I just went to the grocery store to pick up a few things and while passing the dairy section I thought of the most disgusting thing.
At some point in time, some guy was watching a chicken drop eggs out of itself and thought “hmmmm wonder what that tastes like”.
That’s disgusting. 'nuff said
Lots of foods can be thought of that way.
Like cow’s milk. I wonder if the person who first started sucking on a cow’s udder was really in search of nourishment, or something else…
And the person who invented haggis . . . I don’t even want to know.
And have you noticed that pizza looks like it was already eaten once?
Then there’s souse, which I refuse to discuss.
Oysters. What the hell was that person on!? Was it a fraternity initiation prank?
“Okay dude, you want in, you gotta eat… this!”
“Ahhhrrgh, no! I won’t, I won’t, it’s disgusting! Well, okay, to get into the frat. [eats] Hey, you know what? That’s not half bad… Could I have another? Perhaps on a cracker with cheese?”
digging truffles?
get fungi from underground and eat it?
…and who thought snails looked tasty? Those fools would probably like Jerry Lewis…
When I was 8, my sisters boyfriend asked me if I was eating the head or the feet, while I had a huge mouthful of eggs in my mouth. I can still hear him, “Oh, looks like you dripped a little chicken brain on your chin, better wipe that off!” I couldnt eat eggs for several years after that.
http://ificinfo.health.org/insight/foodhist.htm
Still looking around, but here is a time line of food development.
WHAT are truffles? I’ve been trying to figure this out?
And what about meat-yeah, I’ll just cut some skin off this beast and burn it and eat it? Da’hell?
Here’s a very good explanation of truffles: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,75457+1+73537,00.html?query=truffles
Why did someone feel they had to add lye to lutefisk? Wasn’t it inedible enough already?
:eek:
How did the name truffle get attached to a certain kind of chocolate? I thought for years that they were talking about chocolate-covered truffles (the fungus)
Magic mushrooms, IIRC, only grow on horse droppings after a rain. You gotta pretty hard up for a buzz if eating those sounds like a good idea. 'course the first guy didn’t know about the psychadelic effects, so apparently eating fungus off fresh dung just sounded like fun.
EEeeew…
Hey, I wonder who first thought of smoking…“I’ll just try sucking in this black stuff…hmmmm…my throat burns, my heart is pounding, I feel like I’m gonna puke-I love it!”
How funny - hubby and I were musing on this very topic the other day - specifically regarding oysters and lobsters. My personal theory: people observed animals eating this stuff and decided to give it a try… <shrug> but what do I know - I’m just an engineer… 
It seems to me that our ape-like ancestors ate this stuff through instinct, and we simply continued to eat it as we developed higher thought and self-awareness. Animals eat all kinds of weird things. You don’t think it’s strange that lions tear off bloody chunks of gazelle, hide and all, as dinner, or that otters eat shellfish, do you? So, I’d say that no human “chose” to eat these things.
I was once at a shooting range at the tender age of 20, learning how to shoot a handgun and for no good reason, with a gun in my hand, I look at the guy next to me and think “Wow, shooting a gun is so easy, all I have to do is raise my arms and pull the trigger and there would be blood splattered all over the floor and the wall next to me. Nobody would even notice for a while with all the noise of gunfire in here.”
My next thought was a paniced, “If he knew I was thinking about this, he’d kill me right now.”
Then I realized that I was fantasizing about shooting the guy next to me in the head, while I was holding a live gun with the safety off in my hand.
That’s probably the most disturbing thought I’ve ever had. I was so ashamed. Still am actually.