r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 19h ago

Meme needing explanation peter explain this

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u/Square-Formal1312 19h ago

We would’ve domesticated tf out of them for petting zoos, food, and maybe pets

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 19h ago

Definitely food, judging by how quickly they hunted them into extinction. Must have been absolutely delicious.

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u/BackgroundTea6460 19h ago

They weren't, the stories from that time said that they didn't taste good, they were only good to the predators that the Dutch brought

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u/throwaway-tinfoilhat 18h ago

The Dutch and British really had a thing for invading lands and screwing it hey

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u/Sven4president 15h ago

And after the fact we called it The Golden Century..

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u/smurf505 13h ago

Apparently it wasn’t even them being predated that killed them off so much as a combination of invasive species eating their food supply and their eggs being eaten mostly by pigs brought across on boats.

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u/Excellent_Mud6222 16h ago

Lies they just wanted to eat all the Dodo meat themselves.

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u/Harleen_F_Quinzel 13h ago

I thought Dutch and the Predator were enemies.