Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote in
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> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:23:41 -0500, "jmcquown"
> > arranged random neurons, so they looked like
> this:
>
> <snip>
>
>>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?
>>
> And you have to wonder about oysters and clams. Sure, the sea gulls
> drop them from height to crack 'em open, but wouldn't you think the
> human who first noticed this phenomenon, and after having pried the
> oyster or clam open, would be reluctant to put it in his or her mouth?
> And once there...well, it *is* an acquired taste, after all. (I
> learned to like raw oysters in successful and repeated attempts to
> gross my younger sister out. Ditto snails.)
>
> And add snails to the list, come to think of it. I mean, you have a
> critter meandering along in a tiny shell, leaving a little trail of
> goo behind, waving their little "feelers" around, right? So, who would
> be hungry enough to yank the little guy out of his shell and eat him?
> I'm sure the first occasion of snail-eating wouldn't have seen it
> cooked with butter and garlic.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
> AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA
>
> "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
> had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
> been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
> good dinner." Duncan Hines
>
> To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"
>

Wouldn't a lot of this knowledge come prior to Homo Sapiens....and just
been passed along. I mean even before we were people we had to eat. Even
chimps learn what to eat from their moms. So perhap Homo Erectus learned
about various nasty looking critters being edible, and we learned from
them.

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