hairy potatoes?

[steev]

I, too, prefer to eat the tastier spuds. I remember an entomology class in which the prof was describing protective mimicry in two beetles; the one doing the mimicry was favored by birds, so its appearance was converging on the less favored due to selective predation; wanting to know the deal, he did the obvious: he ate one of each, finding that the model was bitter, but the mimic tasted like lettuce; a dedicated scientist, for sure.

[flowerbug]

i wanna know who the first person was who found out that woodlice taste like shrimp...

[jocelyn]

I wanna know who the first person was who ate an oyster.....or a lobster, looks like a giant bug.

[steev]

Or an artichoke.

[blueadzuki]

"He was a bold man who first ate an oyster" Johnathan Swift

But seriously, I've always wondered how the people who don't have lactose intolerance worked out you could drink the milk of other animals. Did they get into the habit of hunting nursing animals and then say "what the hey, might as well suck on the udder" (Remember, lactose tolerance is a mutation, so the first people who had it would not be coming from a dairy consuming culture) and how'd they work out they could safely milk the animals without them kicking them to oblivion?

[steev]

I'm sure it was trial and error, doubtless with casualties occasionally; I suspect fermented dairy like yogurt and kvass played a part; I love dairy, being one of the lucky mutants (only one way I'm a mutant, no doubt).