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Though they do have that nice spicy scent, akin to incense you'd smell at a Catholic Church, there is defo a hint of dry rot.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The British urge to eat mummies still going strong

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

My god this is an outrage, I was going to eat that mummy! Fry has got to go!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Described by William Dampier, a 17th-century British pirate as "extraordinary large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, they were eaten as medicine for centuries. Not to mention as a paint and possibly for fires...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Cat mummies have been used as fertilizer too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't mind the sun sometimes, the hieroglyphs it shows,

I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my gauze,

Cinnamon and sugary and softly mummified,

You never know just how to look through the all-seeing Horus eye.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There's a place for you in the valley of poets

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do they feel when you roll them under your tongue?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Smooth.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Or any kind of Englishman.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was going to eat that mummy! 😠

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oh good, I was worried.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

when I die I better be buried with some awesome cologne like these mummies!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The intoxicating bouquet of ancient microbes you have no immunity to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well and good but how is Kasparov and his lilac marigolds anything to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can I get this as a perfume? Maybe Axe could do a thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Axe: Spicy Pharaoh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Relevant Smithsonian article.

I’d probably skip on the animal fat and bitumen, but cedar, juniper, and cypress all smell pretty good.

Apparently the scent could also vary slightly depending on who was being embalmed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

i dunno, musky scents like that do have their place in the perfume world, in moderation.