Bizarre Victorian fact of the day…
When he was at Cambridge University Charles Darwin was a member of the ‘Glutton Club’. The club’s sole activity was eating animals not found in everyday cuisine - hawks and owls were regularly on the menu. On his scientific expeditions Darwin carried on this tradition eating a wide selection of exotic animals including armadillos, iguanas and giant tortoises.
Ugh.
There’s something very strange to me, about eating animals such as hawks and owls… something… wrong.
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There’s something very strange to me, about eating animals such as hawks and owls… something… wrong.
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Reminds me of the story “Sunbird” by Neil Gaiman.
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