• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Monks did most of the writing and artwork.

    Monks main diet was brassicas.

    They grew their own food.

    Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment

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      11 months ago

      I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think

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      11 months ago

      This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!

    • Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      Hey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.”

      It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?