Anon thinks about wheat
Anon thinks about wheat
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52901772
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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.
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“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.
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You can all tropical cultures have some form of rice bread. Indians have rice bhakhari, South East Asia has rice paper, rice mixed with wheat in banh mi, Liberia and Sierra Leone have ginger rice bread. Its a fundamentally different bread and requires different complimentary food. If you use it as replacement for wheat bread it will not taste the same. Its like you made wheat pilav and then complained its not the same. Of course it's not the same that's the point.
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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.
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Rice needs very wet and fairly warm conditions to grow whereas wheat is a cool weather crop and doesn't need as much water
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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.-
Ayyyyy teaaa gang rise up.
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Present and accounted for!
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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.
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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.
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Not to mention coffee beans that have been shat:
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Wheat is just fancy grass. People learned how to process wheat before they learned how to wipe their asses with a communal sponge on a stick.
Wheat calories are what unlocked the big brain thinking that first said, "Guys, let's put just ONE sponge on a stick. And share it!"
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When humanity discovered bread it made their heads and brains smaller. We all need dental work because of bread - our heads are too small for our teeth.
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Bread?
Agriculture. Otherwise explain how cultures that cultivate rice or maize or yams where no wheat grows also experienced the same morphological changes.
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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
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Fucken owned 'em
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The stupid level of processing is...boiling it? Same as rice, people only discover processing it a bit later.
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If you think about it then boiling is not that easy.
There is almost no way to boil something until you discover pottery and ceramic, and this is quite advanced tech for many early civilizations.
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Wheat doesn't need to be grown in a marsh.
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My understanding is that rice doesn't need to be soaking in water, either, but it helps with the weeds, since rice can survive the water but not other plants
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Very cool to learn something new! Thanks for informing me homie.
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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.
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Beer. It was always beer.
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How did people who wiped their ass with a communal sponge on a stick figure out beer?
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A person probably made some fermented wheat beverage on accident and thought its worth repeating.
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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.
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Because if you let it sprout a bit, then roast it, then boil it, then let it sit...
Well you get beer.
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Plus rice also needs to be polished, which is a not insignificant amount of processing.
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Mmm, shiny rice.
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They polish rice!?
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Brown rice isn't polished, though, right?
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Processing wheat involves letting it dry and opening both ends of the barn so the hulls blow away.
And rice is extremely laborious to grow.
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"be wheat" yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat
buncha posers
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Wheat is not that difficult to process.
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The communal sponge was a feature, not a bug 😂
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Rice is easy. The soy sauce though...
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