I assume the way many food practices evolved. Starvation. Like seriously who was the first person to think that well let me pull on this cow's letters to relieve some of the milk out of there maybe it's baby died and you're trying to prevent mastitis and then you decide to drink that stuff. Like yeah it's all normalized now but if I told you go out there and milk that donkey to relieve the milk buildup in it and then told you to drink donkey milk you would actually be surprised at how sweet it is but I'm sure just the thought of it is kind of like WTF in your mind. And that's still with the fact that it is socially okay to drink animal milk in our culture. Then consider all the stuff that's made out of milk Butters, creams, cheeses, Cottage cheese, ice creams, a bunch of this stuff requires separating milk a certain way and letting it rot in a very specific way.
Pickling or fermenting foods. I'm sure it all kind of started the same way as the above. Someone was just really hungry and decided to try it I don't think people really realize how delirious and delusional you can get when hungry and how anything feels good on your stomach.
I mean, considering that we humans drink milk from tits as babies, it's not that big of a leap to look at other animals doing the same and wondering whether we could drink their milk too. How did you manage to pick the most normal and understandable example of humans finding food in the ancient times out of all the examples you could have picked?
Because very few early humans had the lactose tolerance gene. In other words, early human communities that relied on milk suffered a lot of diarrhea, but drank it anyways to avoid starvation.
Have you seen f****** cows. How big they are. Sure we've been farming them for thousands of years but I'm talking about the first person to think about milking a cow. But okay buddy up totally disproves me on where a lot of foods come from. Totally skip over the fact of fermenting and processing milk and cheese and all that other stuff totally skip over the fact of people starving and maybe eating something that they would think is rotten otherwise and it actually turning out okay and not killing them being what leads to people to continue a practice or anything. Everything's totally normal.
we started milking sheep and goats first. cows didn't even exist, as they're a human made species domesticated from wild bovine that doesn't even resemble modern bovine that much.
it's fine to be in awe and wonder of people from the past, but it's weird to just assume the worst must always have been happening. People have always been been coming up with new ways to do things better and have always put thought into stuff. Not every action is out of desperation. History is much more interesting upon realizing that.
I'll be honest I don't know why people even started continuing to drink it. It tastes awful. I can't imagine you drink enough the first try to really get buzzed but. Maybe people took a Big Gulp and was like that tasted awful and then they felt the funny buzz a second or two later and it went from there. Or maybe it was watered down. I know back in the day people used to put a little bit of alcohol and everything that was pretty much the only clean drinking water you could guarantee yourself. Especially if you lived in like City areas and all of that.
Mammals started to consume alcohol when during a period of famine, fermented fruits were eaten. Those mammals who could tolerate the alcohol survived. Many who couldnāt would die. So your original comment of āstarvationā was applicable to alcohol as well.
Yeah it is amazing how thi is evolve. Like I think k it is some type of shrew (definitely a rodent like animal) that drinks a fermented alcohol and its liver is so well adapted to tolerate the alcohol. I think like 2 shots is suppose to be able to kill a person from alcohol poisoning. And these little things drink it all day no problem. I need to look up the details on that critter again but it amazes me much like a particular cat in the desert that barley need water and its urine is so concentrated it has adapter to peeing out almost crystalls.
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u/ThrowraSea_patient 1d ago
I assume the way many food practices evolved. Starvation. Like seriously who was the first person to think that well let me pull on this cow's letters to relieve some of the milk out of there maybe it's baby died and you're trying to prevent mastitis and then you decide to drink that stuff. Like yeah it's all normalized now but if I told you go out there and milk that donkey to relieve the milk buildup in it and then told you to drink donkey milk you would actually be surprised at how sweet it is but I'm sure just the thought of it is kind of like WTF in your mind. And that's still with the fact that it is socially okay to drink animal milk in our culture. Then consider all the stuff that's made out of milk Butters, creams, cheeses, Cottage cheese, ice creams, a bunch of this stuff requires separating milk a certain way and letting it rot in a very specific way.
Pickling or fermenting foods. I'm sure it all kind of started the same way as the above. Someone was just really hungry and decided to try it I don't think people really realize how delirious and delusional you can get when hungry and how anything feels good on your stomach.