This does not feel vegan
(midwest.social)
RNAi [he/him]
Chapotraphouse"No reason to do this" yea there was, one of the scientists was obviously a cook and this is the shit cooks do
I don't understand the reaction people are having to this, this is like pretty fucking cool. And almost entirely disconnected from colonizers historically eating mummys.
This is just an extension of Egyptomania when wealthy British/Americans were eating mummies.
How?
We plundered a human burial site and violated the sacred traditions of an ancient culture so that we could make yummy treats out of the remains.
Actually he's an ancient murder victim found in the place where his remains dropped and were left when he got shot 8000 yers ago
Oh, well I guess that guy 8000 years ago really missed out on a golden opportunity for yummy treats. Thank goodness someone more civilized came along. Finders keepers!
that guy 8000 years ago was eating that bread when it was fresh
He dissed Grok one time too many
Didn't he die crossing a glacier tho?
Both. He was all the way up in the Alps and got shot up there. IDK if he died from the arrow wound or from exposure or a combination of both, but i doubt he would have died on that day if he would not have had the person who shot him on his trail. OFC it's hard to reconstruct after all this time even when the remains are surprisingly well preserved by the ice.
Also i just looked this up, it was 5300 years ago, not 8000.
I'm more responding to the concept of violating human remains to produce something for human consumption than this specific case which I am unfamiliar with.
In this specific case, the yeasts were discovered while partially thawing the mummy to take tissue samples. It took over three months of cultivating to arrive at something that could actually be used to make sourdough, so these are not yeast bacteria that have ever actually been in Ötzi's gut themselves. Still feels weird, but i'd say it's not quite in the same ballpark as British colonizers grinding Egyptian mummies into powder to ingest them as "medicine".
Interesting, I somehow didn't realize they were still poking around Ötzi's remains. Thanks for the info!
i mean, these are not going anywhere, they are in a frozen vault somewhere in a museum in Northern Italy. Every once in a while, somebody comes up with a new article about how they've recreated his clothing or his tools or if he had any health conditions or smth like that
you've heard of vaginal yeast culture bread, now there's ancient mummy yeast culture bread
Soon to be ancient mummy yeast beer!
Mummy? More like yummy
Why do you think they're so rare? The British ate them all. (I am not joking. This is true.)
The Yummy Returns
The scientific urge to eat ancient human corpses can not be stopped.
this is a free country!
1800 br*tish "people" didn't have that many scientists
That's just what "science" is in their culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is gonna be how vampires come back
Yeast Vampires
One step removed from actual cannibalism (of which there is also a relatively recent history in regards to mummies).
I'm curious, how would you feel about humans on a space station or something recycling bodily remains into fertilizer for their farms?
That'd pretty much be the circle of life artificially accelerated out of necessity, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Here there is no necessity. Studying the type of yeast that is found, sure, but immediately trying to make a product out of it? Of which the only worth will consist in the peculiarity of its conception? That's like a parody of the capitalist logic of trying to exploit anything and anyone in any way possible! Tho I don't know whether or not they intend to sell the bread, I did see they intend to make Ötzi beer next ! Idk, that just seems somewhat disrespectful to me.
Was going to say - can anglos NOT eat mummies for five fucking seconds.
