How/Why Did Mankind Learn To Eat Poisonous/Unpleasant -Tasting Foods?

[sub]My emphasis.[/sub]

Octopus? Octopus?! Nasty?

I will never cease to be amazed at what some people find nasty. Macdonald’s is nasty. Tv dinners are nasty. Sunny D is nasty. Processed “cheese” is nasty. Octopus, when fresh, is damn tasty. And it’s almost all food, very little waste.

One of my cousins volunteered for humanitarian work in Bolivia. He lived in a tiny village where people didn’t even understand Spanish. They ate potatoes three times a day. Every day; that’s pretty much the only thing that could grow there. Of course they had all sorts of different potatoes and about 300 different ways of cooking them. Which goes back to my point that people eat whatever they can and they will always find inventive ways to make the inedible edible and the nasty palatable.

Remember, you and I have the incredible luxury of being able to choose what we eat. We are priviledged beyond belief.