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Line 32: == [[Literature]] == * The Patrician in the very first ''[[Discworld]]'' book, ''[[~~Discworld/The Colour of Magic\|~~The Colour of Magic]]'', dined on candied jellyfish. Strangely enough, [[Word of God]] says that this is actually Lord Vetinari, perhaps written by a younger and less experienced author (in later books, he eats only bread and water). The unnamed crazy gluttonous Patrician in ''[[~~Discworld/The Colour of Magic\|~~The Colour of Magic]]'' almost exactly matches later descriptions of Mad Lord Snapcase, Vetinari's predecessor, and [[Fanon\|in fandom's consensus]] ''is'' Snapcase. He might've indeed been the ''original'' Pratchett's image of Vetinari, but it's evident that the character was ''heavily'' retooled for the Watch subseries. Apparently, the original fat and crazy Patrician lost the Vetinari's name and became Mad Lord Snapcase, while Vetinari became the [[Magnificent Bastard]] we all know and love. Also, jellyfish is neither exotic (at least in some places on Earth), nor endangered. Jellyfish salad is a common ''hors d'oevre'' in Chinese cuisine, and jellyfish biomass is species-wise comparable with ''normal'' fishes. * Hagrid comments that in the [[Harry Potter (novel)\|Harry Potter]]-verse, only the evil or desperate harm or eat a Unicorn. Voldemort had his reasons, but the implication is that others had done it too. Line 84: == Real Life == * The animals in the Paris zoo were slaughtered for consumption by the rich near the end of the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. The resulting "feast" of meat auctioned off included antelope, camels, deer, kangaroo, yaks, zebra, and (most infamously) [[Wikipedia:Castor and Pollux (elephants)\|two elephants]], the first of which suffered horribly because nobody knew how to kill an elephant. The zookeepers acknowledged they could never keep feeding the animals and ''not'' eating them would be wasteful, and even when prepared by the best chefs of Paris elephant was "tough, coarse, and oily". Despite this the non-rich were undergoing mass starvation at the time, so the event was heavily demonized in the late/post-war class conflict. === Propaganda -- Cultural Rivalry === * Romans accused early Christians of practicing cannibalism and blood drinking by distorting the meaning of Christian communion.