SC - Who thought to eat...

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Christine A Seelye-King wrote:
> 
> My favorite one of these is
>         Tapioca - the poisonous inner pith of a palm tree, it takes 2 or 3
> boilings to loose toxicity.  Who got past the first boil and decided to
> boil it again, after the first one killed someone?
>         Christianna

It may have been a by-product of poison production, of course... once it
was no longer effective as poison they had to do _something_ with it... 
 
> >But I've always wondered about the guy that first ate:
> >
> >       oysters
> >       mussels
> >       eels
> >       snails
> >       lobster/crayfish
> >       cows' (or goat's or sheep's) milk
> >       eggs
> >       hot peppers
> >       etc...
> >
> >               WHAT _WAS_ HE THINKING!!!!

With respect to Mistress Christianna, who doesn't seem to have initiated
the discussion originally, probably, "Dang, I'm hungry, and don't
especially care what xenophobic nerds of the future who've never been
really hungry in their lives think of my choices." This is, of course,
assuming the guy was thinking anything at all, and not simply relying on
hundreds or thousands of generations of instinct, in the case of most of
the foods mentioned.

Me, I'm curious about the first person brave enough to try a lime jell-o
salad, Spam, flaked-and-formed meat or fish products of any kind, White
Castle hamburgers, and eggplant. (The last being a personal prejudice,
not a value judgement, which all the previous definitely are.)  

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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