7 Foods Ancient Humans DIED Discovering

Somebody 100,000 years ago looked at hard grass seeds and decided they were food. Somebody climbed cliffs to steal honey from thousands of angry bees. And somebody figured out that if a whole village chewed corn and spit it in a pot, they'd have beer in a week. Every food on your table has a story like this behind it. Most of them started with a dead body. This video walks through 7 of the strangest ancient food discoveries: the Japanese blowfish that kills you in twenty minutes, the cassava root that needed a 5-step process to become safe to eat, 40,000-year-old honey hunters climbing cliffs with grass ropes, wild grass seeds ground into flour 100,000 years ago in Mozambique, cheese born from a dead sheep's stomach, mushrooms tested by trial and error for over 18,000 years, and chicha beer made from chewed corn and human spit. Thousands of ancient people died so you could eat lunch today. This is their story.