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nostalgia-tblr · 1 year ago

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thought 1 (reading fic that mentioned coffee): wait wait wait... if asgard is essentially 'Medieval Scandanavia Plus Magic' do they have coffee or not? if they visit earth from space then presumably they could visit all of it they wanted to, so the Columbian Exchange not having happened yet wouldn't be an issue for them, would it?

thought 2: but you'd have to remember not to mention potatoes if you got summoned by a devout viking or it could get kind of awkward

thought 3: well maybe that's why leif erikson knew there'd be more land to the west

#i left this in Draft because i was a bit ashamed #BUT! i need to know what other people think re: Asgard and whether they have things from both sides of the Atlantic or not!#i don't think vikings would have had oranges yet either? but they did get around a fair bit so maybe they have legends of oranges?#blew my mind when i realised that we call red hair red cos we didn't have orange as a colour term yet #(ironically(?) the dutch call them 'chinese apples' and orange the place name is just a coincidence)

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