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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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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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moakley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

Crazy that someone… tree off as junk.

Have you ever been starving before, by any chance?

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