XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 11/01/2026 20:57, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:29:53 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/01/2026 05:39, rbowman wrote:   
   >>> He tells a plausible story. In 'Collapse' Jared Diamond claims that one   
   >>> of the reasons for the abandonment of Greenland along with climate   
   >>> change was an irrational reluctance of the Norse to eat fish. Excuse   
   >>> me? He bases that on the lack of fish bones in the middens. I've never   
   >>> had it but I think the process of producing hákarl might dissolve the   
   >>> bones.   
   >>   
   >> They are probably so hungry they ate the bones as well..   
   >   
   > We used to have fried smelts, fins, tail, and scales, usually without the   
   > head.  This isn't the best area for seafood but the only ones I've seen in   
   > the market lately were marked as bait.   
   >   
   In the UK 'whitebait' are fried fish eaten whole...   
      
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