Did you know …
That to celebrate the successful voyage of the Beagle, noted scienceman Charles Darwin commissioned a feast made entirely from the newly discovered waved albatross? It’s true!
Unfortunately for Darwin and his shipmates, many of the birds were undercooked, if they were cooked at all, and the entire crew became violently ill. Why did they eat so much raw bird? The ship’s cook had recently died of syphilis, and his poorly trained replacement assumed that heating food was recommended, but not required. He had about three hundred albatrosses to prepare, so he cooked a few of them, set a few out in the sun to warm them up, and the rest he simply chopped up and soaked in seawater.
Also, pretty much everyone had alcohol poisoning in addition to salmonellosis, but this was their own damn fault.
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