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By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:36:55 +0000

Even cultures that lack fried dough often have a fried dough truck, with minidonuts.

By: joshuaz

joshuaz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:42:28 +0000

Oh, if only every culture had fried dough…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:06:40 +0000

We need a cultural convocation of the elves. I’d love to see them all lined up!

By: ralfmuschall

ralfmuschall — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:11:05 +0000

Not knowing much about european mythology, I had to go to Wikipedia. Result: Germanic mythology has no flood (unless we accept the drowning of some giants in the blood of a slain monster as a flood, and even that might be a later christian modification). So, besides being wrong, the phrase doesn’t even work as an eurocentric one.

By: Bob O`Bob

Bob O`Bob — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:45:23 +0000

Let’s just hope that every culture has an antidote.

By: peicurmudgeon

peicurmudgeon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:00:15 +0000

I can see where most of the others came from. But this:

Every culture has a jewel that pops out the berries

just boggles my mind. I really want a berry popping jewel.

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:47:32 +0000

I’m almost positive that every culture has some way of inducing an altered state — be it drugs, drumming, chant, meditation. It seems to be part of human nature to seek altered states of mind. (Hell, little kids will spin around in circles until they get dizzy just for the altered state of mind it produces.)

By: mkoormtbaalt

mkoormtbaalt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:26:22 +0000

Every culture has people.

By: ah58

ah58 — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:36:37 +0000

Every culture has a food that resembles Swedish meatballs. (I can’t remember which SciFi canon that was from. B5 maybe?)

By: Monado, FCD

Monado, FCD — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:31:07 +0000

Every culture has a sacred cow? (In Western civ. I think it’s been the historicity of Jesus until recently.)