On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 13:43:17 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:

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>On 2-Sep-2016, wrote:
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>> Who Decided that Food Needs to be Exposed to Fire before it's eaten.
>Most sources attribute it to Ogg, who was eating the right haunch of a large
>bird and had some root vegetables on the flat rock he used as a table. A
>lightning storm came up (just lightning, no significant rain) and Ogg took
>cover in his cave. Lightning struck a bush next to his flat rock and burned
>for quite a while. When he returned to his dinner, Ogg found it strangely
>transformed by the fire. The meat was much more delicious; Ogg named the
>effect "the my-yard" reaction, since the transformation occured in his front
>yard. The root vegetable were so much easier to eat; they were softer,
>making it so much easier to eat with missing and deteriorated teeth. It
>caught on because so many of Ogg's friends and family also had problems with
>their teeth - this happened many years before O-rel-B discovered how
>rubbing a twig on teeth 2-3 times/day could keep them from rotting so much.
>Anyway, by the time teeth were better, people were accustomed to "firing"
>their food and have continued without really know why they do it, it's just
>what you do with food. It's sort-of like responding to dumb-ass troll
>questions; nobody knows why we do it, we just do - it's tradition.

here here...what an excellent response...to an idiot!

William