Incoherently unsophisticated

Neolithic Jackass

They say that any day you learn something is a day you haven't wasted. I submit that there are things that you can learn that make your day just as wasted as before. To that extent, yesterday I learned, through a random Wikipedia page, about Century Eggs. If you don't feel like reading the article, basically you take an egg, drop it into a plaster made of lime, salt, ash and a couple other things, burying it for a couple months, and then eat it. After a couple months the egg looks like this:


It is a delicacy from China and has been around for a long time. Now. I have two simple questions.

1) What events sparked this discovery?
2) Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to eat it?

Regardless of how it might taste, who was the first one who said, hmm, this very dark green and black egg that used to be a chicken egg, has been buried for half a year and might be good eating. There are many other instances of things like this. How many fishermen did they go through before they found the one part of the blowfish that you can eat that isn't poisonous. How did someone decide that they can make milk go bad a little and become cheese and that's okay to eat.

The solution? A Neolithic version of Jackass.

Thak: Thak find strange berry. Thak give Og pretty rock if Og eat berry.
Og: Give Og berry! Want pretty rock!
Og: (eats berry, dies horribly)
Thak: Og?...Og?....Og dead. So, no eat strange berry.
Ungh: (nods)
Thak: Now, Thak find nasty egg. Thak give Ungh pretty rock if Ungh eat egg.
Ungh: Give Ungh egg! Want pretty rock!
Ungh: (eats egg)
Ungh: Mmmmm....Now give Ungh pretty rock!

posted by wrmblnwrck @ 10:13 AM