It’s pomegranate season again and I’m loving every minute of it. But it is peculiar if you think about it – who was the first person who cut one open and looked at all the seeds inside and thought yum! Maybe I’m just odd, but there are lots of foods I wonder about. Like:
How ever did someone look at a pumpkin and say, “I’ll bet if I cut that up, boil it, mash it, and mix it up with a bunch of spices that would make a great pie!”
Who first looked at mushrooms and thought “Oh that fungus looks delicious! Maybe I’ll toss a few in the stew tonight!” (And how long before someone started keeping track of which were safe to eat??)
Lychee – like eating a large hairy eyeball…
White asparagus – why why why? I love old-fashioned green asparagus, but the white shoots? They look like some sort of deep sea grub to me…yuck…
Chocolate, coffee – how did anyone make the leap from collecting the seeds to grinding them up and processing them for two of the world’s most popular legal pleasures?
If seedless watermelons are really seedless, how do they grow new ones?
I could go on and on like this all day but I’ll stop for now. Tell me – What do you wonder about?
