But through basically all of time, the food we hunted, pulled, or picked from the earth wasn’t that rich and calorie dense. It wasn’t just scarce in quantity. It was also scarce in calories, tastes, textures, and all the other qualities that make food more enjoyable. We were eating plants we found and animals we hunted and fished. Remember: dirty roots and some slimy fish cooked over an open fire. Our modest diets weren’t all that craveable.
