Fiji villagers to say sorry for eating British missionary

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Villagers in Fiji whose ancestors killed and ate a British missionary 136 years ago are to offer a traditional apology to his descendants.

The Rev Thomas Baker, of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, was killed in the remote mountain community of Navatusila in 1867, possibly after he took a comb out of a chief's hair. Touching the head of a chief was taboo in Fiji, once known as the Cannibal Isles.

His death helped to foster an image of missionaries as blundering proselytisers who inevitably ended up in a simmering pot surrounded by dancing natives.

The people of Navatusila want to atone for the sins of their ancestors because they believe they have been cursed by Mr Baker's death, with their village suffering a string of misfortunes.

Hollandaise sauce. ok, bad joke. but after 136 years, sometimes an apology seems a bit late... unless you're the pope.

Two Amimals talking and you see a hat on ground and the animals saying. 'Love those things, soft on the outside ane chewy on the inside'Always makes me laught just to think of it. I loved Far Side.

"Yum! Crunchy on the outside and chewy inside!"

Where's Larson when we need him?

Atlant

I have eaten
the minister
who was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold


(with apologies to William Carlos Williams)

Mad Cow Disease.....also known as Creutzfeld Jakob Disease in humans....

inherited disease resulting from canabilism.

Season 2 (1995), "Our Town". :evilgrin:

A remote Fiji mountain village which killed and ate an English missionary 136 years ago will next month offer a traditional apology.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)



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We're sorry we ate your missionary 136 years ago. According to our tribal lore, he looked tender and delicious, but turned out to be rather stringy. Please, if you lift the curse your volcano god has leveled upon us since that time, we will give his descendants the royal comb he liked so much.

And if you would be so kind, next time you send missionaries, can you pack them with some kind of cheese sauce?

Apologetically yours,
the people of Navatusila

:D

:evilgrin:
dbt

j/k

for the 136 odd years of trying to wipe out Fijian culture?

missionaries planted things that grew thorns! They've taken Hawaiian lands from its people while they starve and live in poverty. Yet, the land just sits idle...not to mention that it isn't the best land! What people have done in the name of God is hellacious in their holier than thou, puritanical attitudes! :puke:

Look at all the indigenous peoples of the world and weep! It mirrors what we've done to this planet...

Those natives shouldn't have to appologise to anyone!
If some missionary came to my house & put his hand on my gf's butt I'd kick his ass.

Man: Um, er...excuse me, um, are you... are you suggesting we should eat my mother? (pause)
Undertaker: Yeah. Not raw, not raw. We cook her. She'd be delicious with a few french fries, a bit of stuffing. Delicious! (smacks his lips)
Man: What! (he stammers) (pause)
Man: Actually, I do feel a bit peckish - No! NO, I can't!
Undertaker: Look, we'll eat your mum. Then, if you feel a bit guilty about it afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can throw up into it.
Man: All right.

I can't eat him! He's not Kosher!

Absolutely none! And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount . . .

well you learn something new everyday.

WPE (in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms, and garlic... yum yum).

"feed my people"?

Well Rev Thomas Baker did just that!

Pass the marmalade. Yum. Yum. Eat'em up.

:grr:

public apology for ancestors. That is interesting. 136 years interesting historically.

A curse?:wtf:

"Fiji is now staunchly Christian and many Fijians regard their cannibal heritage as primitive and embarrassing."

but

"The people of Navatusila want to atone for the sins of their ancestors because they believe they have been cursed by Mr Baker's death, with their village suffering a string of misfortunes."


Does anybody but me see a bit of cognitive dissonance there?

:)

I can see the ads now...

Anyone got any spare airmiles to send to Tony Blair, for his Xmas break abroad?

A previous poster mentioned the danger of Mad Cow Disease. All British beef is a bit suspect...

Hmmm. Some have been wondering about Tony's recent nosedive in mental status. Could he have ingested a contaminated bit of prime rib?

you don't have to apologize.

Before I clicked on the link to this thread, I thought "PLEASE let this have happened, like, a hundred years ago..."


rocknation

for putting clothes on all the natives?

Now that the curse has affected them, oh sure, NOW they're sorry...

Right next to the mashed potatoes.

Ba boom!
Thank you ladies and germs.
I'll be here all week.

Nice one.

Covered in a nice bacon drippings gravy?

pat robertson could feed a family

"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I got British missionary in my tummy)". They later recorded the follow-up hit: "Chewy, Chewy"!
:wow:

i wonder - what's their definition of "apology"?
think i'd rather not find out!