Well, you don’t just chow down on something strange. You take a tiny nibble, see what happens. Rinse and repeat with larger bits.
What I want to know is how some groups figured out how to eat stuff that requires complex preparation to remove toxicity. How do you iterate on that?!
You take a tiny nibble, see what happens. Rinse and repeat with larger bits.
In the course of a few days… takes a while for the poison to start working.
Not really. For example, even the worst mushrooms are only going to give you a tummy ache from a tiny nibble. And that’s going to happen within a couple of hours. Not like 1/4 of a berry is going to drop you dead 3 days later.
No, I meant as in, take a bite, wait a few hours take a bigger one, wait a few hours more… my point was, the sampling process might take days.
I’ve always wondered who the first person was to think of drinking cow milk.
Were they smart, desperate, or perverted?
They were hungry, just like everyone else during 99% of human history.
