Der var engang vi holdt op med at bruge tang i maden

Der var engang vi havde haft tang med i maden gennem 9.000 år siden iskappen smeltede og gjorde Danmark frit. Det ophørte for nu mere end 1.000 år siden. Hvordan kan det dog være?

I folkemindesamlingerne er det oplyst, tang dengang blev til fattigmandskost.

Derefterdags i nu tusind år var det blandt bedsteborgere meget mere moderne at have hvid brød med i morgenmaden som en slags hellig nadver, gerne med korn fra Italien, i stedet for at opretholde det urgamle, hedenske bud om bar' en lil' bit' smul' tang med i morgenmaden og dagens andet måltid.

Fattigmandskost lyder som noget ulækkert, nogen kun forfalder til at spise ud i yderste armod, hvor der absolut ej er andet at komme efter :-)

Jeg har haft min helt egen, private teori om hvordan denne sociologiske forvandlingsproces meget vel kan tænkes at ha' fundet sted. Onsdag den 8. februar til konference hos Teknologisk Institut bekræftigede Dronneligt Benådet Professor Ole G. Mouritsen min teori. Jeg stillede ham spørgsmålet:

Hvordan kan det være, vi holdt op med at ha' tang med i maden, dengang vi gjorde det?

Ole svarede, udlagt med mine egne ord: "Tjah... I overgangen fra den ene religion til den anden sker det nogle gange, at kostvanerne ændres, således at ting man i den tidligere skik og brug betragtede som værdifulde bliver dømt ude".

Hmmm... Skift fra hvilken religion til en anden? (De unge mennesker ved ingenting om det i dag, antropologisk, sociologisk, kulturelt og historisk set :-))

Let's go up in the helicopter from where things are clearly seen!

If One take a historical check of what the Catholic Church have done in the years from Christ being a thousandth of years old and the next five hundred years, One will find the Catholic Church with its Imperialistic behaviours was indeed certainly cruel to the leaders of the Native religions, who had survived well for milleniums until the catholic munks came around for "friendly visit".

Think about the Natives of Australia, the Aborigians. Think about the Natives of America, both south and north. Think about the very well organised Viking community we had up here in the north of Scandinavia, doing peaceful trade with fellowmen and women.

Anywhere the Catholic munks have practised to change culturel behaviours they've used extreme brutal torture and being burned to death afterwards. Up here in the north for five hundred years from the year 1,000 people were being treathent like this for one of the only reasons they had been caught in the act, having seaweed with them in the breakfast and no white bread. Other reasons were having used other of the wild herbs in the dayli meal. Things that today are adviced to eat by the Council of Nordic Ministers.

Some year ago the Pope at that time for the Vatican expressed his most painful sorrow and grief for what his church did at that time, way back in history. Public at TV. Right up in my face.

Do I want revange for what was done to my personal at that time, being keen on upholding the tradition for seaweed to be used still in the food?

No. They are taking very good care of this themselves in many ways I do not need to describe since its better than well known.

I'm just happy seaweed again is at the daily table of consciousness of what we need to eat daily, twice, to be insane and fit for life, though being elderly.

Tang Tare Tång og Tång Tare Tang

I got a vision right now. What I see in front of me is a movement among us Nordic people harvesting our own seaweed to eat, thus again becoming part of this our ancient practise with roots back to our paleolithic ancestors, maintained and uphold by most the rest of the populations living at our beautiful planet Earth. Why we let the tradition behind for some thousandth years is only important looking at the issue, we as populations are quiet extremly wounded at the moment, having forgotten about what seaweed gives to ordinary health and vitality. Maybe the surname of this woundedness is to think and fell seaweed as the most disgusting there could ever be.
Only one here up in the north that was thinking of seaweed as such an disgusting thing a thousandth years ago, was the catholic church who had lived with us for many hundred years peacefully. How they managed to turn a seaweed and other wild herbs loving people into someone that shatters with fear hearing of these things, is an indeed awfull story to be told.
Hvad den katolske kirke betragtede som djævleyngel i form af hekse og trolde, var mennesker der med stolthed besad den ældgamle lægevidenskabelige viden om urter og tang. De gamle shamanmænd og -kvinder. Disse mennesker blev fra 11-hundredetallet helt op til 16-hundredetallet forfulgt, arresteret, bragt for inkvisisatoren, tortureret på det grusomste og henrettet på de mest lidelsesfulde måder.
Whom the catolic church was considering being broad of the devil were women and men proud to be upholding ancient knowledge of the herbs and seaweeds for the science of human wellbeing.
Shaman. Medicinwomen and -men.
500 years with this madness made all the rest of the folks think of wild herbs and seaweeds as something in particularly not nice in any way to be involved with. The whole subject was actually being put away into the deepest area of the common consciousness as something extremely horrible to even think of. In stead the wisdom of the catolic church was at the scene: Eat your white bread with italian wheet every morning and be Gods lovely child thus. Hmmm.....
Of course our ancient wisdom has survived hidden in old books, textures and in people practising it secretly.
These days the Pope recently, historically seen, have expressed his deep regret his church performed this brutal killing of the leading persons of our ancient culture, with its own religion.
New times are here and the wisdom of what seaweed has to offer to human wellbeing and vitality is blooming again just like that. I am happy people acknowledge I'm representing not only our ancient seaweedknowledge but also new results from modern science. The latter is walking in the good foodsteps of the first at the issue knowing seaweed has some quite extradinary good gifts to give to mankind  :-)