Here are some Ancient Egyptian Taboos, according to Food in the Ancient World by Joan P. Alcock (Greenwood Press, 2006) – or are they? You’ve got to spot which ones are tab-true and which ones are tab-not:
· Herodotus claimed that the Egyptians were not allowed to eat beans
· Herodotus was also responsible for present day Egyptologists believing for a long time that pork was taboo for the Egyptians.
· Herodotus said that Ancient Egyptians were not allowed their iPhone 4s in Mass. Only the iPhone 3 was permitted.
· Herodotus said that any Egyptian who accidentally touched a pig would have to purify himself in the Nile.
· Herodotus said that if you sat on a sort of fleece made out of like just a bit of poo or something then you couldn’t eat until you cried.
· Herodotus said that Egyptian priests were certainly forbidden to eat pork (although this might have been self-denying ordinance, rather than a taboo)
· Herodotus said if you did it up the bum with a camel, you got your head kicked in.
· Herodotus said that Egyptian priests considered it a religious duty to avoid salt, so they refused to eat food cooked with it.
· Herodotus said that it was taboo to not do Taboo’s dance break from ‘Pump It’ every time you heard any music in any context.
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