{"id":330,"date":"2007-01-15T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/ive-often-wondered\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:35:44","slug":"ive-often-wondered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Often Wondered…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…who was the first person, for example, to think of frying an egg.\u00a0 “Hm – here’s the slime from those things the birds leave lying about; let’s put it on a griddle-shaped piece of granite and fry it up with some tabasco sauce and see how it goes?”<\/p>\n

Ditto truffles.\u00a0 “I just wrenched a piece of fungus from the mouth of this warthog.\u00a0 I smell delicacy!”<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nice to know that I’m not the only one who wonders these things.\u00a0 Doug from BoGold ponders the clam<\/a>.\u00a0 Who?\u00a0 Where?\u00a0 Why<\/em>?:<\/p>\n

There’s really nothing about a clam that convincingly resembles “food.” It’s a hard shell with something resembling phlegm inside.<\/p>\n

And yet, at some point in history, someone put one in his mouth and swallowed it. Was culinary history made by the equivalent of that kid on your grade school playground who would eat a bug for a quarter? Was it more of a hazing incident that had a surprisingly tasty upside? Was someone starving on a desert island and it was either eat a clam or feed the seagulls with your own carcass?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so while I don’t feel any better informed about these things, I feel a little <\/em>less lonely…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…who was the first person, for example, to think of frying an egg.\u00a0 “Hm – here’s the slime from those things the birds leave lying about; let’s put it on a griddle-shaped piece of granite and fry it up with some tabasco sauce and see how it goes?” Ditto truffles.\u00a0 “I just wrenched a piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}