Jabrosky
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This was a concept that pinged up in my mind after looking up the history of pizza and Attila the Hun.
Most accounts of Attila's life claim that he died at a wedding feast, either due to a severe nosebleed that choked him or to internal bleeding after over-drinking. However, some historians have recently cast doubt on this:
What if Emperor Marcian used pizza to poison Attila the Hun?
The only thing Marcian would have needed on that pizza to hurt Attila would be cheese. Since cheese is a milk product, the lactose in it might not have squared well with the great Asian warlord's digestive system. He might get very sick at best, making him weak and vulnerable to an assassin's blade.
So I have a couple of questions:
1) Could the cheese in pizza trigger sickness for lactose-intolerant people?
2) I don't think lactose sickness is usually deadly, but could it make someone weak enough to kill with greater ease?
EDIT: Hope this doesn't offend any Asian people in this forum...
Most accounts of Attila's life claim that he died at a wedding feast, either due to a severe nosebleed that choked him or to internal bleeding after over-drinking. However, some historians have recently cast doubt on this:
On the same day, I also learned that pizza, my favorite dish of Italian origin, had a Roman-era precursor in the form of panis focacius, a flatbread on which they would put toppings. Combining these two facts produced the following what-if question:Based on detailed philological analysis, Babcock concludes that the account of natural death, given by Priscus, was an ecclesiastical "cover story" and that Emperor Marcian (who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 450 to 457) was the political force behind Attila's death.
What if Emperor Marcian used pizza to poison Attila the Hun?
The only thing Marcian would have needed on that pizza to hurt Attila would be cheese. Since cheese is a milk product, the lactose in it might not have squared well with the great Asian warlord's digestive system. He might get very sick at best, making him weak and vulnerable to an assassin's blade.
So I have a couple of questions:
1) Could the cheese in pizza trigger sickness for lactose-intolerant people?
2) I don't think lactose sickness is usually deadly, but could it make someone weak enough to kill with greater ease?
EDIT: Hope this doesn't offend any Asian people in this forum...
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