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NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Butter was discovered by accident when humans were still nomadic tribes. Milk was transported in animal skin bags and the agitation from travel turned it into butter. Probably being chased by something or running very fast.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s proposed that cheese was discovered the same way, when the rennet in sheep stomach sacks used to transport milk curdled the milk into curds and whey.

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    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The question remains - how hungry must they have been to still eat that?

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      • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        As the old saying goes: " 'twas a brave man who first ate an oyster." (Pretty sure this is an Oscar Wilde quote)

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A man’s gotta eat

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They clearly had good cardio if they were agitating it that vigorously for long enough to make butter! Forget fitness watches, maybe I should wear a sack of milk at the gym to see if I’m working hard enough.

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• Knossos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For every person that managed to make maple syrup there must be several that made a stew from danger-mushrooms.

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Darwinian evolution is as much luck as it is skill

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The first one would have been obvious by the time Europeans reached the Americas because reducing things to increase the intensity of flavours by removing water would have been a known cooking technique for a long time by then (and I’m guessing would have been figured out soon after the invention of pots). Then, it would have been a matter of someone who was aware of that technique tasting raw sap, realizing it was sweet, then trying to extract the sugar through reduction, then discovering it’s still pretty good as a syrup rather than dry sugar.

  And extracting sap from trees goes way back, as that’s what frankincense and myr were (and disappointing to find out these “precious substances” just smell like church).

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• dellish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think there’s a lot of “dare you to eat that” in food history.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s also a lot of " Tom didn’t make it" in history after eating something.

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• real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who though to stab a tree and collect the juice? I want that mf knighted

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right? And trees that leak, like pines, have sap that tastes like absolute ass. You’d think they’d avoid tasting tree sap at all costs

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    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Birch juice though mmmm

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yogurt is also very interesting, as its bacteria originates from ants. Who would think “hmm ants have infested my milk container but hey let me taste what they did to milk anyways”

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can just leave milk out at room temperature for a few days and you’ll get yogurt. There’s tons of lactobacilli floating around in the air and on every surface. You might need ants for a specific strain, but you don’t need them if you just want any yogurt.

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• BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  blue cheese was discovered from a guy eating lunch in a cave, and leaving it unfinished to go talk to a pretty girl. when he came back months later the cheese had molded into blue cheese and he ate it and it was good

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  • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the cheese had molded
    he ate it

    What a moron.

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just wanna mention, you don’t need to boil maple sap for anywhere near that long to make syrup. It can be done in an afternoon unless you’re trying to make gallons.

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I suppose you’re right - it could be done on a small scale. I’m so used to seeing massive vats at the sugar bush that I didn’t even think of a small volume in a pot

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• RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked… without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

  From the 1888 A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

  Unfortunately the rest of it is pretty trash.

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