Nuts and Berries

Eating in today's age is something that most people don't really think about, it is just a part of life that gets done, like breathing or walking. I was looking at my desk and saw a can of cashews sitting open, 3/4 eaten already. It made me think about the food we eat, and how it came to be known as edible. I started wondering how many people it took in the past to try ingesting different things in order to satisfy their hunger. How many people did it take to try all the different seeds and berries found in the forrest to know which ones were edible. The first people had no clue what type of reaction these foreign items were going to have on them. People truly must have had to try an acorn they found to see not only if it made them less hungry but also whether or not it would make them violently ill or even poison them. How would they even test these nuts or berries or seeds? For instance if they ate three different berries and two different nuts, they would have no way of knowing which of those things made their stomach twist in agony. We take what we eat for granted, especially in America. I can't even imagine what the original inhabitants would have done for a drive through building that prepares hot meals for you. This leads me to wonder what is out there currently that has yet to be tried. Imagine if there were some delicious substance in abundance somewhere that has yet to be discovered or tried; it just needs to be found.