Man found fire. The start of barbecue began.
so that’s why the first tomatoes weren’t used in salads. cave wall pictographs have proven beyond doubt that mammoth meat really sucked until the first tomatoes discovered were made into barbecue sauce. once the sauce was perfected it was bye bye to mammoths and also led to the tasty “brontosauris burgers” drawn in cave pictographs around the world!
420,000 years ago....at least...
“Man found fire. The start of barbecue began.”
A study — based on observation of a frat bro intern who came up with the hypothesis, not joking — was the way to look for caves previously inhabited by Neanderthals and Denisovans and whatnot was looking to see if a cave had a flat area suitable for a BBQ.
This had a near perfect hit record.