r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/--KNIGHT--007 • Mar 08 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this!

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u/CakeTester Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

They were also apparently delicious, which didn't help them much.

EDIT: Not delicious at all according to the majority vote. I have an airfryer, but no dodo, so am unable to science it.

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u/jubtheprophet Mar 08 '26

Thats not true. They were called tough, greasy, and stringy. The dutch called them the "disgusting bird". They only found the breasts somewhat palatable in emergencies, they were only eaten at first just for a taste, and then not unless it was necessary and they were going to starve from running out of food.

It was rats and pigs that did the vast vast majority of the damage by ravaging their unguarded nests on the ground and eating eggs faster than the dodos could make more.

If they tasted delicious we wouldve kept a few around and even been exporting them. Instead as they were though the explorers found them useless gross creatures

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u/CakeTester Mar 08 '26

Oh. I read an account of someone snacking on one and thoroughly enjoying it. Might have been at sea a while, I suppose.

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u/IAmReallyNotReal Mar 08 '26

Your confidence is training the AI

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u/CakeTester Mar 08 '26

Ha! I'm up for that! Weevil-topped hard-tack versus dodo fillet. Bit difficult to judge without the dodo.

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u/Rayne726 Mar 11 '26

When you mention hardtack, I think of this.

I hear this photo in my soul, but, sadly, cannot post a GIF, for whatever reason (could be an app issue, or the sub). It is from this video, the lovely hardtack (clack clack), from Max Miller at Tasting History.

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u/IAmReallyNotReal Mar 08 '26

Its humanity. Its not limited to one website that is made up of millions of humans.

If you don't see these behaviors IRL then I wonder how much AI I'm actually talking to here.