DO VEGETABLES TASTE LIKE SAD? Is #UncleRoger Right?

DO VEGETABLES TASTE LIKE SAD? Is #UncleRoger Right?

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It would surprise many of us to learn that ten thousand years ago, no one was eating vegetables. Vegetables and other plant foods really only become part of the human diet under times of stress.

[f.g.]

This is an interesting discussion. You raise a good point when you mention that some of modern crops are much improved versions of wild plants that were hardly edible. And one is lead to think about the motives that even brought us to try to breed that plant. Wild carrots are so small and hardly have anything to eat. But we also have examples of the opposite, where modern cultivars are almost tasteless when compared with wild plants. An example would be to look at fruits like strawberries and blueberries, the wild strawberries and bilberries that grow in Europe are a million times tastier than the cultivated options. This also reflects on a different issue of course, where plant breeding has priorities that go beyond taste, and the plums and loquats that I see in shops today are now the double of the size of the ones we had 20/30 years ago, but have only a quarter of the flavour. I'm a specialist in foraging here in Europe and there are so many plants with incredible intense and delicious flavours like wild garlic, common and wood sorrel, ground elder, sea beet, sea kale, common hogweed, juneberries, etc, etc... In comparison the farmed crops are really sad indeed.

[bahalana]

You sir just earned a thumbs up and a sub!
Yes, We are obligate Apex Hyper Carnivores by evolution!
And I wished I knew this decades ago.
I've been a carnivore for a year now; no plant products whatsoever, and I am thriving!
Lost 50 pounds
Reversed type 2 diabetes
high blood pressure gone
testosterone up
morning woods are back...
triglycerides to HDL ratio gotten better
off depression meds that I've been taking for 12 years
random unexplained joint paints gone
eczema gone
no longer need 2 naps everyday
no more brain fog
have plenty of energy now to actually workout

[mitsusousa]

Good stuff! Please follow up with antinutrients and plant toxicity

[ratbagradio]

Yes, the consumption of the trail end of the megafauna is a debate here in Australia as to extinction factors. But climate change surely was the driver.
I have enough bushland and natural ecology around me here i=]on the sub tropical coast of Queensland to often ponder the traditional Aboriginal diet in fact rather than listed x number of bush tucker species.
Meat, fish, shellfish and poultry wise this is/was a paradise. But vegetables are another matter altogether. Only one species of local fern and a very small yam could supply starch. In some areas were Macadamia nuts -- and the annual trek to the Bunya Mountains for the festival of Bunya nuts there.
So this is overwhelmingly a meat based diet for the local Gubi Gubi nation.
Aboriginal development of agriculture is a hotly contested phenomenon after the work of Bruce Pascoe (Dark Emu: Black seeds). The contradiction being, if the Melanesians and Polynesians were such keen farmers -- why weren't the people of the Australian continent so engaged? Bruce says they were -- but in a very opportunistic way.
After all, as you suggest, why be sedentary and sentence yourself to farming if you didn't have to.
So while we know that the first nations people here cohabited with the megafauna -- its passing wasn't sufficient to force them into full time farming mode.
A climate factor too perhaps?
There's also the challenge of opportunistic plant species -- a high carb starchy crop you can build a lifestyle on. Pascoe has done some work on Yam daisy -- but I suspect a lot of that harvest was localised.

[africkinamerican]

This video sounds like sad. Why do vegans OR carnivores need to turn diet into a cult? Veggies taste like happy to me, especially as I know they are loaded with medicinal compounds you can never get from animal foods. Conv ersely, abstain from meat for a time and you may have unpleasant experiences returning to it. I used to love ham and bacon like everybody else although I avoided chitlins (hog guts) which literally smell and taste like sh!t. Well I quit pork 30 years ago, and you know what? My smell / taste became resensitized. When I encounter any type of pork it has a trace of that nasty chitlin smell. Its how I detect hidden pork in unfamiliar items at parties for example.
Back when I went full raw vegan for extended periods, I had similar experiences with fast food chicken. If I fell off the wagon and grabbed a chicken sandwich after a few weeks vegan, the chicken literally stinks... like sh!t. Its a very effective deterrent and likely why, even after leaving veganism, , I limited my animal intake to fish and eggs for a good while.