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Taylor Lapira :

"Bottles don't just grow on trees" The humble bottle gourd:

Vannah :

people don't understand how insane this is. WE FUCKING TRICKED PLANTS INTO GROWING BOTTLES

Alex Gavin :

humanity yearn for the gourd

Aja :

I think what's awesome about them is that we never really forgot about them. Like, sure we got better stuff now, but did we stop planting them? Did we stop making them? Did we abandon them? Honestly, wouldn't be a bad idea to return to them. No lead, no microplastics.

whatsmykidsnameagain :

So what you’re saying is that I could’ve had an ancestor that had an emotional support water Gord like I have my emotional support water bottle now…😳

Joe 🍉 :

The long skinny one is a Sicilian variety called a cucuzza. They can get up to 5 feet long, but if you harvest them at like 3-4 feet before they get a tough skin they’re really good in soup. Source: my dad grows them

SuperHumanM :

Native American from American southwest here and we STILL use the gourds for making instruments for traditional singing/dancing.

lhldnohdond fnlotydigribr :

It really is hard to overstate what a big goddamn deal the invention of portable water is. Now you can move around further, chase stuff further, work on stuff for longer, just a massive improvement

Schu Bird :

(I'm sorry this is the first thing I thought of...)

🩸☢️I-AM-AMbrose☢️🩸 :

Ngl this genuinely was such a nice break for my nervous system, thank you for your words about gourds magic man

lizard 🦎 :

I love the mental image of various humans looking at a primo vessel shaped item and going damn I could stash so much shit with that

Ankaht :

“I know we’re literally living in hell right now” says the historian during the objectively best time in the history of the world to be alive in. 🙄

Arthur Dent :

dingusdergan :

the gourd to Stanley pipeline is insane

Ástrós Lilja :

my doomscrolling is going great actually! this was the video above 😁

Ronan Berthier :

my grandmother grew them and when I was a kid we would drill a hole in them and paint them then put them in trees to be bird houses!

Oddest Sheep :

This… was a perfect video to end my night on, neat factoids and learning something to be used in fictional world building 😁

Rahma_Rose :

My mom still uses her during the summer

STRASWERKS :

I got one of mine almost ready

Jim :

This is such gourd-eous history

just_a_humble_acorn :

It’s odd to me that bottle gourds would go out of use. I’m sure growing these takes lots of time and effort, but surely not as much as all the fuel for the intensely hot ovens needed for pottery??

salemcvlt :

Me at the beginning: why would I care about a gourd? Me at the end:

Snows :

5$_FootLong :

We know the real reason we grew them

honziik_ :

very cool. you can have this totally unrelated picture i found