• rockerface 🇺🇦
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    583 months ago

    chants softly

    Ancient cheese with a deadly disease

    Ancient cheese with a deadly disease

    Ancient cheese with a deadly disease

  • @Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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    313 months ago

    Maybe SteveMRE would take a wack, I’ve seen him eat 82 year old beef and he’s still uploading. If anyone can do it, he can.

    “Let’s get this out onto a plate” - “Nice”

    • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      93 months ago

      It’s bacteria. They could probably go on a prophylactic antibiotics course and be fine. I’d be more concerned with how the favor changed due to the waste products over the years.

      I’m no cheesologist but I bet it tastes like garbage in its current form. I’d also bet they could analyze it and come up with a similar recipe they could try.

      • @Fermion@feddit.nl
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        3 months ago

        Antibiotics wouldn’t protect from any toxic byproducts of bacterial decomposition. For example, recooking imroperly canned goods can kill the botulinum bacteria, but leaves deadly amounts of the botulinum toxin. There’s lots of reasons to not mess around with consuming questionable substances.

  • @fprawn@lemmy.world
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    233 months ago

    Uhh, the point of archeology is wearing cool outfits and escaping devious mechanical traps, obviously.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        53 months ago

        My mother, who believes in never, ever throwing food away until you can actually see the mold growing, bought a giant plastic jug of honey that she used for most of my childhood. It got sludgier and sludgier as the sugars solidified. Eventually, you could only get it liquid enough to use if you put it in the microwave for a while. And then, even that didn’t work and it was basically just a solid mass of amber sugar gunk.

        So I always found that story hard to buy and now I know it wasn’t true. Thanks.

        • @jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
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          23 months ago

          Crystalized honey is still good! Crystalization is a natural occurrence for honey. Just needs to be heated to be liquid again – though some people actually prefer it crystalized because they can spread it with a butter knife

          • Flying SquidOP
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            23 months ago

            No amount of heating made it liquid again after a few years.

  • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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    113 months ago

    Skin chips! There’s still mummia for all your cannibalistic cravings.

    Insane that this lead to and crossed the age of colonialism right? Super bright people, the lot of us.

    The usage of mumiya as medicine began with the famous Persian mumiya black pissasphalt remedy for wounds and fractures, which was confused with similarly appearing black bituminous materials used in Egyptian mummification. This was misinterpreted by Medieval Latin translators to mean whole mummies. Starting in the 12th century and continuing until as far as the 19th century, mummies and bitumen from mummies would be central in European medicine and art, as well as Egyptian trade.

    After Egypt banned the shipment of mummia in the 16th century, unscrupulous European apothecaries began to sell fraudulent mummia prepared by embalming and desiccating fresh corpses.

    • kamenLady.
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      63 months ago

      Unscrupulous European apothecaries began to sell fraudulent mummia prepared by embalming and desiccating fresh corpses.

      Dr. Phibes learned the tools of the trade from one of these apothecaries.