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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-06-20 under

"I've always wondered, who was the first person to try honey? [...] Who said, 'Look at that nest of stinging insects all flying; I bet there's something tasty in there! Hmm, let me just go in there and have a rummage'? It's probably the same person who decided that catfish might be tasty as well: 'Oh, look at that catfish, looks like a monster ... Let's taste it!' Or potatoes, that's another one. Who really ... a potato, if you didn't know? It looks like a big, dirty stone! There must have been some kind of middle-ages Fear Factor thing going on. But you only hear about the successes; you never hear about the guy who said, 'Mmm, rabbit earwax, I bet that's tasty!' (It's actually not bad. Tastes like chicken.)" -- Craig Ferguson, on the CBS television show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson [I'm not sure what date; I caught it on a rerun. Spring 2007 when the decline in the bee population was in the headlines. -- DGA]

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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 09:51am on 2007-06-20
Just to give a serious answer to a comic routine, I wouldn't be surprised if people saw bears breaking into beehives and concluded that the bear probably had a good reason.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 12:11am on 2007-06-21
I was thinking the same thing.

I am, however, utterly at a loss to explain lobsters.
 
posted by [identity profile] whc.livejournal.com at 10:48am on 2007-06-20
I wonder about artichokes too.
 
posted by [identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com at 12:30pm on 2007-06-20
there's evidence that our pre-human ancestors from several million years ago ate honey from active hives, and some of our ape cousins do so today.

thing is, back then our ancestors could smell it. "tasty" had nothing to do with it - when you are hungry *most* of the time you won't let a little thing like a stinging insect stop you.
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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 01:08pm on 2007-06-20
Remember: the bravest man in the world is the *second* man to eat fugu.
 
posted by [identity profile] scruffycritter.livejournal.com at 01:39pm on 2007-06-20
Jerry Seinfeld once quipped:

They make glue from horses. How? Heck, I want to know who thought of that potential.... "Hey, that one. He looks adhesive". Or maybe, "That's a fast horse. Maybe he's an instant glue".
 
posted by [identity profile] also-huey.livejournal.com at 04:33pm on 2007-06-20
I want to know the thought process behind the invention of suppositories. I'm imagining an angry doctor and a smartass patient.

"You can take this pill, and shove it up your ass!"

...hey, holy shit, it works!
 
posted by [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com at 04:58pm on 2007-06-20
Anything that can be eaten as-is or after a fairly basic chopping and/or application of heat surprises me not at all. It's the things that require pretty complicated processing to get edible that boggle my mind.
 
posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 2007-06-24
I still subscribe to the theory that silk (as a textile) was discovered when some
brewer was looking for something interesting to flavour the wort.

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