So, they would actually cook the yam, they would cook the plantain, and they would use, you know, the mortar and pestle to actually pound it, you know.
If you could just swallow that stuff and let your giant stomach mash it up for you, you could move in a lot more food per unit time and you could get a lot bigger.
It's quite time consuming to blanche, peel and then pound the almonds and we use so many of them that it would be too expensive to buy them already done.
Sometimes it was the bone that broke, sometimes his teeth. Then he crushed the bones between the rocks. He pounded them into tiny pieces, and ate them.