Mysteries of a Human Brain...

or something to that effect :D

i think it was 3rd standard when we were taught evolution of man... Right from how he used stones to hunt animals, eat them raw, used the hides and skins as clothes and so on... i later learnt that there was this huge fire which burnt birds and animals... the incident which mad man develop a taste for cooked food, yes ancient Barbecue chicken.. only the chicken was not a chicken :D This solves the mystery of cooked food, well at least the barbecue part...

next comes the eternal question of "who the hell thought i-will-drink-the-next-thingy-that-comes-out-of-that-udders?" This is justified too.. Given we are breast fed as kid ourselves and we also see the calves drink up the milk... so i dont have any qualms there either.. Milk, though i hate, i love it as Icecream ( yay three scoops of Chocolate Lovers from Cream and Fudge, plz... no? ok pretty plz with cream and cherry on top!!)

Necessity or rather hunger made man chomp on various fruits and vegetables and sometimes die in process consuming the wild poisonous ones... All well, all well..

What beats the hell out of me is the process of extraction of rice from Paddy.. my poor brain vaguely remembers the month long process of extracting rice from paddy from my village days... first the harvested paddy is beat by hand or by machinery (One very old friend claims he used to use elephants in his glorious days i.e. when he had acres and acres of lands).. then it is sent to the "vat" (colloquial name) to be parboiled... now this dried at covered yet dry places for at least a month or so... the final step is to beat the paddy again to loosen the outer husk.... voila you have rice... if you beat it very fiercely, you may get "pacharisi" aka the broken rice.. otherwise you get the proper "puzhunga arisi" aka the parboiled rice...

Wiki gives a different yet similar story... (saved my shin:D)..

but what beats me black and blue is the fact that how the heck did our ancestors figure this out?? yeah i accept that the life was simpler and there was no need to out perform your colleagues or be the first one to own the latest gadget or err whatever... but still, they had all the time in the world huh?? sigh...

now i worship and admire every single grain of rice i eat.. i simply worship the land they marched upon... so much hard work for such simple rice... sigh..

Food Glorious food, MARVELOUS food..