this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
145 points (100.0% liked)

History Memes

2061 readers
1252 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

  1. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.

  2. No fascism (including tankies/red fash), atrocity denial or apologia, etc.

  3. Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.

  4. Follow all Piefed.social rules.

  5. History referenced must be 20+ years old.

Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world

OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:

founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@piefed.social
Deceptichum@quokk.au
145
Won't find what you don't try! (media.piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historymemes@piefed.social
25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think that you're describing human evolution and missing the sheer scale at which people died learning what was safe to eat and what wasn't.

[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The trick is to wait until not eating the strange food would also kill you (starvation).

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, when you are starving, you will eat anything. Ask the first US settlers the first winter they ate things from the mud that look like big insects.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They probably also ate actual big insects, so....

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Imagine how hungry the first person was to eat a lobster? Nightmare demons.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The human evolutionary timescale with regards to cheese is nil