The thread about Crab Legs, and also the one about 10 Foods it Takes Guts to
Eat, leads me to post this.

Here are a few of my thoughts which don't necessarily count for a hill of
beans, as some will tell you

I suspect people first decided to eat crabs because they saw sea-birds (or
maybe even bears in certain areas) cracking them open on rocks and plucking
out the meat. Probably the same with oysters, clams, mussels, etc.

Drinking milk is rather a given; human women have always breast fed and so
do goats, cows, sheep. Naturally it would follow, milk the cow.

Berries and fruit I can also understand; watch the birds and the deer, they
eat them so they must be pretty much okay.

But what made that first brave soul pluck a mushroom from the ground and eat
it? So many nightshades are deadly. What wild critters were they watching
to determine this one was okay and that one wasn't?

Please, discuss!

Jill
--
Take into account great love and great achievements involve great risk.
--Dalai Lama