So,... Do you ever wonder...

So, .... Do you ever wonder...


Just what the hell was going through the first Frenchman's head, when he decided to start the eating of snails?


I mean, they might be just wonderful, but they don't look it! There is nothing appetizing about them. Uncooked, cooked wrong, or the wrong species will kill you horribly.


Ya just gotta wonder...




So, What is your puzzled thing?


What is a human behavior, food, tradition, holiday... What is just to weird to figure?


Maybe someone else on the forum will know!

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I just want to know who the first som(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) was that looked at a lobster and thought "Hey, that might be good to eat"....

Good thing he was right....

 

How about a coconut ?

 

How about skiing?

Who was the first guy to think, Gee, if I go out onto the slippy snow with a couple of long slick waxed boards strapped to my feet, I might not break a leg!

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What some people consider a delicacy, most look at it and think it resembles snot or boogers. No, your tastes are not more refined because you're willing to eat brains or other organs which never should be eaten unless you're starving in the jungle. Or, a snail, or sea urchin or centipede. You're just a snooty prick=) C

Food snobbery is an entire industry.

 

How about Vanatu Land Divers!


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Ya just gotta wonder!


Ohhh, Sure, today we know you can survive it, and hey! its a Tradition!

And it blessed the Yam Harvest!

But!, Just what in the hell was going through the mind of the FIRST guy to do this!?

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What... you dont like the ova of the chicken? the ass of the cow? one mans refined is anothers food is anothers delicacy

 

Rocky Mountain Oysters.....need i say more?

 

And how did the French come to be called "Frogs"? Is it another gastronomic thing?

 

That one I actually know.

The term was coined by their hated enemy, at least in the Napoleonic Era, as part of a British War Propaganda Campaign.

You see, the Britons, by Physiognomy, are distinctly different from the French, in that the Brits tend to have small features, and extremities, compared to that of the French.

I.E. the French have big heads, big hands, big feet, bulging eyes... hence, they resemble Frogs.

It is a very racist term.

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I can still laugh at people willing to shell out $100+ on small plates(what we used to call Hors d'oeuvres) and pass them off as the entree, that taste no better than good Bar-B-Q... YES, I've eaten at very expensive/high rated restaurants that besides the excellent presentation, don't taste any better then what I've eaten from a good Food Truck. No food is worth that much money and I'm not paying to look at it for a minute. I want to eat it, which ruins the presentation in 10 seconds.

You run into the biggest pr1cks on the planet at Food and Wine festivals.

 

ya get enough people to pay that $100...next thing you know you can call it a Food and Wine Festival...and poof....you become a food p**ck.

 

Q: Why are there trees lining the Champs-Élysées?
A: So the Germans can march in the shade.

 

I'm reminded of a piece I heard on NPR about the most recent globe trotting of our anointed leader. He went to some place that has "the best sushi in the world". In presenting the chef, they said that he cooks in the traditional manner, using only seasoned rice, fish, and sea weed. Gimme' a break! How does one make a definitive qualitative judgement about this stuff?

 

How about using Potato Mashers as Money in what is today Cameroon.

So, I can see it being used... I mean, easy to handle chunks of valuable metal... but HOW on earth did it get started!?

Why not Knives, or Axe Blades, or Ingots, or .....

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It was probably a woman. The men hunted, the women gathered If you are hungry enough......

 

Who looked at the dangly parts on a cow and said "I'm going to drink from that"?

 

That's Easy. I'm going to guess you've never had a breast feeding wife...

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Never had a wife. Does that help? Anyway that question is courtesy of my dad. He used to mess around with us and ask that question.

 

Well, when you could answer, he'd know when to start worrying about time spent in the hay loft with your cousin.

 

Pick up truck, not the hayloft. Easy to make that mistake though.

 

How about mistletoe? Hang a tree fungus over a door way in winter-fest, and its a license to be a bit forward...

I mean, I get the part about making excuses for sex, particularly among Medieval British Christians. Hell, they might have died out without it!

But why a parasitic tree fungus?

Why not a goose feather, or a pine bow, or a the inviting red holly berry?

Why a freaken Tree Fungus?

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Taxcutter says:
This one is easy. What went through his head was: "I'm really hungry and that looks like meat."

Then: "Hey! Not bad!"

 

You eat meat that looks like snails!?

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Probably the ground....