People probably had been writing cooked grains door a while at that point, so the main difference would have been that one person crushed the grains and found out that as dough is easier to keep together than as individual grains.
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ddplf@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
the first guy to make bread must’ve been an utter psycho
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yes, to me there seems to be a natural progression to bread. Wild grains, dried grains, crushed grains, dough, wild yeast falls on the still wet dough, campfire bread.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i guess what you mostly need to make bread is the insight that grains taste better when they’re refined to a fine powder, which you could figure out by accident.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Better an utter psycho tha an udder psycho. The guy who found out that cows give milk was never the same again.
sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Not as much as the one who saw a cow and went, I’m having some of that. Then I’m going to leave the milk to go hard and put it on my bread.
frog@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I always wonder how many people ate pufferfish sushi and died before getting it right. Like why would you even try again?
nialv7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not all parts of a pufferfish are poisonous, right? So I guess some made it and some didn’t and people eventually figured out why.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s olives for me. Raw, fresh olives are absolutely disgusting. Insanely bitter. Straight up inedible until it’s essentially pickled, which is what we actually eat. Crazy that someone ate that shit off the branch and went “I can fix this” instead of just writing the entire tree off as junk.
moakley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s how basically all our fruits started. Do you think some ancient person just stumbled across a watermelon one day? Fuck no. They found something as disgusting as olives, decided it was good enough, then hundreds of years of selective breeding happened.
Have you ever seen a wild banana? It’s bullshit. You’d peel it open and that’s what you’d say: “This is bullshit.”
Meanwhile olives have been cultivated for olive oil for thousands of years, so that’s probably why people kept growing them in their bitter form.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, olives are different. Most of our fruit are descendants of wild fruit that are bland, tasteless, poorly textured at worst. Stuff that’d make you say “meh I don’t care for this”, not “I’d rather taste my own vomit”.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
what you wildly underestimate is people’s time back then. they often had jack-shit to do for prolonged periods of time, and people are willing to mess around with things quite a lot, especially food-related
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Have you ever been starving before, by any chance?
lengau@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
A loaf of milk is probably my favourite snack.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
meat has been eaten long before humans existed. iirc butter and cheese were developed by human’s efforts to preserve food long-time (for the winter). people knew that a high water content makes all kind of food spoil faster (that much is pretty obvious if you spend some time actually observing things), so the straightforward consequence is to try and remove the water from the milk, and that’s basically how you end up with cheese and butter.
ddplf@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
that was a reference to that joke tbh, nothing too crazy about cooking grain
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Given the time period in which that happened that person was probably starving and out of other options.