Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: Veritas: Other person: Here, try this!
Me: What is it?
Other person: Never mind, just TRY it...

So long as it's not human anyone I know, who cares?

FTFY

ladyfortuna: rynthetyn:
//parents are both Pennsylvania Dutch

This thread is making me glad my PD ancestors moved the heck on to Indiana by the Civil War era... boring cooking = no scary surprises

It's only scary if you're not used to eating it. If you've been eating it since you were a kid, it's normal.

In any case, I'm thankful that I was introduced to a variety of less common food items at a young age, it's one of the reasons why I'm a lot more comfortable with eating in foreign countries than most people I know. When what you're being served isn't all that different than the sort of food you were introduced to early, it's a lot harder to get grossed out.

XveryYpettyZ: Listerine: and heart disease was lower then than it is today...

interesting....

Heart disease and cancer only kill you if getting caught in the mill works, falling down an elevator shaft or being trampled by a horse and buggy don't get you first.

In a real sense, living long enough to die from heart disease or cancer is a testimony the greatness of our civilization.

/If you ignore the fact that people in other places live long and find other things to die of
//But the point stands: it's not that heart disease wouldn't have killed them, if typhoid and smallpox hadn't first.

Yeah, we don't really know what kind of genetic illnesses there are on my dad's side of the family because my great grandfather died young when a stack of feed sacks fell over on him at a grain mill in the 1920s, and his father before him died young too, we don't know what of.

Only reason we know there's a family history of heart disease on my mom's side of the family is because my grandfather and great grandfather managed to live long enough to get it. My great great grandfather died before the age of 30 because he was a carpenter/undertaker and died from something he caught from a corpse, while around the same time his brother was killed in the Civil War.

/Yeah, I'm under 30 and my great-great grandfather's brother was killed in the Civil War
//Was always jealous of those kids who knew their great and great-great grandparents

medius: rynthetyn: died from something he caught from a corpse

that's why i never fark with those things

Well, it was the 1860s, you could die from pretty much anything.

Oldiron_79: WWI is 20th century not 19th, MORAN. If you want a 19th century military tyrant you are probably gonna have to go with Napoleon.

The last German Kaiser (Wilhelm II) started his reign in 1888 and ended it with the end or WWI, in 1918.