Butter is king. I like a bit of honey with it from tie to time, but plain buttered toast is the dog’s bollocks.

It does kills fold.

My friends and I performed this for our high school talent show. We didn't have a toaster for the drums though.

Just wanna mention, you don’t need to boil maple sap for anywhere near that long to make syrup. It can be done in an afternoon unless you’re trying to make gallons.

Yogurt is also very interesting, as its bacteria originates from ants. Who would think "hmm ants have infested my milk container but hey let me taste what they did to milk anyways"

Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked... without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

From the 1888 A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Unfortunately the rest of it is pretty trash.

For every person that managed to make maple syrup there must be several that made a stew from danger-mushrooms.

I think there's a lot of "dare you to eat that" in food history.

Butter was discovered by accident when humans were still nomadic tribes. Milk was transported in animal skin bags and the agitation from travel turned it into butter. Probably being chased by something or running very fast.

Who though to stab a tree and collect the juice? I want that mf knighted

blue cheese was discovered from a guy eating lunch in a cave, and leaving it unfinished to go talk to a pretty girl. when he came back months later the cheese had molded into blue cheese and he ate it and it was good

Every potato should be cooked twice. It's the correct way