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Always love the history of the invention of Cheese
Some people thought it was a good idea to drink milk from a cow because they saw that babies drank from a mothers breast … why not the cow?
Then a few hundred years of that, some guy kept a bunch of milk in a goat’s stomach they used as a storage bag … the milk curdled and turned into big solid chunks … hmmmm … might as well try to eat it … what could go wrong? that it might kill me!? hahahahahahaha !!!
Few hundred years later, a bunch of Europeans kept cheese in a cave and it started to get affected with a mold giving it a series of blue streaks and spots … hey Hans, what happened to the cheese? … don’t know, let’s feed to Gunther and see if it kills him
I think that you’re describing human evolution and missing the sheer scale at which people died learning what was safe to eat and what wasn’t.
Ancient Middle Eastern Merchant: “Fuck, I forgot all about that milk! I hope it’s still good after a week at the bottom of a camel’s pack in the desert heat.”
Milk: [comes out in chunks]
Merchant: “Guess I won’t know until I try it”
lol … the story of invention of Worcestershire Sauce
a bunch of guys were trying to recreate Oriental fish sauce in the UK … the thing they came up with was terrible so they put the barrel of the stuff in the basement and forgot about it
They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce
… the fun part of these stories is that this is all based on survivalship bias … these are all stories of foods that actually turned out. It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.
It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.
tastes rock …bleh
tastes rock …bleh
tastes rock …bleh\countless attempts later
tastes rock …Oooooooo! Sodium chloride!
They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce
Damn, I hate it when my mother is right about patience being a virtue
I also hate it when your mom is right.
Words of wisdom from a Canadian Youtube mechanic I saw online … it’s probably a series of people like this guy that gave us so much variety of foods and cultural things in our world
“If you don’t fuck around … how are you ever going to find out?”
I once drank a curdled whey beverage. Finding surprise marshmallows in my mouth immediately compelled me to projectile vomit. That is what I immediately remember every time people talk about ancient food discoveries. It’s an utterly foreign mindset to me. I can only wonder how many times these things were independently discovered before they were actually eaten. I’d wager many
Starvation and famine helps … if your options are eat nothing and die … or … try this semi rotten piece of food or this thing that’s been sitting in the sun for three days or this liquid that fermented for a week … most people would try out a bunch of things because they know they’re about to die anyway.
Trying to remember what they called it in Cyberpunk 2077 when you make a more complex meal by mixing pre-made, pre-packaged food as ingredients instead of as a meal in and of themselves… 🤔
It wasn’t kibble and it wasnt SCOP, but I distinctly recall there being a slang term for this heard when hanging out with River.
This is why New Orleans has the finest food on the planet. All the ingredients had to come out of a swamp or the Gulf.
