"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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I am, however, utterly at a loss to explain lobsters.
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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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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".
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"You can take this pill, and shove it up your ass!"
...hey, holy shit, it works!
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brewer was looking for something interesting to flavour the wort.