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View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community
Sailing (literally with sails) across the atlantic can be done in less than a month. Steam ships in the 19th century could do it in less than two weeks. By the time of WWII it could be done in well under a week.
The Mayflower did it in 66 days.
Comment by TheJaice at 31/01/2017 at 16:02 UTC
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Thank you for pointing this out. I heard the story when I was quite young, and I think my childhood mind just imagined this scenario where it was months and months of nothing but pumpkin, and I've never really looked into the reality of how long it would have been.
To be honest, even a week of subsisting mainly on a food that should only be eaten with lots of sugar and spices in a dessert (IMO) would be enough to put me off it. But it actually makes me think that it probably wasn't so much about how long he had to eat it for, but more what was happening in his life when he had to eat it that often.