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• frog@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I always wonder how many people ate pufferfish sushi and died before getting it right. Like why would you even try again?

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not all parts of a pufferfish are poisonous, right? So I guess some made it and some didn’t and people eventually figured out why.

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• herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s olives for me. Raw, fresh olives are absolutely disgusting. Insanely bitter. Straight up inedible until it’s essentially pickled, which is what we actually eat. Crazy that someone ate that shit off the branch and went “I can fix this” instead of just writing the entire tree off as junk.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s how basically all our fruits started. Do you think some ancient person just stumbled across a watermelon one day? Fuck no. They found something as disgusting as olives, decided it was good enough, then hundreds of years of selective breeding happened.

    Have you ever seen a wild banana? It’s bullshit. You’d peel it open and that’s what you’d say: “This is bullshit.”

    Meanwhile olives have been cultivated for olive oil for thousands of years, so that’s probably why people kept growing them in their bitter form.

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, olives are different. Most of our fruit are descendants of wild fruit that are bland, tasteless, poorly textured at worst. Stuff that’d make you say “meh I don’t care for this”, not “I’d rather taste my own vomit”.

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Crazy that someone… tree off as junk.

    Have you ever been starving before, by any chance?

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what you wildly underestimate is people’s time back then. they often had jack-shit to do for prolonged periods of time, and people are willing to mess around with things quite a lot, especially food-related

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Given the time period in which that happened that person was probably starving and out of other options.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  meat has been eaten long before humans existed. iirc butter and cheese were developed by human’s efforts to preserve food long-time (for the winter). people knew that a high water content makes all kind of food spoil faster (that much is pretty obvious if you spend some time actually observing things), so the straightforward consequence is to try and remove the water from the milk, and that’s basically how you end up with cheese and butter.

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• lengau@midwest.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A loaf of milk is probably my favourite snack.

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• ddplf@szmer.info ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not as much as the one who saw a cow and went

  that was a reference to that joke tbh, nothing too crazy about cooking grain

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