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slothrop @lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 天前

Scientists Made Sourdough Bread With Yeast Found on Ötzi the Iceman’s Mummified Body

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Scientists Made Sourdough Bread With Yeast Found on Ötzi the Iceman’s Mummified Body

www.smithsonianmag.com

slothrop @lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 天前
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Discovered in the Alps in 1991, the remains are home to a wide variety of bacteria, fungi and yeasts
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    his yummified body*

    • northernlights@lemmy.today
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      Made me chuckle, take your upvote ^^

    • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
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      The iceman yummeth

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      Can you honestly say you wouldnt try mummy jerky?

      • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Yes.

      • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works
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        Yes, yes I can.

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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        You seem gastronomically adventerous, if I mail you something to eat, how much will you pay me?

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        Note: Do not Google “mummy jerky”.

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    In unrelated news, people across the world are shitting themselves to death. Scientists still trying to assess this one.

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      I used to think b-rated sci-fi flicks had crappy plot hooks about how scientists would just release the world ending plot hook like that.

      And then polish scientists released cannibal ants from an abandoned Soviet nuclear bunker to see what they’d do.

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      First, God sent the locusts. Americans voted them into office. So God came up with plan B: diarrhea.

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      Everyone shuts themselves to death

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    Someone should tell them they can buy yeast in the store.

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    I’ll take, “Things you can do but should never fucking do.” for $500, Alex.

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    One small throwaway line about how scientists made sourdough with a yeast strain from him.

    I know every single headline now is click bait but this didn’t even say shit about who made the bread or how it turned out or anything whatsoever actually about scientists making bread with an ancient yeast.

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    But how did it taste

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      It couldn’t; 'twas dead.

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    Could we not tho

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    I imagine the worst outcome would be if the bread was unbelievably delicious. They can’t exactly source more of it.

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      Could keep the starter going though

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      Something something Rick and Morty pasta

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    Mmmm extra-sour dough

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    Finally, some good news

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    “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

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    Served with his duck butter.

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    From between the toes?

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    I can’t imagine an ancient yeast would taste much different than sourdough made from modern wheat, especially if you use the same grain the iceman had available back in his time like einkorn. You’d still end up with tangy sourdough

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      The point is obviously getting as close as possible to cannibalism, without actually being cannibalism.

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