How Did Our Ancestors Discovered That This Was Edible?

what food has made you wonder how did our ancestors discovered that this was edible not exactly a common food but was watching an episode of one of those survival shows that were popular several years ago the guy was trying to survive in the south american rhine forests and came across a kind of frond eaten by the locals the part that caught me off guard was that he explained the frond couldn't be eating raw trying to eat it uncooked would cause horrible digestive problems namely diarrhea and cramps it would be unpleasant but survivable so the guy boils the frond and explains that it's still inedible in order to safely eat this frond you had to boil it once toss the water out and then boil it a second time before eating it some dude a long time ago had to trial and error his way through this what mother was like yes this made me violently crap myself the last two times i tried it but maybe this time will be different same story on pokeweed in the southern us poisonous and you have to cook it with multiple changes of water to make it edible i have always wondered who the heck figured that one out puffer fish generally they are extremely poisonous to humans and will cause paralysis or death however you can eat it if properly handled how many people had to die to figure out which parts could be consumed and how they needed to be prepared you still occasionally see people getting sick from eating it at restaurants now if i recall correctly i think i want to read chefs who use it in japan must take a written examination regarding the proper food care when handling it before being able to serve it absolutely wild to think people take the risk to eat it much more than a written examination they have to prepare an entire meal with it and eat it [Music] coffee legend has it that it was goats a farmer noticed his goats acting differently when eating a certain cherry and somehow processing roasting and grinding the beans to drink became quite a popular thing that's correct as far as i'm aware an ethiopian goat farmer in the 9th century noticed his goats became more energetic after eating the coffee cherry i'm not sure if he was the one that then took the beans roasted them and brewed them big caldi the goat farmer is often attributed with the discovery of the elixir of life freaking cashews man the process is so complicated they grow on the underside of a fruit like a single testicle w a lump of cancer on the end once you take the nut off you have to fry it past 190 degrees celsius to process the shells because inside those shells is not only the cashew but an extremely caustic acid that will burn you if not cooked out who the frick wanted to eat the cancer lump that bad i am originally from nicaragua and i ate the fruit portion of it as a kid we call it marilyn it's really sweet when ripe but has an almost spicy hot aftertaste to it but what's crazy is i never knew the nut portion was cashews which i encountered for the first time in the us took me years to put two plus two together they were one and the same d cheese so much had to go into that to even figure out how to make it starting with who learned to get the milk from the cow france here we master the art of eew let's give it a shot aka fetches lavatch i wonder if any new food will be discovered in my lifetime like this breaking news poor kade the best food in 1 000 years if you age a pig's stomach acid for six months then add rotting wood you get proclaimed this new drink has as almost three times the protein a steak and is great for the digestive and immune system buy now in stores near you nestle furiously writes notes a lot of dairy products sour cream it's in the name it's sour gone bad but nope let's just give it a taste cottage cheese i don't know where cottage comes from but it's literally cruddled let's just dig in and see what we got here i'm sure most of this stuff was discovered during a famine all by products of dairy farming and herding once you've decided you're going to drink milk it all becomes a matter of storage being hungry enough to eat what it turned into mixed with a dash of desperation i salute our ancestors every time i eat crab or lobster if i saw some bug-looking creepy thing crawl out of the ocean my first thought would not be bet it's full of tasty stuff considering lobster was the crap they caught accidentally and ended up feeding to prisoners because it was so cheap to the point where there was a limit of how often you could give prison as lobster it only turned out once we paired them with french sauces that they were any good olives let's take this otherwise an edible fruit let it sit in a watery salty liquid for several months and try them again this really should be higher fresh olives taste like biting into a stick of aluminum and they have to be smoked or cured for a long time to become edible that takes serious patience to figure out month 5 i tried the olives i packed away at christmas again today still taste like butt back they go into the barrel hopefully by late summer they might be okayish bread the work involved did that with the gathering yeast and milling of flour mixing and kneading plus the rising and baking etc seems that it'd be a lot of room for error and a potential waste of food they likely didn't have allowances for i'm glad they figured it out though but the risk was great bread started off flat breads and are pretty universal to all humans based on the grains available in their area and then i bet a random yeast infection love and bread for the first time honestly almonds in the wild they are absolutely filled with cyanide like as in a few handfuls could do the trick it took some very deliberate experimentation to see how many you could eat without dying then again for each generation of selectively bred trees to make them what they are today it like how in the world were people so determined to eat and not that isn't all that tasty that they'd be willing to go through all that almonds on true nuts fruits grow around them kinda like cherries people eat the fruits though not as much anymore to get an almond that you eat you let the fruit around it over ripe kinda like cashews the trees also grow super fast smell good and attract song birds there's a dish in norway that's basically dried cod soaked in life or a few days and then you rinse it off and cook it it must have been hard times for the first guy who tried that one loot fisk that stuff is nasty i'm norwegian and i still won't eat it artichoke sharp spines and bitter taste until it's cooked they are delicious but there's so little payoff for so much work durian it's like a spiky bowling ball hanging from a tree that smells like rotting meat and has the consistency of cottage cheese was also going to say this to me it smelled like rotting onion and gasoline and it tasted pretty much the same meringue who thought i'm gonna stand here and vigorously whisk this egg for like 10 minutes just in case something cool happens but just the whites no pesky yolks for me some desserts do use only egg whites and maybe someone got into a deep conversation while whisking and only realized once it got really hard to whisk anymore turns out it wasn't bad if used for something else for me smoking is bigger misery than any food for everyone first time it's disgusting only after a time one starts liking it so how first human inhaled smoke and oh hey i should do that more often i mean a gigantic part of our advancement was tools which let us get to bone marrow which jump started brain power once you're into marrow you've already eaten everything else hyenas eat bone marrow all the time black beans unless you soak and cook them properly they are poisonous and will make you sick how many failed experiments did that take back in ancient china they would use small amounts to test if you were poisoned if they tasted good then you're poisoned and vice versa caviar and foie gras let's get this fish out and give it a squeeze what are these little things let me put it in my mouth to figure it out the foie gras the butthole must have been a sick sob let me get this goose nail it down shove a tub in its mouth force feed it then harvest its fatty liver and boom we have foie gras the foie gras wasn't quite that sudden they ate the livers anyway it livers from the fattest most well-fed geese had the most flavor and best texture it was a short leap from there to force feeding there is a brazilian dish called manisoba that takes seven days to get cooked if you eat earlier you can end up dying from poisoning rhubarb someone must have been really hungry also mushrooms i wonder how many ancestors died or tripped out before finding the innocuous edible ones could you imagine you're hungry you see a patch of mushrooms you eat them then start tripping balls with no reference for what's happening rhubarb kills me they must have been starving to eat that hutler kosh that fungus that grows on the corn i'm mexican i love mexican food who doesn't am right but as soon as i see that stuff that's where i draw my line fugu the most poisonous fish in the world people eat it takes a chef 11 years to train to prepare it the amount of people who died eating it before the correct way to prepare it was found must have been hundreds to answer the how for every single answer in this thread desperation someone was starving and had a choice to either eat that thing and maybe die or not eat anything and definitely die hackerell it's fermented shark but a freshly killed hacker is poisonous to humans b it has to ferment by being buried in the sand for six twelve weeks c then dry for several more months and d has a high urea and ammonia content so it smells like pee gordon ramsay says it's the single most disgusting thing he ever ate and anthony bourdain had to spit it out the one time he tried it most foods i can kind of sort of get how they were made how did the icelanders discover this one and more importantly why not even ancestors who was the idiot who drank a black fizzy liquid and who was the genius that turned something so conceptually disgusting into the world's most recognizable drink not surprisingly cola was invented by a drug addict looking for a way to drink medicine that would lift the addiction symptoms chile its spiciness is supposed to deter animals from eating it right there's no addictive quality to the substance that causes the tingly sensation capsaicin and honestly some dishes are so spicy nowadays they borderline on painful to eat how come it's a staple in so many cultures and cuisines it covered the taste of meat that was going off i just want to give a shout out to the countless brave ancestors who proved the opposite things that were not in fact edible coffee i'm imagining a conversation like try this i found these beans then i roasted them and crushed them into a fine powder and then soaked them in hot water and then filtered the grounds out this tastes absolutely terrible yes but once you get used to it it makes you a little less sleepy that's okay but who is the person i know i want to taste coffee out of beans that are freshly picked up from a steaming turd of a particular small mammal i bet it's awesome and it was supposedly it took me a couple tries to get a good mozzarella when making it at home and after every failure all i could think was how the heck did people do this without everything i have right now spices who decided to take seeds from random plants and grind them up into powder and then how did they figure out what proportions of different spices would make foods taste better like if someone just gave me a handful of turmeric or cinnamon if i ate it i'd be like that's disgusting no way i'm adding that to my food yet someone decided they were gonna keep mixing and matching them until they created culinary masterpieces i wondered how they realized that some animals you can eat and some you can't like white cows and not skunk or any other mammal i don't think there's any real reason you can't eat a skunk outside of the fact that they stink and it isn't very economical tubers and potatoes they are hard as wood coming from the ground how did one think to dig it up and roast or boil them long enough to chow sardinian maggot cheese puffer fish sushi and century eggs my heart goes out to whoever was hungry enough for the trial and error lunches salt hey john look at this shiny rock let's try to eat it three minutes later what here that was good let's do it again popcorn was always the one for me i just imagine a really hot day and like someone in a cornfield just hears a pop and gets freaked out or something like i have no clue how that started popcorn only works when the starches in the kernel are heated to the point where they polymerize and the water content is heated beyond the boiling point more likely someone was trying to cook corn and failed miserably or else say they tossed the corn into a hot pot to boil it but toss the corn in first then we're going to add the water nobody ever really said this and the few times it's come up i don't blame people for posting the same question a few times the search function on this site is so awful sprog did a poem about it but cherries cherries themselves are great right beautifully red balls of deliciousness but that's exactly the problem not only are things that are brightly colored usually like that to advertise their toxicity cherries take the cake for lethality cherries produce hydrogen cyanide a strong acid that is horrifically disfiguring and toxic that guy with the dentures from that james bond movie the one with the hcn capsule and a fake tooth that's not an inaccurate depiction honestly when they arrive the cherries concentrate this cyanide in the pits and the rest gets bound up in a cyanotype like pigment that renders it non-toxic as well as reacting with oxygen to turn blue that's why cherry juice stains start red and then become more and more purple over time for the most part this is fine the pit has a thick indigestible layer that seals away this toxic surprise so swallowing a cherry or even a few pits hole you would never notice a thing but once you crack those pits open good luck you're freaked even one pit will make you very sick as the acid carves a path of destruction through your gi tract and the leftover cyanide begins to bind to oxygen carrying hemoglobin in your blood permanently destroying its ability to pick up oxygen to more than three or four and you'll have eating enough to last you the rest of your life as your cells shut down from lack of oxygen or the cyanide decouples critical energy producing steps in the mitochondria making it run out of control without doing any meaningful work unripe cherries carry much less of this cyanide but it's distributed through the whole fruit and enough cherries to fill your stomach will kill you thankfully treating cyanide poisoning is very simple just pump someone full of cobalamin which is a chemical precursor to vitamin b12 that cells can use to manufacture the vitamin with the available cyanide there haven't been many deaths due to unintentional cyanide poisonings even in professions that deal with it regularly but a great many people would have died before someone figured out why that fruit was killing people and started to teach others what cherries were safe and what to avoid eating honey who the frick went up to a gift full of stinging and potentially lethal creatures and was like they got some good crap in there maple syrup let's cut a hole in this tree and boil the crap out of the stuff that comes out for like a couple days maybe we can eat that foie gras who thought to force feed and damage the livers of the birds so badly it induces an extremely painful disease people who notice the fattest geese's livers tasted the best durian fruit let's go trot a heavily spiked shell and fast what smell like a rotten pond with a dead deer in it i've always thought of it as eating fine custard in the middle of a sewage treatment plant beer someone thousands of years ago thought really long and hard about making barley into a drink or it sat out long enough and fermented and they decided to take a little swig and enjoyed themselves barley wine has been around since prehistoric times it's what you get if you mix barley with water and let it sit around for a long time the key innovation with beer was adding hops to it to make it bitter and more easily preserved i'm growing vegetables at the moment home gardening is a quarantine project with my research i am really questioning most stuff garbanzos lentils chickpeas corn that crap is hard as stones when uncooked toothbreaker similarly i wonder who accidentally dug up a carrot cashews the plant itself is toxic to the touch the fruit that holds the raw nuts is poisonous the nuts themselves are poisonous when raw the nuts are only edible when completely roasted how on earth did they get through three layers of poison just to find the one way that you can eat a cashew without dying puffer fish isn't naturally edible but i'm wondering how tf our ancestors find out that you can make it edible by doing lots of things to it mushrooms like how many people ate and died of certain mushrooms and then others kept eating and experimenting with eating the other kinds till they found the certain kind that is actually edible if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 19min 13sec (1153 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021