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To: Texan5

If it were that horrible, it wouldn’t have been popular for at least 7500 years, eh?

It’s all about food availability — fermenting was a method of food preservation (still is), as is salt, heat, etc. Been around for a long, long time.


22 posted on 02/09/2016 2:36:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It certainly makes sense. Image a salmon run. The rivers and streams are quiet all year round, and then one day, BAM—you could almost walk on the fish all the way across a river. People, bears, wolves, eagles, crows and ravens all descend on the waterways to eat until they drop.

In a few weeks, the rivers are empty again.

Be a shame just to let it all rot where the critters can get to it? Why not put it all in pits that can be guarded and uncovered as people needed to eat for the rest of the year?

And rotted fish taste better than nothing at all.


23 posted on 02/09/2016 3:20:37 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: SunkenCiv

MrT5 was fond of kimchee as well as that Thai fish sauce stuff-but unless I were starving, I’d have opted for something-anything-but fish sauce or kimchee. I’m not squeamish about most food-I will eat brains and eggs, grilled rattlesnake, etc, but my liking for the fermented pretty much stops at sourdough bread and adult beverages...


24 posted on 02/09/2016 3:24:58 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SunkenCiv
If it were that horrible, it wouldn’t have been popular for at least 7500 years, eh?

It is when starvation is the alternative.

I have eaten some rather nasty tasting/smelling things when I was hungry. Or a guest.

28 posted on 02/09/2016 3:44:51 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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