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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Maple sugar makes as much sense as mountain climbers carrying oodles of chocolate.

I can't think of hardtack without seeing the Tasting History guy clacking them together. He also covered stockfish, which is just hung out to dry in the sub-zero winds of Scandinavia, and has to be lightly coaxed toward edibility by beating it with a hammer. So I was surprised to find it recently at a local Afro-Caribbean grocery store. It makes sense, I guess? That is where those sailors were headed, for various unsavory purposes. But as a fan of fresh seafood it is fuckin' weird to have this stack of extremely dead fish sitting on the shelf beside the spices.