How did the first colony in the united states resort to cannibalism when they could just fish?
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Henry Sullivan
The Virginia Company of London sent essentially noble men to Jamestown initially to trade with the locals. Things like fishing were far beneath them nor did they have the skills to do it or really anything related to survival. They've probably never peeled a potato in their life because they've always had maids and servants.
Thomas Wood
Even with that fact, wouldn't it make sense if they were to try fishing, or hunting before cannibalizing each other?
Joshua Reyes
With what? All their shit burned down. Hard to fish or hunt with probably a cast iron pot. They traded every useful thing they had to Indians for corn and shit and got ripped off.
Jason Gray
> noblemen not knowing how to fish
Literally the only thing they do all day, and hunt.
Justin Nelson
>its another "people with not experience, training or specialised equipment of any kind should just be able to do a specialised on an industrial scale at the drop of a hat" thread
Wyatt Morris
There's also a shit ton of crabs and oysters there. They were dumbass Brits.
Gavin Howard
>a shit ton of things that cause you to shit yourself to death if you dont know how to pick and prepare them correctly
Thomas Taylor
not in the 17th century knobjockey, only hunting
Adam Garcia
>take from water
>boil
wow so hard, they should've sent some professional boilers there instead
Aaron Edwards
For how long do you boil them? What do they look like when they're boiled enough and are safe? What do they look like when they're not boiled enough and are dangerous? Do you take them out of the shells? How do you take them out of the shells? What do healthy ones look like? What do diseased or dead ones look like? How do you help someone who eats a bad one?
Bentley Wilson
>i'm literally starving to death i am eating dead bodies but i'm kinda iffy about this "crab" thing so whatever
Ian Gutierrez
I don't know that shellfish were new to English people at the time.
Like, you follow the same basic rules for all of them.
Elijah Wilson
>I'm litterally starving to death, but I'm kinda iffy about this "thing" that I have no idea is actually edible and may cause me to die
Mason Thompson
Shellfish were nothing new. American shellfish that they had never encountered before and had litterally no idea how to handle because they had never enountered them? Not so much.
Asher Lopez
Shellfish all follow the same basic rules.
>don't kill it in any other way than boiling it in water
>keep that shit alive and in water until such time as you cook it, or it will instantly rot, because they're basically the fish equivalent of vultures and are infested with bacteria
>break open the shell and eat the squishy bits
t. spent a lot of my childhood in Maine
Isaac Brooks
>American shellfish that they had never encountered before
You mean, crabs and oysters and clams?
Ryan Walker
Good for you. And would you know any of that if you had spent a lot of your childhood in the middle of London, or a village in Warwickshire?
Different crabs, different oysters, different clams. They werent Americans yet so they didnt automatically fill their gaping maws with anything vaguely edible and then sue everyone around them once the sharting finally subsides.
Isaiah Lewis
Did Ratcliffe do nothing wrong?
Ian Sanders
So instead of eating crabs they decided to fill their gaping maws with dead people, which they must have a ton of experience in eating and preparing?
But then you said /int/ memes so I guess you are right.
Grayson Perry
>le other board bogeyman maymay
Yeah, shockingly, people resorted to cutting up meat they knew was edible and ate that, rather than attempting to do something they had no experience in doing, to catch a creature they werent sure was edible, after preparing it in a way they also may not have had any experience in.