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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

I think a lot of foods were invented by accident. Bread and beer, for example, can be made if you leave a gruel uncovered for a while. (And then heat it, for bread.) If you crush grapes and leave them for a while you'll get wine, in the right conditions.

Barbecue, I maintain, is a natural phenomenon. Animals overcome by fumes in their dens by forest fires and then cooked by the smoldering embers is probably the first time our species tasted that delicacy.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Was beer really an accident? We were getting fucked up on fermented fruit for a long long long time before beer was a thing so I guess I always assumed we made that on purpose. But thinking about it I guess it makes sense that it was discovered on accident much like the fermented fruit.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Unlike fermented fruit, beer requires some processing by boiling the mash. I figure if someone was making porridge and forgot about it they'd end up with something beer-adjacent.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Did beer start with women chewing grains and spitting into baskets? No boiling.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I was thinking someone dropped a piece of meat into the fire by accident.

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