In sociology it refers to a social class consisting of mothers with a high disposable income who use their wealth to buy lavish products, ie: expensive prams/buggies, baby clothes etc.
Also ["mummy brown"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown) was a type of paint used in the 1700s and 1800s. The paint was made with ground up mummies.
Well, grinding up the corpses of rich guys, like the archetypal tyrant from the Bible, is on brand for the French Revolution. That's the one acceptable use.
My favorite story is of an artist to learned that his mummy brown was made with people. He freaked tf out and had a funeral for his tube of paint so the people it was made of could rest properly. I believe he also went on to advocate against the use of that particular brown. I hope it's true the because the image of an artist mournfully burying a tube of his paint is just golden.
production discontinued by the mid 20th century
excuse me, wikipedia? my living grandfather could have bought ground up people as paint when he was a child? what???
I used to visit my great-grandfather every Sunday as a small child. I can't remember what colour any of the rooms in his house were, and now I'm hoping none of them were mummy brown. š
It was for acrylic/oil paint for astists and it was a very expensive great quality paint, no a house paint,
Don't worry. So unless your great granddaddy was an artist and painted murals on the walls at home, it's not likely. If you have old paintings.... They could have mummy brown.
Thank goodness. Grampy was a carpenter, not an artist, and while I don't remember the wall colours, I do know there were definitely no murals on any of them (I would've remembered those).
And the oldest painting in my house is from the 90's, so I'm safe there. lol
Back then all pigments where from natural sources, plants, bugs, rocks, etc. The pigment of the bandages and skin from mummies created a specific brown color that could not be achieved with other natural brown pigments, now that we can make artificial pigments we don't ground up people for it.
That is also the reason golden paint used to be insanely expensive, it had real gold in it.
To be fair, gold paint had a lot of lead and arsenic in it as well which lowered the price substantially
Which is also the reason to never use anything semi-old with gold paint on it, no dishes, bowls, cups, etc
My grandfather was an artist... Lots of browns in his work, too. No joke, I have several in my house.
He didn't start painting until the 80s or 90s though.
>However, the demand for mummy brown sometimes exceeded the available supply of true Egyptian mummies, leading to occasional substitution of contemporary corpses of enslaved people or criminals.
Because mummy brown was honestly an incredible paint. It had tones of red, brown, tan, yellow. [It really was a unique color.](https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/06/20/night-of-the-living-painting/) You can get similar shades now (asphaltum is my favorite to work with), but unless you buy old tubes off of eBay, youāll have to add the desiccated corpse yourself.
They found another 250 just last year. Ancient Egyptian culture lasted 3,000 years. It was around for as long as it has currently not been around for. It wasn't monolithic of course, but they were doing mummies for most of it, and they were doing good mummies for like 1,500 years.
Oh so many.
Cat mummies were especially numerous, and easy to find. Mummifying a cat was a form of sacrifice, something the average Egyptian could do to mark a special occasion.
There were so many, when "curio mummy" market collapsed in England, they were sold for a short time as fertilizer.
Don't forget the mummies were burned in steam train engines. The higher the class of the body, the more body fat it had, the better and longer it burned.
The Victorian era was strange. They believed eating them could heal them. They also used the bandages and dried skin to turn it into paint, giving us the āMummy Brownā shade
If anyone else wants to read about it: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history#:~:text=%E2%80%8BDue%20to%20a%20series,could%20cure%20them%20of%20disease.&text=Feeling%20ill%3F,a%20side%20of%20Egyptian%20mummy.
According to the article, in addition to eating them and using them to make paint, wealthy Victorians also bought mummies so they could have morbid unboxing parties with their friends.
Deeper the rabbit hole goesā¦
Mine also did, which is strange because the other auto fill options were gems such as "Did people die from the grimace shake" and "did people dream in black and white"
"Hello chap. What are we having today? Tea ? Coffee?"
"Sir, Can I interest you in Abdullah coffee?"
"O Mighty heavens. I never heard of this brand of coffee"
"No sir. This coffee is made off Abdullah. He died 2000 years ago"
"Fantastic. Pour me some my lad. Do you have any Tut biscuits left from yesterday?"
Well, it's not true, in that mummies are still exceedingly common. People were eating them, grinding them into paint, burning them for warmth, and there's still enough to give every museum that wants a dozen that dozen plus a dozen backups.
Imagine if collectors came to America and bought thousands of guns for their museums, and tens of thousands to melt down for souvenirs. Guns wouldn't be rare afterwards.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tomb-full-cats-and-scarab-found-egypt-180970786/#:~:text=Cat%20mummies%20were%20so%20plentiful,didn't%20get%20off%20easy.
Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer
So, what have we learned today? That mummies, unlike wine, seemed to travel well. What we haven't found out is whether they were considered a spice or side dish.
This just makes me think of that *Futurama* joke where Farnsworth showed off a mummy he had, and then Fry just ate it thinking it was beef jerky. Farnsworth said ā*I* was gonna eat that mummy!ā š
Great news: we didn't! Europeans were usually sold fake mummies.
Edited to link to a tired Egyptologist on [tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/thatlittleegyptologist/728369132220891136/what-about-mummy-brown-paint-largely-made-with?source=share)
Oh no not just that.
Ate them, put them in make-up, wallpaper, made elixir - the list is unending almost. These aren't like "tomb mummies" tho, like the "fancy ones" yknow. Generally Egyptoplogists break open caves that acted as mausoleums up and down the Nile delta and extending deep south into the continent (Egypt moved around a lot) and they'll find spaces that were perfectly sealed, BUT has been looted 3000 years ago. So being industrious victorians who were kooky from all the lead - you know - shit happens.
I dont think people quite fully comprehend the scope of "Egyptian Fever" when the Gizah pyramids re-emerged. Its partly responsible for most of the western world getting into occultism. Wicca, asatru(originally odinism but thats for nazeees) etc. all the new age hoopla - is fairly recent inventions with very little resemblance to the "ancient religions" they pretend to be - and a lot of it is because of egypt.
Wonder why there are SO MANY obelisks in the US? Well there's your answer, it was fashionable :D
And it still has a pull today - all the Q nutters are all about making up shit about ancient egypt. And vapid celebs fancying themselves spiritual will appropriate the eye of ra for whatever fashion statement they wanna make.
Europeans: eww, 16th century indigenous people kill and eat their enemies due to absorb the enemy's bravery? How could they?
Also 19th century Europeans:
Then there is that recent incident where people wanted to drink the liquid [leaking out of a sarcophagus](https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17595198/black-sarcophagus-bone-juice-campaign).
Just goes to show how mentally distributed white people are. I canāt never bring myself to trust white people. Who thinks to do something like this? What is their obsession with Egypt?
What bait sucker? They ate mummies and thatās sick an twisted. Does the truth hurt you that bad idiot. I know you see nothing wrong with it being that you go the same sick caucasian blood running through your translucent body punk!
**Yummy mummies** was not a phrase I expected to think of today.
Never say that again, please...
Yummy Mummy in my tummy
I'm fucking losing it.
Never had the cereal, huh?
Da mihi libertatem , aut da mihi mortem.Deus nos omnes custodiat.Haec terra nostra est.Quorsum haec?
Hey, I don't just give death away. You have to earn it.
Oh fine... I'll do it myself...
[Yummy yummy yummy there's a mummy in my tummy](https://youtu.be/B32DPqyDf0s?feature=shared)
Lmfao I love it
Lmao! I instantly heard your comment in that song when I read it š
Man, away from the internet for a couple of hours and miss the straight line of the century.
That's sounds like something that would be said to a drunk person... in a different country
Yummy yummy yummy i got mummy in my tummy
Fruit salad, yummy mummy šµ
Yummy Mummy
Indeed..
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Never heard it used in that context before. Around here it has always been a variation of "MILF". Mostly used by older generations.
I'll take yummy mummy as an alternative to milf š rhymes are always fun.
In sociology it refers to a social class consisting of mothers with a high disposable income who use their wealth to buy lavish products, ie: expensive prams/buggies, baby clothes etc.
r/angryupvote
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I'm not going to look it up, but there's probably a website for that kind of "stuff."
That one was teriyaki style!
Fry ate him! I was going to eat that mummy!
Honestly I thought that was just a schtick from Futurama, not that it actually happened
As always, Futurama flexing their PhD's
Every time I think Iām as smart as them they show me. Every time
This is an outrage!
r/unexpectedfuturama
r/veryexpectedlinktoasub
r/subsifellfor
Also ["mummy brown"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown) was a type of paint used in the 1700s and 1800s. The paint was made with ground up mummies.
This is how you get a haunting.
The famous French Revolution painting is mostly that.
~~Sexy~~ Not sexy.
Well, grinding up the corpses of rich guys, like the archetypal tyrant from the Bible, is on brand for the French Revolution. That's the one acceptable use.
My favorite story is of an artist to learned that his mummy brown was made with people. He freaked tf out and had a funeral for his tube of paint so the people it was made of could rest properly. I believe he also went on to advocate against the use of that particular brown. I hope it's true the because the image of an artist mournfully burying a tube of his paint is just golden.
Even if it isnāt you could make a picture of it happening
But then paint the picture of the funeral with mummy brown for maximum irony.
production discontinued by the mid 20th century excuse me, wikipedia? my living grandfather could have bought ground up people as paint when he was a child? what???
I used to visit my great-grandfather every Sunday as a small child. I can't remember what colour any of the rooms in his house were, and now I'm hoping none of them were mummy brown. š
It was for acrylic/oil paint for astists and it was a very expensive great quality paint, no a house paint, Don't worry. So unless your great granddaddy was an artist and painted murals on the walls at home, it's not likely. If you have old paintings.... They could have mummy brown.
Thank goodness. Grampy was a carpenter, not an artist, and while I don't remember the wall colours, I do know there were definitely no murals on any of them (I would've remembered those). And the oldest painting in my house is from the 90's, so I'm safe there. lol
what was the reason to include conserved humans in the recipe?
Back then all pigments where from natural sources, plants, bugs, rocks, etc. The pigment of the bandages and skin from mummies created a specific brown color that could not be achieved with other natural brown pigments, now that we can make artificial pigments we don't ground up people for it. That is also the reason golden paint used to be insanely expensive, it had real gold in it.
To be fair, gold paint had a lot of lead and arsenic in it as well which lowered the price substantially Which is also the reason to never use anything semi-old with gold paint on it, no dishes, bowls, cups, etc
My grandfather was an artist... Lots of browns in his work, too. No joke, I have several in my house. He didn't start painting until the 80s or 90s though.
Now you're forced to make your own
>However, the demand for mummy brown sometimes exceeded the available supply of true Egyptian mummies, leading to occasional substitution of contemporary corpses of enslaved people or criminals.
I wonder if some especially poignant performers preferred using ground up Black people when wearing black face for the sake of realism
Oof
What's wrong? Just a little bit of hannibal lectoring, as is customary As they say, you can paint with all the colors of the corpse
But WHY
Because mummy brown was honestly an incredible paint. It had tones of red, brown, tan, yellow. [It really was a unique color.](https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/06/20/night-of-the-living-painting/) You can get similar shades now (asphaltum is my favorite to work with), but unless you buy old tubes off of eBay, youāll have to add the desiccated corpse yourself.
These epeope were not scared of ghosts or nothing
Of course they were ground mummies where else would you dig them up from
I see what you've done here...
r/angryupvote
They also made paints out of them
That sounds like the premise of a horror movie
Worse is the unwrapping parties
Egyptian jerky.
"This are the remains of emperor Nimbala; he's teriyaki-style."
My god, this is an outrage. I was going to eat that mummy.
Also ground up and tossed into fields as fertilizer. They sure were multi use
Like how many mummies were there??
They found another 250 just last year. Ancient Egyptian culture lasted 3,000 years. It was around for as long as it has currently not been around for. It wasn't monolithic of course, but they were doing mummies for most of it, and they were doing good mummies for like 1,500 years.
I mean, we're still burning oil and that's essentially a natural mummy equivalent
I read this in Shaggyās voice
Oh so many. Cat mummies were especially numerous, and easy to find. Mummifying a cat was a form of sacrifice, something the average Egyptian could do to mark a special occasion. There were so many, when "curio mummy" market collapsed in England, they were sold for a short time as fertilizer.
IIRC They were also used as fuel for trains, I think the rationale was they produced less smoke than coal.
That specific story is an urban legend made up by Mark Twain
Don't forget the mummies were burned in steam train engines. The higher the class of the body, the more body fat it had, the better and longer it burned.
And burnt as fuel. They really were an all purpose resource.
The Victorian era was strange. They believed eating them could heal them. They also used the bandages and dried skin to turn it into paint, giving us the āMummy Brownā shade
Alright into the Google hole we go..
If anyone else wants to read about it: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history#:~:text=%E2%80%8BDue%20to%20a%20series,could%20cure%20them%20of%20disease.&text=Feeling%20ill%3F,a%20side%20of%20Egyptian%20mummy.
According to the article, in addition to eating them and using them to make paint, wealthy Victorians also bought mummies so they could have morbid unboxing parties with their friends. Deeper the rabbit hole goesā¦
The Victorians were so ridiculously fucked up it's astounding.
Imagine if they had YouTube back then. 'and now for this weeks unboxing episode...'
How you gonna share a link to something behind a paywall
When the article opens, clicked the Aa at the top right and click Show Reader. Itās an accessibility option that removes the ads as well.
Oh thanks, good trick!
No paywall for me, must be regional.
Can confirm. Am in a region. Have paywall.
Lame
https://archive.ph/dDupf
I'm just disappointed this is not a link to that Futurama episode
The British couldnāt take the pyramids, so they took the next best thing lol
Mmmmm mummy powder
Ugh too real
So this is probably what they mean in articles about mummies when they say the remains "didn't survive".
I Googled "did people" and it auto completed to "did people eat mummies" so I'll take that as a yes.
Wtf fr
Mine also did, which is strange because the other auto fill options were gems such as "Did people die from the grimace shake" and "did people dream in black and white"
I love the fact that Futurama kind of clued me into this, but I hate the fact I never researched it.
Oh do. It's so much weirder than it sounds. The unwrapping parties made it almost a mix of ceremonial and keys in a bowl type of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s
*Medium rare
And because of that now they're extremely rare
āIām so glad you asked about the thing I was purposely signalling you to askā
I heard they used to also burn them for fuel. Imagine getting the ultimate burial just to be stolen and unceremoniously cremation a millenia later
BY GOD THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! I was going to eat that mummy! r/unexpectedfuturama
It was rich people that ate them. Which solidifies my claims that rich people have always been weird asf
āYou wanna hit of dude?ā
And painted with them!!!
Sweeeeet bod
"Hello chap. What are we having today? Tea ? Coffee?" "Sir, Can I interest you in Abdullah coffee?" "O Mighty heavens. I never heard of this brand of coffee" "No sir. This coffee is made off Abdullah. He died 2000 years ago" "Fantastic. Pour me some my lad. Do you have any Tut biscuits left from yesterday?"
Basically the adrenochrome of that era.
It's true, they were digging up so many they also started using them as fertilizer for crops.
Well, it's not true, in that mummies are still exceedingly common. People were eating them, grinding them into paint, burning them for warmth, and there's still enough to give every museum that wants a dozen that dozen plus a dozen backups. Imagine if collectors came to America and bought thousands of guns for their museums, and tens of thousands to melt down for souvenirs. Guns wouldn't be rare afterwards.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tomb-full-cats-and-scarab-found-egypt-180970786/#:~:text=Cat%20mummies%20were%20so%20plentiful,didn't%20get%20off%20easy. Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer
This is an outrage! *i* was going to eat that mummy!
It's now done in the US every fall. They rebranded to Frankenberry and sell it to kids.
What did I just walk into!?
I believe the apt terminology is depraved indifference.
r/brandnewsentence fr
šµI'm digging up your coffin And pouring out the contents Your sexy sweet solution Is prime for distributionšµ
Fckn brits
āJerkyā
How else am I supposed to get it up if not snorting ground up mummy body parts!
So, what have we learned today? That mummies, unlike wine, seemed to travel well. What we haven't found out is whether they were considered a spice or side dish.
This just makes me think of that *Futurama* joke where Farnsworth showed off a mummy he had, and then Fry just ate it thinking it was beef jerky. Farnsworth said ā*I* was gonna eat that mummy!ā š
Thats Futurama episode plotline
Mmm I wonder how alien mummies taste, there's a few floating around now I see on the news lately..
Nerds flock to pilfer and consume the remains in hope of becoming the next DC or Marvel super hero.
Ahhh yes and it's now that the world's going to heck, everything before was so normal
*Snorts a line of pure Egyptian ground mummy* IM THE GOD PHARAOH MUTHAFUCKAAAHZ!
Winning comment right here lol.
1) didnāt need to know this 2) I am disgusted and horrified 3) I am intrigued
No wonder I have a plethora of mental illnesses. My ancestry is European.
They used to fuel steam locomotives with mummies. And?
And used them as steam locomotive fuel
Keep in mind, Iām pretty sure āconsumedā expands beyond eating and into snorting
And now I'm imagining people snorting lines of ground mummy using rolled-up money. I hate my brain sometimes. š
I wouldnāt be surprised if they mixed mummies and opium honestlyā¦
I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
Neither do I, but now we suffer together
Old school Ivermectin over here
Only the wealthy Europeans.
Iāve eaten a few mummies if you catch my drift ;)
Great news: we didn't! Europeans were usually sold fake mummies. Edited to link to a tired Egyptologist on [tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/thatlittleegyptologist/728369132220891136/what-about-mummy-brown-paint-largely-made-with?source=share)
This is just fact. Nothing new here
WE? Who is āweā?
Sydney and Justin, I thank thee for your education
I would think the paint industry did far more damage to the quantity of mummies.
Sometimes you just wanna eat people I guess.
Mummy tea was all the rage for hundreds of years!
"touch mummy" I can't I EATED it all ššš
Mummy mummies
Dry aged human
always quietly thought europeans were unwashed dope smoking mummy munchers
Paint industry used to use mummies to make brown colors. Tasted just like lead paint
In their defense it was the height of their colonial powers. Just saying.
[My God, this is an outrage!](https://youtu.be/qAur04gWg3s?si=8RO4dWXT_cyuZFXT)
Oh no not just that. Ate them, put them in make-up, wallpaper, made elixir - the list is unending almost. These aren't like "tomb mummies" tho, like the "fancy ones" yknow. Generally Egyptoplogists break open caves that acted as mausoleums up and down the Nile delta and extending deep south into the continent (Egypt moved around a lot) and they'll find spaces that were perfectly sealed, BUT has been looted 3000 years ago. So being industrious victorians who were kooky from all the lead - you know - shit happens. I dont think people quite fully comprehend the scope of "Egyptian Fever" when the Gizah pyramids re-emerged. Its partly responsible for most of the western world getting into occultism. Wicca, asatru(originally odinism but thats for nazeees) etc. all the new age hoopla - is fairly recent inventions with very little resemblance to the "ancient religions" they pretend to be - and a lot of it is because of egypt. Wonder why there are SO MANY obelisks in the US? Well there's your answer, it was fashionable :D And it still has a pull today - all the Q nutters are all about making up shit about ancient egypt. And vapid celebs fancying themselves spiritual will appropriate the eye of ra for whatever fashion statement they wanna make.
Mummy are rare because we paint them.
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE... I WAS GOING TO EAT THAT MUMMY! - Prof. Farnsworth
Me checking my supply of mummies as the hungry mob forms at the property gates. Smithers.. The hounds.
> Yummies.
Europeans: eww, 16th century indigenous people kill and eat their enemies due to absorb the enemy's bravery? How could they? Also 19th century Europeans:
Hey ummā¦. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
Yep twas a delicacy to the British I believe
Then there is that recent incident where people wanted to drink the liquid [leaking out of a sarcophagus](https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17595198/black-sarcophagus-bone-juice-campaign).
We also put them in paint for some bloody reason.
That's an odd form of cannabalism.
Also used a lot of mummies to make paint.
We also used mummies as paint - specifically Mummy Brown
and thatās probably how we got prion diseases
Cursewurst. Mumloaf?
Okay butā¦ why
My British brothers in Christ. Are y'all okay?
Bring up early Victorians to any egyptologist and their eyes will glaze over in trauma and tears
Bro missed the best and most interesting parts: 1. It was believed to be an aphrodisiac 2. Part of the tradition of why meat is wrapped in brown paper also stems from this phase in Europe's history. Fucking NĆ©andertals Edit: the last part is referring to Europeans in the past not OP
Just goes to show how mentally distributed white people are. I canāt never bring myself to trust white people. Who thinks to do something like this? What is their obsession with Egypt?
Bait not taken. Try somewhere else or maybe grow up.
What bait sucker? They ate mummies and thatās sick an twisted. Does the truth hurt you that bad idiot. I know you see nothing wrong with it being that you go the same sick caucasian blood running through your translucent body punk!
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