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WCDT: 2549-2553 (7 October - 11 October, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 11 Oct 2013, 15:17 ---
--- Quote from: HeavyP on 11 Oct 2013, 14:08 ---Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.
"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet? It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!? That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob. He'll eat anything."
And thus, cheese was born.
And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING. But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"
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No kidding. But then, a lot of what we now know to be amazing is, bluntly, hella freaky on the face of it. I mean who was the first guy to pull up a lobster and, instead of freaking out at all the spines and claws and waving antennae, said "you know what, I'm gonna eat that."
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Slaves. Seriously. Lobster was considered a nasty thing fit only for the poor, indentured servants and slaves. So one of the more popular and more expensive foods in the world (IT'S A GIANT SEA BUG! CRABS ARE JUST HUGE SPIDERS WITH ARMOR) started at as food fit only for the lowest of the low. Welcome to humanity. Check any concept of sense at the door.
Tulpa:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 11 Oct 2013, 17:48 ---
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 11 Oct 2013, 15:17 ---
--- Quote from: HeavyP on 11 Oct 2013, 14:08 ---Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.
"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet? It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!? That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob. He'll eat anything."
And thus, cheese was born.
And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING. But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"
--- End quote ---
No kidding. But then, a lot of what we now know to be amazing is, bluntly, hella freaky on the face of it. I mean who was the first guy to pull up a lobster and, instead of freaking out at all the spines and claws and waving antennae, said "you know what, I'm gonna eat that."
--- End quote ---
Slaves. Seriously. Lobster was considered a nasty thing fit only for the poor, indentured servants and slaves. So one of the more popular and more expensive foods in the world (IT'S A GIANT SEA BUG! CRABS ARE JUST HUGE SPIDERS WITH ARMOR) started at as food fit only for the lowest of the low. Welcome to humanity. Check any concept of sense at the door.
--- End quote ---
XKCD recently did a strip on lobster.
On an unrelated note, I never get ear cheese, but I do get a waxy build up that would become ear cheese if I didn't clean it every couple days. Mostly just skin oil and such. No smell whatsoever.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Tulpa on 11 Oct 2013, 18:01 ---XKCD recently did a strip on lobster.
COMIC!
On an unrelated note, I never get ear cheese, but I do get a waxy build up that would become ear cheese if I didn't clean it every couple days. Mostly just skin oil and such. No smell whatsoever.
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Anti quote tunnel!
I found that comic quite unreasonable back when I read it, and my opinion hasn't changed. There are lots of people in THIS universe that are okay with eating spiders, most of them just aren't lucky enough to live in the northeast US. The only good reason not to is so they can live and continue to prey on pests. What plants, animals, and byproducts thereof are considered edible is a social construct. We're omnivores, baby- just about everything can be consumed or rendered safe to consume.
What your talking about is not and will not become ear cheese (though it may end up an addition to said cheese). It's waxy because it IS wax, and far from being food for bacteria, it is actually antimicrobial to a degree.
Platypodes:
--- Quote from: HeavyP on 11 Oct 2013, 14:08 ---Oh, it's absolutely fascinating - I imagine it had to have been a series of accidents or the laziest people on earth who figured out cheese.
"What IS that?"
"Oh man, that milk has gone BAD."
"Throw it in a bucket with those beef scraps and we'll toss it later."
*days pass*
"You haven't thrown that out yet? It's solidifying!"
"Look, just pour the liquid down that drain and I'll take care of it later."
*weeks pass*
"Dude, for real?!? That crap is still in the bucket!"
"Fuck it, go give it to Bob. He'll eat anything."
And thus, cheese was born.
And I'm not arguing the yummy part, either, cheese is AMAZING. But, if you take a step back and look at it, sometimes between "reasonable starting material" and "tasty finished product" there are several stages of "what the FUCK?!?"
--- End quote ---
That dialogue cracked me up!
The one I've always wondered about is olives. Who the heck bit into an olive straight from the tree and said, "Ecch! Ptooie! Give me something to take this horrible taste out of my mouth!! ...Hey, let's add a shit-ton of salt to these, wait a few weeks, and then eat 'em!"? (Assuming salt-cured came first. If they started by saying "Let's soak these in lye and then eat 'em," I'd really wonder what was up with those dudes.)
Is it cold in here?:
Maybe they were politicians and lyeing came naturally to them.
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