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History cartoons for squares. Mature audiences 🔞

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Fishing for that taste of ? ☀️

Get the scoop on Ambergris Ice Cream, the stankiest treat from the 🍦

Read more:
https://www.historyshapes.com/ambergris-ice-cream/

An excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, a 24 page, full-color, illustrated and DRM free ebook. Pay what feels good ❤️

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-- November 17th was the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's initial draft of the 🎩

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Forget and its naps, the personal chef to King Ferdinand I has a dish that (if prepared incorrectly) will make you lose your mind 🤪

🐱 Read more about Roasted Cat in this excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook:

https://www.historyshapes.com/roasted-cat/

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Black Soup: the pig's blood delight from ancient Sparta. Turns out, not many other ancient (or modern) peoples agreed...🤢

Read this excerpt from the History Shapes Cookbook, out now:

https://www.historyshapes.com/black-soup/

The free is pay-whatever-feels-good, and greatly supports the cartoon ❤️

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@GroberUnfug2 @bookstodon Yeah, I'm not sure how many butchers today would sell it to regular shoppers. I'm sure back then it was pretty easy to come by. -mert.

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If I knew witches were coming, I'd have baked a cake 🎂

Read the wild story about how the Salem Witch Trials really began:
https://www.historyshapes.com/witch-cakes/

An excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook. Easily the worst cookbook of all time 👎

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Think you're tough? If you’re not pounding frosty pints of Cock Ale, think again, wimp. 🍺

Cock Ale was a type of beer fermented with the bones and meat of a rooster, along with spices and other aromatics for a little kick. 🐔

Read more with this excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, out now:
https://www.historyshapes.com/cock-ale/

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the 🍺

It was Adolf Hitler's failed attempt to forcibly overthrow the democracy of Germany 🇩🇪

His trial was covered by the press in minute detail, and even though he went to jail he used the coverage to spread Nazi propaganda through the media 🎙️

Failed coup, media savvy, and evil. Sound familiar?

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Happy 156th Birthday to Marie Curie 🎂

Born #OTD in 1867, she was the discoverer of Radium and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize 🎉

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Dine with the upper crust and save some bread while you're at it. Welcome to the Toast Sandwich 🥪

Introduced in 1861 by the original food influencer, Isabella Beeton 🍞

https://www.historyshapes.com/featured/toast-sandwich/

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Witch Cakes, anyone? 🧙🏻‍♀️

They're the best way to find out if you've been possessed by a witch - - and the reason the began.

https://www.historyshapes.com/witch-cakes/

An excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, out now:

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No tricks, just treats: pay whatever feels good 🎃

Boosts appreciated 🙏

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Another excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, out now:

https://www.historyshapes.com/sheep-penis/

24 pages, full color, with bonus facts and brand new illustrations. Pay what you want ❤️

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Boosts (so very much) appreciated 🙏

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@huntertypes @histodons @bookstodon I think we have a weiner 🏆 - mert.

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@tezoatlipoca @histodons @bookstodon I have it on good authority that Elon Musk regularly gobbles down animal penises 💰 - mert.

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@SteveClough @histodons @bookstodon Timeless nuggets of knowledge 🧼 - mert.

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@dvdhaven @histodons @bookstodon My post links the original recipe/manuscript which mentions them specifically. Maybe just for the wealthy? Not too sure. - mert.

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Something fishy is going on...

...your food 🐟 🏺

Check out garum, the ancient Roman condiment made from fish guts left out in the sun ☀️

https://www.historyshapes.com/featured/garum/

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Another excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, out now:

https://www.historyshapes.com/toast-sandwich/

24 pages, full color, with bonus facts and brand new illustrations. Pay what you want ❤️

https://buy.stripe.com/28o03534y39sfMQfYZ

Boosts (so very much) appreciated 🙏

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@microblogc @histodons who's got time for sandwiches when there's delicious toasted bread at the ready? I see no fool in this scenario. 🍞 - mert.

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Once again and have your instructions on Friday ✅

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Another excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, out now:

https://www.historyshapes.com/garum/

24 pages, full color, with updated research and illustrations. Pay what you want ❤️

https://buy.stripe.com/28o03534y39sfMQfYZ

Boosts (very much) appreciated 🙏

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An excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook, out now:

https://www.historyshapes.com/cockentrice/

24 pages, full color, with updated research and illustrations. Pay what you want ❤️

Boosts (very much) appreciated 🙏

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The History Shapes Cookbook drops next week 🎉

The 24-page, full color book features disturbing, strange, and just plain gross recipes from history. You'll love it.

It won't be available on any eBook marketplaces so I can keep it as affordable as possible. It'll be pay-what-you-can starting at $1 (for a limited time) 💸

If you need a chuckle for cheap, sign up to be notified:
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🗓️

The premieres today back in 1960. It was initially for adults only, and featured themes like suicide and infertility. Fred even lit up Winston cigarettes in sponsored segments 🚬

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🗓️

Michelangelo's David debuts in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹

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Happy 🍻

A panel from "When Pigs Begin to Fly no. 1" by Frederick Burr Opper, 1920s

A century later, and no flying pigs in sight 🐷

From the Walker Gallery at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum 🏫

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Shout out to for sinking their own ships 80 years ago just to screw over the 🇩🇰

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Breakfast cereal was created as an offshoot of the healthly living craze of the late 1800s. Cereals were supposed to provide bizarre benefits 🥣

Corn Flakes? Invented to curb . OBVIOUSLY. 🍆

Read more:
https://www.historyshapes.com/august-8/

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Presenting: a soldier with a sword through his chest (nice) mixing cocaine and wine 🍷

Or, the inventor of Coca-Cola🥤

It's Soda Pressing:
https://www.historyshapes.com/soda-pressing/

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in ⏳

Inventor Garrett Morgan, woken from sleep and still in his pajamas, saves eight men trapped in a tunnel filled with deadly fumes ☠️

He uses his newest invention: the Morgan National Safety Hood, the first-ever gas mask 😷

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Zero surprise that a guy who took his pen name from a measure of depth had no time for surface level clowns 🤡

Be like this Monday ✅

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that went full Mission Impossible in 1861? 🕵️‍♂️

He was forced to sneak into Washington DC to take the oath of the Presidency - before white supremacists could murder him 🎩

The whole story is bananas ⬇️
https://www.historyshapes.com/featured/february-23/

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Diogenes has some choice words for 🏛️

https://www.historyshapes.com/the-quotable-diogenes/ 💬

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Need a midweek pick-me-up?

Grab a frosty pint of Cock Ale, the Red Bull of the 17th century 🍺

It'll give you wings 🐔

Read more 🍻:
https://www.historyshapes.com/cock-ale/

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@jlundell @histodons I had never heard the term myself, but it's used in a version of this recipe from 1780:

"Take 10 gallons ale, a large cock (the older the better). Slay, caw and gut him, and stamp him in a stone mortar."

I took it to mean removing the beak (and perhaps feathers). I can't seem to find much else on the term either. - mert.

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