Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Some people think that this picture of the Martian surface shows a human skull: [link]
I figure that if you look at a billion rocks, a few might resemble a skull if looked at from the right angle.
Here is the NASA original to show it's not Photoshopped: [link]
eta: The more I look at it, the less it looks like a skull to me.
who figured out that brains are edible.
Brains, nothing -- who figured out how to prepare kidneys? At least badly prepared brains don't taste like pee.
Brains are easy. Evolutionarily, we're scavengers and omnivores. Brains are spicy and nummy.
The artichoke is the one I always question. How much trial and error did that take?
I swear, I've had this conversation before.
I do wonder. ..
And then I'm reminded of people I'm related to who are miraculously still alive despite their lack of caution and incredible oddity when the thought I wonder what would happen if... transmits through grey matter.
Brains look like congealed vomit. I'd -- have to really really have a good motivation to think brains = breakfast.
At least the first person who prepared kidneys didn't know they might taste like pee. For that matter, he probably thought he was preparing liver or heart muscle or something.
I'd try separating eggs before I'd eat the first artichoke. And I love artichokes.
The artichoke is the one I always question. How much trial and error did that take?
SO MUCH THIS.
I mean, can you even be hungry enough to think the giant thistle looks tasty, and yet still have the strength for trial and error on preparation?
I'd -- have to really really have a good motivation to think brains = breakfast.
Well, if you had to kill your own food, you'd probably be a little less delicate about what it looks like.
For me, the worst thing about brains would be that they look like brains.
It might just be that I'm lucky enough to never have seen congealed vomit.
Early man seems to have been rather fond of brains, if you go by the remains of their kills. Brains are certainly easier to eat than most of the rest of the animal.
Brains!
At least the first person who prepared kidneys didn't know they might taste like pee. For that matter, he probably thought he was preparing liver or heart muscle or something.
It's the getting from "Ew, this tastes like pee (should have stuck with the brains)" to "But you know, if I soaked it in milk for 4 hours..." that puzzles me.
Human eat cacti. A thistle doesn't even compare.