“Unraveling Culinary Curiosities: 30 Unexpected Foods and the Surprising Stories Behind Their Discovery!”
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#10
One of the first staple foods is kinda weird: Acorns. Acorns were actually farmed very early in human history, but to make them edible you have to soak them and treat them. Sure, you see animals eat them all the time, but animals also eat tree bark and leaves. Somehow people figured out, that you could turn the inside of acorns into flour and basically eradicate hunger by simple picking up acorns for a couple of days.
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#11
Hakarl. I think it was probably starvation that led someone long, long ago to eat that rotten dead shark that had been fermenting in beach sand for months. Surely that could be the only reason someone would eat it because I have heard hakarl smells and tastes like p**s.
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#12
Blue cheeseâ¦someone left that out for too long, looked at it, shrugged their shoulders and went for it.
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#13
F*****g sea urchins. why would you even want to crack that open and eat it.
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#14
Nettles. “Ow, that m**********r stung me! Maybe I should boil it for its crimes….”.
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#15
Foods that are poisonous unless prepared in a specific manner.
I mean who was it who first realised that the kidney beans that were poisoning everyone raw, were perfectly safe after being boiled for 20 mins?
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#16
Potatoes. Early potatoes were small, hard, and poisonous.
Methods of making them not poisonous included soaking them in running water for weeks or, in the high Andes, leaving them out on rocks high in the mountains so they effectively freeze-dried. Alternatively, you could mix them with clay when eating them – the clay would adsorb some of the toxins.
