Not necessarily licking (I mean, if you do it enough…), but this is a thing
Cool story with interesting social, cultural, and scientific interactions.
It may have been discredited outside of simple iron deficiency since I last read about it, but dietary studies on humans are notoriously difficult to do.
i was in middle school and went to olive garden with my parents. the waiter had one of those voices that…you know, that men in the gay community normally have....
That they would be reserved for nobility seems like it must be wrong. These are tiny animals that wouldn’t take much effort to raise. A small family could easily eat one. Just grab a pair and start raising them.
It’s not like a cow where you need large amounts of grazing land and then when you kill it, you have huge amounts of meat to deal with.
This is why animals in English have three names. One for the animal, raised by the commoners with Germanic origin (cow). One for the meat, eaten by the wealthy with French origin due to the Norman conquest (beef). And one used in scientific contexts coming from Greek or Latin (bovine)
It’s surely not any different than a squirrel, ground hog, or wild rabbit. People eat those all the time. Even meat rabbits seem comparable in size to a guinea pig. You can also just put them in a stew.
Also, as I mentioned, larger animals are also more difficult because you can’t just kill one for dinner. If you kill a deer, you have to process it to preserve it or share it with a larger community. Ain’t no freezers.
Side anecdote: My grandfather, as a 9 year old, used to go squirrel hunting and bring them home for his mom to cook. Before you go thinking this is some redneck thing, it was long island, less than 50 miles from Manhattan. It would have been during the war though.
If you stroll through the real or virtual aisles of a Japanese store, you might find Kit Kats in flavors like salt lemon, caramel pudding, whole grain biscuit, melon, and milk tea. Good luck finding those at Target or Walmart in the US....
Can licking an iron bar get you the daily recommended amount of iron?
How many licks would it take? Can the iron in bars even be processed by the body? Can you do this for other minerals?
What nicknames have you been given?
Shower thought … if the government is truly listening to us all 24/7, what nicknames would they give you?...
It's getting to be soup season. What are your favorite soups?
It’s split pea or ham and potato for me....
It's Soupy Season! (i.postimg.cc)
Enjoy it while it lasts… Climate change will ruin soup season within the decade. 🚫🍜4️⃣😔
"Is He Friendly?" by The Other End Comics (lemmy.world)
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What was the cringiest moment of your life?
i was in middle school and went to olive garden with my parents. the waiter had one of those voices that…you know, that men in the gay community normally have....
A bag could massacre a village (slrpnk.net)
At Safeway right now, it's Halloween up to aisle 13 and Christmas from there on. (lemmy.world)
Guinea Pig for sale at the local market (i.imgur.com)
Order Number: 497 - Total: $4.97 (lemmy.world)
Kit Kat’s coolest flavors aren’t sold in the US. Here’s why (www.cnn.com)
If you stroll through the real or virtual aisles of a Japanese store, you might find Kit Kats in flavors like salt lemon, caramel pudding, whole grain biscuit, melon, and milk tea. Good luck finding those at Target or Walmart in the US....
How geologists collect lava (i.imgur.com)