{"id":13025,"date":"2018-08-06T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:47:59","slug":"charles-darwin-eating-habits","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/charles-darwin-eating-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Darwin Ate One of Everything He Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows Charles Darwin as the man who developed the theory of evolution itself as a means to explain gradual biological changes.\n

However, something that is little known about Darwin is the fact that he ate (at least) one of every specimen he ever discovered or studied.\n

Why was Darwin adventurous in his food?\n

\"A\n

Well for Darwin it all started during his time at Christ\u2019s College University in Cambridge.\n

During his studies here Darwin was the president of the University\u2019s “Glutton Club,” whose main objective was to find \u201cstrange flesh\u201d to eat as well as the \u201cbirds and beasts which were before unknown to the human palette.\u201d\n

The Christ\u2019s College website summarizes Darwin\u2019s days at University by saying this:\n

\u201cAlthough Darwin eventually did quite well in his final exams, most of his three years was spent eating exotic meats with his Glutton Club, drinking a bit too much, riding his horse, and of course collecting beetles.\u201d\n

The Glutton Club was a huge success, with many enlistees wanting to taste the flavors of faraway meats, but it all came crashing down with a rather disappointing and stringy brown owl.\n

Much to Darwin\u2019s dismay, the gastronomic society\u2019s members chose to focus instead \u201cupon the effects of the port accompanying their meat\u201d rather than the exotic meats themselves.\n

But luckily for the “Father of Evolution,” his culinary conquests didn\u2019t end with the Glutton Club, and he managed to have many more tasteful adventures aboard the HMS Beagle later on in life.\n

During his time on the Beagle, Darwin ate many types of meat, among which were armadillo, which he described as looking and tasting like duck, iguana, and an unnamed 20-pound brown-colored rodent which he described as \u201cthe best meat [he] ever tasted.”\n

Christmas Day…\n

\"A\n

Darwin\u2019s only culinary blunder came in the form of 1833\u2019s Christmas Day Dinner.\n

The ship\u2019s cook had managed to obtain a rhea (a large flightless bird akin to an emu that was native to Altiplano and Patagonia in South America) which he prepared and served up to Darwin.\n

Darwin wrote in his diary how, halfway through eating it, he realized he was eating an extremely rare Avestruz petise which he could otherwise be studying.\n

He leaped up from the table and tried to salvage the remains for research, being able to recover \u201cthe head and neck, the legs and many of the larger feathers\u201d.\n

As Darwin continued to travel he continued to discover more and more species, which he continued to eat one of… or more than one, depending on how great they tasted!\n

Just as you strive to learn something new every day it appeared that Darwin also strived to taste something new every day.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Darwin is known as the founder of the evolutionary theory, as well as making incredible discoveries about new species, especially on the Galapagos Islands. But with every new animal he found, he also ate! There’s a surprising reason behind this that you’ll be astounded to learn!\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"0","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"221596,871,8634,850","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"category":[5,8],"tags":[60,98],"topics":[129],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-food-drink","tag-meat","tag-men","topics-meat","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":{"tfs_sources":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.foodbeast.com\/news\/charles-darwin-eating-habits\/","title":"Foodbear","no_follow":false}],"tfs_previous_post_link":false,"tfs_next_post_link":false},"yoast_head":"

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