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I often wondered this about potatoes. Wild potatoes are extremely poisonous, so who went, the last time we ate one of those we all got sick and a few people died.
Let's cultivate them. I'm sure in just a few thousand years we can turn it into something useful. Of course until then it's kind of just wasted effort but our children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children will thank us.
Boiling them in a clay pot, one of the only materials available to them, renders them edible and famously almost nutritionally complete. They are incredibly easy to grow and grow almost anywhere. They were immediately available. "What happens if we boil it" is the basis for quite a lot of staple foods and would have been a human go-to.
Eating one probably felt so damn good when people had a non-existent understanding of nutrition.
Eating potatoes still feels great
Peru, that's who. I'm pretty sure that's where all edible potatoes come from.
My thoughts but with chicken "ah yes these poisonous birds that make you shit yourself to death, i shall bring them home"
Wait till you learn why chicken was domesticated and spread around the world. Believe it or not, but it's not for food.
Chicken isn't poisonous if you cook it directly after slaughtering, though, the raw meat just doesn't keep well. Humans figured out fire a long time ago.
Only if you cook them all the way through, i imagine the first couple of guys that tried to eat it died
It's really not that hard to cook it all the way through, I'd assume they did that anyway with any meat. It's not smart to eat meat "rare" when you don't have fridges and the animals might have any number of bacterial or viral diseases. On top of that, wild birds can also carry salmonella, I'd assume humans figured out how to eat wild birds long before they encountered chicken.
Ooohh so the knowledge of what to do was just imparted by divine right? No experimentation? The first guy did it right and everyone after them did too?
People still get salmonella from improperly handling chicken to this day, the chickens bodily fluid also carry the disease and handwashing was not a thing for a very long time.