You Can't Coach That

Who Invented Eggs?

Well not literally who invented them, obviously birds invented the whole egg thing. What I really mean is who thought up the idea to eat them? I just can’t imagine someone sitting around the campfire, or wherever people sat in the pre-egg eating days, and upon observing an egg fall out of the back end of a nearby chicken saying to themselves “I think that would make good eating”. It fell out of the bum of a bird! (I know, not the actual bum but in the vicinity). Why would you eat something that did that. Did people have a “let’s eat things that are excreted by birds” weekend? Was it a dare? Hey I dare you to eat the white shiny bird turd.

I am equally perplexed by the concept of potatoes. While they are one of my favourite foods, after all they fry up a treat, I just don’t get why anyone would dig one up and eat one. Imagine the trial and error involved in finding out that potatoes are a form of fuel for humans. How many thoroughly disgusting things were consumed on the way to discovering what would one day become the humble chip (french fry for you Yanks). The thing in its natural state could easily be mistaken for the droppings of a giant Wombat so how many times did people eat the droppings of giant Wombats before they found potatoes (another flaw in my logic of course, potatoes aren’t native to Australia and Wombats are thin on the ground in Ireland).

Chips and Eggs for dinner tonight I think.

“You can’t coach that”

apologies for typos.  typing with one hand herer.

i suspect that people observed animals eating eggs and just copied them.

what boggles my mind is shellfish.  figuring out that you need to cook it before removing from the shell musta been tricky.

I get the feeling that early man pretty much would eat anything - I guess hunger will do that to you.  Now my question is....

What happened when someone go sick from eating something - did they make the association?  Eat that and get sick?  Or did they just follow various (non-lethal) animals and eat what they ate?

i think avoiding things that made you sick is a natural mechanism.  there are a few tyhings ive eaten that i used tyo reallly like, but now cannot eat due to having ben made sick by them or just coincidentally while i was already sick

Read somewhere that the first recorded comment of potato eaters was “yuk” - they tried eating the leaves. Not sure how or why anyone thought the roots would taste better.

Coach, what you been smokin?

I often think about the discovery of various foods and how they came to be cooked/prepared/eaten in the ways that they are. Some foods are more strange than others of course.

Like beer for instance. How the hell did they know to screw the lid off and drink it after it popped out of a dinosaurs ass. It’s much like the egg, but will always remain a mystery to me.

Chips and eggs for dinner are great! Especially with bacon!

Just the fact that more than one person is pondering these questions is enough to make me wonder what I got myself into when I actually started reading this stuff!

Just pondering some of life’s more important questions Lots more where this came from I’m sure.