# Whose idea was it to try THAT? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997 "2008-03-11T18:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/121 "2008-03-18T16:44:41Z")
**Honey** “Hey I bet that stuff those buzzing creatures make taste good” “I’m sure it does, stick your hand in and get some” “Ouch, oh fuck, that hurts” “Munch, munch, this tastes really good, why didya drop it?” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/122 "2008-03-18T16:59:06Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] **Honey** “Hey I bet that stuff those buzzing creatures make taste good” [/QUOTE] 😃 Mmmmm…bee vomit! My guess is they watched - from a distance - a bear (or a monkey) eating honey first. Maybe even found a bit of comb on a dead honey eater or in an abandoned cave. Only after that did they decide to go after it themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/123 "2008-03-18T17:23:26Z")
The one for me is scrambled eggs - how’d you figure out that beating eggs, adding milk and then burning it all makes the loveliest form of egg known to man? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/124 "2008-03-18T17:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] The one for me is scrambled eggs - how’d you figure out that beating eggs, adding milk and then burning it all makes the loveliest form of egg known to man? [/QUOTE] By trying to fry them over easy and failing badly? 😛 My guess would be that the first scrambled eggs were scrambled in the pan, out of frustration, and only afterwards done on purpose. Plus they’re a good way to “stretch” eggs in lean times. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/125 "2008-03-18T17:41:08Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > The one for me is scrambled eggs - how’d you figure out that beating eggs, adding milk and then burning it all makes the loveliest form of egg known to man? Adding milk? Have I been doing it wrong this whole time? Otherwise, I would say it’s pretty easy to get from “I’m going to fry up some eggs” to “I hope you guys like scrambled eggs”. Myself, any time I try to prepare eggs any other way, I end up with scrambled eggs. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/126 "2008-03-18T18:02:17Z")
Even boiled ones? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/127 "2008-03-18T18:10:59Z")
Well, no, but I tend not to boil eggs. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/128 "2008-03-18T18:12:37Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Makin’ babies. I bet she looked at him and said “You wanna put what where?” [/QUOTE] I can’t believe this one didn’t get answered. Boy finds rubbing “there” feels good. Girl finds rubbing “there” also feels good. One says to the other, “Hey, maybe it’ll feel twice as good if we rub them together?” A few rubs and an erection later…slip, Oops!..oh wait, that feels good. I also think that’s how kissing was invented. A couple are happily grinding away, face inches away from each other it seems logical that lips would mash together at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/129 "2008-03-18T18:13:50Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] The one for me is scrambled eggs - how’d you figure out that beating eggs, adding milk and then burning it all makes the loveliest form of egg known to man? [/QUOTE] Ever tried it with (real) butter, instead of milk? ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/130 "2008-03-18T23:34:33Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Adding milk? Have I been doing it wrong this whole time? [/QUOTE] Yes, your way lies heart attacks. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/131 "2008-03-18T23:51:17Z")
[QUOTE=nocturnal\_tick] I can’t believe this one didn’t get answered. Boy finds rubbing “there” feels good. Girl finds rubbing “there” also feels good. One says to the other, “Hey, maybe it’ll feel twice as good if we rub them together?” A few rubs and an erection later…slip, Oops!..oh wait, that feels good. [/quote] Is this a joke? Sex wasn’t invented by humans. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/132 "2008-03-18T23:55:59Z")
Actually, isn’t recreational sexual behavior, vice simple reproductive behavior, limited to just some of the so-called higher primates, and dolphins? ISTM that there’s a pretty big gap between the way the rest of the animal kingdom goes around dealing with reproduction, and the way that we do it. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/133 "2008-03-19T00:08:19Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Actually, isn’t recreational sexual behavior, vice simple reproductive behavior, limited to just some of the so-called higher primates, and dolphins? ISTM that there’s a pretty big gap between the way the rest of the animal kingdom goes around dealing with reproduction, and the way that we do it. [/QUOTE] I’ve heard it argued just the opposite - that since (as far as we know) no other animal understands the link between sex and reproduction, they’re all just doin’ it 'cause it feels good. It’s all recreational sex when you’re a titmouse. \*Only \*humans, so far as we know, sometimes have sex with the intention of reproducing! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/134 "2008-03-19T00:11:18Z")
**WhyNot** , but that seems to ignore that such creatures only have sex when the female is in estrus. (Or so I believe) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/135 "2008-03-19T00:20:34Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] **WhyNot** , but that seems to ignore that such creatures only have sex when the female is in estrus. (Or so I believe) [/QUOTE] I don’t think that’s always the case. Don’t some animals (rabbits, I think?) ovulate as a \*result \*of having sex? I’m not denying that “nature intends” most animals to have babies as a result of sex. As far as I know, only primates also use sex for forming or firming social bonds. But, from the animals’ own point of view, they’re doing the nasty 'cause it feels good - for recreation. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/136 "2008-03-19T00:24:10Z")
Oh, I agree, we’re playing with definitions here. (You may be right about copulation triggering ovulation, but I can neither confirm, nor disprove it.) It’s the same sort of debate as the chicken or egg debate, both sides will have some validity to their arguments, but not enough to win the thing - because the argument is really being perpetuated because generating proper definitions is so difficult. It’s just a view of natural history that I like to mention for its ability spark thought. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/137 "2008-03-19T06:15:01Z")
[QUOTE=yams!!] To me, cassava does not seem like the kind of thing that would make it on the short list of things to export to other continents. But then, to me, things that you have to let rot in a puddle before you can eat it would not be on my short list of Tasty Things. And then I would have missed out, so there you go. [/QUOTE] But cassava (yuca to me and my part of the world) is _good_. You can make all sorts of things out of yuca: fries, bread, empanadas, soup, arepitas, farofa, and pandebono, among others. Although, I do have to concede that it doesn’t sound nearly as good when you make it into nshima. [QUOTE=WhyNot] Don’t some animals (rabbits, I think?) ovulate as a \*result \*of having sex? [/QUOTE] Cats, definitely. That’s why you can choose not to spay them and still not have to worry about them menstruating all over the house. Dogs, not so much. We waited a little too long on the last one, and it was nice to clean up my dog’s menstrual discharge for a while. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/138 "2008-03-19T15:18:43Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Actually, isn’t recreational sexual behavior, vice simple reproductive behavior, limited to just some of the so-called higher primates, and dolphins? [/QUOTE] When dogs are humping someone’s leg, it sure seems recreational. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/139 "2008-03-19T18:48:25Z")
“It feels good” is a little different when you’re talking about basic survival instincts. Does sex feel good to a titmouse the way sex feels good to us, or the way drinking water and eating feels good to us? I sure as hell don’t know! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997/140 "2008-03-19T18:59:47Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] When dogs are humping someone’s leg, it sure seems recreational. [/QUOTE] I’m not entirely sure, there. I think it _can_ be part of dominance games, as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-idea-was-it-to-try-that/440997.md?page=6)