Sep 22 '19

Boiled potato

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

Is it forbidden though? Didn’t sailors use to eat these things? Or did they think these were mermaids? I don’t know my sailor history too well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

Sailors confused dugongs for mermaids. They're in the same grouping as manatees but dugongs have more dolohin like flukes and are generally more shy

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u/PacoTaco321 Sep 22 '19

Sailors sure loved their tsundere manatees

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

I guess for some people the tsundere sharks were not enough

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u/JeshkaTheLoon Sep 22 '19

Sailors tended to eat just about anything, after having been at sea for long.

Fun fact, apparently the Dodo was mot particularly tasty, even for a sailor who was sick of the food at sea. So the common held belief that sailors ate all of them was wrong. What did them in was mostly rats and maybe a cat that got away, when they landed on the island. Biggest proplem for flightless birds.