Buffistas: Thinking Too Much since 1999
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Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
Hey, you don't even have to kill things to find offputting meals. Palak paneer, which I love, often has an unfortunate resemblence to something else.
In times of famine, people will eat bark, roots, leather... and our prehistoric ancestors probably had many more periods of famine than we do now. So I'm sure there was desperate experimentation.
Let's all just be thankful that somebody discovered the (cooked) onion.
Mmmmmm, raw onions......
Maybe they weren't super sanitary
It really can't be overstated that, particularly in the populated places, the world has not historically been a very sanitary or pleasant smelling place.
But raw onions are so handy!
Nutty, in my years of riding London and Montreal public transit I never had that particular pleasure.
I hate it when I step on a train and I smell urine but I can't tell from where it's coming from. I try to guess where it's not coming from and sit there, but I've been wrong once or twice....
I just got a feeling that the troubles I've been having with my left contact lens today will lead to a horrible public transit winking incident on my commute home.
But the actual physical act of kissing. WEIRD, yo.
Oh yeah. Other body parts are more logically puzzle-piecy, but mouths? On the surface, it seems as random to mash lips with someone as it does to swoop elbows a la RiffRaff and Magenta.
Although kissing has proven to be much more enjoyable.
IOgrossN, I've seen congealed (and not so congealed) vomit in public places. The subway in NY, one dive bar in particular. ::shudders::
ahems at Trudy
tommyrot beat me to the weird foodstuff answer -- as they say, hunger is the best sauce... but seriously, you get desperate enough, you'll try eating dirt soup. (They do, in The Good Earth, btw.)
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