11. Honey.
Who looked at a nest full of angry stinging little demons and thought “they’re hiding something delicious in there, I know it?”
– Midnite_St0rm
12. Century eggs.
Take duck eggs. Wrap them in hay and mud and ashes (legend has it horse urine used to be used too because it’s alkaline). Wait a few weeks/months. Break them open whereupon they are grey and jellylike and pungent smelling slightly of ammonia. Boil and eat.
I love them, but I really have to wonder who thought that eating them was a good idea in the first place. Or perhaps, how hungry they were that eating them seemed like a good idea.
– nogardleirie
13. Saffron, who figured out that the stamen from a specific crocus flower, when picked and dried then steeped in warm liquids was going to be delicious?
– zowlingball
14. Oysters.
How could someone think to eat something that looks like it came out of a bull’s nose?
– DemonDuJour
15. Swallow’s spit nests.
– Childhoodcocaine
16. Bread, like how?
– edgarlikesstuff
17. Geoduck. Squirts salty liquid at you when you touch it.
– neondino
18. Kiviak.
500 Whole Auks (small bird) stuffed into a seal skin made airtight with the seals fat then left outside under rocks for 3 months.. mostly eaten on birthdays or at weddings.
Who the hell did this and thought “This will be a tasty snack in a few months.”
It’s polite to eat it outside and it’s considered good when it makes your eyes sting. It’s never cooked and you just pull a bird out and start chowing down.
– vj4
19. Prawns.
Who looked at those eldritch bottom feeding horrors and thought, they’d go nicely with a flesh pink sauce. No thanks, pal. No thanks.
– PodPea
20. Vegemite.
I understand it’s man-made and all but how did they smell it and think “This’ll be great on toast!”?
– theshaun1248
21. Onions! How can someone cut into something and with tears streaming down their face and eyes stinging, think “yep I bet this is safe to eat!”
– Khalee_Hellcat
22. Just… snails.
– centrismhurts998
23. Whoever thought “there must be some edible part of this poisonous fugu fish and I’m going to find it” was a madman.
– ReplicatedPenguin
24. Rhubarb.
The leaves are poisonous, but the stalk is delicious.
– Tamesan
25. Lobster and crab.
Who first looked at crustaceans and thought “That hard-shelled thing with the sharp spines and claws is probably delicious”?
– TheBigL1
I can’t believe haggis didn’t make the list. It’s almost the grossest thing I can imagine.
I’ll agree with that about the farmed ones, but the wild organic Haggi are amazing
Artichokes, and artichoke hearts.
Who decided to eat only certain PARTS of a thistle?
What about mushrooms !
There are a lot of stuff on this list that people ate because they were poor, and said “welp better than starving.” But then aquired a taste for it and it became a delicasy. Lobster and crabs were fed to prisoners, because it was cheap and plentiful back in the day.
Oysters are nasty, I blow them out of my nose all the time!
We live in a time of food abundance. But in early times food was hard to get. Every source of calorie was nessecary to survive. So you will eat what you get and you find ways to conserve food for later.
Chittlerings. The old adage, “if it smells like, tastes like it and looks like it, it’s it”.
And “it” is what passes through every single sense you have.