Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders

Reuters ^ | 23 Aug 2006 | Catherine Bremer

[Marius3188]

BBQ ping!

[nickcarraway]

I've never seen a good recipe for conquistidor.

[ClearCase_guy]

Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site

Go Yale!

[Mount Athos]

What's interesting about this is so many mainstream historians dismissed the account by the conquistadors as wild exaggeration, utter fabrication, based on bigotry against natives etc... Well it turns out the spanish simply told the plain truth in their accounts on this one...

[RexBeach]

Ah yes, the noble savage.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Mmm...new official US immigration policy - announce that captured illegals will get the "aztec treatment".

[No Truce With Kings]

"I've never seen a good recipe for conquistidor."

That's because you have to cook them slowly to get them tender. You are better off cooking the monks that accompanied them -- especially the Friars.

[pikachu]

I've never seen a good recipe for conquistidor.

It wasn't so much the recipe but the presentation. They would serve the cooked Spaniards on their own armor which was the first time a Mexican waiter said, 'Careful, the plate is hot'.

[Constitution Day]

But they were noble savages, so much more advanced than the depraved Europeans!

[N. Theknow]

I've never seen a good recipe for conquistidor.

There are different ones for male and female.

Cause sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

[Alouette]

<tree-hugging liberal>Oh, but the indigenous native pipples were so peaceful and completely at one with the environment! It must have been the eeeville white European occupying oppressors who provoked them.</tree-hugging liberal>

[FreedomProtector]

"Some pregnant women in the group had their unborn babies stabbed inside their bellies as part of the ritual."

America worships the same pagan gods today.

[MrEdd]

Oh! The humanity!

[brothers4thID]

Well of course they cooked them first- boiling kills off the smallpox, don't you know.

[dfwgator]

I've never seen a good recipe for conquistidor.

I've heard they taste just like chicken.

[Constitution Day]

They would serve the cooked Spaniards on their own armor which was the first time a Mexican waiter said, 'Careful, the plate is hot'.

LOL!!

[xroadie]

It sounds like ethnic cleansing, noble savage-style.

[12th_Monkey]

"Some pregnant women in the group had their unborn babies stabbed inside their bellies as part of the ritual."

America worships the same pagan gods today.

I give you a 9.9 out of 10.0 for that comment....

[SunkenCiv]

And for dessert, lady fingers! Thanks Marius3188.

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