I've Always Wondered

[Bluto10]

who was the first person to eat crustaceans and/or other weird fruit de mer?

 

and more interestingly what on earth made them think they'd be edible?

 

some of he tastiest food on the planet happens to come from some of the ugliest creatures known to man.

 

a cow i can understand - big slabs of meaty flesh. but a lobster? jesus. someone once musty've been very hungry and very very desperate.

[Big Man]

who was the first person to eat crustaceans and/or other weird fruit de mer?

 

and more interestingly what on earth made them think they'd be edible?

 

some of he tastiest food on the planet happens to come from some of the ugliest creatures known to man.

 

a cow i can understand - big slabs of meaty flesh. but a lobster? jesus. someone once musty've been very hungry and very very desperate.

 

During a fall harvest festival in 31,827 BC, a 22-year-old caveman named Fnork killed, cooked and ate a lobster he found crawling on a beach in southern France. Before that meal, lobsters were considered to be spawn of the devil (and high in cholesterol), and many people praised Fnork as the bravest man in the world. According to interpretations of a cave painting ive read about, Fnork ate the lobster boiled, with melted butter and mashed turnips. Fnork's lobster bib was made of goat hide, and he used a goat's femur bone to crack the claws. Fnork said the boiled lobster was OK, but he wanted to try one stuffed with crabmeat in the future.

 

[StandFree1982]

During a fall harvest festival in 31,827 BC, a 22-year-old caveman named Fnork killed, cooked and ate a lobster he found crawling on a beach in southern France. Before that meal, lobsters were considered to be spawn of the devil (and high in cholesterol), and many people praised Fnork as the bravest man in the world. According to interpretations of a cave painting ive read about, Fnork ate the lobster boiled, with melted butter and mashed turnips. Fnork's lobster bib was made of goat hide, and he used a goat's femur bone to crack the claws. Fnork said the boiled lobster was OK, but he wanted to try one stuffed with crabmeat in the future.

 

True Story.

[Bluto10]

thanks big man. its amazing what you learn.

 

do you know who ate the first octopus? or squid?

[Monkey]

Alcohol.

Who was the 1st person to drink whatever fermented fruit that was lying around, which probably tasted sh*t, had a great time up until they started spewing and thinking they were poisoned and as the only pissed guy in a world of sober people they would of woken up the next morning feeling like they were dying with everyone telling them how much of a prick they were the night before. Then to persevere with it and master brewing and distilling etc.

I've always wondered about the thought process behind that person, as well as being forever grateful to that pioneer.

[Bluto10]

i had never thought about that monkey, but youre right.

 

probably some monk somewhere.

[StandFree1982]

Whoever was the first person that seen a calf suckling on it's mothers teet and thought....I'm going to try a bit of that MUST have been a crazy fool. How that took off is even more astonishing. i'd imagine it went something like this:

 

"Try this"

"What is it?"

"just try it...it's good"

"It's white....what the hell is this?"

"Just drink it"

"thats not bad, would make make my tea less bitter. So you going to tell me what it is?"

"It's cow milk"

*spits milk all over the place*

"GADZ, you mother f**ker....What the f**k is wrong with you? twisted b*stard"

[Big Man]

thanks big man. its amazing what you learn.

 

do you know who ate the first octopus? or squid?

 

Im afraid i don't. Archaeologists tell us humans have been eating crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, shrimp) from prehistoric times to present. They know this from excavating "middens," deposits of shells and bones left by early civilizations. There have been middens excavated from aberdeen (google it). These foods weren't "discovered" (like early people "discovered" some corn popped if placed near the fire) but noticed.

 

The earliest hunter-gatherers took advantage of every available food resource. People who lived near water (oceans, seas, lakes, rivers) naturally took advantage of the foods offered by these resources.

 

There is even Culinary evidence to suggest that lobsters were known to the ancient Romans and Greeks.

 

Squids and octopuses would be a bit different because it would involve deep-sea fishing and obviously the earliest civilisations wouldn't of had the technology – so i imagine it would be a lot latter than you might think. Maybe 1700-1800 if i had to guess.

[tup]

Some cute creatures taste lethal too, lambs for instance.

 

We're meat eaters, we dinna think about it, we just do it.

[phoenix]

who was the first person to eat crustaceans and/or other weird fruit de mer?

 

and more interestingly what on earth made them think they'd be edible?

 

some of he tastiest food on the planet happens to come from some of the ugliest creatures known to man.

 

a cow i can understand - big slabs of meaty flesh. but a lobster? jesus. someone once musty've been very hungry and very very desperate.

 

 

Think aboot it !

 

Cows are stupid compared to dolphins , imho , of course.

 

I don't think it's a good idea to eat stupid.

 

And it's certainly not a good idea to eat dolphins.

[Bluto10]

Think aboot it !

 

Cows are stupid compared to dolphins , imho , of course.

 

I don't think it's a good idea to eat stupid.

 

And it's certainly not a good idea to eat dolphins.

 

canna be many brain cells in a clam.

[phoenix]

canna be many brain cells in a clam.

 

 

No bit , cell for cell , I'd wager the clam.

 

Clams don't have feet.....except in Lewis Carroll adventures.

 

Not that having feet is necessarily an indicator of intelligence.

 

Altho' something to do with your index finger has something to do with the length of your knob.

[Ke1t]

Starvation will drive people and animals to eat sh*t they normally wouldn't touch, or even consider to be a foodstuff.

 

Early humans pretty much survived on roots and berries and probably had a taste for insects inna.

 

Not a huge leap to imagine early man, during a drought and unable to find any of their usual food, casting a quizzical eye over a couple of stray antelope or zebra. And the tribe of early humans who first realise that the herds of things wandering around the African plains are, in fact, delicious and nutritious.. well, that tribe wins. From that point on it's a straightforward case of animals, including crab, lobster, shrimp, etc, are also parts of the food chain.

 

The tribes who didn't work it out starved to death looking for roots and berries.

 

Good example of this being the opening of the film 2001. A small group of monkey-people is slowly dying from lack of food and access to fresh water. There's little vegetation and another group of monkey-people keeps driving this group of monkey -people away from the oasis. They're literally surrounded by all the tools they need to survive... animals to eat, and 'weapons' (in the form of bones) with which to kill the animals and, coincidentally, stave in the heids of the rival monkey-people.

 

Finally one of them, with the help of a giant domino, figures out that he can use a Tapir's collarbone to persuade the food to get eaten and the other group of monkey-people to f**k off out of it.

 

Then, in a moment of triumphant realisation that his people would rule the universe, the heid monkey hurls a bone into the air and it turns into a space station.

[bonzodaddy73]

Starvation will drive people and animals to eat sh*t they normally wouldn't touch, or even consider to be a foodstuff.

 

Early humans pretty much survived on roots and berries and probably had a taste for insects inna.

 

Not a huge leap to imagine early man, during a drought and unable to find any of their usual food, casting a quizzical eye over a couple of stray antelope or zebra. And the tribe of early humans who first realise that the herds of things wandering around the African plains are, in fact, delicious and nutritious.. well, that tribe wins. From that point on it's a straightforward case of animals, including crab, lobster, shrimp, etc, are also parts of the food chain.

 

The tribes who didn't work it starved to death looking for roots and berries.

 

Good example of this being the opening of the film 2001. A small group of monkey-people is slowly dying from lack of food and access to fresh water. There's little vegetation and another group of monkey-people keeps driving this group of monkey -people away from the oasis. They're literally surrounded by with all the tools they need to survive... animals to eat, and 'weapons' (in the form of bones) with which to kill the animals and, coincidentally, stave in the heids of the rival monkey-people.

 

Finally one of them, with the help of a giant domino, figures out that he can use a Tapir's collarbone to persuade the food to get eaten and the other group of monkey-people to f**k off out of it.

 

Then, in a moment of triumphant realisation that his people would rule the universe, the heid monkey hurls a bone into the air and it turns into a space station.

Excellent description.

[Dandyesque]

who was the first person to eat crustaceans and/or other weird fruit de mer?

 

and more interestingly what on earth made them think they'd be edible?

 

some of he tastiest food on the planet happens to come from some of the ugliest creatures known to man.

 

a cow i can understand - big slabs of meaty flesh. but a lobster? jesus. someone once musty've been very hungry and very very desperate.

 

The first person to eat it probably wasn't a "person" at all, but an Ape.

 

We as a species would probably have eaten a similar diet (if not varying in terms of specialisation) to our evolutionary ancestors, who would have likely eaten anything they could, from mangoes to maggots - Crustaceans included, for those monkeys who lived near rock pools or had access to freshwater shrimp and the like.