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Turtle meat – the ultimate survival diet?
- staticautomatic 8y agoI like turtles.
- staticautomatic 8y agoYou guys really need to lighten up.
- trixie_ 8y agoIt's a community effort to keep this site from devolving into a sea of zero substance comments. The comment quality here is something that really separates HN from the rest.
- throwaway180118 8y agoNever make jokes on the internet.
- jamesgagan 8y agoI guess if I was stuck on a raft at sea and starving I would eat a sea turtle, but nearly all species of sea turtle are now endangered because of humans. https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sea-turtle https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sea-turtle
- dluan 8y agoDarwin ate all of them.
- dluan 8y agoI guess I have to explain the joke: https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-did-charles-darwin-put-in-his-mouth-pretty-much-e-1687788345 https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-did-charles-darwin-put-in-his-m... He famously had 30+ galapagos tortoises on the HMS beagle but he and the crew ate all of them before they got back because they were so delicious.
- tootie 8y agoTurtle isn't that rare a thing to eat. They taste pretty good. You can even eat the shell if you boil it long enough.
- dmix 8y agoIs it me or is there no left padding on this article and the page is entirely responsive when you expand... maybe a new BBC update that went wrong?
- yesenadam 8y agoI watched Cannibal Holocaust not long ago. Actually a pretty good movie, not dumb. The very first 'found footage' movie apparently. Features anthropologists behaving badly and later being torn apart and eaten by the natives. The director was charged with the actors' murders, but it turned out they'd just signed a deal to disappear for a year after filming. Brilliant marketing I guess. I mention that because it features an extremely graphic and lengthy sequence of a turtle being killed, shell removed, cut open etc. Very colourful insides, you can almost smell it. I felt sick from that point on.. [I watched the director's cut]
- germinalphrase 8y agoThe turtle scene was also, obviously, controversial for killing an actual turtle rather than faking it. Lots of people didn’t like that at the time.
- hyperpallium 8y agoShip wrecked by orcas, really? Wiki doesn't mention any https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#%22Killer%22_stereotype https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#%22Killer%22_stereot... Couldn't find any other reports of this happening. Youtube has some videos of other whales but not orcas. Low fat is a problem, because we need it or "rabbit starvation" - rabbit meat is only 8.3% fat https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning. Nutritionalist picks one food, mushrooms... which have very low calories. Great for weight loss, not great for survival. Potatoes are surprisingly good; high calories, they even have vitamin C. Easy to grow (not in a dingy of course). The favoured survival food of the stranded Martian.
- anttisalmela 8y agoWikipedia does mention the incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale_attack#1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale_attack#1970s
- except_not 8y agoHonestly, much of HN’s contents seem really mediocre anymore. I haven’t read a good HN comment in a great long while. Things don’t happen on HN very much, and I think a period has drawn to a close. I’m not sure what the turning point was though. I’ll have to think about it. Perhaps, the 2016 elections, when a whole lot of things tipped in a bad direction... But that’s too obvious, and cross cutting. Something else.
- purplezooey 8y agoAs if survival weren't enough of a hurdle You have to get by on the blood of a turtle