Look, people:
Someone had to be the first one to jam a toadstool in his cakehole and say “yeah, that’s pretty good!” or a piece of raw tuna, or a slice of calves brains, or a cup of soup made from duck’s blood.
All of the things you can eat that taste yummy were foreign to someone, once, like tomatoes. Someone has to be the first, and for this reason I’m combining Marmite with other foods to see which ones work well together. I do the hard work so you don’t have to.
BTW Marmite on a nicely rare cheddar cheeseburger is quite lovely, and I’ve been thinking of using it as a sort of a ‘Damp” rub on steaks, a fillet smeared with a dab of marmite and grilled and sprinkled with some blue cheese is a treat for the gods.
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There are lots of edible foods that I’d just as soon not try, thank you. I’ve tried caviar, and didn’t like it. I finally tried sushi once, and it’s not that bad.
I’m going to pass on the Marmite, thank you.
The problem is all those adventurous folks who did this, said “hey, this tastes great!†then grabbed at their neck, gurgled a bit then fell over dead. . .. . just saying. . .
I was wondering yesterday how long it took befor someone realized if you dumped XX-many cup-fulls of sugar onto a lemon it you’d finally get drinkable lemonade…Ötzi the Iceman was carrying a mushroom for intestinal parasites, and a “tinder polyphore” – a ‘shroom that could be used as a fire-starter or for anti-bacterial/anti-inflammatory work – or other stuff…5,000 years ago was yesterday, the woods are still full of the stuff.
“grabbed at their neck, gurgled a bit then fell over dead. ”
See the sacrifice I’m making for you all? And all I get is grief. Sheesh.
I, sir, wish to thank you for your selfless service to gastronomy. And Humanity.
Some of us, anyway.
TBG
I don’t think it’s possible to combine two edible foods (even if one is only alleged to be edible) and have the result turn poisonous.
On the other hand, some people have to stick their fingers in the fire to see if it’s hot.
Those who know the answer to that question are dead.
My quest is not to find the toxic but the delicious, like chocolate and peanut butter.
Actually, I will be adding a cooking segment to my blog soon… Starting with my Reuben Chimichangas…
No, Graumagus, it will start with my Fish and Tofu over bulgar…
Reminds me of that kid in grade school that used to eat the peanut butter & mayonnaise sandwiches…
**shudder**
Someone had to be the first one to jam a toadstool in his cakehole and say “yeah, that’s pretty good!â€
I always wondered who was the first to see a neon colored toad in the forest, and think “I think I’ll pick that up and lick it” to discover it was psychedelic. Or see a white orb come out from under a chicken and decide to eat it, then figure boiling it would make for a much better meal.
Some things like calf’s brains, duck blood soup, or raw tuna, I can see coming from need. You ate everything but the bones, and used them to make things like buttons or tent stakes. Look at the offal that the plantation owners gave the slaves after they got their choice cuts, and the slaves made gourmet food from the remainder, and now that’s what we all now call good eatin’ from the BBQ. Lobster was considered an inedible pest, and now is a delicacy.
Now who thought of inserting a gerbil *back there* for prurient gratification, how he came to that conclusion, I cannot fathom.
I figure yogurt and cheese were the result of people who were starving and had no other real choice. “That milk is no good but I’m starving…hey!”
There must have been some cross-pollination from the art of brewing beer involved–and the invention of leavened bread–but someone has to have been real desperate to try out the curdled stuff in the pot….
I would love to know if the first guy to pick up a raw oyster and decide to eat it was the bravest man around, or the hungriest.
I am applauding you Og for trying one of life’s better culinary inventions, but who made the first seal flipper or lutefisk! They were real heroes! ;-)
yeah, that lutefisk, that sucker had to be one brave soul!!
I can’t imagine being hungry enough to be the guy that tried oysters. Slime just doesn’t register to me as food.
Imagine the guy that ate the first snail. If I had to guess, I’d say alcohol was involved
Lutefisk is my kryptonite. I just can’t choke it down.
Me, I draw the line at balut and birds nest soup