Mastodawn

I think the person who "invented" the potato is the greatest innovator of our time because they actually tried to eat a potato and were like "OMG what is this raw, hard, bland, starchy mass?!?" but then had the drive and perseverance to try cooking that blob into the edge of obliteration to realize it's one of the most delightful foods on the planet.

Oliver D. Reithmaier Mar 16

@Alice sinister thoughts about the person who discovered cow's milk.

@odr_k4tana @Alice My personal hypothesis is that they tried to save a baby. I hope it worked.

Oliver D. Reithmaier Mar 16

@proedie @Alice oh my sweet summer child

@Alice planet(s)

I hear Potatoes with crushed Vicodin is a delicacy on Mars

Joshua A.C. Newman Mar 16

@Alice
Allow me to introduce you to Axomamma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axomamma

Axomamma - Wikipedia

@JoshuaACNewman So, weird throwback is that I used to date a guy in a ska band called Aks Mamma in the '90s.

I always assumed aks was just ska backwards, but now I realize the origin was probably Axomamma?

Joshua A.C. Newman Mar 16

@Alice
That is the most buried ska pun I’ve ever heard!

Joshua A.C. Newman Mar 16

@Alice
Sorry, I should have said “Skax Boyfriend”

@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!Mar 16

@Alice I feel the same way about coffee. The coffee cherry is picked before it is ripe, and is actually poisonous. Then it’s dried, and then roasted, and then ground, and hot water is passed through it.

How long did that experimentation take? How many people were lost?

I appreciate their efforts.

boxspring Mar 16

@Alice My grandmother always used to say “the first person to eat an artichoke must have been very hungry”. :-)

@boxspring @Alice cf oyster

zipkid - Breaker of Systems Mar 16

@Alice potatoes are tasty and juicy when you dig them out. They get utterly destroyed when cooked. 🤨

·J Mopp Mar 16

@Alice I think about those root vegetables that you have to cook to make not poisonous: "Noooo don't eat the cassava! The last guy to do it died" "But I'm so hungry! I don't care, I'll just put some cassava in the stew to make it go further"

David Pollak Mar 16

@Alice @hiway there’s an article about that https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/

How the Potato Changed the World

Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture

Smithsonian Magazine

Isaac Ji Kuo Mar 16

@dpp @Alice @hiway So, as usual, it wasn't a homo sapiens who "invented" eating something, it was other animals who figured out how to eat them and observant humans imitated what they were doing.

✨Based Plant🎸Mar 16

@dpp @Alice @hiway @sofonofos