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Kincaid microfiction "Goodbye"
g33k:
--- Quote from: Arjan on May 05, 2020, 08:01:11 PM --- ... I do not eat cockroaches.
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I'm pretty sure you do.
You may not intend to, you may not include them, or eat anything that lists them... but you do. The number of foodstuffs with cockroach-bodypart "accidental inclusion" is ... rather startling.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Arjan on May 05, 2020, 11:20:32 AM --- In both cases I would err on the safe side and sacrifice a goat to the spirit of my dead mother. You never know.
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In BOTH cases?
Apples AND oranges?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 05, 2020, 09:42:47 PM --- I thought usually when there is sacrifice the carcass is tossed in the fire and burned for the god to whom it is being offered..
What you describe is simple butchering...
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Most sacrifices were eaten. Some were not but that was an exception.
That was the economic meaning of the centralization of worship in Jerusalem in the Judaic kingdom, a monopoly on the slaughter of animals by the priesthood in Jerusalem. That is the meaning of trans substantiation in the catholic mass. The host changes in the body of Christ that was sacrificed and you eat it.
Cows sacrificed to the gods in Homer were eaten as were the humans the Aztecs sacrificed.
The Greeks had a mythological explanation for ythis but it was universal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_at_Mecone
Sacrificial meat was common in antiquity and early Christians had to be told not to eat it.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 06, 2020, 01:21:59 AM ---I'm pretty sure you do.
You may not intend to, you may not include them, or eat anything that lists them... but you do. The number of foodstuffs with cockroach-bodypart "accidental inclusion" is ... rather startling.
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But they are not the main part of the dish, the part we taste and live on.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 06, 2020, 01:22:53 AM ---In BOTH cases?
Apples AND oranges?
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You can eat both.
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