That was a roller-coaster...
Well, IIRC there were stages to trying new things, kinda like:
Test 1: rub plant on forearm, see if it has a reaction. Test 2: eat small piece of plant/thing to see reaction Test 3: eat progressively larger pieces and rinse and repeat
This is probably only in survival situations
knowing how cruel humans can be, need to add:
Dogs and kids are also suitable test objects.
I feel like dogs and kids are best described as ultra voluntary test subjects, they will try their damndest to eat the thing and you can certainly try your best to stop it.
Oh, yeah definitely, haven’t thought of that before haha
They’d also dilute them in water and drink progressively less dilute solutions. Also, as other people mentioned, notice what other bugs and animals are eating.
Smart smart, it’s crazy how much you can figure out when you know what to look for
Someone must have developed that technique though - most likely through trial and error.
what doesn't kill me makes me trip
Or get a direct meeting with god !
Wait, why does it has tentacles ?
It's also more realistic to think that humans gained this knowledge from their ancestors. It's more likely humans learned these things from other humanoid species
What is irrc?
If I remember correctly, iirc
YDIFRC (You do, in fact, remember/recall correctly.)
If I remember correctly
If I recall correctly
Sometimes I think about things like this when it comes to cheese and fermented stuff. Like, who was the first guy to work out that you can get rotten food and either get high off it or get tasty stuff out of them?
Hear me out, what if the Bible prophecies and the whole concept happened because they tried something new and were just trippin out?
Crazy enough, the Bible wasnt written all at once. The Bible was written over a span of approximately 1,300 years (depending on your historical, linguistic, and theological beliefs of course).
So probably a bit of the old testament could have been written while under the influence of mushrooms as that's when we were experimenting with wild mushrooms.
But what do I know, the picture says I died from mushrooms.
Lmao I literally did a double take with your name and the post
Oh great, u r still alive! Mow the timeline is fuck up, thanks KEVIN
that's pretty clearly how the book of revelations was written
Think about how much shit you have to do to make cheese. Or bread.
How did people figure that shit out? At some point I have to think that people were just mixing everything together and seeing what happened. Sometimes they made tasty food. Sometimes they made something useful. Sometimes they made poisonous gas. 🤷🏻♂️
Why did my mind automatically imagine the guy trying to find how to make farts edible
The what?
Can you imagine how hungry you would have to get to try to eat (or drink?) some fermenting porridge? Hmm what about this glob I slopped on the rock in the fire?
At some point if you're starving enough it's eat this and maybe die or don't eat this and definitely die
I like your pragmatism
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There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters. But no old, bold mushroom hunters.
Don't the poisonous ones specifically taste bitter
IDK. I never ate one. You wanna try it and report back?
The supposed logic here is that the human genes that liked the taste of some toxic plants died out.
It can help in a survival pinch to weed out your options but I wouldn’t rely on it as a guaranteed truth.
Actually there's interesting theory how eating magic mushrooms speeded or even shaped development of consciousness in our ancestors.
Stoned Ape Theory, but it's most likely just speculation.
You mean it is speculation, and is most likely false
RIP Kevin. Never forget.