[Alas Babylon!]

I always wondered how people first discovered the safe way to eat cassava. I mean, why did folks keep trying if the first to eat it got sick and died? How many died before someone smart enough figured out you had to peel, cook, mash/squeeze, recook, and remash/squeeze? Why did they keep trying? Why not move on to coconuts or something?

[tnfarmer]

That`s what I always wondered about Poke Sallet,it`s poisonous unless cooked correctly.How did people first learn to eat it without dieing from it?

I still like a `mess` fixed at least once every spring.

[printhead]

I ask the same about the Japanese and the puffer fish.

[Alouette]

I always wondered how people first discovered the safe way to eat cassava.

I always wondered how people first discovered the safe way to eat lobster.