This revelation was prompted by a steaming bowl of Moroccan potato stew.
Thought 1:
‘Those potatoes look seriously hot. I bet if I bite into one, it’ll scald the roof of my mouth.’
Thought 2:
‘S’funny, mouths don’t seem to be designed for hot food, they’re far too sensitive.’
Thought 3:
‘I can’t think of any other animal apart from humans which actually eat hot food. It goes against the laws of nature. We’d still be eating our food raw and cold if we’d never discovered how to make fire.’
Thought 4:
‘Man couldn’t have been much more than an ape when he accidentally rubbed a couple of sticks together, they burst into flame and, hey presto, barbecued mammoth was suddenly ‘dish of the day’.’
Thought 5:
‘If man was little more than an ape when he figured fire out, what’s to stop some gorilla sitting in the Ugandan rain forest experimenting with his opposable thumbs and a couple of twigs?’
Thought 6:
‘Bloody hell, it’s only a matter of time before a monkey learns how to make a fire!’
And for all we know it might have already happened; there are a lot of unexplained forest fires in the world.
