Why did they bother to breed it? It was such a bad plant for so many centuries!
So, I am probably crossing some streams here and getting some facts wrong, so just keep that in mind, but I recall hearing somewhere that the origin of the chicken as a farm animal is that an ancestor of the chicken and some kind of corn-like plant got themselves into an evolutionary arms race. The plant reproduced by spreading kernels around itself, and the chickens, naturally, went "hey, free food". The plants responded by developing a longer cycle between kernel drops, and the chickens responded by developing a reflex where they didn't even bother producing eggs until they'd gorged themselves on these particular seeds. Humans came along, went "hmmm," as humans do, and tried seeing what happened if they rounded up a bunch of chickens and dumped various grains on them. It turned out that they could keep the chickens in the berserk estrous state all year long, which resulted in bonus protein in the form of extra eggs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the origin of corn as a farm grain were somewhere along the lines of "it's what makes the chickens lay eggs, so we ought to make sure there's plenty of it", which eventually led to human consumption.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the origin of corn as a farm grain were somewhere along the lines of "it's what makes the chickens lay eggs, so we ought to make sure there's plenty of it", which eventually led to human consumption.
Yet sadly not to humans laying abundant delicious, nutritious eggs.
If humans laid eggs, would eating one be cannibalism?
That depends - is swallowing ejaculate cannibalism?
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Well, I'm sure we all agree here that life begins at conception. So I guess it really depends on whether or not humans are capable of laying unfertilized eggs.
Well, I'm sure we all agree here that life begins at conception. So I guess it really depends on whether or not humans are capable of laying unfertilized eggs.
His name means Big Chickens!
remember THAT! (I will)
What? No, it's Father of Chicken. At least literally. It's more like "Poulterer."
my source on this is Maltese born and raised, but I might just have misremembered. Or he was playing fast and loose with the translation for maximum humor,
Despite the question mark/colon combo, it is an extremely readable microhistory that will teach you a lot about Southeast Asia and also about this weird stupid flightless bird that we like to eat so much of.
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Despite the question mark/colon combo, it is an extremely readable microhistory that will teach you a lot about Southeast Asia and also about this weird stupid flightless bird that we like to eat so much of.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's my Dad's christmas present sorted
His name means Big Chickens!
remember THAT! (I will)
What? No, it's Father of Chicken. At least literally. It's more like "Poulterer."
my source on this is Maltese born and raised, but I might just have misremembered. Or he was playing fast and loose with the translation for maximum humor,
Grrr. The last time I looked this up, this link worked, but now it looks like it's paywalled. And just searching for it gives me a whole bunch of stuff about Chik-Fil-A, which, of course.
I did save this quote, though: "Surnames related to kunyah names with zoological connotations include: Buttigieg (< Abū l-Dağāğ(ī), comprising dağāğ [or diğāğ, duğāğ ] meaning ‘chickens’, ‘domestic fowls’, hencereferring to a thriving poulterer)"
It makes sense. Abu x literally means father of x, but it's often used idiomatically to say that the person is known for x.
Here's a video about that phenomenon works in Lebanon, at least. Relevant bit at 1:45.
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (alternatively Saint Teresa in Ecstasy or Transverberation of Saint Teresa; in Italian: L'Estasi di Santa Teresa or Santa Teresa in estasi) is the central sculptural group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. It was designed and completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his day, who also designed the setting of the Chapel in marble, stucco and paint. It is generally considered to be one of the sculptural masterpieces of the High Roman Baroque. It depicts Teresa of Ávila.
I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.
And the people did seek to kink shame Teresa, but there came a sound as of a great tearing of the heavens. And the voice of GOD spoke unto them, saying "Thou shalt not yuck the yum of another, else thou be without yums thyself." And the people thought upon their own yums, and their gaze was downcast, and dust was in their throats.
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I'm too lazy to go find it now, but there's some interesting writing out there about how extremely sexual a lot of female catholic-y writing was for a certain era there. There's a lot of very fervent descriptions of christly love that sounds like, well, mostly like descriptions of wet dreams. Especially like nuns with vows of chastity who instead develop this rather involved sexual vocabulary all centered around Jesus Christ.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I'm too lazy to go find it now, but there's some interesting writing out there about how extremely sexual a lot of female catholic-y writing was for a certain era there. There's a lot of very fervent descriptions of christly love that sounds like, well, mostly like descriptions of wet dreams. Especially like nuns with vows of chastity who instead develop this rather involved sexual vocabulary all centered around Jesus Christ.
Erotic fanfic is of all ages apparently. I need to study this further.
Sometimes fanfic is so good it becomes part of the canon, I wonder if this has happened in any of these instances.
Why did they bother to breed it? It was such a bad plant for so many centuries!
Was? It kind of still is.
Shit this thread disappeared from my view for a bit.
It's not really bad necessarily, it's just that the world (in particular the US) has decided to make corn _the_ crop. We feed it to animals and ourselves because it's one of the most nutrient dense grasses we have access to.
Humans have done to corn what we've done to rice, barley, oats, rye, wheat, etc. Corn was just the most successful of those genetic modifications we've done. You probably don't want to subsist off nothing but corn, or put it in every single food you have, but cereal grains are one of the reasons for the success of human civilization right up there with fire, dogs, and antibiotics. In terms of success of our species, corn itself has played a huge role.
Obviously if you want to make it past 40 you probably don't want to eat it the way we currently do, but making it past 40 wasn't a huge concern when the main issue humans struggled with for ~200,000 years was not dying because you couldn't find enough food for 17 days straight. Even then, in terms of nutrition it's not horrible, and the current sweet corns we eat today are not what we've always eaten. It's just not the best at any one particular thing, but it's a great crop for survival.
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His name means Big Chickens!
remember THAT! (I will)
but corn?
corn is forever
"... [the] ramosa mutations affect corn's architecture — such as whether it's one cob or a 'tree' of cobs"
from fangmeli's thread on twitter about some spooky scary bloodborne corn
Was? It kind of still is.
Oh, excellent. The expansion is out!
So, I am probably crossing some streams here and getting some facts wrong, so just keep that in mind, but I recall hearing somewhere that the origin of the chicken as a farm animal is that an ancestor of the chicken and some kind of corn-like plant got themselves into an evolutionary arms race. The plant reproduced by spreading kernels around itself, and the chickens, naturally, went "hey, free food". The plants responded by developing a longer cycle between kernel drops, and the chickens responded by developing a reflex where they didn't even bother producing eggs until they'd gorged themselves on these particular seeds. Humans came along, went "hmmm," as humans do, and tried seeing what happened if they rounded up a bunch of chickens and dumped various grains on them. It turned out that they could keep the chickens in the berserk estrous state all year long, which resulted in bonus protein in the form of extra eggs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the origin of corn as a farm grain were somewhere along the lines of "it's what makes the chickens lay eggs, so we ought to make sure there's plenty of it", which eventually led to human consumption.
In that case I'm gonna fall back to "it beat starving".
Yet sadly not to humans laying abundant delicious, nutritious eggs.
*screams*
This is horrifying on so many levels.
They look a bit like teeth in black and white.
That depends - is swallowing ejaculate cannibalism?
What? No, it's Father of Chicken. At least literally. It's more like "Poulterer."
Yep
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my source on this is Maltese born and raised, but I might just have misremembered. Or he was playing fast and loose with the translation for maximum humor,
Despite the question mark/colon combo, it is an extremely readable microhistory that will teach you a lot about Southeast Asia and also about this weird stupid flightless bird that we like to eat so much of.
I love those types of book. I devoured Salt.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's my Dad's christmas present sorted
Grrr. The last time I looked this up, this link worked, but now it looks like it's paywalled. And just searching for it gives me a whole bunch of stuff about Chik-Fil-A, which, of course.
I did save this quote, though: "Surnames related to kunyah names with zoological connotations include: Buttigieg (< Abū l-Dağāğ(ī), comprising dağāğ [or diğāğ, duğāğ ] meaning ‘chickens’, ‘domestic fowls’, hencereferring to a thriving poulterer)"
It makes sense. Abu x literally means father of x, but it's often used idiomatically to say that the person is known for x.
Here's a video about that phenomenon works in Lebanon, at least. Relevant bit at 1:45.
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I DIDN'T SEE THESE I LOVE THIS BIRB
and all birbs
BUT THIS BIRB IS AMAZING
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Erotic fanfic is of all ages apparently. I need to study this further.
Sometimes fanfic is so good it becomes part of the canon, I wonder if this has happened in any of these instances.
It's like whack-a-mole, except the mole is into it.
Shit this thread disappeared from my view for a bit.
It's not really bad necessarily, it's just that the world (in particular the US) has decided to make corn _the_ crop. We feed it to animals and ourselves because it's one of the most nutrient dense grasses we have access to.
Humans have done to corn what we've done to rice, barley, oats, rye, wheat, etc. Corn was just the most successful of those genetic modifications we've done. You probably don't want to subsist off nothing but corn, or put it in every single food you have, but cereal grains are one of the reasons for the success of human civilization right up there with fire, dogs, and antibiotics. In terms of success of our species, corn itself has played a huge role.
Obviously if you want to make it past 40 you probably don't want to eat it the way we currently do, but making it past 40 wasn't a huge concern when the main issue humans struggled with for ~200,000 years was not dying because you couldn't find enough food for 17 days straight. Even then, in terms of nutrition it's not horrible, and the current sweet corns we eat today are not what we've always eaten. It's just not the best at any one particular thing, but it's a great crop for survival.