Philosophical thought of the day....

Jim Crafton

Well, you know how it goes. It's 5000 BC, it's been a long day in the ziggurat, your bottom itches, the kids are screaming, and the wife's being a nag. Suddenly you look at that bit of shark liver, left over from last nights party at your brother-in-laws with the temple hookers, and it starts to look interesting, and you think, "What have I got to lose? I'm 35 and I'll probably be dead in just a few more years anyways!".

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J4amieC

Not sure why bread above got voted down but ive often thought about the process of dough making. Take 1 Unfertilised egg Grind up some thing that grows to make flour Squeeze the boobs of a cow. Mix. Now who the hell though to do that?

Jim Crafton

I'm sure the guys behind the Jackass movie will have this as a major plot device in their next movie "Jackass 3.1: When The Idiots Ruled the Earth".

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realJSOP

Related note: There is a coffee being sold where the process of procuring the supply of beans is to wait for a jungle cat of some kind to eat the beans, and then crap them out. You gotta wonder who a) dug through cat crap to see what was in it, and b) found the coffee beans and subsequently wondered how good of a cup of coffee they could make with them. Amazingly, this is supposed to be the most expensive coffee you can buy.

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Jim Crafton

Maybe that's not as far out as you think. I mean, consider this: It's 10,000 BC. Ug is watching his son, Ig, breast feed with his mother Ugga. Stifling back mild pangs of envy, Ugga is looking particularly fine today, he notices his neighbors cow across the way and sees the swaying, heavy udder. Then he glances back at Ugga. Back to the cow. Back to Ugga. Ug's stomach issues a few grumblings as he glances back to the cow's udder, then back to his beloved Ug. Finally he gets up and wanders over to the cow, a plan slowly forming in the dim nether regions of brain... Six months later Zug turns to Ugga, "You know, Ug was on to something with the cow! This stuff tastes great! Too bad he didn't figure to use a bucket to catch the stuff!"

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Jim Crafton

Give new meaning to the word "craptastic"!

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El Corazon

J4amieC wrote:

Not sure why bread above got voted down

Having just a teensy bit of history on aboriginal cultures, I don't agree that it is strange, per se. But I voted it back up to even it out. I am actually quite familiar with how all these things come about. But it still amazes me the sequences that go into it. I drink my coffee black, I figure that was how it was first done so I enjoy it natural. I can't imagine soaking my beans in the water and then saying, blech, I hate this water, but I will add milk and sugar to it to make it more enjoyable. :doh: Back to the milking the bull comment, would milk and sugar make that taste better too? X| Bread came in steps.... you have your crushed grains made into flour, which came from eating the grains raw first. If you have had flour and water bisquits you've tasted the first breads. Some things came by accidents, some by experimentation. Like me adding sage to my cooking, a cook tends to have something he adds that someone who taught him did not. Things grow, change from generation to generation and flour and water bread becomes modern combinations over much time and great diversity as each culture added different things to their grains as well as different source grains. Blue-corn looks horrible as a rough ground flour -> bread (slightly better as a modern finely ground flour to start with). But blue-corn breads are actually pretty tasty.

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Dario Solera

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Amazingly, this is supposed to be the most expensive coffee you can buy.

You get what you pay for, right?

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leckey 0

The indigenous people tried all kinds of plants. That's how they knew certain plants were good medicinally. They chewed the beans for an energy boost. Not sure why they decided to add water. From wikipedia Coffee use can be traced at least to as early as the 9th century, when it appeared in the highlands of Ethiopia.[1] According to legend, Ethiopian shepherds were the first to observe the influence of the caffeine in coffee beans when the goats appeared to "dance" and to have an increased level of energy after consuming wild coffee berries.[11] The legend names the shepherd "Kaldi." From Ethiopia, coffee spread to Egypt and Yemen,[12] and by the 15th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa.

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El Corazon

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Amazingly, this is supposed to be the most expensive coffee you can buy.

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Malcolm Smart

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

jungle cat of some kind to eat the beans, and then crap them out.

Does anybody wanna try some chocolate I ate last night?

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El Corazon

Jim Crafton wrote:

Too bad he didn't figure to use a bucket to catch the stuff!"

probably didn't bother to pull anything either.... Ug see, Ug do.... ;P

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Matthew Faithfull

This mystery along with the origins of brewing, steel making which appears at far ends of the earth apparently independently and other ancient arts that appear to require knowledge or understanding not thought to exist until relatively recently have fascinated me for along time. They are circumstantial evidence for a relatively technologically advanced pre-deluvian civilisation, of which they are the only surviving remnant ideas but there is insufficient evidence and scant biblical basis for making a real theory out of this. The other more troubling possible source for such knowledge is that from which amazonian tribes have derived a knowledge of medicinal plant use superior in many cases to the most advanced current pharmacology. It would be sad indeed to think that the basic technologies of modern civilisation were learned through divination and I prefer the former idea. No doubt many will prefer the idea that these things were learned over many millenia of gradual development. Possible in some cases but very hard to imagine in others.

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Jim Crafton

Yeah, I imagine the whole pulling bit may have take a little experimentation :) Sadly we've no historical documents left to know whether or not poor Ug's wife may have helped here.

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At least he left the rest of the shark behind!

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My great food related mystery is how and more importantly why people spent the time to figure out just how and what parts of a blowfish you can eat without dying.

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El Corazon

John C wrote:

My great food related mystery is how and more importantly why people spent the time to figure out just how and what parts of a blowfish you can eat without dying.

In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?"

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Vikram A Punathambekar

*If* the bull decides to let you live after you've, umm, aroused it, that is. :-D

Cheers, Vikram.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

:laugh:

Cheers, Vikram.

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Steve Mayfield

seeing a calf feed itself should have been enough of a clue... :doh:

Steve