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So why isn't this place called "hippodroppings.com"
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:43 pm
Every once in a while, the Algorithm serves up one of those "no sh!t" stories, and today was the day that I learned that back in 1910, we came thisclose to being the home of all things hippopotamus.
YouTube food-blogger Arseny Knaifel -- a-k-a "My Name Is Andong" -- posted a fun story about how a Louisiana representative Robert F. "Bubba" Broussard (OK, I made up his nickname) proposed introducing hippos to the swamps of south Louisiana. Says Andong
The Smithsonian seems to think that "ya man, it's true": LINK
YouTube food-blogger Arseny Knaifel -- a-k-a "My Name Is Andong" -- posted a fun story about how a Louisiana representative Robert F. "Bubba" Broussard (OK, I made up his nickname) proposed introducing hippos to the swamps of south Louisiana. Says Andong
The Smithsonian seems to think that "ya man, it's true": LINK
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The only one way to solve both problems at once, argued Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard, was to embrace hippopotamus ranching. On March 24, 1910, Broussard stood before the House Committee on Agriculture to lay out the details of his “American Hippo Bill” (House Resolution 23261).
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Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:48 pm to DoctorTechnical
a new level of hippocracy
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:51 pm to Kafka
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was to embrace hippopotamus ranching
The emu lobby fought this hard
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:51 pm to DoctorTechnical
The podcast The Dollop has a good older episode on the Louisiana hippo plan.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:53 pm to DoctorTechnical
If people won't embrace nutria widespread as a food source, they's aint gonna be eatin' "swamp bacon" either.
The article says that they would lose weight on a water hyacinth diet.
The article says that they would lose weight on a water hyacinth diet.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:53 pm to Kafka
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a new level of hippocracy
I heard he pledged to see his vision come true.
Made a Hippocratic Oath
Posted on 11/20/24 at 5:55 pm to DoctorTechnical
Do Hippos eat crawfish?
Prices going to explode.
Prices going to explode.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:06 pm to DoctorTechnical
Hippos are way more alpha than tigers.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:13 pm to NotoriousFSU
quote:The Louisiana Fighting Hippos
Hippos are way more alpha than tigers
Worked behind Union Army lines to ensure no soldiers were mis-gendered through incorrect pronouns and use of dead names
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:15 pm to DoctorTechnical
NOLA would be a sporty place.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:16 pm to DoctorTechnical
I like chicagodroppings.com better
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:18 pm to MrWhipple
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Do Hippos eat crawfish?
They took an oath.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:38 pm to DoctorTechnical
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The only one way to solve both problems at once, argued Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard, was to embrace hippopotamus ranching
That was a very flawed hippothesis.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:44 pm to DoctorTechnical
quote:they all post in the Lunch Thray fwiw
we came thisclose to being the home of all things hippopotamus
This post was edited on 11/20/24 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:44 pm to NotoriousFSU
Hippos are vegetarians so how could they be alpha?
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:58 pm to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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If people won't embrace nutria widespread as a food source, they's aint gonna be eatin' "swamp bacon" either
Wouldn't be the first chubby gal that I've eaten.
This post was edited on 11/20/24 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:58 pm to Sevensblue
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Hippos are vegetarians so how could they be alpha?
You don’t know shite about hippos.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 7:03 pm to Sevensblue
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Hippos are vegetarians so how could they be alpha?
Hippos, like almost all “herbivore” mammals, will absolutely eat meat from time to time.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 7:39 pm to Indefatigable
Hippos don’t eat meat you clown 
Posted on 11/20/24 at 8:07 pm to Kcrad
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NOLA would be a sporty place.
Before Pablo Escobar met his untimely demise, he had estates all over Colombia (probably the world). At one home he had a private zoo, which included a few hippos in the local river.
Twenty years or so after his death, the hippo population had exploded to the point where it was unsafe for locals to travel the river.
Hippos are apparently very territorial.
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