Whoami | Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 11:03 pm     Just a fun, "Things that make you go Hmmmmm..." thread.. For instance. For Mom's sake, I'm cooking some nasty mushrooms in steak juice for her (can you tell I can't stand mushrooms?). Not to mention I'm wasting some perfectly good and yummy steak juice on some nasty mushrooms, when it would be much better served slathered up on some black rye bread! So, who do you think thought up to actually eat a fungus growing from a cow pie? Ever see things around you and wonder how in the world someone thought up to do it? Submit your "hmmm's" here! |
Ophiliasgrandma | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 08:56 am     Whoever in the world had the guts to eat the first oyster? If they'd of waited for me to do it first then every oyster in the sea would be safe from human consumption. |
Halfunit | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 09:00 am     lol OG... Unit and I think the same thing about lobster. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 09:16 am     I know the 'who' is documented, but what nerve it must have taken to be the first to take a parachute jump. If it had been up to me all of our poor military caught in a shot up airplane would have bought the farm in a ball of flame. |
Sia | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 09:26 am     I heard a comedian ask once, "Who was the first guy to drink milk, huh? What did he do, say, 'Gee, guess I'll just squeeze these long things and drink whatever comes out.' " ROTFL!! |
Whoami | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 03:38 pm     How about bread? I mean. It takes a lot of forward thinking to take a grain, Pound/grind it into a meal, sift that meal to obtain a fine powder, mix that powder with other ingredients to make breads, cakes, etc. Who ever thought to do that? I'd say our ancestors must have been brilliant! |
Tabbyking | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 03:56 pm     who ever thought to cure olives by soaking them in lye? we cure olives almost every fall and it amazed me the first time we went to do it and used red devil to cure them! who, someone probably masticated the hell out of a grain and said, "this wouldn't be half bad if it was only cooked!" lol |
Tabbyking | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 03:58 pm     also, for many years, the settlers in new england used lobsters as fertilizer for their measly crops...until someone got smart and decided to try eating the fertilizer! hello? do you want to eat in 10 minutes or "maybe" next spring if something comes up? lol i love lobster and it's about the only thing i miss not living back east any more... |
Ketchuplover | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 07:26 pm     How come no one "discovered" gravity before Sir Isaac Newton? |
Weinermr | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 07:32 pm     Because they were too busy trying to hold on for dear life so they wouldn't float off into space. |
Squaredsc | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 07:49 pm     rofl weinerkins. |
Babyruth | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 07:23 am     Cute one, Weinerkins. |
Midlifer | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 07:57 am     Who thought up eating caviar???? How about liver? Makes me feel like Hannibal the Cannibal. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 08:32 am     I have read that the Plains Indians ate the 'whole buffalo'. During the winter it was especially important for them to ingest the contents of the food track in order to get the necessary vitamins. Now, how in the world did they ever figure that out, much less be the first one to take a bite of it? |
Sasman | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 09:04 am     What woman thought up having knives thrown at them as they are tied to a spinning board? |
Max | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 09:17 am     what maniac first decided to strap a giant rubber band on his (I'm assuming it was a man) feet and jump off a bridge/building/cliff? |
Ocean_Islands | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 09:39 am     Bungee jumping was invented by natives of either an African jungle or Borneo (can't remember which) -- they tied vines to their ankles and jumped off a platform. The platform was only about 30 feet high. These vines, called 'bungee vines' were slightly elastic and very strong. This was copied by thrill seekers using rubber and elastic bands. Food discoveries were made in times of famine and hunger. How else could you think up to eat hooves, eyeballs, tongues and gizzards? |
Tashakinz | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 10:21 am     okay - well then who was the first person to figure out that stale urine becomes amoniacal for bleaching purposes...it was a technique described in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series... |
Fabnsab | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 10:30 am     I think of these things often and my brain hurts. Things like the lightbulb. It takes pure genius to look at a candle, which paved the way for god knows how long, and say "hey, I can make that better" and actually come up with something so amazing. |
Mware | Friday, September 05, 2003 - 05:10 pm     How about the egg? Not only do you have to get over the fact that it came out of a chicken, you also have to think enough of it to open the protective covering to eat the slimy, gooey insides. The world would be eating Count Chocula for breakfast every day if they were waiting for me to figure it out!  |
Tess | Friday, September 05, 2003 - 08:10 pm     Mware, I think you've successfully put me off eggs for at least the next 20 years. |
Melfie1222 | Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:33 pm     Tess, don't go switching back to cereal too soon... the FDA rules probably allow at least one rodent hair per every ounce in a box of Count Chocula. |
Tess | Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:51 pm     aaaaaaaaaaack!!!!! Oh wait! I'm a Cocoa Krispies girl. whew!! |
Tabbyking | Friday, September 05, 2003 - 10:16 pm     my daughter didn't eat peanut butter for 3 years after seeing some program where they said caterpillars end up grounded with the peanuts in almost every jar. i haven't broken the news about bugs in the flour yet...lol |
Tess | Friday, September 05, 2003 - 10:35 pm     I didn't eat eggs for nearly 20 years after having to disect a chicken embryo in biology class. Now, I'm done again. eeeeeeeew ick. off peanut butter now, too. |
Mack | Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 06:15 am     Actually Mel the rodent hair standard applies to all cereals. It's the rodent droppings standard that will really make a person nervous. |
Urgrace | Monday, September 08, 2003 - 12:35 pm     There are tears leaking from my eyes from LOL here! Those hairs, bugs and worms not to mention sea life have been in most everyone's diets for years. Did you know that hot air balloons were invented after someone noticed that sparks flew upwards from a campfire? The sewing machine has always intrigued me. How does it place one thread through the other one on the other side of the fabric and not unravel or not cut the threads of the fabric being sewn? |
Ophiliasgrandma | Monday, September 08, 2003 - 01:34 pm     I love programs that show us how things like the sewing machine work, or how things are made. I want to see how gold chains are made. |
Fabnsab | Monday, September 08, 2003 - 09:55 pm     Thats funny that you should say that, Ophiliasgrandma. I was in The Louvre, which has the largest collection of egyptian jewelry, and I was looking at the gold necklaces that looked like they were made recently. All we could wonder is how they did that intricate work waaaaay back then. It is so weird to see things like that. I always loved Mr. Rogers because he showed how things were made. Thats why I like the Food network so much. They do the same thing. |