This is all fascinating. Yeah, the island being basically an arms length around the volcano, would get it absolutely fucking blasted during an eruption lol
Btw, according to Wikipedia citations, the book on Minoan colonialism (one of the three sources confirming the settling of the island around 1300bc), was published on 1981.
So no, as cool as it would have been to have had a recent archeological discovery, this case was either a big lack of interest by the writers of the school books, or maybe just a touch of sanitization of history. It’s been done a lot to our school books. (Or maybe my memory didn’t catch a one-sentence note somewhere about “spreading to the Aegean sea”. It’s been many years after all)
We thank the Minoan tiddy for bringing us this history lesson today.
Praise be! And it’s cool af you grew up in Crete; quite jealous. I’d bear them breasts if it was my heritage! (My heritage is scrapple, it’s not quite as sexy - and definitely more greasy)
Though we absolutely should reconnect with that part of our heritage!
And you! You should absolutely be proud of your heritage! Your “mush of fried pork scraps and trimmings”(Wikipedia’s words, not mine) may not be “free-tiddy traditional garments” but…
I actually bet there’s some real interesting stories around this kind of traditional, basically “make food out of what we have” kind of meal. Like our “horta”, being what kept people alive during the various famines and imprisonments, during German occupation.
This is all fascinating. Yeah, the island being basically an arms length around the volcano, would get it absolutely fucking blasted during an eruption lol
Btw, according to Wikipedia citations, the book on Minoan colonialism (one of the three sources confirming the settling of the island around 1300bc), was published on 1981.
So no, as cool as it would have been to have had a recent archeological discovery, this case was either a big lack of interest by the writers of the school books, or maybe just a touch of sanitization of history. It’s been done a lot to our school books. (Or maybe my memory didn’t catch a one-sentence note somewhere about “spreading to the Aegean sea”. It’s been many years after all)
We thank the Minoan tiddy for bringing us this history lesson today.
Praise be! And it’s cool af you grew up in Crete; quite jealous. I’d bear them breasts if it was my heritage! (My heritage is scrapple, it’s not quite as sexy - and definitely more greasy)
Alas, we have not kept this part of our roots 😔
Though we absolutely should reconnect with that part of our heritage!
And you! You should absolutely be proud of your heritage! Your “mush of fried pork scraps and trimmings”(Wikipedia’s words, not mine) may not be “free-tiddy traditional garments” but…
I actually bet there’s some real interesting stories around this kind of traditional, basically “make food out of what we have” kind of meal. Like our “horta”, being what kept people alive during the various famines and imprisonments, during German occupation.
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