I recall some documentary on Vikings that said they seasoned their food with reindeer droppings. Can’t find anything about this because searching turns up some kind of confection called Reindeer Poop instead of real info.
There is also a known medical treatment using Koala Bear excrement developed at Mercy Hospital. The droppings are steeped in hot water which is then consumed directly with chunks of the solid material still floating in the brew. It is done this way traditionally because… the Koala Tea of Mercy is not strained.
My guess? People ate some vegetables or fruits right off the plant without washing them and got high from it, and wondered what was causing it and discovered that the location coincided with wherever the reindeer were marking their territory.
The dark part of the “vein” is literally shrimp poop. So you eat shrimp poop and you’re providing a good answer to the OP.
So again, for the OP, the answer is yes, GaryM is the human eating excrement.
(I assume GaryM is human.)
And an obligatory note, according to Uncle Cecil that vein is safe to eat if the shrimp is cooked properly. Shrimp are scavengers and their poop is mostly dirt with some decaying vegetable and animal bits (so kind of like human poop if humans ate lots of dirt along with our food). But at least if it’s cooked right then the bacteria is dead and you won’t get sick.
There was a riveting documentary released called “Ace Venture; Pet Detective” in it, he eats a dish of “bat guano” which the tribesman said was bat droppings…how accurate was that documentary?
