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Won't find what you don't try! (media.piefed.social)

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

lol ... the story of invention of Worcestershire Sauce

a bunch of guys were trying to recreate Oriental fish sauce in the UK .... the thing they came up with was terrible so they put the barrel of the stuff in the basement and forgot about it

They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again ... they had created Worchestershire sauce

.... the fun part of these stories is that this is all based on survivalship bias ... these are all stories of foods that actually turned out. It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce

Damn, I hate it when my mother is right about patience being a virtue

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

I also hate it when your mom is right.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Words of wisdom from a Canadian Youtube mechanic I saw online .... it's probably a series of people like this guy that gave us so much variety of foods and cultural things in our world

"If you don't fuck around .... how are you ever going to find out?"

https://youtube.com/shorts/GKPU8lNEAZ4

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When the alternative is starving you get shockingly open to trying gross things

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

How else do you explain the rise of Taco Bell?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.

tastes rock ...bleh
tastes rock ...bleh
tastes rock ...bleh\

countless attempts later

tastes rock ...Oooooooo! Sodium chloride!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Fish sauce goes back to the Romans. Garum, they put that sh*t on everything.