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What made someone "back then" think that this would taste good?

Posted by carolrsfMISSESTEXAS, December 6, 2008

Seriously. Hominy's my biggest. It was a good idea to soak corn in lye - um, poison- rinse it and now, yum?
Olives. Bitter off the tree. Crack em, brine em, age em, yummy. Why did they think of that.
Mushrooms. People died. They kept on eating. (not the dead people)
I can think of a million. Which ones do you question? Do you have special way of cooking some of them?
Oh, what about cheese or yogurt?

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