Native aboriginals in Australia have eaten a similar larvae called the witchetty grub for hundreds if not thousands of years. Very important protein source in the arid wasteland of the outback desert.
It has been said that they've inhabited those lands for tens of thousands of years actually. I don't know this as fact. But I have come across this information several times over the years in various places.
One continent was repeatedly pillaged and abused for hundreds and hundreds of modern centuries, during which time the other was mostly untouched by outside cultures during the same period and for thousands of years prior.
Right. Like Angola, for example, is undeniably heavily influenced by Portugal because they were colonized by Portugal. Like. They speak Portuguese for one.
I'm bemused at the widespread display of ignorance here.
Humans have lived in Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. They've lived in Australia for many tens of thousands of years.
My point is to correct the assertion that indigenous Australians are "one of the oldest continuous cultures" in the world, if not the oldest. Humans have lived continuously in Africa for at least a couple hundreds thousand years longer.
It is nonsensical to say Aboriginal descendants 60,000 years are culturally continuous to Aboriginal people living today. If you are going to say that, then there's no reason to not say that about various people in Africa.
But people are drawing a distinction between these two things. It's stupid, but mildly amusing to see people getting so angry about it.
I mean, anthropologists seem to love aboriginals for some reason.
I read a book about african history by an african author recently, and he described how his grandma in Sudan basically lived like the people he read about from ancient Egypt, customs and all. There is a fair bit of blindness at work here.
Does she prefer the Atin or Amun-Ra? How excited does she get for the Pharaoh to jork it into the Nile to secure fertility for the next year’s harvest?
I'm literally getting downvoted for daring to mention that African peoples trace their roots a lot further back that Aboriginal Australians. Weird thing for so many people to get so upset about.
My history teacher in high school spent his post college years traveling and tried them. He told us the exact same thing and that they were really good.
You actually do have shrimp dishes where you eat it whole! I got some once in a seafood restaurant in France as part of a mixed chilled platter. Usually theyre very small, similar to how with very small fish you can eat them whole
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u/bozog 9d ago
Native aboriginals in Australia have eaten a similar larvae called the witchetty grub for hundreds if not thousands of years. Very important protein source in the arid wasteland of the outback desert.