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lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe wiki says
This was long thought by many to be simply a dietary proscription, and often ridiculed, but many consider it to have originally been intended as advice against getting involved in politics, for voting on issues in his time was often done by using differently colored beans. Others have stated that it might signify a more general admonition against relying on the votes of people to determine truths of reality.
Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I’ve heard that, and I’ve also heard that a third of the Greek population had a severe, potentially deadly, allergy to fava beans, called “favism” due to an inability to produce a proper enzyme to digest them.
Which, would warrant keeping a proscriptive wide berth from them.