• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    I often wondered this about potatoes. Wild potatoes are extremely poisonous, so who went, the last time we ate one of those we all got sick and a few people died.

    Let’s cultivate them. I’m sure in just a few thousand years we can turn it into something useful. Of course until then it’s kind of just wasted effort but our children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children will thank us.

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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      Boiling them in a clay pot, one of the only materials available to them, renders them edible and famously almost nutritionally complete. They are incredibly easy to grow and grow almost anywhere. They were immediately available. “What happens if we boil it” is the basis for quite a lot of staple foods and would have been a human go-to.

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      My thoughts but with chicken “ah yes these poisonous birds that make you shit yourself to death, i shall bring them home”

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        Wait till you learn why chicken was domesticated and spread around the world. Believe it or not, but it’s not for food.