Thread 21527022

>egyptians drank warm, stale beer without hopps
>atzecs drank mud like cocoa with ground chiles instead of sugar
>romans sweetened wine with lead rust
what the fuck was wrong with people back then?

They all made empires. Most you've ever made is a mess in your panties. And that's the most you ever will.

>>21527022 (OP)
The Egyptians woildn't even know hops existed. They've native to the northern hemisphere in temperate zones. They used other herbs as bittering and preservation elements.

>>21527022 (OP)
How would you NOT drink warm beer without cooling technology?
How cocoa without milk and sugar?

Oh yeah, I forgot that the Aztecs could just walk right into the next jungle supermarket, take a sticks-and-vines shopping cart and buy a carton of fresh milk and a pack of sugar.

>>21527022 (OP)
>egyptians drank warm, stale beer without hopps
I don't think hops really make it taste much better, but their beer was probably sweet and lightly carbonated from being fermented overnight. They would drink stronger beers that were aged more on special occasions but their daily beer was more like a sweet low alcohol beer. It probably tasted fine, I've made similar overnight fermented drinks and it's not bad at room temp. Beer needing to be ice cold is more of a modern thing and only really necessary with beer that doesn't taste great to begin with.

Aztecs thought that the chili added to cocoa made the psychoactive compounds get into your body faster and more potently. I never cared much for spiciness with things like that though even if I like it in other food.

Romans probably just knew it tasted sweet and liked that but weren't aware of the consequences. Just like kids eating lead paint chips in more recent times.

Some people used to drink reindeer piss after the reindeer ate some intoxicating mushrooms and filtered out the stuff that could kill you lol. And some people probably ate magic mushrooms that were growing out of cow poop.

>>21527053
That would have been a lot smarter of them wouldn't it?

>>21527022 (OP)
Dumb fucker.

>>21527053
Chili peppers are technically fruits and get rather sweet when fully ripe. I know I read about them enjoying the capsaicin but I wonder if they did it for the sweetness too.

>>21527067
Also they would've had honey which tastes pretty good in hot cocoa.

>>21527071
They did, in fact, use honey to sweeten drinking chocolate, specifically that from the Mayan stingless bee. They learned apiculture from the Mayans and kept hives of "royal ladies" (iinm, their term for their bees translates directly to "royal lady," ix-something; ix means woman/lady)

>all modern humans drink microplastics
people have always been retarded anon

>>21527022 (OP)
yeah and who told you all that shit?
professor shekelstein?

>>21528488
unironically yes

>>21527022 (OP)
>modern people eat chemical solvent sludge from poisonous seeds thinking it's healthy

I swear I just had this conversation with you in the park

>>21528658
Soy products are not just made from seeds

>>21528658
I was on an actual site doing pre induction while they showed us how concrete tanks were made. The molds were giant iron things that were hoisted with a gantry crane. It was an absolute sight.
One of the workers had a pressure sprayer lubricating the mold.
I asked what it was and he responded: Cooking oil.
This is the first time I have ever seen seed oils used in an industrial context, but you've got a first hand account here... Which in your case becomes a second hand account.

>>21528785
Military industry was the original purpose of seed oils. After the wars ended, they repurposed it as food.

>>21528658
usage of soy for food predates literally everything in the OP

>>21527022 (OP)
>romans sweetened wine with lead rust
>lead rust

>>21527022 (OP)
Fuck you, chimo. Hot spicy chile cocoa sounds amazing. And that beer was probably pretty great compared to river water sometimes. I can't get on board with the rust, but they didn't know any better. Imagine how much they dumbed down humanity by ingesting so much lead. Maybe it's not a lot. But I'd love to get into a time machine and have all three of those drinks with their respective people. And I'd tell them of our modern world, our advances in science and medicine and economy and civilization, and of how the OP was a pedo weeb incel whom we all laughed about, wondering what the fuck is wrong with people in modern times.

>>21527022 (OP)
We drink out of plastic. I know. I'm doing it right now.

>>21528785
>YOU DRINK WATER? DID YOU KNOW THEY USE THAT SHIT IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES???

>>21527053
>taking tranime faggots seriously

>>21527022 (OP)
>romans sweetened wine with lead rust
and they KNEW it was harmful! Also Romans loved Garum which is a really disgusting thing honestly. Romans were just freaky like that and I htink it was this exact freakiness that gave them the unpredictable upperhand in their wars

>>21529388
actually they knew. see >>21529412
they still drank it because it "made them feel funny"

>>21529412
>I htink

>>21527022 (OP)
>cocoa with chilies
It is, de facto, DA WEY.

what i wanna know is how the fuck we ended up eating cashews if the fruit that surrounds the good part is so toxic

>>21529444
everything of the potato plant except the potato is poisonous
humans are crafty and when youre starving youre not picky

>>21529444
Cashew is also bad if it's raw. Only fried/baked cashew is actually safe and edible.

Also, look up Jamaican ACKie, lmfao.

>>21527022 (OP)
>romans sweetened wine with lead rust
no they didn't it's a myth. lead acetate was found in SOME wine casks that were made out of lead sheets. Most of their wines was stored in bladders.

>>21527022 (OP)
You take your water with chlorine and microplastics.

>>21527067
Not all peppers get sweet as they ripen. Some get hotter

>>21529508
They still get sweeter. I know sweet is used to mean sweet/mild when describing peppers sometimes, but even habaneros which are pretty spicy still taste quite sweet and fruity when orange/red. Most people are probably only eating green peppers so they don't realize how a lot of them get sweet even when they're hot.

>>21529412
Making the garum was disgusting, the sauce itself once it is done was perfectly fine, just a savory fish sauce, and could be stored in the home no problem.
That's why the garum factories were always outside the cities.

>>21527022 (OP)
if my life expectancy was 40 i'd be drinking piss and vinegar