See I miss when I thought this was some weird quirky future thing that Futurama made up, but no, why the fuck would anyone think it was a good idea to eat million year old dead people?
At least they were eating the least scary version of the dead. It's a lot loss frightening when the zombie you're consuming decides to stand up, but is covered from head to toe in toilet paper. Like, come on.
20 Comments
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 2y
They also used them as paint. Mummy brown was a specific shade.
The claim that they were used in train boilers is, however, a hoax perpetrated by none other than Mark Twain.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
It was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.
Anticorp@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
That seems like a ton of extra work and disregard for the dead, just to replace something as simple as manure, which was available in great abundance.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
At least they took recycling seriously! ;)
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
What the actual fuck. This is insane.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
We're just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 81 pts · 2y
Im14abeer@midwest.social · 31 pts · 2y
He's teriyaki style!
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Huh, well now I get this joke.
Mchugho@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 2y
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y
Naughty slutty mummy
HerbalGamer@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
_number8_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
perhaps these were the business secrets of the pharaohs
tetraodon@feddit.it · 41 pts · 2y
Platform27@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 2y
Redistributing the wealth!
Rayspekt@kbin.social · 35 pts · 2y
I can totally imagine some rich dudes back in the day goin' all "acquired taste" over mummies.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
This is one of those times when I want to grab everyone involved by the collar, shake them violently, and demand to know what they were thinking.
theostermanweekend@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
Didn't they also make a weirdly specific paint color from mummies?
CazzoBuco@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Serdan@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
People are wild. 😂
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 10 pts · 2y
Sometimes, though, it involved a lot more planning
HawlSera@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
See I miss when I thought this was some weird quirky future thing that Futurama made up, but no, why the fuck would anyone think it was a good idea to eat million year old dead people?
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
At least they were eating the least scary version of the dead. It's a lot loss frightening when the zombie you're consuming decides to stand up, but is covered from head to toe in toilet paper. Like, come on.
Dizzar@iusearchlinux.fyi · 4 pts · 2y
Yummy!