Milk from Cows?

[Angel Tarragon]

Mmmmm, beef. And steak. And ribs. And hamburger. Crap, now I'm hungry.

Me too.

<wanders off into the kitchen to grab some grub>

 

[Naathez]

What's always, REALLY puzzled me is who was the first man to sit behind a chicken and say "All right. Here goes nothing. I'm eating the first things that comes outta its..."

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Dannyalcatraz
Go back to Henry's post (#23 in this thread)- there's a link that will tell you why. Basically, it boils down to a combination of hundreds of documented cases of severe burns caused by hotter than normal coffee (180+ deg. F as opposed to about 130 deg. F)...that McDonalds had settled before for between $10k-50k, an industry standard of generally not serving food hotter than 150 deg. F, and other factors.

In the eyes of the law, that's a pattern of releasing a defective product.

Ah. Well I guess that kinda explains it then. I guess if coffee causes like 3rd degree burns, it's a LITTLE too hot.

Originally posted by Naathez
What's always, REALLY puzzled me is who was the first man to sit behind a chicken and say "All right. Here goes nothing. I'm eating the first things that comes outta its..."

Maybe someone saw a chicken drop an egg on a very hot sidewalk on a hot day, so it turn into a boiled egg and saw someone eat it. Cause there are plenty of creatures who eat things which are already dead.

 

[Jdvn1]

I think people are perhaps missing the obvious, the members of our species didn't just go around carefully testing various materials to determine their edibility out of curiosity; they did it out of desperation.

That's probably how cannibalism started too, now that I think of it.

 

[Dirigible]

Fun fact: When soy milk goes off, it smells like marmite/vegemite.

Fun fact #2: When your soy milk starts to smell like marmite/vegemite, and you really want cereal for breakfast, you can use apple juice as a substitute!

And who says being a vegan is no fun? *shudders*

 

[Dog Moon]

Soy milk? Ewww. It's not even real milk.

Originally posted by Jdvn1
That's probably how cannibalism started too, now that I think of it.

I thought cannibalism started more because people thought the essence of their enemies was trapped within their bodies and they thought that by eating the bodies, they would gain some of their strength or knowledge or something.

Of course I could be COMPLETELY off, but that's what I thought...

 

[Ranger REG]

Modern society, yes. But aside from the fact that we aren't talking about modern social mores, we're also talking about a society with much less wealth, and a greater need to exploit every source of nutrition it can. That social taboo seems like a weak impediment to experimenting with and developing a new food source.

There is only so much milk a human female can produce, though a group of human females can feed a child.

 

[Jdvn1]

I thought cannibalism started more because people thought the essence of their enemies was trapped within their bodies and they thought that by eating the bodies, they would gain some of their strength or knowledge or something.

Of course I could be COMPLETELY off, but that's what I thought...

Is cannibalism necessarily eating enemies?

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Jdvn1
Is cannibalism necessarily eating enemies?

No, especially not anymore. I just thought that's how is STARTED. Things could have easily evolved from that.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Especially once table manners became codified...

"Hmmm, when eating my 3rd cousin, do I use the inside or outside fork?"

(Cannibalism. The practice that gave new meaning to "Stop playing with your food.")