Did you ever wonder about how people chose to eat what they eat?

[MissMillie]

They must have been STARVING!

Who ever looked at a lobster and said..."yeah, that looks yummy." Now it's $6/lb.

Snails?

Even coffee... "let's roast those beans, and then grind them up, and then boil them and press them...."

[dewsgirl]

1. I wonder this about plants marijuana, opium, cocaine.... etc., how did they discover smoking/s these

plants would get you high? I would think at the time, maybe they chewed on the plants and got a euphoric feeling, and were like "this is nice".
Coffee as well, sounds kind of complicated since, it's been around literally for 1000 years(11th century) and was first discovered in Ethiopia of all places (I always thought it was from South America).

[3catwoman3]

2. I have asked myself this questions many times about...

...artichokes. They certainly don't look very inviting, and are rather labor intensive for the return.

[csziggy]

3. Choclate is even more amazing

The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor. After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and roasted. The shell is removed to produce cacao nibs, which are then ground to cocoa mass, unadulterated chocolate in rough form. Once the cocoa mass is liquefied by heating, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor also may be cooled and processed into its two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Baking chocolate, also called bitter chocolate, contains cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions, without any added sugars. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, a combination of cocoa solids, cocoa butter or added vegetable oils, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate

Whoever figured out this elaborate method of preparation was either inspired or insane!