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barney15c | 22:10 Tue 13th Mar 2012 | ChatterBank
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My father visited Malta a few years ago, and was keen to find out about its history in WW2, particulary the Maltese blockade. He told me one of the locals had told him that because the islanders were on the verge of starvation they ate anything that was edible to hand including seagulls. and that the seagull population was so decimated that even today there are very few of them on the islands. Is there any truth to this or was my dad pulling my leg...he insists this is true.
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It probably is true, in England there has always been some bird or other on the menu, the Tudors thought PIGEON was an exotic treat and they devoured swans like no body's business, that's why all the swans belong to the Queen!
08:27 Wed 14th Mar 2012
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They were reduced to eating more/worse than seagulls.
08:33 Wed 14th Mar 2012
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Mind you being an island and presumably surrounded by water, there should have been fish about. Still, they had it tough, that's why they won the medal I guess.
08:36 Wed 14th Mar 2012

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