did they go around gnawing trees for months and were like
this one really paid off. this one was delicious.
maple tree blood is the best.
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@icedquinn
Oh god... I CONSTANTLY wonder about this stuff... It's probably a much too deep rabbit hole, that's best to avoid. That's what I feel.
Because even when you learn how people found out some things are safe to eat and others not, then you inevitably stumble upon things like: well, how did they realize grinding that thing and cooking it that way, makes this other thing that is 10x more delicious? And the rabbit hole just goes further and further... just save yourself man, and scrub those thoughts out of your brain.
@icedquinn
Yeah, but the number of combinations is endless, and then there's the potential to give up a certain combination because the result was horrible, but in reality the result would be good in different proportions.
I'm telling you man, this is deep enough to be it's own field of science. If you think about it, the entire process is inevitably very close to the process of evolution by natural selection. We could call it: evolution of food by cook selection.
@icedquinn
Yeah, honestly the discovery of drugs is even more scary. Like how many people had to die from overdoses until they got a good, safe dose to use. Or how did they even figure out that a substance that acts like poison in large quantities, can feel good in low quantities? And then how many more people had to die when they tried lower quantities of actual poisons, thinking they'd discover other feel-good substances.
@alyx @icedquinn My assumption is:
Grugs grugging
Long time
Grugs notice when other Grugs die
Grugs come up with reasons, usually wrong ones
Eventually Grug notices the real reason
Grug stays away from that reason
It's more reductive than additive, people eat everything and stop eating what kills them, like babies putting things in their mouth and spitting them out when they're bitter, so does the group of individuals (like a group of cells) "spit out" (make taboo, label as poison, learn not to eat) bad foods, and all that are left are the ones that aren't bad.
Then things get weird with shit that actually hurts to eat but isn't toxic, like peppers, that probably took a long ass time for us to understand. I mean as recently as 50 years ago people thought spanish and italian people were so "hot tempered" because of their "spicy" food...which is retarded.
somebody eventually made stuff in a spice grinder (well, mortar and pestle) and once that turned out not to be a shit idea somebody had to try just putting every random thing in there.