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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make bread

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Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make bread

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make sourdough bread
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More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was killed by an arrow in the back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/46518121

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    We’ve been doing weird stuff like this all along though, just look at beer, wine, cheese, kombucha etc etc. We let things get moldy then eat em drink em

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      Yeah we used to grind up mummies into powder to make paint and stuff, it was a color called Mummy Brown

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        holy shit you weren’t joking

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          This Futurama joke makes more sense now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s

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        Dude we used to grind up mummy and snort it for medicine.

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          Apparently people used to eat honey till they died, then into a barrel of honey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man

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      Put’em in a stew?

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