This comes from a fruitful comics editor I just discovered.
My mother grew up in an America that was grappling with the great depression and remembers how lucky she was that her father had a government job even though it meant she was spending each semester in a different school as they moved around the country.
She recalled kids that would get some bread and ketchup if they were lucky and would dig up worms for their sandwiches to supplement their diets.
She recalled being “beaten blue and lumpy” for sharing her sandwich with a black girl she made friends with. Her mother was furious and her father “didn’t have the heart to keep fighting with her (my grandmother)”
There was a time when we expected poor kids to eat worms and be grateful for a condiment to go with it.
Plenty of our inheritor class would be perfectly happy to go back to that time. We are just not that far from eating worms we calw up from the dirt. It could be one financial collapse away for any of us.
I feel ya.
I find that one thing we naked apes consistently forget is just who we are, and where we come from. I mean, humans (genus Homo) have been around for ~2.5Myrs now, and even before then, were almost undoubtedly eating annelids and all kinds of other useful protein-rich sources to supplement their diet.
Civilisation and its briefly-passing, tight-ass norms of the day is one of the weirdest fooking things ever in terms of total human history.
@fauxpseudo@lemmy.world,
I feel like you’ve probably grappled with this stuff via the number of podcasts and history you consume?There are cultures that use them for medicine, some are considered a delicacy. But mostly it’s a source of protein.
In my experience, you have to let them soak for 24 hours and clean water and you need to heat dry them to kill any pathogens. Because pathogens love worms. This is the reason you should never ever eat lettuce grown in Hawaii.
I found this article on the topic that gets very specific about what countries and why.
What editor?
Also could you share the original?
What editor?
otiscribblecotis (from the title)
Also could you share the original?
Geez, it could be so many of them. I don’t have a clue, frankly. You…?
Lol! I didn’t realize that was a software name. That’s honestly a terrible name for an editor.
No worries! Just asking
This is good.
