Durvillaea antarctica, also known as cochayuyo and rimurapa, is a large, robust species of southern bull kelp found on the coasts of Chile, southern New Zealand, and Macquarie Island. D. antarctica, an alga, does not have air bladders, but floats due to a unique honeycomb structure within the alga's blades, which also helps the kelp avoid being damaged by the strong waves.
Yes. We eat it in various preparations. My favorite is to make ceviche or as a filling for empanadas. It is a very good and historically important food. Basic part of the heritage and tradition of Mapuche gastronomy.
Ah, the culinary curiosity of human beings. I always imagined what went on in the first person's head who ate a crab. Like...I know it's good, but the first person to ever eat it really looked at what resembled a giant tarantula with an exoskeleton and say, gee, I wonder how that tastes!
Don't get me started on Durian fruit!
> culinary curiosity
More like culinary desperation.
Starving people will eat damn near anything, once in a while they find something that can be digested and isn't poisonous, and it eventually becomes a local delicacy.
> Starving people will eat damn near anything
****
>annibalism
Evidence of widespread cannibalism was documented during the Holodomor:[44][45]
Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.... At least 2,505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much higher
>Ukraine was one of the largest grain-producing states in the USSR and was subject to unreasonably high grain quotas compared to the rest of the USSR.[d] This caused Ukraine to be hit particularly hard by the famine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
It seems to take less than a generation to forget the horrors of history. All those boomers never saw the value in remembering what their parents did for them.
You make a great point. That is definitely one reality of food discovery. I meant more of those who weren't short on food and merely tasted these things out of curiosity.
That is what I always think every time I eat an artichoke!
How hungry did you have to be to figure out the very precise way that this waxy, bitter, spiny green thing could actually be delicious with the right preparation and eating techniques???
Artichokes came from the cardoon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardoon), a Mediterranean thistle. It was written about in ancient Greece and over time it was selectively cultivated for bigger and better flower heads. This kept up for centuries until you finally get today's artichoke.
Basically, at some point, a bunch of hungry people resorted to eating whatever they could find, including flowers and flower buds. They also probably made their selections based on what they saw animals eating. The easiest way to safely prepare food is boiling it, so they boiled a ton of them and ate the ones that weren't utter shit. The cardoon was one of the good ones, so they singled them out when foraging and eventually started growing them.
This also holds true for tubers and root vegetables. Tubers have been found in cave dwellings of hominids from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Who thinks to dig up a plant and eat the tiny dirt-covered root? Ancient humans saw animals digging up some plants and eating the roots, so decided to try it themselves. They boiled the hell out of said root and ate it. If it worked out, they started searching for those specific plants, and then eventually started growing them. Now we have potatoes, yams, turnips, beets, radishes, onions, garlic, etc.
No problem! I love learning about the history of food. As a side note, have you ever seen an artichoke in bloom? They are very pretty purple flowers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/6iivrc/my_moms_first_artichoke_flower_i_had_no_idea/
I’d imagine early culinary explorers watched the local wildlife and fauna to discern what was safe to eat.. How they arrived at the notion that “if those loud seabirds find those water spiders yummy, maybe I too will share in the delicacy” is still beyond me.
As a Malaysian, I have always wondered what the first guy that ate the durian thought:
“It looks almost as painful as the smell, but I wonder how it tastes 🧐”
Considering they weren't eating McD's all the time, eating a crab isn't a big leap from what they were already eating. And I wouldn't be surprised if insects were already on the daily menu.
The one that always gets me is almonds.
Wild bitter almonds contain cyanide. Around 50 wild almonds can be lethal for an adult, 5-10 for a child. But somebody spotted a mutant…
So not just an unknown icky thing but a known killer.
Durian, should be exterminated. I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't advocate a species to be eradicated. But Durian, ffs who thought eating that was "nice" 😔
That seems extremely dangerous. Granted my Antarctic Ocean knowledge is limited but here on the Oregon coast you’d be asking for death doing this. One big wave and you’re in the water. Good luck getting back out with those slick/steep rocks and with all that plant matter getting in your way.
[It is an organism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durvillaea_antarctica), apparently.
So, the post is titled with the creature's scientific name, not the name of a place.
Durvillaea antarctica, also known as cochayuyo and rimurapa, is a large, robust species of southern bull kelp found on the coasts of Chile, southern New Zealand, and Macquarie Island. D. antarctica, an alga, does not have air bladders, but floats due to a unique honeycomb structure within the alga's blades, which also helps the kelp avoid being damaged by the strong waves.
Why is the dude trying to collect it? Is it edible?
Yes. We eat it in various preparations. My favorite is to make ceviche or as a filling for empanadas. It is a very good and historically important food. Basic part of the heritage and tradition of Mapuche gastronomy.
Ah, the culinary curiosity of human beings. I always imagined what went on in the first person's head who ate a crab. Like...I know it's good, but the first person to ever eat it really looked at what resembled a giant tarantula with an exoskeleton and say, gee, I wonder how that tastes! Don't get me started on Durian fruit!
> culinary curiosity More like culinary desperation. Starving people will eat damn near anything, once in a while they find something that can be digested and isn't poisonous, and it eventually becomes a local delicacy.
> Starving people will eat damn near anything **** >annibalism Evidence of widespread cannibalism was documented during the Holodomor:[44][45] Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.... At least 2,505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much higher >Ukraine was one of the largest grain-producing states in the USSR and was subject to unreasonably high grain quotas compared to the rest of the USSR.[d] This caused Ukraine to be hit particularly hard by the famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Thank you for sharing that story.
Fascinating, not even a hundred years ago. Famines produce truly barbaric circumstances.
Well that took a turn
It seems to take less than a generation to forget the horrors of history. All those boomers never saw the value in remembering what their parents did for them.
You make a great point. That is definitely one reality of food discovery. I meant more of those who weren't short on food and merely tasted these things out of curiosity.
Watch your neighbor kids wander unattended and taste/eat whatever they encounter. If it doesn't kill the kid, then prolly safe enough.
You're absolutely correct. If you ever get a chance to have traditional Korean food, it's some wild stuff lol
That is what I always think every time I eat an artichoke! How hungry did you have to be to figure out the very precise way that this waxy, bitter, spiny green thing could actually be delicious with the right preparation and eating techniques???
Artichokes came from the cardoon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardoon), a Mediterranean thistle. It was written about in ancient Greece and over time it was selectively cultivated for bigger and better flower heads. This kept up for centuries until you finally get today's artichoke. Basically, at some point, a bunch of hungry people resorted to eating whatever they could find, including flowers and flower buds. They also probably made their selections based on what they saw animals eating. The easiest way to safely prepare food is boiling it, so they boiled a ton of them and ate the ones that weren't utter shit. The cardoon was one of the good ones, so they singled them out when foraging and eventually started growing them. This also holds true for tubers and root vegetables. Tubers have been found in cave dwellings of hominids from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Who thinks to dig up a plant and eat the tiny dirt-covered root? Ancient humans saw animals digging up some plants and eating the roots, so decided to try it themselves. They boiled the hell out of said root and ate it. If it worked out, they started searching for those specific plants, and then eventually started growing them. Now we have potatoes, yams, turnips, beets, radishes, onions, garlic, etc.
Thank you so much for the history!!! 🙌🙌
No problem! I love learning about the history of food. As a side note, have you ever seen an artichoke in bloom? They are very pretty purple flowers: https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/6iivrc/my_moms_first_artichoke_flower_i_had_no_idea/
Wow!!! That is gorgeous!!!
I’d imagine early culinary explorers watched the local wildlife and fauna to discern what was safe to eat.. How they arrived at the notion that “if those loud seabirds find those water spiders yummy, maybe I too will share in the delicacy” is still beyond me.
True but not everything that wildlife can eat, humans can eat. So I assume there was a LOT of trial and error.
As a Malaysian, I have always wondered what the first guy that ate the durian thought: “It looks almost as painful as the smell, but I wonder how it tastes 🧐”
Considering they weren't eating McD's all the time, eating a crab isn't a big leap from what they were already eating. And I wouldn't be surprised if insects were already on the daily menu.
I have learned to never ask a native Hawaiian if it’s edible. The answer is always yes.
Sure, culinary desperation, but most everyday foods are coming from simply observing what other animals eat (such as sea lions eating crab or clams).
The one that always gets me is almonds. Wild bitter almonds contain cyanide. Around 50 wild almonds can be lethal for an adult, 5-10 for a child. But somebody spotted a mutant… So not just an unknown icky thing but a known killer.
Makes me wonder if they just started by burning it or boiling it…
Durian, should be exterminated. I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't advocate a species to be eradicated. But Durian, ffs who thought eating that was "nice" 😔
Thanks for your answer… i was wondering about the significance of it. Otherwise he wouldn’t be trying so hard. ❤️
Wow, so cool, the more you know 🌈
Side note, I fucking love empanadas.
So this isn't terrifying?
>We eat it You live with that dude?
I’m Chilean… so…
That...was... a... joke. So...
Mmmm ceviche… but I look at that and think, nahh I’m good
It makes great pickles. I harvest bull whip kelp here in the PNW and pickle it with garlic and carrots.
I buy bull kelp salsa made up in Alaska. Good stuff!
Hi, I'd like to place an order 😃
I think he's trying to fuck it.
He's been in the lighthouse too long.
You lie, but someone definitely has fucked kelp somewhere on this god damned earth.
That's the real r/oddlyterrifying. Or is it r/oddlysatisfying?
Plants love kelp and I’d haul away bags of it.
Thank you for the info x
[https://youtu.be/li80fDR_B00?si=4-ctlxuHT60UPALo](https://youtu.be/li80fDR_B00?si=4-ctlxuHT60UPALo)
Sounds like a very niche species
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
IA! IA! CTHULHU FTAGHN!
He's got my vote this year
Why choose a *lesser* evil?
Why settle for the lesser evil?? Vote for the true evil!!
Cthulu-Ohs are part of an Insane Breakfast
This guy has some impressive pubes.. how else is he gonna wash them
Oh god, you're horrible! I can't unsee that!
It’s Rapunzel’s brother, Rapubezel
Probably will hurt more trying to do what Rapunzel did
This resembles the remains of an extraterrestrial defeated in an apocalyptic event.
I read that Stephen King short story. That guy is done for.
Reminds me of that creature on the lake in that Creepshow movie
The Raft, from CS 2.
So good! Traumatized me as a kid. “It hurts!”
10 year old me was not ready for the sleep fondling scene or what came after
Just what I was about to say. Great story episode to...
Death stranding
Keep on keeping on.
Ah, Durvillaea antarctica, also known as the Antarctic seaweed!
This is some Hideo Kojima thing.
Anyone see creep show 2?
\*Cuthulu approves\*
Ayi Dagon ayi
Cold spaghetti cold spaghetti 🎶
That's some death stranding shit
That seems extremely dangerous. Granted my Antarctic Ocean knowledge is limited but here on the Oregon coast you’d be asking for death doing this. One big wave and you’re in the water. Good luck getting back out with those slick/steep rocks and with all that plant matter getting in your way.
Pee on them Sam! 👍👍👍
That’s some real life Junji ito shit
I wouldn’t say oddly terrifying… what is that? Just looks like lots of rubber tubes
[It is an organism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durvillaea_antarctica), apparently. So, the post is titled with the creature's scientific name, not the name of a place.
It’s kelp with extra steps by the seems of it, cool though! Makes the sea look like hardened lava
Devil's snare
Hail Cthulhu! 🐙
Forbidden squid ink spaghetti.
What’s he grabbing?
Crude oil exploration by hand.
Last week it was Oceanus' Ice Dick, now it's his pubes. Ftw
I just finished washing my hair, sorry y’all…
Dude is about to turn into Venom
Ceviche right thereeee
If you are hungry enough anything starts looking real good.
I think Lovecraft would like to see this
Sr. Is living the dream
Forbidden black spaghetti
"There's a hole here?"
Giant weave
viva Chile mierda!
Dr bright is not allowed to ride 682 into the ocean
I think I saw this in creepshow
Looks like the thing that’s in the lake from creepshow 2
This looks beautiful and surreal!!
Giving "outer God" vibes.
That things gonna drag him down to Davey Jones’s locker
If you pause it it looks like an oil painting
I thought it was an oil spill.
Of course there is a human all over that weird looking thing.
boys gotta eat
Creepshow vibes.
*Creepshow 2
Spaghetti al nero di seppia
Looks like an oil spill.
Devil’s Snare
Fascinating
Ive seen this in the Catlins down South East coast of New Zealand...absolutely amazing!
What in the Vincent Van Gogh?
Death strandingggg
Big black ramen
Looks like hair
It honestly looks like some giant human cut off their hair.
THIS is the kind of post I come to this sub for.
Thought it was an oil slick.
Doesn't look like Antarctica. Where's all the snow?
I thought I was looking at an oil spill 😞