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Don't get me started...I used to tap the coconut flowers for sugary fluid and alcohol.
Long story...I'll get around to telling it on the fishing thread.
Don't forget to Google it before starting on a tall tale this time.
Yes, I google when I don't know stuff. It's a great tool. I happen to know quite a bit about toddy/kaleve
Very possible if you grew up in Fiji.
so no need to google it. Actually, I'd be surprised if there was any useful detail to be gleaned from google as it's not a widely practiced craft in the Pacific and the detail is very important.
You're kidding!.....10 pages of hits for toddy on Google!
Toddy (Sanskrit/Hindi tadi) brewing's an old craft, originating in S.India/Srilanka and spread to Melanesia and Micronesia most likely by Indians brought to Fiji by the British in the late 1850s.

Eastern Polynesia also has an archaic history of coconut migration from Peru, but no evidence of toddy brewing. Fossilized coconuts have been found in NZ, while Maori oral history talks of Ni, a big seed that was once eaten by their forbears from their traditional homeland of Hawaiki

Kava use predates toddy brewing in Fiji. It was the traditional Polynesian knockout juice, originating in India along with the areca nut (erroneously called betel nut) and the piper betel leaf, kava, ( Piperaceae family including peppers), used by early Lapita people in Papua NG, then spread from Melanesia to Micronesia and further across Polynesia from Samoa and Tonga across to as far as the Marqesas.
Unlike you who doesn't know anything at all, furiously googles, miscomprehends what he reads, and spouts it off as if he was all-knowledgeable and makes a fool of himself. Time and time again.
Envy will get you nowhere.
The problem with your point of view is that those of little real comprehension of anthropology, and of limited educational background, such as yourself, no matter what your claims to tertiary education, display pure ignorance of how academic discipline works.

You're regularly gobsmacked by what and how anthropologists do indeed study and know in the field of human behaviour and how it developed.
Like free electricity from cars
That little wow-ism of yours displays your lack of comprehension skills. Nowhere was the claim made of "free electricity from cars".
and animal hair doesn't burn but acts as a wick to draw out fat.
It burns alright, mostly to a black char in the initial conflagration, before complete combustion consumes the lot, leaving grey ash. The charred hair acts as a wick to allow fat to burn during open cremation, of both man and beast.

Deny that as much as you like, science speaks against you. Your anecdotal "knowledge" that you claimed as facts drawn from your personal experience, have been shown to be pure bunkum, as displayed in the cremation thread.

https://teakdoor.com/world-news/17531...ml#post3521526