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Okay. I just threw up a little in my mouth. [Feb. 14th, 2007|05:30 pm]
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On this Valentines Day it is very important that women keep their virtue... Cisit the link above. :)

When the French King Louis XIV died, his heart was preserved. Many years later it was eaten by William Buckland, the Dean of Westminster, who saw it sitting in a jar on the mantelpiece at a home he was visiting, and mistook it for a pickled walnut.
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[User Picture]From: actionjack
2007-02-14 11:44 pm (UTC)
What??? I can't imagine those being the same size...
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:17 pm (UTC)
Well.. yearslater. Drying out and such?
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[User Picture]From: actionjack
2007-02-15 11:34 pm (UTC)
Hm. I guess I'll call myself fortunate for not having been exposed to many disembodied hearts.

I wonder if he ate the whole thing.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:52 pm (UTC)
I kinda don't want to think on it too hard. ;)
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[User Picture]From: starlit_picnic
2007-02-15 12:28 am (UTC)
mmmm heart yummy,
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:18 pm (UTC)
*gag*
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[User Picture]From: poop_on_a_stick
2007-02-15 01:30 am (UTC)
The tiny heart of a king!
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:21 pm (UTC)
*shudder*
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:27 pm (UTC)
lol,what is? ;)
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-16 05:13 am (UTC)
haha. ;)
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[User Picture]From: runeenigma
2007-02-15 05:40 am (UTC)
::shakes head:: That . . .

No words.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:29 pm (UTC)
lol, right?
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[User Picture]From: sparkles
2007-02-15 09:33 am (UTC)
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:34 pm (UTC)
*STARE* Wow.

Thank you. :)
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[User Picture]From: sparkles
2007-02-16 07:57 pm (UTC)
You're VERY welcome. *DROOOOOOLLLLSSSS*****
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[User Picture]From: zibacco
2007-02-15 10:45 pm (UTC)
MMmmmmm. Preserved king heart.

The only thing better is preserved empress liver.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-15 11:51 pm (UTC)
LOL. Oh man.
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[User Picture]From: randomdan
2007-02-16 08:54 am (UTC)
I never know what to believe. Of Buckland, Wikipedia says:

Not only was his house filled with specimens - animal as well as mineral, live as well as dead - but he claimed to have eaten his way through the animal kingdom, the most distateful items being mole and bluebottle. Panther, crocodile and mouse are among the dishes recorded by his dinner guests. Augustus Hare, a famous English raconteur and contemporary, recalled, “Talk of strange relics led to mention of the heart of a French King preserved at Nuneham in a silver casket. Dr. Buckland, whilst looking at it, exclaimed, ‘I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king before,’ and, before anyone could hinder him, he had gobbled it up, and the precious relic was lost for ever.” The heart in question is said to have been that of Louis XIV.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-16 08:56 am (UTC)
Oooh. Interesting!

So the intention and circumstances of the heart eating are in question. I'll do more research.

Either way...eeeeeew.
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[User Picture]From: lynphoenyx
2007-02-16 05:58 pm (UTC)
lol I love that vid :D I wonder what someone from the era of real videos like that would think of it.

About heart, I was all ugh because it was a heart and who the heck eats pickled anything besides actual pickles?! Then I laughed at the size difference in a heart and walnut and wondered if all kings hearts were that size :)

ALSO, why would they pickle his heart?!
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2007-02-17 01:32 am (UTC)
*shudder*

I think they gott a be a lot smaller after years of dehydratuiion, and such?
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[User Picture]From: lynphoenyx
2007-02-17 06:36 pm (UTC)
ah see I was thinking of other nasty pickled items like pickled pigs feet..I have never and will never try them...well not w/out some huge cash payoff at the end ;) Anyway, my original thought was that it was in a clear container still in the pickling juice....blah..just saying that makes my stomach hurt.
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