• Caveman
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    83 hours ago

    Fermentation is just what happens when you accidentally leave stuff in a container that limits oxygen. It’s easy to make alcohol my accident. Then there’s also the fact than we don’t know how well connected the world was before writing. We know farming developed independently from studies of soil in lakes and whatnot but recipes are much harder to pin down as something invented independently.

    Not sure about the swords part but the Aztecs didn’t any.

    • @schema
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      2 hours ago

      “Eww, this smells nasty and toxic… let’s drink/eat it” seems to be a common human trait.

      • @sulgoth
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        129 minutes ago

        More like “my honey went off but I really need those calories… Huh, this isn’t… Completely awful.”

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      3 hours ago

      Not sure about the swords part but the Aztecs didn’t any.

      The macuahuitl: “Am I a joke to you?”