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Medieval hardships (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean they had a lot more than that if Tasting History has taught me anything.

Granted very little of it was anything like what we think of today in terms of your typical meal. Ketchup started as a fish sauce from SE Asia and the French some the fuck how figured out how to burn a mead so bad the whole thing is charred, and decided to label it high cuisine anyways.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 months ago

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you get when you burn mead?

[–] Axefanatic@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bochet. Basically caramelized honey mead.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh. That sounds good!

[–] weker01@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

And it is if aged well. Fresh it is disgusting for some reason.