I’ve pitted the eating of other people’s faces, but I never thought I’d temper that with, “but at least the victim was alive.” Yeesh. Sure, the Jamestown settlement was a long time ago, but the evidence has only now been uncovered. If the madness of hunger drove these people into a blameless state, then I pit that.
I suppose we could pit the drought of that time, or the general awful inhospitableness of the world. But if you can help it, folks, under whatever conditions, do please refrain from consuming the corpses.
Not that I’m specifically looking for recipes for killing and eating my wife, but on the off chance it does come up, what does it mean to “powder” a meat? Is it just a synonym for salting?
I’m guessing the OP slept through history class back in high school if he’s never heard of this kind of thing happening. Seriously dude, you’ve never heard of “survival cannibalism?” The Donner party? That Chilean soccer team that crashed in the Andes – they even made a movie about it!
Eating dead people is only wrong if your culture says it is. Killing people to eat them is another matter, but that isn’t the only thing you appear to be Pitting.
Of all the horrible shit that happened in Jamestown, this is pretty low on the list. I would however like to see an expansion at nearby Colonial Williamsburg to capture the moment.
In grade school we all had to draw pictures of the 1st Thanksgiving. Mine had the Pilgrims murdering the Indians and eating them. Some of the Pilgrims also raped the Indians. My mother has almost as humiliated as she was after the marijuana drawings my brother made in kindergarten. At least he didn’t see the school counsellor.
I would imagine that his joking about it was, in itself, a survival mechanism. After seeing four out of five settlers starve to death, you would have to do something to keep your sanity. Making jokes is one way to distance yourself from the horror happening around you.
On another note - Why, exactly, is this in the Carbonado?