• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    My first thought after laughing at this was… “wtf even IS myyrh, anyway?”

    a fragrant gum resin obtained from certain trees and used

    Cheap fucking bastard gave the baby Jesus chewing gum.

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      11 months ago

      Myrrh isn’t really a chewing gum, moreso a resinous material which can be used as both a binder and a scent. It’s often used in incense along with other resins and gums like copal. Other examples of gums include gum Arabic and xanthan gum

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        11 months ago

        And frankincense, one of two other gifts of the magi. The third is unaromatic gold, of course. Here’s some jewelry and a bunch of funeral scents kid, hope your step-dad got you a toy.

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      It’s used in incense and was worth as much or more than gold because it’s hard to collect in mass.

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        11 months ago

        Seems like calling Myrrh “chewing gum” would be akin to calling a factory-new Bugatti Chiron “a busted-ass jalopy”. Which, depending on whom you’re talking to, is exactly what the Bugatti might be, I reckon.

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      11 months ago

      The German word sounds similar to a German word for carrot so as a child I thought that’s what he got