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Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat…
Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.
You can make bread with rice flour too if that’s your thing.
“Bread” with rice flour, maybe.
My mom has celiac disease and while the options for gluten free bread have gotten a lot better since the 80s she still sneaks a slice of real sourdough because it’s not the same.
Do you know if she’s tried Fat Head dough/bread? I’m pretty sure it’s gluten free, it was my go-to on keto. Made with mozzarella cheese. It’s really, really good.
Rice needs very wet and fairly warm conditions to grow whereas wheat is a cool weather crop and doesn’t need as much water
Wait until you learn about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make cocoa or coffee beans into something palatable, especially compared to
hot leaf juicetea.Cacao isn’t too bad. Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds into a pile, ferment a few days, roast, peal, grind and you got it. There are some details to the ferment but it’s not more complicated than any other ferment d food.
As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than unpleasantly gritty. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as “chocolate” today wasn’t invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.
I mean I grow it and have taken it to the nib stage and it came out quite tasty. Really not too bad in terms of process. It’s a few day/ week of fermentation followed by drying and roasting. I process it a few times a year, when I’ve got enough to actually process (I only have a handful of cacao trees).
Compared to most of what I grow, which is Vanilla, cacao is a walk in the park. Vanilla requires manual pollination, care monitoring of conditions, and a fermentation and curing process that has many steps, some daily , for months.
Not to mention coffee beans that have been shat:
Yeah let me just replace these rolling wheat hills with a rice farm. It’d totally work because wheat and rice have the same growing conditions. Dumbass
Fucken owned 'em
wheat has almost twice as much protein. A wheat-fed peasant, you’re probably going to be stronger and healthier than a riice-fed peasant.
A person probably made some fermented wheat beverage on accident and thought its worth repeating.
I once made prison wine by accident by leaving a bottle of Coke under my bed for a couple weeks.
I didn’t drink it but it smelled really strong.
Beer. It was always beer.
How did people who wiped their ass with a communal sponge on a stick figure out beer?
Because someone who is starving to death will eat literally anything.
Someone tried rotten grain and got a buzz and then after surviving the famine went back and figured something out.
Meanwhile the Inca: 🥔
Taters? Boil’em, mash’em, stick’em in a stew?
Also freeze drying them first. Ancient taters were poisonous, since they are nightshade. And freeze drying them would reduce the toxins.
You mean “leave a pile of taters out in the open over night”?
Yeah but if you live high up the Andes it’s basically freeze drying, because of the freezing nights and the high altitude sun during the day.
Exactly what I’m saying! “freeze drying” sounds like a way more involved process than something that just happens on its own if you do nothing.
True but someone had to figure out the process even if it was by accident. Like the first people who tried the first potato species probably didn’t eat them again because they got sick. Until someone ate a potato (against the knowledge of the time) that was left out of the ground over night.
Which proves Middle Earth was in South America.
Because if you let it sprout a bit, then roast it, then boil it, then let it sit…
Well you get beer.
Plus rice also needs to be polished, which is a not insignificant amount of processing.
Mmm, shiny rice.
Brown rice isn’t polished, though, right?
They polish rice!?
“be wheat” yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat
buncha posers
Wheat is not that difficult to process.
The communal sponge was a feature, not a bug 😂
Rice is easy. The soy sauce though…
