Current Events > Who was the first dude to drink non human milk?

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His name was Dave Watkins. Dave would do anything for a bet.

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Harvey Milk

Early humans lived in a state of near constant starvation, if they saw something eating/drinking something, they wanted some too

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Tom Green's ancestor

VampireCoyote posted...

Early humans lived in a state of near constant starvation, if they saw something eating/drinking something, they wanted some too

Not that I have any reason to doubt you, but ima double check this

I would assume it came along with the domestication of animals. In some countries they favor horse milk.

Sarah Palin's husband.

Jeebus.

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It's pretty easy to observe animals feeding and try whatever they're doing when you get hungry enough.

This isn't as weird as the internet pretends it is.

marthsheretoo posted...

It's pretty easy to observe animals feeding and try whatever they're doing when you get hungry enough.

This isn't as weird as the internet pretends it is.

For real

Now when we start talking about cheese, then it gets a little weird

VampireCoyote posted...

Early humans lived in a state of near constant starvation, if they saw something eating/drinking something, they wanted some too

What makes me doubt this is I'm pretty sure most early man got sick when they tried to eat diary products

So the first first guys were still weirdos

What's actually a little weirder than drinking the milk of another species is the distaste we have for drinking the milk of our own species once we're too big for diapers. We'll drink cows' milk all our lives, but not human breast milk even though that's the stuff that's made for humans to drink.

Honestly there could be a few scenarios that would make sense.

Watching the cow nursing its baby calves, and recognizing that human babies are fed milk the same way, it wouldn't be hard to put 2 and 2 together that the cow probably has some kinda milk in there. And when thirst and hunger are serious issues in early "societies", that would be a handy bit of information to spread around.

I could also imagine an early hunter killing an animal like a cow and finding the udders and a pocket full of milk while butchering the carcass and thinking "hmm, it's making this really nutritious stuff, I bet if I kept one of these alive and fed, I could just keep taking the milk whenever I wanted it!"

there's also a possibility that a baby's mother is unavailable to breastfeed, so the father are looking a replacement from cow or goats.

I don't know if there's any truth to this but I heard it was due to the great boob shortage of 1288