Everyone knows about Charles Darwin and the theory that he came up with to explain evolution and how that works, but there are a lot of other things that he did that were interesting.
In this case, I'm particularly interested in that Darwin travelled the world and discovered a lot of new species to tell everyone about--but one of the things he was most interested in, was how the new animals tasted. He was a member of the Glutton Club while at Cambridge, a club that he formed with several of his friends so that they could try eating a lot of unusual meats, including several birds that aren't normally on the menu, such as bittern and hawk.
From there, Darwin got on the HMS Beagle and travelled the world, studying and eating animals. He made notes about all of the animals he found, their traits, their looks, their diets, and their taste. An example would be when he tried Puma and said it tasted like veal. He also tried some kind of 20 pound rodent, which is guessed to be a capybara, and said it was the best meat he'd ever had. (That might explain why the Pope ruled that it's a fish and can be eaten on Fridays too, if they're that good.) There was also a problem about the Giant Tortoises that Darwin found, which there were problems transporting back to England to show them because the tortoises were just too tasty. Amusingly, his description of an owl that he'd eaten was 'indescribable'.
This actually led to two rather interesting things. One, there's a feast for gluttons called the Phylum Feast, where they try to eat as wide a variety of things in one meal. Two, scientists keep eating their subjects. Mostly biologists, but also some other scientists. You might have heard of a scientist eating mammoth meat and saying it tasted a lot like beef, or the really old wine found in a burial site, or the ancient honey.
My other favorite thing from Darwin is the Darwin Awards, given out to people who have managed to remove themselves from the gene pool doing something astronomically stupid. Some of them are ridiculously funny. The award only goes to those removing themselves from the gene pool by dying or otherwise making sure they can't have children, but there are more than a few 'runner ups' that are a bit hilarious. An example there is the guy that shot himself in the foot because he was curious about what that feels like, went to the hospital and healed up, then shot himself a second time to see if it always hurts that much.
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