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Plenty of scholars have described nuts as a crucial food source for the Wabanaki people, and early colonial records indicate the same. In 1607, colonists from the Popham Colony described the Casco Bay islands as “overgrown with woods very thick as oaks, walnut, pine trees & many other things growing as sarsaparilla, hazle nuts & whorts in abundance.”

Ethnobotanist Nancy Asch Sidell documents that charred beechnut remains that are more than 5,000 years old have been discovered “preserved in a hearth feature” in central Maine. At the archaelogical site on the well-documented Norridgewock village on the Kennebec River – a Wabanaki town destroyed by the British in 1724 – researchers have recovered evidence of hazelnut and beechnut consumption, Sidell reports.

“The use and importance of nuts is as ancient as the people themselves,” Kavasch told me. “The trees they come from were so sacred and important. But many of our European ancestors couldn’t see the forest for the trees. They weren’t thinking of it as a nut forest.”

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dunno if I'd call it enjoying it, Bob.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure I'd call it milk either. Seems more like juice to me.

Nut juice.

Say it. Embrace it.

Americans ~~enjoy~~ drink nut juice.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

To put a finger point on it: the gathered base substance is, prior to the essential hydration step, simply a suspension of fats, starches, and proteins extracted from the nuts. Adding water just makes it go down better.

edit: I'm leaving it as-is.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unless you're sloppy, I guess? With(out) proper grip, it could easily miss your mouth and land on your face, eyes, hair, or even clothes. By that meter, manual control of the source would directly affect application of the substance to surrounding substrates & surfaces — perhaps according to, let's say, a Pollack scale (after the painter.)

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Not too much concentration, though, or you'll have a bad time.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

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[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

4 centuries or 4 millennia?

[–] quercus 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Written information from Europeans goes back four centuries, like the account from the 1600s about cultivated food forests. The archeological finds about consumption in general are much older.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I like to eat me some fresh nut.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Your momma enjoys nut milk.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

The “at least” in the title is absolutely essential.