Surprised Eel Historian, PhD: For my friends in England, it's election day! Happy voting to you all. Just remember: you have a long and proud history as a people who really fucking loved eels. Remember that, when you cast your vote. What would the eels want you to do? 🗃️🧪

For my friends in England, it's election day! Happy voting to you all. Just remember: you have a long and proud history as a people who really fucking loved eels. Remember that, when you cast your vote. What would the eels want you to do? 🗃️🧪

And Wales, and Scotland and Northern Ireland 😉

THANK YOU! I was sitting here stewing over the omission.

It’s England that has the very pronounced historical eel culture, much more so than the rest of Britain. Hence the wording

...you just missed a perfect opportunity to respond with a recipe for stewed eels... ;)

Sigh. You’re right

Ah, I hadn't really ever thought of that. I know we have Conger eels here in north Wales.

We'll celebrate our past by electing a slippery bastard into number ten, guaranteed.

Starmer’s more scaly than slippery.

Of course--they love them pickled & jellied...

Recently. But that's likely just in the last 150 years or so.

I dunno--seems like something Henry VIII would have eaten. TBF, tho, he'd pretty much eat anything.

I'm sure he would have! There's no evidence of jellied eels before the late 19th C., though. There *could* have been. Medieval people knew how to jelly things. But they don't appear in the historical record at all.

Good to know. I'll have to try to work this into a conversation sometime soon.

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