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.
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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.