Researchers believe humans’ closest relatives may have stored meat from their kills for months before eating it
For hungry Neanderthals, there was more on the menu than wild mammals, roasted pigeon, seafood and plants. Chemical signatures in the ancient bones point to a nutritious and somewhat inevitable side dish: handfuls of fresh maggots.
The theory from US researchers undermines previous thinking that Neanderthals were “hypercarnivores” who stood at the top of the food chain with cave lions, sabre-toothed tigers and other beasts that consumed impressive quantities of meat.
Rather than feasting on endless mammoth steaks, they stored their kills for months, the scientists believe, favouring the fatty parts over lean meat, and the maggots that riddled the putrefying carcasses.
“The only reason this is surprising is that it contradicts what we westerners think of as food,”
Buried fermented shark, fermented herring, Italian maggot cheese etc etc.
“We westerners” amounts to Kraft eating Americans in this article
I had to re-read that sentence.
But at least they ferment the milk (aka use old, spoiled milk) for the chocolate to give it the distinctive taste of vomit.
That’s cut down with the wax and vegetable oil.