[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, freshwater fish apart from predatory fish have never been on the menu in the UK, top feeding fish like trout or pike but never tench, bream or subsequent to the Romans, carp. The BBC article relates to one site and even there is a possibility that the aversion to fish was due to fecal contamination causing illness. In East Anglia scales from sea fish were common however apart from trout other local fish was not present in middens.

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Celts lived in houses built on piers, eating the fish you were shitting on would wipe out your tribe due to cholera and dysentry, they imported their water from local springs. They ate locally caught seafood but not freshwater fish. Carp were introduced by the Romans however the Romans had a means to wash the fish prior to consumption. There was no need to eat something possibly detrimental due to a lack of population pressure, the Romans washed carp in fresh water for a period of days prior to consumption, the Celts didn't simply because they didn't have to.

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Spam croquettes!

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Trendies, hipster chicken?

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Snap! Can't even put a new one in....

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The O's are I's! Fiid? Feyeeyed?

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 65 points 6 months ago

There were no monkeys when dinosaurs existed, also more time elapsed between the stegosaurus in the back existing and the t rex and triceratops than between them and us.

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I wonder if there isn't a stable chamber shape that promotes turbulence in a controlled manner in order to prevent it getting out of hand? A little bit like the dimples on a golf ball create micro pockets of turbulence promoting laminar flow.

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The son is going to inherit the company, he's clearly terrified and going to piss the whole thing up the wall within five years of being given the reins.

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I probably got a pretty decent dose of lead due to licking my brushes in the eighties, little sets of paints in lead tubes.

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It's not really sitting though is it...

[-] Maco1969@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I would imagine that at some point we went from highways agency signage that was made to a standard to outsourcing to the cheapest bidder. There is also a possibility that signs can't be too rigid so they don't cut vehicles in half?

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