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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The OnionEnglish · 20 hours 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 OnionEnglish · 20 hours 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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  • GreenKnight23
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    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”

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    “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.”

    “…”

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    Stop talking about it before RFK Jr puts it on the MAHA menu!

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    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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    Do … do they not pay them enough to buy food?!

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    But 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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      Catholics

    • cøre@leminal.space
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      It could be delicious. I’m willing to test it. For science!

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        deleted by creator

    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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      ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeOP
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      A corpse bride?

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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      Someone tell Junji Ito about corpse bread

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    This model of Oetzi seemed like an appropriate reaction:

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    • nightwatch_admin
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      You say this, but your username is beautifully aligned with the subject at hand.

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        I only use fresh extracted gut materials in my P00ptarts™

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      I just thought it was cool

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    I think the plan is to keep doing weird stuff until we kill ourselves.

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      Seems to be working.

    • xylol@leminal.space
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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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        Put’em in a stew?

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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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          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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          holy shit you weren’t joking

          • lobut@lemmy.ca
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            This Futurama joke makes more sense now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s

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      C’est la vie

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    Here’s the same AFP article but syndicated via CTV News. Fuck CBS.

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      Fuck CBS, indeed. Thank you.

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    Don’t bring See BS in here please

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    The 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.

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      Yeast is a fungus, but otherwise right.

      It’s an interesting article. Also kind of horrifying.

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      Yes, but isnt it pOssible that those batteries may have come from an extra-terrestrial source, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?

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        Stargate. Next question.

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          That was just people watching Wormhole Xtreme and making stuff up.

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    I sure hope this is privately funded

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      Yes, through a bake sale.

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        They didn’t have the guts to do it any other way

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          Nice

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