Posted on 11/18/2019 6:29:18 AM PST by C19fan
What did a meal taste like nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia? Pretty good, according to a team of international scholars who have deciphered and are re-creating what are considered to be the world's oldest-known culinary recipes.
The recipes were inscribed on ancient Babylonian tablets that researchers have known about since early in the 20th century but that were not properly translated until the end of the century.
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As long as we’re supposed to worship ancient, died-out civilizations, how about eating like the Aztecs, who killed and ate other humans? Weren’t they replaced by Christianity, which the left despises so much?
During WWII, the British had a brewery ship.
For the Pacific.
I seem to remember that it made its first batch or batch was ready on VJ day or thereabouts.
In grade school, a missionary gave a talk to our class, and they made banana beer in Africa.
The Aztecs also ate chihuahuas.
The weird part is, they had three chefs who worked *inside* the oven. Go figure.
The more highly spiced meat, the more spoiled it was. Hot desert and no electric refrigerators. The beer helped kill of bugs and germs.
I saw “Barley Mow” (a.k.a. Whiskey in the Jar) performed over 30 years ago, for some reason it made a deep impression on my teetotalin’ ass.
They didn’t live long enough to develop cirrhosis or many other diseases. OTOH, they could die from bug bite or a splinter.
That’s WHY they are called INDIA pale ales.
In high school, one of our science classes made banana beer as an experiment — and most of it spewed through the lab over a weekend when the relief valve clogged and the top blew off the brewing jug. Just about any flavorful starchy food will do as the raw material for beer.
Believe it or not!
We learned that song in high school. Some modern day bard travelled schools teaching old songs. We didnt just learn to sing the songs, we also broke them down, learned the history behind them, this song then required us to do conversions of measure, etc. It was a weird but fun way to learn a whole buch of things that wouldn’t normally be in one class.
BTW, its often performed in present day with the final “size” being a “round bowl” or a “brown bowl” but the words were “hand bowl” which is a porta-puke for when there was a bit too much partying going on.
:^) Sounds like a great way to learn.
Babylonians frat boy?
Apparently, an old English proverb. I had never heard it before.
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Babalony Sandwiches! With mustard hummus.
My cat wonders what cats ate then. Had Friskies been invented yet?
She refuses to contemplate the possibility that SHE might end up in the stew pot.
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