I think just watching someone you know and trust eat these things and look like they’re enjoying it would be enough to convince almost anyone.

I don’t think human communities were as individualistic and distrusting as ours are now.

I imagine it’s an easier sell when you’re hungry af and some other person you know has tried oyster and didn’t have any adverse effects after a day. Also, I bet this was figured out by some barely upright-walking ancestor.

I think the same situation has happened every time any person has ever eaten raw oysters for the first time.

Hominids have been eating oysters before homo sapiens was even a thing.

“…And it makes you horny!”

everyone starts slamming down fistfuls of oysters

i remember watching a documentary about first homo sapiens leaving Africa, walking around the coast of the red sea, and eating lots of shell fish, so it probably has been a while

I think, over the course of hominin history, NOT eating something that wasn’t blatently poisonous was the weirder move. My theory is that a lot of texture aversions are recent (and often local). For instance, Japanese natto which are slimy, string, fermented soy beans. Also yamaimo (some kind of tuber) is slimy as hell.

i think, if you’re really hungry, everything seems edible.

Is that RWBY? I should really finish that series.

Think how hungry the first guy eating crabs was. Ohh yes, this plated sea spider with claws is probably delicious…

Probably even took a few generations to figure out that shell wasn’t that good.

I still need convincing

I’d eat that before I trusted an unknown mushroom

They were so hungry at that point, that the only alternative was each other, so even semi-liquid protein starts to look good enough.