> steve wrote:
>
>> Humans first entered Europe about 45,000 years ago which might  
>> make European native foods non-paleo as well.  In fact, everything  
>> outside of Africa becomes non-paleo since immigration out of  
>> Africa may have started no later than 50,000 years ago.


Again, my definition of paleo is that a particular food has to be of  
a similar *type* as what we consumed for the overwhelming majority of  
our time here on earth.  That'd be just about any kind of animal and  
many bugs, lots of fruits and true vegetables, the occasional honey  
cache.  An American bison is just as paleo then as a native European  
wild bovine or as an African musk ox or as an Arctic seal.  But what  
counterpart does cocao have?  It's a drug new on the scene.

So can you tell me -- and this is a serious question, I'm not trying  
to be cute -- what European foods we've been eating that have no  
African counterpart?

Jim