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We also died a lot. If it smells bad, it might be bad, or it might actually be fine because we took creating food to a new level once we discovered fermentation
by TheRealPomax 4y ago
We also died a lot. If it smells bad, it might be bad, or it might actually be fine because we took creating food to a new level once we discovered fermentation could actually make things tasty.
The same goes for hams, really. Some curing yields things that your nose would go "throw this away!" to, and it couldn't be more wrong. Some Iberico and Parma can smell quite terrible, even if once trimmed it's not just safe but incredibly delicious.
- ethbr0 4y agoWe died more. But there's a bit of medical science that's also accrued in the intervening millennia, so apples and oranges. The one that always gets me is olives. How the hell did people figure out how to make them edible? And why?!
- TheRealPomax 4y agoThe why is presumably "there are a million trees with these things, how can we eat them". The how has a number of equally "we will never know" theories, all of which make some kind of sense =P