Who was the first to see a cow and think "I wonder what will happen if i squeeze these dangly things and?

Question

drink whatever comes out?"

I grew up on a farm, my question goes back to the early early days....maybe when animals became domesticated in the time of Sumer or Babylon..

Answer 1

Back in those days, people didn't wear much in the way of clothes, so we all knew what those dangly things were.

(Otherwise, somebody would have tried it on a bull, too, and drank whatever came out of its dangly thing.)

But for my money, the prize goes to the first Indian who convinced another Indian to eat a lobster.

"Hey, Crazy Bear, listen! Sitting Duck came over from his tribe for a visit and we convinced him that those nasty shelled things we sometimes drag up from underwater are good to eat! We told him we eat them all the time! Come on and watch, this ought to be good!"

"Look! He's eating it! He likes it!"

"Well, I'll be-- I guess they ARE safe to eat, after all...!"

Don't you think it had to have happened something like this...?

Answer 2

Too bad more people have not had the opportunity to grow up on a farm! Many of the experiences that people find hard to imagine were commonplace in farm life. Breaking a farm tractor in two, drowning excess cats when there were too many to feed, shooting and eating woodchucks, swimming naked in the creek, throwing large rocks from the creekbed into a bonfire and watching them explode from the heat expansion, driving a truck, (standard shift), in the fields at 9 years of age, immediately drinking milk gotten from the cows, and exploding a stick of dynamite hanging from the clothesline (what's a clothesline?) in the backyard on the 4th of July, (what a tremendous report!), are just a few of the events that took place.

Answer 3

The practice of drinking cow's milk is ancient, thought to date back as early as 6,000 - 8,000 B.C. Milk and other dairy products were so highly valued in ancient Egypt that only the very wealthy could afford to consume them. Beginning in the 5th century A.D., the milk of cows and sheep began to be especially prized in Europe, but it wasn't until the 14th century that the demand for cow's milk began to outpace that of milk from sheep. Dairy cows did not make an appearance in America until the early 17th century, when they were brought over from Europe. Milk pasteurization began in the very late 19th century, although it wasn't until the mid-20th century that a more refined technique, ultra-high temperature pasteurization, was introduced.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=130

Answer 4

That was easy we drank milk from our mammas so that was a no brainer. the scarry one is the fact that Jello is made of the hooves of cattle. Who could have thought that grinding up and drying out the feet of cows would make a delicous side dish for family outings and jiggly dish for when you are sick?

Answer 5

Good question but I bet ya $10 whoever it was got a solid kick in the head.

Answer 6

I'm more concerned for the first person who saw a chicken and egg, and said "I wonder what that thing this bird just pooped out tastes like?"

Answer 7

Better yet, why did the first person to eat a lobster do so?

I mean, there like giant sea cockroaches.

Answer 8

interesting question - depends - in creation I think you would have been given this knowledge in advance, but with evolution Iwould assume it was a progressive learning experience in attempts to feed the family

Answer 9

Adam before God created Eve

Answer 10

what if it wasn`t a cow and it was a Bull and they squeezed the dangly thing.Milking would be hard.