If shipwrecks were more common in the past, did people shipping things have a higher expectation that their stuff wouldn’t reach its destination?

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Like, did they just shrug and be like “oh well, I guess we aren’t getting our pineapples this year” or was it a rare and problematic occurence?

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Answer 1

It could literally change a country’s culture. People forget, but mayonnaise used to be a huge staple of Mexican cuisine. In the 1800s and early 1900s England was a major manufacturer of mayonnaise, the Titanitic was carrying a massive shipment destined for Mexico after stopping in New York, the Titanic was to to stop in Mexico to unload, but if course it never made it and the shortage of available mayonnaise caused it to go out of style. It’s still remembered every year, they call it “Sinko de Mayo”