Sometimes, in the privacy of particularly no-where, do you ever just stop to think about "why"? For instance, who was it that made ketchup the go-to condiment for french fries? And why are they called french fries? In England, they're called chips. I don't know what they're called in France. Who was it that originally pulled a potato out of the ground and decided to drop it in hot oil?
I wanna know who first looked at a cow and said, I bet them dangly-downy thingy's sure have some good stuff inside. Bet if we was to pull on 'em, we'd get to have ourselves a party!
I want to know who the first person was that looked at an egg right after the hen laid it and said, by-golly, I bet if we throw that sucker in a frying pan it'll be a dang good source of protein at breakfast. I'm pretty sure if I was the first person to see it come out of a chicken, I wouldn't think about grabbing it & eating it! And what did they do before we had frying pans? (I know in Texas they just dumped it on a rock & it cooked)
Or how about cottage cheese? Seriously. Some mom probably went into little Timmy's bedroom and found a glass of stuff from those dangly-down thingy's that had been sitting there for a couple of weeks and said to herself, "self", she said, "I bet if I put a little salt and pepper on this stuff, it'll be delightful". Turns out she was wrong, but somewhere along the way, she was able to sell it to millions of americans as a healthy diet supplement, write herself a cookbook, get a cooking show, a talk show, and meet with the Prime Minister of Botswana.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that there are these kinds of adventurous souls in the world, coming up with savory goodness for all the rest of us to enjoy. I tried it once myself. I'm still kinda surprised that peanut butter, jelly and onion sandwiches didn't catch on!
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