Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • lol … the story of invention of Worcestershire Sauce

    a bunch of guys were trying to recreate Oriental fish sauce in the UK … the thing they came up with was terrible so they put the barrel of the stuff in the basement and forgot about it

    They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce

    … the fun part of these stories is that this is all based on survivalship bias … these are all stories of foods that actually turned out. It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.



  • Always love the history of the invention of Cheese

    Some people thought it was a good idea to drink milk from a cow because they saw that babies drank from a mothers breast … why not the cow?

    Then a few hundred years of that, some guy kept a bunch of milk in a goat’s stomach they used as a storage bag … the milk curdled and turned into big solid chunks … hmmmm … might as well try to eat it … what could go wrong? that it might kill me!? hahahahahahaha !!!

    Few hundred years later, a bunch of Europeans kept cheese in a cave and it started to get affected with a mold giving it a series of blue streaks and spots … hey Hans, what happened to the cheese?don’t know, let’s feed to Gunther and see if it kills him











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    People who go to the store to buy things at the last minute on the busiest days of the year are the ones at fault for not being able to find or get the things they want.

    If you know a big holiday event is coming up … you should be buying things a week or two ahead of schedule to prepare for the day when things are going to happen.



  • My parents were born and raised in the wilderness and they thrived there most of the time. But they also reminded us that their lives were very precarious. Mom had an uncle that died as a child because he ate the wrong plant. Dad had a relative die of infection from cutting their hand with an axe. Both of them remember a period in the 1950s when they were children when a famine occurred in the wilderness when animals literally disappeared everywhere - it’s a natural phenomenon where animal populations rise and fall over periods of years or decades. The animals in the forest just disappear, birds migrate elsewhere and even fish stocks deplete. It’s not so much from overhunting, it’s just a cyclical thing that happens due to weather, environment, disease or other factors. When animals grow scarce in the wild due to natural cycles, people just starve. Dad had stories of seeing people boil hide moccasins to make a soup just to eat anything. Women became so frail they couldn’t produce breast milk anymore so they resorted to spoon feeding babies fish broth.

    So they were both always quick to mind me and my siblings … life is good today, no matter how bad you think it might be.