cows

[twiglet4frog]

Who was the very first person to milk a cow and what was he thinking when he found it out?

[Clanad]

I can't think of his name right now... begins with J though, I'm sure.  I do know it was his cousin that walked down a beach, picked up an oyster and after splitting it open decided it was a good idea to put the contents his mouth... (and no Tabasco at that!)

[kempie]

I bet they were thinking happier thoughts than the first person to try milking a bull.

[jno]

He'd have seen a calf suckling, so it wouldn't have come as a total shock.

[marmaduke]

Good answer, jno

[WaldoMcFroog]

Moreover, they might have got the idea that milk could be drunk by humans because they'd previously used the milk from one species to suckle an orphaned animal from another.

When my friend was in Russia, she was given a cup of tea by a lady she met. It was very nice and the woman offered her a second cup. My friend then saw the Russian lady express breast milk into the cup. The point of telling that rather unpleasant tale being that it wouldn't have been any great mystery that breast milk was nutritious, and moving on to animals was no great leap of the imagination.

I doubt it was someone coming up with the idea completely out of the blue!

[Octavius]

What about the person who decided to eat that shell type thing that came out of a chicken's bum? 

[WaldoMcFroog]

Again, it's not like someone walked along and thought - "Hey, I've a crazy notion - I wonder what that tastes like?". Somewhere in humanity's antecedents there was something which ate eggs. There were dinosaurs who ate eggs, so somewhere along our development, we undoubtedly have an egg eater too.

[lopsibear]

same idea as the guy who decided to let grapes ferment and then drink it....
as for the egg, have you never seen something and wondered what it tasttes like?!? trial and error is a wonderful thing, how all the best foods (and cocktails!) are created!