“What Is A Food That Makes You Think, ‘How Did Humans Discover This Was Edible?'” (30 Answers)

Other primates eat oysters, so it likely predates the emergence of humans.

Might've been after fire was invented hopefully. Smoked oyster are delicious

The answer to almost all of these is the same; we saw animals eating something, and figured 'well, if they can, we can', and so we did.

Aw, c'mon. Civilizations grew up around the Seas and Oceans. Humans ate everything they could.

Ancient Romans! Oysters were a luxury food served at banquets. From there, eating oysters spread throughout Europe. Over in the New World, Native Americans were eating oysters raw, fire roasted, or steamed in a seafood wrap for about 9,000 years. the Native Americans not only would have consumed them raw but also fire roasted and steamed them inside of seaweed wraps

Kopi Luwak - coffee beans eaten by the civet cat then pooped out, collected and processed into a brewable food item. Super expensive and no I don't think I could bring myself to try it!

1. Hey, this cat poop has coffee beans in it. 2. Nobody would drink that! 1. I bet you I could get people to buy it, just need to find the right market. 2. Well they better be rich. 1. Yes, I got this.

I learned of this coffee in the movie bucket list. I did try it once it's not bad but it's def not worth that price lol

Kopi Luwak, made from partially digested coffee cherries, people pay unbelievable amounts of money for it. I don't drink coffee so I'll never understand the appeal.

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Cows milk itself. You know the first person to try it didn't bring a bucket or bowl.

Researchers think that yogurt was an accident, so maybe it's true with cheese. Yogurt's been around for about 7,000 years, whereas cheese for about 8,000-10,000 years.

Mmmm, cheese!

When I was in middle school they showed us a documentary put out by the dairy industry about commercial cheese making. It was horribly disgusting. I don't know who thought this was a good idea. Still love the stuff though!

There are people who can carefully extract part of the honeycomb and not get stung. They learn how to carefully approach and reach into the hive and carefully remove it. Also, not everyone has a bad reaction to bee stings. So someone like that, came out of the cave, observed a bear get some honey, and decided to try it. Being successful, they brought the honey back to the cave, and officially became the tribe’s bee shaman. Maybe.

Honey is one of the oldest raw foods.

I don't care for honey.

I am quite sure the ancients were too worried.

I never thought of it that way before 0.0

I just googled it and vanilla comes from vanilla beans - so it's plant based. Of course there is artificial vanilla.. that's where beaver is the main character.

Sounds like a Canadian joke

I thought it was raspberry that came from beaver butt juice.

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No, it doesn't, it comes from the vanilla bean, that grow on a orchid.

Well people had all the time in the world back then. No 9-5 so I can imagine people spending time thinking and making discoveries. Thank you to them all!

Folks have díed after going down in cargo holds where raw cashews were stored. The nuts oils displace the oxygen levels, making it deâdly

Dang and I don’t even like them

The cashew plant is related to poison ivy. Be careful!

I always thought people seen animals qaeat coffee beans. And noticed the effects