[C19fan]

Money quote:

These people are beer people. In fact, lots of the recipes contain beer. The Assyrians would have had wine with the food, I think. The best of the stews we're cooking is a red beet stew, and it has nice sour beer in it.

Wonder what Babylonians would think of Busch beer....

[VicVanleeuwenhoek]

And then “ Walk like an Egyptian.”

[a fool in paradise]

4,000 year-old recipes?

I’d be stuffed after 2 dozen, no doubt.

[painter]

Bump

[Big Red Badger]

“Finger Foods”
I’m curious.

[Ancesthntr]

What you have to understand about beer and its importance before the 20th century is that water everywhere and at all times was filthy - drinking water was playing Russian Roulette with your very life. The making of beer kills bacteria. Of course, as a side benefit, it also is somewhat intoxicating, which tends to make an otherwise crappy life seem not so bad.

[Savage Beast]

VILE RACISTS!

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

[Blurb2350]

[Mount Athos]

they didn’t use hops at all back then, i wouldn’t call what they drank beer

[Tax-chick]

"One is a beet stew, one is vegetarian, and the final one has lamb in it," says Barjamovic.

Does Mr. Barjamovic think a beet is an animal?

[central_va]

Beer without hops, I wonder how it tasted?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Walk like an Egyptian.
Eat like a Babylonian.
Vote like a Philistine (Democrat).

[posterchild]

It would have been nice if the article posted a few of the recipes. I presume they are no longer under any Babylonian copyright.

[polymuser]

“Hey sweety, make me a Babylony sammy!”

[Boogieman]

“Wonder what Babylonians would think of Busch beer....”

They’d probably think that was the stuff they threw out after they were done making real beer.

[Little Ray]

Not thick enough for ‘em.
Sumerian beer was more like a soup.

[jonno]

I’m guessing that the missing ingredient in most of these recipes: bugs

[I want the USA back]

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?

[bgill]

The more highly spiced meat, the more spoiled it was. Hot desert and no electric refrigerators. The beer helped kill of bugs and germs.

[bitt]

p

[Candor7]

Babalony Sandwiches! With mustard hummus.