hyper2Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make bread
www.cbsnews.com/news/oetzi-the-iceman-yeast-mum…
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MillerI think the plan is to keep doing weird stuff until we kill ourselves.
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
Yeah we used to grind up mummies into powder to make paint and stuff, it was a color called Mummy Brown
kazernielDude we used to grind up mummy and snort it for medicine.
Apparently people used to eat honey till they died, then into a barrel of honey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
Honey mummy, bread mummy, jerky mummy, if we find ourselves a cheese mummy we’ve got a damn fine sandwich!
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LucidlethargyBut that 100% will NOT be the yeast that was used to make bread from back then.
You can get yeast from basically any decaying organic matter. May as well get it from any old corpse. This is just corpse bread - and who wants corpse bread???
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samus12345This model of Oetzi seemed like an appropriate reaction:
SibboThe scientists then reproduced the gut yeast in a fridge.
So they didn’t actually destroy any part of the mummy, they just used bacteria sourced from the mummy that they multiplied anyways for further study.
Yes, but isnt it pOssible that those batteries may have come from an extra-terrestrial source, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?
finallymadeanaccountStop talking about it before RFK Jr puts it on the MAHA menu!
these guys got so jealous of the scientists making beer/wine out of yeasts found from the dead sea they decided to make bread out of a desiccated corpse.
at least they will be able to say, “just like mummy made it”
Zacryon“Mom! Mom! After years of hard work and study I’ve finally managed to become a scientist.”
“That’s awesome, honey! What do you do?”
“I make bread out of stuff from dead peoples’ guts.”
“…”
I sure hope this is privately funded
Who even looks at that and thinks, “Y’know what? I want toast! Actually, I’ve got a hankerin’ for jerky, too, if I’m being honest”.
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You know what always comes next!
The Unbread!
Zomboy? We doing brostep again?
Here’s the same AFP article but syndicated via CTV News. Fuck CBS.
And this is how it always begins…
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Muahahahahaha
Not beer?
Many yeasts do not make alcohol well. It can be quite variable, but bread yeast is especially bad, as it has been selected to produce a lot of co2.
Of course our society looks down on alcohol officially at least now, so maybe the strain of yeast had nothing to do with it.
Mummy in question is 5300 years old, so not sure how specialized yeast was back then
Just naturally it’s very variable. Which is why before they really started cultivating strains, fairly recently, there was a big emphasis on the region and year of the wines, because they relied on wild yeasts. Sometimes from their feet that they used to crush the grapes.
But the egyptians were pretty advanced in a lot of things. They made both bread and beer. I bet they had their own strains and the practice was just lost in the dark ages.
Nah, can we not
Remember when they dug up a frozen ice age era bison and one of the discoverers literally made stew with some of the meat? I think id much rather eat that stew than human corpse stomach bread lol
The new British bread will be going to mass market in the following weeks. /s