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Always love the history of the invention of Cheese
Some people thought it was a good idea to drink milk from a cow because they saw that babies drank from a mothers breast .... why not the cow?
Then a few hundred years of that, some guy kept a bunch of milk in a goat's stomach they used as a storage bag .... the milk curdled and turned into big solid chunks .... hmmmm ... might as well try to eat it ... what could go wrong? that it might kill me!? hahahahahahaha !!!
Few hundred years later, a bunch of Europeans kept cheese in a cave and it started to get affected with a mold giving it a series of blue streaks and spots .... hey Hans, what happened to the cheese? .... don't know, let's feed to Gunther and see if it kills him
I think that you're describing human evolution and missing the sheer scale at which people died learning what was safe to eat and what wasn't.
The human evolutionary timescale with regards to cheese is nil
The trick is to wait until not eating the strange food would also kill you (starvation).
Also, when you are starving, you will eat anything. Ask the first US settlers the first winter they ate things from the mud that look like big insects.
They probably also ate actual big insects, so....
Imagine how hungry the first person was to eat a lobster? Nightmare demons.