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"jmcquown" > wrote:

> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Mon, 28 May 2012 20:49:56 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
> >
> >> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>> On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:56:40 -0700, gtr wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 2) If you don't know what something is--don't put it in your food.
> >>>
> >>> What an odd comment. And I tend to disagree anyway. This is how I
> >>> learned to cook Asian food. Cook now - ask later.
> >>
> >> Yeah, that's how the Asians learned how to cook Asian food, too. Not to
> >> mention the French. LOLOL
> >
> > That's how everybody learned to feed themselves. They didn't know WTF
> > it was.
> >
> > -sw
>
> I occasionally think about things like this. How the heck did anyone ever
> get the idea that eating snails, or clams or oysters was a good idea? I
> think some early human saw a some critter cracking an oyster or clam shell
> on a rock and discovered hey, that might be tasty! I'm sure there were many
> failures, too. Like picking the wrong mushroom.

There aren't any things we eat that come with little signs saying "God
says this is people food". A lot of what we consider "food" is just
stuff that kills us slowly enough that we don't notice.

Isaac