Post #143765
2026-01-19 19:12 UTC
Replies (13)
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@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2026-01-19 19:38
i like how taco bell manages to create 'new' items out of the same 6ish ingredients. does that count?
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@Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2026-01-21 18:20
Cheese isn't a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process. But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil "lead") are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn't.
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@kaulquappus@feddit.org 2026-01-19 20:10
Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call "fiber" in our food, the stuff we cannot digest. Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.
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@DemBoSain@midwest.social 2026-01-19 20:10
You can make just about anything from corn. Food, sugar, fuel, sextoys, plastic... The list is pretty long.
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@kaulquappus@feddit.org 2026-01-19 19:58
Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.
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@buttmasterflex@piefed.social 2026-01-19 21:31
Rocks and minerals, whether they are refined or not: roads and building materials; ore processed into elemental metals; soils (biologically, chemically, and physically weathered rock); quartz is used for glass (melted and shaped) and timepieces (piezoelectric application of quartz); micas: (windows made of thin leaves, Muscovite), used as reflective additives in road paint and makeup; gypsum is used as fertilizer, sidewalk chalk, plaster, drywall, etc. The list goes on and on, but my point is, geology provides many things in our world that are considered mundane or often overlooked.
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@Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-20 17:01
I remember some food preservative used at Subway is also used in floormats and everyone freaking out saying subways has rubber in their food.
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@orsopolare@lemmy.ml 2026-01-23 00:48
Wine / Rosé / vinegar all made from grapes!
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@Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2026-01-22 16:06
Most cheese isn't mould. Aged cheese does involve bacteria though
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@AstroLightz@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 13:44
Linux distro derivatives of existing Linux distros, such as an "Arch-based" or "Debian-based" distro. E.g. EndeavourOS is an Arch-based distro (derivative of ArchLinux). Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro, etc.
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@eezeebee@lemmy.ca 2026-01-19 21:36
Ice and snow. Rock and sand.
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@atheqtpie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-19 20:29
Well TIL! Thanks!
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@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-01-19 19:42
Cheese is not mold, though. Blue cheese contains it, other kinds are milk solids and maybe some bacteria. Edit: To answer the question: Soy can be turned into either bioplastic or food. Pure carbon can be diamonds or soot/coal/graphite. Electrical resistance can either be unwanted waste or the primary purpose of the circuit (like in a space heater).