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• MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”

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  • hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This version was coined in the 1990s

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    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seems maybe to come originally fromsome guy’s interpretation of an Arab interpretation of the passage:

      H.C. Trumbull contrasts the expression with a comparison of blood and milk in the Arab world:

      We, in the West, are accustomed to say that “blood is thicker than water”; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother’s milk. With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; and the tie between such is very strong. […] But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other’s blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that “blood-lickers,” as the blood-brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water.[16]

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure everyone just makes this shit up

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes.

      That… that is what creativity is.

      Its not always… sensible, or … broadly liked… but yeah, people things up… is creativity.

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• UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  Bitumen would like a word with queso.

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  • death_to_carrots@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, you say your queso is watery?

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    • UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I always try and mix in a little bitumen to thicken it up.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you can’t eat your queso with chopsticks, what are you doing?

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, I mean, yeah

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but Mexican food keeps the family together.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was gonna say, entirely seriously, the family that cooks together, stays together.

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• UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just gotta keep eating until your blood becomes queso and you start inspiring ultimate loyalty.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Is this why people call the ‘power of friendship’ trope cheesy?

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The most important thing in my life is iridium.

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