What foods would you eat if you had to live 50,000 years ago where you live

_John_
_John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
edited November 15 in Food and Nutrition
To illustrate how the modern diet allows us to cheat a lot of human evolution and prior civilization hardships, let's discuss how you'd survive where you current live before civilization.

I've lived in LA and TX all my life and current live in SE Texas. I'd be quite fortunate all things considered. Cattails, dewberries, pecans, and abundant fish and small mammals would probably be the majority of my diet.
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  • SweatLikeDog
    SweatLikeDog Posts: 320 Member
    brontosaurus burgers
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    insects, seeds, tubers, small animals, lizards, and seasonal fruits, wild-bird eggs, nuts,
  • Cortelli
    Cortelli Posts: 1,369 Member
    Probably whatever the hell I could find or kill? I don't want to research what my current lat / long location might have been like 50,000 years ago, so I will probably go with my first sentence.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    so much fish....or whatever would have passed for fish back in the day
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    50,000 years ago, there would have been a pretty good chance you weren't even a human.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    There's a midden pile museum exhibit nearby I suppose I could use to tell you about what I would have eaten 5000 years ago, but modern humans hadn't evolved until 45000-43000 BCE and I don't want to start a debate about early North Americans.
  • sunnyside1213
    sunnyside1213 Posts: 1,205 Member
    Denver used to be underwater, so fish?
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I believe that where I live now would have been covered by glaciers, so sucks for me.

    My ancestors wouldn't have been here, of course.
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    Funny enough close to the food i love now too...( when it would be available were i live) Nuts and seeds, eggs and meat and fish. I love also fruit So pretty simple.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Pemmican, rose hips, dried Saskatoon berries, cattail tubers, roasted beaver tail, fish in season.
  • aryseespieces
    aryseespieces Posts: 64 Member
    I'm mostly paleo so I like sticking to my roots

    I'd probably eat a lot of fresh water fish and craw fish, white tailed deer, pheasant and geese, rabbit, wild blueberries and raspberries, potatoes, would probably have to make lutefisk for the winter months-- I'm from Minnesota.
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    50,000 years ago, there would have been a pretty good chance you weren't even a human.

    Um, how??? There were Homo sapiens sapiens (us),Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and the Denisovians. All human.
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    There's a midden pile museum exhibit nearby I suppose I could use to tell you about what I would have eaten 5000 years ago, but modern humans hadn't evolved until 45000-43000 BCE and I don't want to start a debate about early North Americans.

    Anatomically modern humans evolved about 200,000 years ago.
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    I'm in South Jersey, so we'd have plenty. Deer, small mammals and birds (so eggs, too), berries (cranberries, strawberries, blueberries), various nuts.
  • Mistizoom
    Mistizoom Posts: 578 Member
    aryseespieces wrote: »
    I'm mostly paleo so I like sticking to my roots

    I'd probably eat a lot of fresh water fish and craw fish, white tailed deer, pheasant and geese, rabbit, wild blueberries and raspberries, potatoes, would probably have to make lutefisk for the winter months-- I'm from Minnesota.

    Potatoes were not cultivated in North America until the 1700's. No potatoes in Minnesota 50K years ago.
  • Mistizoom
    Mistizoom Posts: 578 Member
    As much meat and animal fat as possible. River fish. Eggs. Nuts and berries as available, other seasonable edible fruit.
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    tincanonastring wrote: »
    I'm in South Jersey, so we'd have plenty. Deer, small mammals and birds (so eggs, too), berries (cranberries, strawberries, blueberries), various nuts.

    kkk has to move to South Jersey i see.

  • troytroy11
    troytroy11 Posts: 180 Member
    edited March 2015
    Roughly 35,000 years prior to the earliest known human habitation on the North American continent, I would probably be lonely and die of Tom Hanks Wilson syndrome. Before that, if I somehow as one of my ancestors by fluke arrived here, darn I am not even a Viking yet, and ended up in Albuquerque, my instincts would not be to turn left but probably as the first primitive human on the land to make the best of all sorts of grasses, wild greens, grains, seeds, berries, and plums for carb macros. Do I know how to start fire yet? Yeah, most likely I will have learned that. So I would have domesticated a wolf or three, train it to hunt for food and cook us dinner on a weekly basis. Whatever the wolf is fast enough to catch would be what we would eat. Rabbit, raccoon, beaver, fish, roadrunner, muskrat, mice, lizards, snakes, and many others for protein and fat macros. I would drink the blood for electrolytes I have no knowledge of that being forbidden yet we are still 45 thousand years away. Eggs? No. Let the birds raise their young so they can continue to sing me the songs of warnings and maybe 50 thousand years later there will be less of an impact from my pathetic inability to control my hunger and maybe a few more species around.
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Vegetarian living in New Zealand. I'd be screwed. Of course 50,000 years ago I probably wouldn't have had my ethical concerns for the fluffies.

    Ummm, let's see. Moa, seals, fish, shell fish, bracken fern root (I'm sure it's just as tasty as it sounds :|), karaka berries if I was smart enough to work out how to process them to make them edible without killing myself, there's a couple of other native berries, but again they require processing, puha, ummmm...can I pick another country please?? There's a damn good reason no one lived here...



  • landfish
    landfish Posts: 255 Member
    Ice, I think. Like most people North of 45 degrees North Latitude.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited March 2015
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    50,000 years ago, there would have been a pretty good chance you weren't even a human.

    Um, how??? There were Homo sapiens sapiens (us),Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and the Denisovians. All human.

    Not in the vernacular sense. But if you prefer...50k years ago, there was a good chance the OP wouldn't even have been homo sapien.
  • Nony_Mouse
    Nony_Mouse Posts: 5,646 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    50,000 years ago, there would have been a pretty good chance you weren't even a human.

    Um, how??? There were Homo sapiens sapiens (us),Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and the Denisovians. All human.

    Not in the vernacular sense. But if you prefer...50k years ago, there was a good chance the OP wouldn't even have been homo sapien.

    Which has no relevance to the question posed that I can see.
  • j6o4
    j6o4 Posts: 871 Member
    Rocks, since potatoes didn't evolve from rocks until 40,000 years ago.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Nony_Mouse wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    50,000 years ago, there would have been a pretty good chance you weren't even a human.

    Um, how??? There were Homo sapiens sapiens (us),Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and the Denisovians. All human.

    Not in the vernacular sense. But if you prefer...50k years ago, there was a good chance the OP wouldn't even have been homo sapien.

    Which has no relevance to the question posed that I can see.

    Try harder.
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    Mostly water I think, the place was simply sea
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,252 Member
    edited March 2015
    Pretty sure everything was one big ice cube a few kilometers thick where I lived (Canada) 50,000 years ago. So margarita's.
  • Nikkei74
    Nikkei74 Posts: 48 Member
    Fish and shell fish, maybe some megafauna. Lilly pilly in season.
  • flabassmcgee
    flabassmcgee Posts: 659 Member
    Whatever I could find? I probably wouldn't have been here, my family migrated from places like Ireland and Germany.
  • megomerrett
    megomerrett Posts: 442 Member
    In the UK I think I'd have had a diverse range of plant based foods including seeds, herbs and wild berries. Fish and seafood probably would feature too. My meat would be from giant deer, horse, woolly mammoth and rhino.
  • Lois_1989
    Lois_1989 Posts: 6,410 Member
    edited March 2015
    megomerrett wrote: »
    In the UK I think I'd have had a diverse range of plant based foods including seeds, herbs and wild berries. Fish and seafood probably would feature too. My meat would be from giant deer, horse, woolly mammoth and rhino.

    Yea, I think we are winners here. Most of England was forest area, plenty to scrounge around for. Did we have rhino? That's interesting...
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