18th-Century Sailors Discover Oranges
18th-century sailors with scurvy: this healed me
A bowl of orange wedges is shown beneath a caption about 18th-century sailors suffering from scurvy. The joke refers to citrus curing scurvy and imagines sailors reacting to oranges as a miraculous healing treatment, making it useful as a reaction to something unexpectedly restorative.
- @eternalclassic / 66613 2025-03-16
- Type
- image
- Size
- 654×800 · 63.8 KiB
- Mood
- absurd, historical
- Language
- en
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