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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago

Just saw a video about it explaining. It was vulture puke. There was a bunch of them and they are not good at digesting so something, maybe a loud noise spooked them and they all puked at the same time. This is not unseen and puking is very normal for them, the thing was that they were flying in a group

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

'two men who tasted it'... From the wiki article. What the actual fuck. 'Let's try the random sky meat'.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lucky they didn't live long enough to realize they probably ate vulture puke, which is almost undoubtedly the worst type of puke.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So what you’re implying is that someone goes around tasting various kinds puke and rating it??

I’m just gonna go ahead and lump all puke as the same and not bother with rankings, thank you. 😊

From Buzzfeed: 13 Types of Puke Ranked From “Barely a Burp” to “Call a Hazmat Team” - #7 Will Make You Gag!

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well: 1) its already rotting, 2) it was bad enough to make birds who primarily eat rotting meat vomit it up, but if we're ever both in a situation where we're forced to eat various types of vomit I'm glad to know I can send the vulture vomit your way

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They more vomit to reduce weight when they suddenly have to fly while gorging.

They can eat rotten mean, I guess, but do they prefer it if there's a fresh deer corpse somewhere or smth?

And I wonder, like with the civet cat shit coffee, could there be something something vulture stomach acid marinade.

Someone should look into that.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

You may be onto something there but I'm gonna have to sit that one out

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As if it wasn't nasty enough before the vultures ate and partially digested it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does this typo make trying the meat cultural appropriation?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fixed, but I think you're on to something.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for following up!

For anyone reading this thread in the future, the original comment said "culture" rather than "vulture." I wasn't being random or nonsensical. Not in this case, anyway.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Sokka would be proud.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Two men who tasted it?

[–] josefo@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Punk Rock would fit.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

It's Kentucky, home of the finger lickin good.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And about a century later the event was memorialized with the release of the song "It's raining men".

What? You thought it was a gay positive song released in an era where that lifestyle was condesended upon for it's negitive stigma in society?

Turns out no. It's actually the very first black metal song celebrating gore and torturous death reigning down on earth in some kind of religious macabre.

Do with that information what you will.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the song "It's raining men".

What? You thought it was a gay positive song released in an era where that lifestyle was condesended upon for it's negitive stigma in society?

How is "It's Raining Men" "gay positive?" I mean, I get that it isn't anti-gay or anything, and I get that gay guys might like it, but it's sung by women and seems very hetero to me.

[–] swab148@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago

Let the bodies hit the floor

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, now do Chocolate Rain

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I move away from the mic to breath in

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The legend himself was on Sixteenth Minute of Fame recently. He's an interesting guy, and you can really tell that he takes amphetamines to treat his adhd lol

Edit: I mean that in the best of ways ofc. That boy can jabber jaw like an absolute beast

[–] PsychoNaut@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Written by black metal icon Paul Shaffer.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Omg, I'm in stitches! That's a lot of sky burials!

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

That reminds me of the Florence whale incident...

Never try to blow up a whale carcass, kids, it doesn't end well.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Guy in 2258: hmmm what year shoukd I go to test my new mine machine for the first time?? Oh I know!

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[–] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Eruption of the mystery flesh pit national park in Texas. Flew the whole way.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Turns out Plenius was right all along!

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago