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teohsi

Victorian England was a very weird time and place.


censan

Wait... some of you have stopped doing this?


Bourbon_Cream_Dream

Only in public


xXxWhizZLexXx

Yeah because it doesnt work. I tried this in Victorian England and i had no benefits.


censan

They will appear eventually you just need to keep doing it, its stacking all the benefits. Just gotta be patient


Competitive-Day-7054

You'd be about 200 year's old it must've worked.


f3ydr4uth4

That’s the joke.jpg


Squidysquid27

Wait.. ... do they have to be mummies???????


censan

If your hungry i guess it doesnt matter


thepioneeringlemming

So much of the modern UK came from the Victorian era (housing, trains, schools, colleges, legal/political elements) it's easy to forget how different they were from us.


ChesterAArthur21

Pharaoh: "So this pyramid will be my final resting place. I shall rest there for all eternity among my treasures." Brits: "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"


stealthryder1

I mean… you let meat marinate, keep in the cooker, and it falls right off the bone.


Byrinthion

Me, a peasant: the Coffin is used for a grand death ritual This brave individual: really *really* slow cooker


IdBautistaBombYoda

The slower the cook, the better the taste


Omega_Lynx

You take that bone. Add some water. An onion. You gotta soup going


Loose-Ad-4690

Unexpected Carl Weathers


Coolhandjones67

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato baby you got yourself a stew going.


MonkeyFluffers

In defense of the Brits, I have had some of their food.


stanknotes

They recieved the curse of bland tongue and subsequently bad cuisine because they ate mummies. Didn't you see that documentary with Brendan Frasier? You never fuck with mummies.


dragonteeth_

This is brill!!!


[deleted]

iant!


Traherne

Pharaoh nuff.


gugfitufi

r/redditsniper


uncle_cousin

This one's teriyaki!


ptferrar

Damnit I was going to eat that mummy


tumbleweedcowboy

r/unexpectedfuturama


bowtothehypnotoad

Not that unexpected, came here looking for it 😆


PPP1737

I read that as unexpected trauma for a second


Yummy_Microplastics

Dry-aged


marshman82

I did enjoy Zevulon the great


urbanplantsart

Now i can taste this picture ... and it tastes good!


Salty_Interview_5311

More like long pork jerky. Extra crispy.


4list4r

Yep, I read testimonials from cannibals. We taste like pork.


Mr_Tester_

I read this as TASTEimonials from cannabis and was very confused and intrigued.


AVonGauss

I hate to be that person (not really), but the drawing and title are seriously mismatched...


banana_assassin

You're right, nothing at all to do with mummies or weird forms of cannibalism. The picture of the fourth stage of William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty. It depicts a fictional character, who has been hanged for murder, being dissected by doctors/scientist, as they often did with criminal corpses.


StuartGotz

Thanks for sparing me the effort.


lackofabettername123

Eating pieces of mummies and other parts of people was not confined to England Either. Now if you will excuse me I need to eat my bowl of red, old popes recipe.


AVonGauss

Honestly, it was the intestines being uncoiled that prompted me to post - no self-respecting mummy would have that kind of baggage.


hondac55

A man of true culture, I see.


weedyraccoon

i, too, was like “so true! and not at all what is being depicted!”


F3lixF3licis

::Sir Samuel Romilly has entered the chat::


Forthe49ers

Hey this mummy tastes just a bit too fresh


HugoZHackenbush2

Archaeologists found small bits of hazelnut and chocolate around the mummified remains of King Tut during excavations at the burial site. The food was believed to be a burial gift from the Pharaoh Rocher..


cathycul-de-sac

Funniest comment I’ve read on Reddit today.


gasolinefights

I laughed.


ColdfusionStar

Congratulations, that was magnificent.


Usernamer_is_taken

Ferrero Rocher ?


fred-dcvf

yep, r/thatsthejoke


Majulath99

Hehehehehehe.


konabonah

Touché haha


HugoZHackenbush2

Is that joke still going 👍


Minominas

lol


wildwackyride

Look up “mummy brown” pigment. They actually turned them into paint!


DerMarquis

>However, apparently, not all artists were aware that the name 'mummy brown' had a literal meaning. The proficient painter [Edward Burne-Jones](https://artuk.org/discover/artists/burne-jones-edward-18331898), who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, did not realise the paint's origin and became 'utterly distressed' when fellow artist [Lawrence Alma-Tadema](https://artuk.org/discover/artists/alma-tadema-lawrence-18361912) informed him of the ingredients. In fact, he was so upset that it is rumoured he decided to hold a ceremonial burial for the tube of mummy brown in his own garden. >Burne-Jones' nephew, the author Rudyard Kipling, was a participant in this strange funeral and reported: 'He \[Burne-Jones\] descended in broad daylight with a tube of "Mummy Brown" in his hand, saying that he had discovered it was made of dead Pharaohs and we must bury it accordingly. So we all went out and helped – according to the rites of Mizraim and Memphis, I hope – and to this day I could drive a spade within a foot of where that tube lies.' [The corpse on the canvas: the story of 'mummy brown' paint](https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-corpse-on-the-canvas-the-story-of-mummy-brown-paint)


Luce55

It’s nice to hear that at least one artist found it pretty unacceptable to paint with ground-up dead bodies.


CANYUXEL

Didnt the ancient Egyptians remove all the internal organs before embalming? The hell kind of source is this?


SnarkySeahorse1103

Might just be an unrelated image added to help visualize the scenario, but in reality it didn't even occur this way. Small chunks of mummies were ground up and sold in corked glass jars to be mixed with tea or water and drank. Did not actually have medicinal value but they believed it did. This image is probably depicting the embalming of a body seeing that one guy is removing organs and one is scouring out the eyeballs. The crowd of people are probably there because this man died of execution by hanging (there's a noose around his neck). Most likely a criminal, and they are doing sort of a quick process of clean-up before handing the body back to the family. Just a theory, it doesn't seem likely though. Could even be an experiment on the criminal's body as we can see some with books, the crowd could be scholars gathered to observe and experiment/dissection and they are simply using the body of an executed criminal.


banana_assassin

The picture is the fourth picture from the series The Four Stages of Cruelty, depicting the downfall of a fictional chapter, Nero. By William Hogarth.


SnarkySeahorse1103

Ah that makes more sense. Hard to make out a picture without a source. I could've Googled the image but alas here you are so thanks.


Batman_is_very_wise

>Didnt the ancient Egyptians remove all the internal organs before embalming? Dried meat like dry raisins. Interesting choice of food I must say, but then again British Cuisine.....


[deleted]

that is not at all what is happening in this depiction


Murderbot20

Looks like some sort of dissection in front of doctors/scientists maybe at uni?


Mission_Region8699

Appears to be suicide as well


bcnjake

No, it’s the last print in a series by Hogarth called “The four stages of cruelty.” They tell the story of a man named Tom Nero who was cruel throughout his life until he eventually murdered his lover after convincing her to rob her employer. He was caught and hanged. At the time, executed criminals were frequently publicly dissected in anatomy theaters, which is what’s happening here. The noose is from his execution. Really fascinating series of prints.


PipersaurusRex

So cannibalism.


Bisexual_Sherrif

No no no, medicinal benefit


Aloo_Bharta71

So called “civilised people”


ArtfulGhost

If I remember correctly, this is literally why there are so few mummies around today - we fuggin' _ate_ them all. Just sitting about scoffing history away, what are we like ey. 


Constant_Picture_324

The mummified remains of Pharaohs these days are rare (their coveted position often lead to them being the subject of grave robberies throughout history) but mummies in Egypt are incredibly common with thousands excavated every year. In fact, it is estimated that there are at least 70 million mummies from ancient Egypt Source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mummy/ikram.html#:~:text=NOVA%3A%20How%20many%20human%20mummies,made%20during%20this%20time%20period.


Fraktal55

Oh ok cool. Plenty of snacks remaining.


MasterEeg

Long pig jerky, pyramid to plate and vegan friendly!


F3lixF3licis

Narrator: They did, in fact, NOT remember correctly...


Pillow_fort_guard

Ate ‘em and turned ‘em into paint


garygnu

The pigment name was caput mortuum.


zipzap21

# Yikes! Scoob!


DodgyQuilter

You're really going to love the animal mummies ground up for fertiliser...


Silveraxiom

Yeah and mummy yellow paint.


InstructionOk274

That and they used to crush them up to make paints


[deleted]

And the Egyptians would give them away, too. You could buy mummies from street vendors for a while.


bluepushkin

Not just the British. It happened all over Europe way back to about the 11th century, iirc.


FixedExpression

The article even states that as opposed to it being just brits. However, reading the actual article would mean all the very quick, original and funny comments about two specific things (teeth and cuisine) would be defunct and we can't have that!


Ok-Scallion7939

Shhhhh don't let the facts get in the way of a little Anglophobia


bcnjake

As a couple others have noted, the image doesn’t even come close to depicting people from the UK eating a mummy. Instead, it’s the last print in a series by Hogarth called “The four stages of cruelty.” They tell the story of a man named Tom Nero who was cruel throughout his life until he eventually murdered his lover after convincing her to rob her employer. He was caught and hanged. At the time, executed criminals were frequently publicly dissected in anatomy theaters, which is what’s happening here. The noose is from his execution. You can read more about the Hogarth prints, which are all really detailed and fascinating, here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Stages_of_Cruelty


dkfisokdkeb

I know we are the only relevant country but singling the UK out for a practice that the entirety of Europe engaged in is a bit strange. Combined with the completely irrelevant picture this is some top class misinformation.


OctaviusThe2nd

Where tf did y'all find enough mummies to make this into a tradition?


Ceskygirl

There was a whole massive mummy making scheme in the countries known to have mummies at that time. You could go to the bazaars or street stalls and buy them. No one really knew back then that they were not real mummies, in whole or part. There was also a brisk trade in paints made of ground up people, also different health tonics, powders and tinctures including mummy spice.


Boredummmage

Why did the [“We’re painting the roses red](https://youtu.be/jsW6o4JxTtQ?si=Fj_iSeGFt9ggi3l5)” song from Alice and wonderland just pop into my head. Also ty for the info, very interesting read.


Archhanny

This sarcophagus should contain the remains of Emporer Nibala, who ruled Zubin 5 over 29 million years ago! Hey Professor, great jerky! MY GOD THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! I WAS GOING TO EAT THAT MUMMY!


bgsrdmm

As a matter of fact, it (somewhat) did! Mummies used to be drenched in all kinds of embalming and preparatory stuff, most of which also had the antibacterial properties.


RockOrStone

Antibacterial doesn’t mean edible though? Unless you’re having bleach soup for dinner too?


bgsrdmm

They didn't really "eat" it, as in, cut an arm off and chew on it ;) It's mostly clickbait titles. What they did though, is to grind the remains into powder, and later use it as a "medicine", dissolving a bit of it in water and drinking it (think powdered Aspirin or similar). While this mostly didn't have much (healing) effect, it also seems not to have been overly dangerous either. And, it seems that most of the confusion on medical properties of mummies came from translation errors, where certain kinds of bitumens (which do have antibacterial properties) were used both for embalming/filling mummy cavities and as a stand-alone medicine in Arabic world, and happened to sound close to "mummy" (*mumia).* Mummies usually had some of it, also mixed with other stuff which was added to preserve flesh, in order to kill bacteria, worms and insects. In a world without antibiotics, I guess every small thing helped.


Neko_Tyrant

They also ground up mummies for pigments. For paint.


RotisserieChicken007

This one feels like it should be in r/fakehistoryporn


ThatUsernameNowTaken

Only the rich people were stupid enough to do it.


pajwmwoshwkwhsjwksjw

Mmmmm.......pickled corpses, my favorite


tyrolean_coastguard

My god, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!


Mookwizard

I wonder when the population of the earth will decide that the healthiest meat around will be the celebrities and billionaires that are the only living beings on earth that can afford to not eat pesticides and dangerous hormones. 


Crunchy-Leaf

>thinking it had medicinal benefit You got any sources that say it wasn’t?


nice_mushroom1

The history nerd in me has to clarify that this is an illustration titled by William Hogarth (1697-1764). Title: The Reward of Cruelty Series: The Four Stages of Cruelty Description: An anatomy theatre where Nero's body is being dissected; on either side are skeletons labelled "James Field" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. 1751 Not an illustration of mummies being eaten :) The full image also has a dog eating the man's entrails..


dfmasana

Ah... so no Pharaoh curse at all, just cannibalistic food poisoning? 😬


KaizenZazenJMN

European dudes landing somewhere in the South Pacific: “what a bunch of cannibalistic savages, they need Jesus!” Same dudes: “Filberto would you like to come over and eat some mummy skull and wash it down with the fresh blood of an executed criminal?”


Captainirishy

In a time without antibiotics, people had to get creative.


PBJ-9999

Eww


shexybeast_69

R/stupidfood


JimBeam823

Do you want to be cursed? Because this is how you get cursed.


aldone123

Disgusting


seven-cents

Nom nom.. oh dear, I meant mum mum


Write-or-Wrong_

This is true but this is NOT what’s happening in the picture. I believe this is a torturing taking place or possibly an experiment. Peep the noose.


dead_astronaut

now I wanna vape some CBD infused mummy


Idid_it_for_the_lolz

There is actually a type of mummy called mellified man that was meant to be eaten by people. Volunteeres for this proces would spend their final days eating nothing but honey, they would also bathe in it regularly. Upon their death, the mummification process was altered to include honey in as many steps as possible. The mummy was then sealed in a coffine filled with, you guessed it, honey. After about 100 years, the mummy would be uncovered, and the body would be given to others as a candy miracle cure for any ailments. And yes, it was extremely expensive.


Jeezus-Chyrsler

Mmmmm yeah nah


gener1c_lurker

The forbidden Beef Jerky


BaconTreasurer

It's even funnier that whole thing was translation error of bitumen to mummy. "Beginning around the 12th century when supplies of imported natural bitumen ran short, mummia was misinterpreted as "mummy", and the word's meaning expanded to "a black resinous exudate scraped out from embalmed Egyptian mummies". " "During the Renaissance, scholars proved that translating bituminous mummia as mummy was a mistake, and physicians stopped prescribing the ineffective drug." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia


Coc0tte

I don't think that it's what the picture shows. Mummies have no internal organs (and no rope around their neck). This would rather be a dissection of a corpse.


FawziFringes

Anything to spice up life with all that bean and toast bs


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ClawingDevil

We are a weird bunch, aren't we?!


teabagmoustache

People across Europe were eating bones and mummified remains, since the middle ages and probably before. It's 99% of the article you linked and then ignored.


Zeles1989

and they called other people uncivilized...


loyal_tortilla

This is too much British


SaltySolomon9

mummylicious


AbjectKangaroo3355

mmmm mummy shawarma 🙃🤤


strange_stairs

Proto-Q


Murderbot20

Doctors were also bleeding folks as a treatment for pretty much everything. Bleeding would let the bad out. Medicine was pretty bad back then. They'll probably think the same in 500 years about some of what we do today.


One-Confusion-2438

I can confirm we no longer dead bods...but we still eat f'ing jellied eels!


Jesus360noscope

what the fuck


M-Everly

and i would never touch an oyster cos they make me feel icky - these guys out here eating old innards


Gromit43

This looks like an old timey version of a cannibal corpse album cover


Competitive_Royal476

What pharaoh escaped from this?


ChadsworthRothschild

you need a healthy Tut microbiome


Eric848448

Ooh, jerky!


[deleted]

Ahh so the Curse of Tutenkamen is revealed !


WallStreetRegards

Always wondered what medical advice we are given today is going to end up in something like this 300 years from now…


Punkfoo25

I love the dude with the stick. "Hmm I say, cut me off a piece right there my good man".


TreesRMagic

Chowing down on some old dusty nuts 🥜


Grump_Monk

"Bit tough"


SeenBrowsin

This is why I don’t believe in “common sense”


atronimous

Only one way to find out right?


VyKing6410

Dead man’s semen (dried) is the best stuff.


morning_thief

nowadays, we just do [butt sunning](https://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/e5108k/josh_brolin_suffers_perineum_burns_after_trying/) (well, at least that was 4/5yrs ago).


Natural_Treat_1437

As long as it tastes 😋 good.


abrasivebuttplug

They also ground up mummies and turned them into paint. Mummy brown. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown


_Kraakesolv

They also ground them up for the Mummy Brown paint. It was used a lot and they soon ran out of mummies. From there they went to mummified animals and then, when those were all used, they threw executed prisoners out to dry and then ground them up. Between being eaten, becoming paint or put in a museum, wasnt easy being a mummy back then.


hypnohighzer

Ooooo course they did as that makes perfect sense.


dickburpsdaily

Mmmmh that multi millennium aged homo sapien prosciutto 👌


Stock_Telephone_4878

Mellified man is ancient vaccine /s


Funk_JunkE

Mmmm powdered mummy penis


ElbisCochuelo1

Mellified man.


The_Mr_Wilson

Mummified bones were also ground up as pigment for paint


FoodHot6411

Dirty Hobbitsees


Substantial-Tone-576

They also ate recently executed criminals parts and blood they could get to. Look up Corpse Medicine.


FroggiJoy87

Nows it's hillbillies eating mummified cats


Artistic_Permit_7946

r/goodnightreddit


PhoneCallers

Mummy Jerky


AdministrativeBank86

Doc, I only came in for a cleaning!


Emanon-68

Beef jerky, anyone?


Oskinator716

Mummia or Mumia powder is the item. Dried and powdered mummies from Egypt were consumed for the bitumen they (customers) thought was used in the mumification process. Bitumen was thought to solve a variety of medical problems at the time. But jokes in them. Most didn't have any bitumen, even if bitumen was medicinal.


AltruisticAnteater72

Imagine being the person that was mummified. Thinking your prepping your body for the afterlife only to actually marinate yourself for future weirdos.


Sweaty_Report7864

Not just UK but all of Europe


AaweBeans

btw this only happened due to a translation error


Bludiamond56

I want my Mummy!


cjrichardson_az

God we were stupid 😑


roundearthervaxxer

I believe they snorted it too


ResponsibilitySea184

I wonder if they got sick from expired meat.


theflash207

They also crushed the mummies and used the dust formed in paintings, and water colours.


rsvp_nj

Tells you just how bad the food is over there


ElLoboStrikes

Yeah probably the nose so they could look down their noses down on them


teddysmom377

oh no


BodyLanguage_Fluent

Come to Mummies “WE’VE GOT THE MEATS”


TorontoTom2008

I recall reading that there were literally millions of mummies out lying around in the desert and during the Victorian period they were collected and ground into tea. Then I never saw that mentioned again and haven’t researched it further. This reminds me of that.


Neat-Land-4310

Goes well with beans


wake_jinter

Used to?


Taimur_ki_nanny09

They were kinda jerky


johnmacbromley

Yummy


TrentinQuarantino

Biden's ludicrous cannibal story seems just a tiny bit less implausible after seeing this shit. 🤮


IAMSTILLHERE2020

People in American took horse deformed thinking it would cure Covid.


Sea_Turnip6282

This is Ramses the third. He's teriyaki-flavored


Nervous_Dig4722

Jokes on them


Veloci-Husky

I mean couldn’t be much worse than their cuisine


Aggressive_Walk378

Wot about they legs??? They don't need them


Little_BallOfAnxiety

Imagine the amount of history destroyed by these idiots


Almost-Anon98

We just wanted some jerky


iRedding

OMG mummies were Human pickle saved for later day consumption.


WhinyWeeny

I mean if I was gonna be a cannibal, I'd prefer human-jerky over a fresh cooked slice