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.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
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.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 11:55:54 am PST #4437 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sean K - Dec 04, 2006 11:55:59 am PST #4438 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2006 12:00:57 pm PST #4439 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But raw onions are so handy!
Nutty, in my years of riding London and Montreal public transit I never had that particular pleasure.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 12:02:43 pm PST #4440 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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....
shrift - Dec 04, 2006 12:08:19 pm PST #4441 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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.
Amy - Dec 04, 2006 12:08:45 pm PST #4442 of 10007
Because books.
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::
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2006 12:11:20 pm PST #4443 of 10007
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.)
Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2006 12:13:25 pm PST #4444 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
sluuuuuuuuuuuuut
brenda m - Dec 04, 2006 12:16:33 pm PST #4445 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Now I want a bowl of tasty stone soup.
Of course, it'd be even better with a little...
Amy - Dec 04, 2006 12:19:51 pm PST #4446 of 10007
Because books.
There's pica, too (I think that's the name of it) where people with malnutrition will start to crave dirt or paper and other things. Apparently a lot of underprivileged pregnant women get it, I guess because the nutrients in the soil (um, yuck) actually count for something.
As much as brains squick me, I can't see any people who had to hunt and kill their own food turning up their noses at any part of any animal. Seems more reasonable to put the whole thing over the fire than wrestle with a pineapple or a coconut, actually.