justcallmejoe wrote:
I'm betting that you'd discover how wrong you are after not eating for a week. I know a lot of people that used to love deer until their garden and winter provisions were decimated.
You know someone in modern life who wasn't able to eat for like a week? I've had some excessively-low calorie situations on mountaineering trips gone south, but never full-up starvation.
I just happen to be reading a non-fiction book about some American sailors (early 1800s) who shipwrecked on the coast of Africa and got made slaves of nomadic Arabs who found them. The highlights of the their day are when a camel urinates so they can cups their hands under the stream and get some liquid (it was better than their own urine, which they were already drinking). Best feast was when a lame camel was slaughtered, and they could cup their hands under the neck artery that was cut and drink up. Apparently the goo in the camel hump is absolutely fantastic too.