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Originally Posted by pwd72s
The bravest man in the world was first to eat an oyster. But then, starvation brings on bravery?
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No doubt when yer really hungry, almost anything sounds good.
I would suspect someone first put them next to a fire and saw them open up when the cooked and ate them. Then later on a rainy day or when there was no way to make fire, hunger drove them to try them raw.
One of my buddies was a Army Ranger. He said they sent teams of two men out in the forest for a week to hide and evade and if caught, they failed. No fires because that is just a beacon for the searchers. That means everything is eaten raw. He ate a lot of birds raw. He was the only man I ever met that refused to eat chicken in any form.
He said at one point he and his teammate turned over a rotten log and the both were snarfing down the cockroaches, and grubs and ants as fast as they could grab them with no hesitation. When you are 5 days in with no food, and hiking and working hard to stay alive, anything is worth eating.
I am real happy that I have never been that hungry.