it smelled like what? cHm? cym? cxm?
We will never know

In case anyone's wondering, the response is made up. The editorial that the OP excerpt comes from is also fantastical and totally unsupported by any accounts that I can find, but for the sake of context, it continues:

He buried a quantity of beans in mud, let them remain there for a few weeks, and then retrieved them. He noted their resemblance to human fetuses, thus convincing himself of the intimate relationship between beans and humans. To eat a bean would therefore be akin to eating human flesh. Equally, to crush, smash, or dirty a bean would be to harm a human. Thus the very strict rule to abstain from beans.

Just to restate this, that article is not verifiable or based on reliable accounts, and it cites no sources.

No one really knows why the Pythagoreans didn't eat fava beans. Historical speculation from a few sources includes:

• farts are bad
• beans are bad for your health
• beans cause bad sleep
• they're basically animals, in the same category as meat and eggs
• temple mystics advise not to eat them
• they're the same shape as the universe
• they're the same shape as genitals
• they're used to cast votes, and you shouldn't associate with politicians
• Pythagoras just didn't like them
• just don't, okay

According to Thomas L. Heath (1861–1940), no specific attribution of the theorem to Pythagoras exists in the surviving Greek literature from the five centuries after Pythagoras lived. However, when authors such as Plutarch and Cicero attributed the theorem to Pythagoras, they did so in a way which suggests that the attribution was widely known and undoubted. -- Wikipedia

Schrödinger's Pythagorean theorem.

This is what people did before the Internet if they weren't drinking or copulating.

"people just thought whatever" in complete contra to today...

thank you for this excellent-quality shitpost.

if i had to guess, the people in antiquity were obsessed with the kidney as the "source of life" or sth. the reason was that the kidneys are around the womb area so they were thought to give off some kind of fluid that makes the child grow or sth. iirc.

In what world do beans smell like cum?

“Pythagoras didn’t eat meat or beans!” -The Death of Pythagoras

No fiber? What a fucking loser. I eat beans almost any day and my poop is always soft as silk. Shit you not.

Great, now that you've shared it on Lemmy we will never hear the end of it

When you eat enough beans for your cum to smell like beans, you ate too many beans.

Real human bean

Well, all life has spawned from the same source so technically correct.