Which BYC member scares you?

[MACCanadianCoop]

They're actually a pretty big part of other countries' cuisines. I've heard that they can be pretty tasty, though I'm not that interested in trying them.
Besides, as far as what humans have eaten, bugs are hardly the weirdest. Whose idea was it to peel literal bark off of a tree and eat it? Not to mention fermentation, which is basically growing non-deadly bacteria and organisms in food and drink.

Oh those are easy. In the beginning, probably early humans sampled everything, including tree bark, to see what was good and what killed you. The discovery of fermentation was probably a complete accident.

The one that really gets me is how did humans figure out that if you get the sap from one specific type of tree and boil it for a long long time it turns into syrup?

 

[azurbanclucker]

Oh those are easy. In the beginning, probably early humans sampled everything, including tree bark, to see what was good and what killed you. The discovery of fermentation was probably a complete accident.

The one that really gets me is how did humans figure out that if you get the sap from one specific type of tree and boil it for a long long time it turns into syrup?

Because when you are starving you will try pretty much everything you KNOW isn't poison to find food. Reliable daily meals are a pretty recent development in human history.

(edit: Some places still don't have reliable food)

 

[Cold-Blood]

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Now we are talking!

 

[Silkie Princess]

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It could of been cooked rats..

 

[azurbanclucker]

It could of been cooked rats..

Shrek says Weed rat stew is tasty.

 

[Silkie Princess]

Shrek says Weed rat stew is tasty.

Bon Appétit

 

[Isadora]

Shrek says Weed rat stew is tasty.

Seems like they enjoyed it well enough on Survivor.

 

[Isadora]

Shrek says Weed rat stew is tasty.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Seems like they enjoyed it well enough on Survivor.

 

[Isadora]

I guess you can't afford to be too picky about where you get your protein from when you're trying to survive.