who was the first person to discover the use of fire or boil the first potatoes?

Question

This man would have been an inteligent being

Answer 1

Actually it wasn't an intelligent being at all. It all happened by accident. One day this tribe of prehistoric humans were sitting around in their cave eating raw potatoes (which is how they ate it in the beginning) when a storm began. Lightning was hitting the earth right outside their cave and the sound was so strong that they sent a man outside to see what had happened.

The man went out and saw this great yellowish red thing waving around on a tree that had been broken in half. The man went closer to inspect what this red thing was and when he tried touching it, but it hurt so much that he took his hand away quickly. On the ground next to him was a large branch with a light flame on one end of it so he took it to his cave so he could show his tribe his new discovery.

The tribe wanted to see if what the man said about the red thing being hot was true but they didn't want to be burned so they thought they would put a potato on one end of a stick, they would put it in the fire and see if the potato was hot. It was hot. One tribesman even bit into the potato, and he marveled at how much softer the potato was.

Then they started putting the fire inside the cave in order to cook their potatoes and to keep themselves warm of course.

One day a tribeswoman was drinking her water around the fire and accidentally dropped the water into the fire and the fire seemed to have magically disappeared. They did not understand this so they put a bowl of water on top of the fire and saw it make steam. They marveled a this too. This was the discovery of boiling water.

Then one day a man was eating a cooked potato around the boiling water on the fire when he accidentally dropped the potato into the water. He obviously didnt put his hand into the water right away, to take the potato out so he just waited until they took the water off, and it cooled off. Then when he took the potato out, he bit into it and marveled at how the potato was even softer when boiled than when cooked.

This was the discovery of boiling potatoes.

See? A complete accident.

Answer 2

you mean to say that my dear old grandpa lied to me?

he told me that he had invented fire when he was eating a woolly mamoth, and got tired of chewing through the raw meat. then he beat it with a rock to make it tender and some flint caught alight and he had a fire, so in his hasty retreat the meat was dropped in the fire where it was cooked. he eventually picked it out and ate it and voila (yeah they spoke french then too) he invented fire and medium raw steak at the same time.

he also went on to tell me how he'd sit back and watch the sabre tooth tiger racing while drinking his favourite beer from a stone mug.

so i guess he wasn't telling the whole truth then, eh?

Answer 3

What, a woman of africa, now why people gonna wanna make a fire in a hot place like that? I swear I heard it was a prehistoric man from the andes named 'uga', king of all northern Neandertals. Oh dang, why do I keep getting flagged, guess it wasn't 'uga'.

Answer 4

The first humans to domesticate fire were women of Africa. The first people to prepare potatoes were Andean Native Americans.

Answer 5

Her name was Allie McGator living in Pohole, Ireland in the year -2001.

Answer 6

Prometheus. He stole it from the gods and was condemned to be eaten alive for eternity by vultures while tied to a mountaintop. I told him not to mess with Mother Nature but he wouldn't listen!

Answer 7

The answer should fit the asker. Do you have any reasons to expect that his/her name would be recorded?

Answer 8

It was actually this woman named JoAnn. I know her present-day relatives.

Answer 9

Wouldn't that be impossible to answer?
I would think so...
But, seeing as you asked....
It's wasn't a "Man"
It was me.

Now you Know.....