Indeed. I, too, wonder over these things. Actually, I'm not too surprised by most of it. Sure, it's complex, but that's how evolution works, you know? You don't just look at a complex structure like an eye and "OMFG, how did anyone ever come up with this?" You know it happened one little step at the time.
Same with Chocolate Cake. A bit of "this is edible" and "these two things taste better mixed together" and "hey, if you cook this goop, it's even better" and "hey, these bitter seeds actually taste yummy if you roast them with sugar" and so on.
What really baffles the hell out of me is how we ever developed ways to eat things that start out poisonous and require careful and complex preparation just to become edible. Like olives. And blowfish. I mean, seriously, how many people died before someone figured out just how to make these things nontoxic? And what level of desperation even compelled people to keep trying?
I suspect a great deal of gone-bad milk got thrown away before anyone decided that things like sour cream and cheese were edible, though.
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Date: 2010-04-23 06:29 pm (UTC)Same with Chocolate Cake. A bit of "this is edible" and "these two things taste better mixed together" and "hey, if you cook this goop, it's even better" and "hey, these bitter seeds actually taste yummy if you roast them with sugar" and so on.
What really baffles the hell out of me is how we ever developed ways to eat things that start out poisonous and require careful and complex preparation just to become edible. Like olives. And blowfish. I mean, seriously, how many people died before someone figured out just how to make these things nontoxic? And what level of desperation even compelled people to keep trying?
I suspect a great deal of gone-bad milk got thrown away before anyone decided that things like sour cream and cheese were edible, though.