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It is incredible how “smart” your ancestors were when it came to preparing and eating foods properly.

Because grains and legumes have differing amino acid profiles (where one is strong in the amino acids that the other group lacks) it is important to eat them together and with a meat to get the entire spectrum of amino acids so you can properly utilize them.

Sure enough that’s exactly how most traditional Mexican dishes are prepared (beans, corn tortilla, beef/chicken/pork). I’m sure this is common in other cultures as well.

Not to mention that the Aztecs understood the process of nixtimalizing of corn.

BUT! This is too much complication for me so I personally would just cook a ribeye steak instead.

#Simplicity

atyh 2y ago

I was once watching a historian talk about the Maya. Accord to her, the Maya thought the Aztecs were animals who didn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground, and took most of the things they knew from the Maya when they came down from the north and colonized the place. Thought that was interesting 🧐

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kc 2y ago

That’s interesting, but I wouldn’t doubt it.

I could be remembering it wrong, but I don’t think that the Aztecs even knew who the Mayans were. It was just a general name given to the people who built the structures they used.

I think the Mayans were very advanced (Possibly apart of a highly advanced worldwide civilization). So in contrast to them, most other civilizations would seem less than.

But damnit if they didn’t understand corn😩

atyh 2y ago

i thought that too. i had a weird deep dive period where i got into Mayan culture, history, and their base 20 math. as well as their art, and incredible inter-cycling calendar.

i came away from it with some changed perspectives. particularly about western history, which i now believe is largely based on false premises. at least in some ways.

but one of the obvious things i missed, that i was embarrassed by was the western question “why did the Mayans disappear?” The Mayans in Southern Mexico and Guatemala laugh at us for that one. They’re like, “ um… hello 👋🏾”

But their empire did degrade. And was overtaken by the Aztec (which in all likelihood lived around Salt Lake in Utah before relocating)

And before the Maya, were the Olmec who are even more mysterious…

kc 2y ago

If you haven’t already I would watch that Graham Hancock documentary on Netflix + check out his JRE podcasts.

Also the Tartarian “Conspiracy Theory” is aligned with this kind of thinking. May or may not be true, but it definitely highlights the potential falsehoods of western history and the possibility that we were previously advanced.

atyh 2y ago

oh and yeah! cacao and corn man…