Post #1331710
2026-03-17 17:07 UTC
Replies (7)
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@CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-18 03:14
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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@Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 19:23
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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@Knossos@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 21:32
For every person that managed to make maple syrup there must be several that made a stew from danger-mushrooms.
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@dellish@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 20:14
I think there's a lot of "dare you to eat that" in food history.
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@BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 17:19
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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@real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-17 18:22
Who though to stab a tree and collect the juice? I want that mf knighted
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@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2026-03-18 15:06
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).