Ordinary Banana

not interested in your “whole plants diet” unless you’re eating avocado bark, corn stalks, and potato fruits

pretty sure extra-oral food processing is a human universal

Do you mean “cooking”? Jeez you and your academese

cooking is one type but also fermenting, pickling, drying, salting, separating edible parts from non-edible, nixtamalizing...

IT’S ALL COOKING

Theres one Japanese monkey that washes food. Does that count?

see even the non-humans are doing it!!!

But is non-edibility just a social construct? Having consumed non trivial quantities of citrus zest in craft cocktails over the last decade, my question is earnest. Ok at least *somewhat* earnest.