(September 25, 2013 at 10:10 am)Drich Wrote: Perhaps the usage indicates that people were divided by what they like to eat/taste in their food. It was not like it is today where we have the avaiablity of every type of food all the time. Regions aqnd seasons dictated what one ate.
For instance you may not like to eat fish, but if you live at the sea that would have been the majority of your diet. Say you had a taste for goat or cheese. This meant you had to live in a region that supported the food you wanted to eat. which meant you had to leave the coast and move in land far enough to raise goats.
"Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after he cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu."
Seems legit.
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