I imagine it's an easier sell when you're hungry af and some other person you know has tried oyster and didn't have any adverse effects after a day. Also, I bet this was figured out by some barely upright-walking ancestor.
i remember watching a documentary about first homo sapiens leaving Africa, walking around the coast of the red sea, and eating lots of shell fish, so it probably has been a while
I think, over the course of hominin history, NOT eating something that wasn't blatently poisonous was the weirder move. My theory is that a lot of texture aversions are recent (and often local). For instance, Japanese natto which are slimy, string, fermented soy beans. Also yamaimo (some kind of tuber) is slimy as hell.
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horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 91d
I think just watching someone you know and trust eat these things and look like they're enjoying it would be enough to convince almost anyone.
I don't think human communities were as individualistic and distrusting as ours are now.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 90d
I mean at most the majority of your community would be at least your 2nd cousin or closer
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 15 pts · 91d
I imagine it's an easier sell when you're hungry af and some other person you know has tried oyster and didn't have any adverse effects after a day. Also, I bet this was figured out by some barely upright-walking ancestor.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 14 pts · 91d
I think the same situation has happened every time any person has ever eaten raw oysters for the first time.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 91d
Hominids have been eating oysters before homo sapiens was even a thing.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 91d
"...And it makes you horny!"
everyone starts slamming down fistfuls of oysters
Cypher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 90d
I had never heard about this until I ate an esky full of fresh oysters in South Australia and broke the bed with the girlfriend.
Breakfast with her family was slightly awkward, especially her dad.
Guess they don’t work for everyone!
expatriado@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 91d
i remember watching a documentary about first homo sapiens leaving Africa, walking around the coast of the red sea, and eating lots of shell fish, so it probably has been a while
farmgineer@nord.pub · 4 pts · 90d
I think, over the course of hominin history, NOT eating something that wasn't blatently poisonous was the weirder move. My theory is that a lot of texture aversions are recent (and often local). For instance, Japanese natto which are slimy, string, fermented soy beans. Also yamaimo (some kind of tuber) is slimy as hell.
trd@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 90d
Think how hungry the first guy eating crabs was. Ohh yes, this plated sea spider with claws is probably delicious...
Probably even took a few generations to figure out that shell wasn't that good.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 91d
Is that RWBY? I should really finish that series.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 3 pts · 90d
i think, if you're really hungry, everything seems edible.
bricklove@midwest.social · 2 pts · 90d
I'd eat that before I trusted an unknown mushroom
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 91d
I still need convincing
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 90d
They were so hungry at that point, that the only alternative was each other, so even semi-liquid protein starts to look good enough.