I think just watching someone you know and trust eat these things and look like they’re enjoying it would be enough to convince almost anyone.

I don’t think human communities were as individualistic and distrusting as ours are now.

Hominids have been eating oysters before homo sapiens was even a thing.

I imagine it’s an easier sell when you’re hungry af and some other person you know has tried oyster and didn’t have any adverse effects after a day. Also, I bet this was figured out by some barely upright-walking ancestor.

i remember watching a documentary about first homo sapiens leaving Africa, walking around the coast of the red sea, and eating lots of shell fish, so it probably has been a while

I think the same situation has happened every time any person has ever eaten raw oysters for the first time.

I think, over the course of hominin history, NOT eating something that wasn’t blatently poisonous was the weirder move. My theory is that a lot of texture aversions are recent (and often local). For instance, Japanese natto which are slimy, string, fermented soy beans. Also yamaimo (some kind of tuber) is slimy as hell.

Think how hungry the first guy eating crabs was. Ohh yes, this plated sea spider with claws is probably delicious…

Probably even took a few generations to figure out that shell wasn’t that good.

Is that RWBY? I should really finish that series.

i think, if you’re really hungry, everything seems edible.

I’d eat that before I trusted an unknown mushroom

I still need convincing