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Czech scientists brew beer according to 3,000-year old recipe [today's spot the journalistic error round]
Radio Prague International ^
| October 26, 2021
| Ruth Fraňková and Naďa Kubínková
Posted on 11/07/2021 8:37:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:37:37 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Spoiler alert: Starch extraction started at least 30,000 years ago, based on residues from mortars/pestles etc. Just not from potatoes, at least, not in Europe.
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:39:00 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
How the hell did that error get in there?
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:39:17 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
To: SunkenCiv
So did these ancient Czechs use their time machine to get the potatoes locally or did they have UFOs to make the trip to South America in their own time?
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:43:15 AM PST
by
Freedumb
To: ClearCase_guy
Not sure, but I’m sure if we peel back the...
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:50:39 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Freedumb
Hey, what do you expect from a country named for a corn-based cereal? Geez.
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:51:32 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Fred Nerks
Sheesh! The archeologists have no respect! They dug up your old kitchen and stole your beer pot!
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posted on
11/07/2021 8:56:31 AM PST
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: SunkenCiv
This finding of 3000 year old “cooked potato starch” proves the ancient Peruvians sailed from South America to Europe 3,000 years ago and introduced the potato. The potato must have disappeared as a crop because they were killed by the evil ancient white people! /sarc
I am as disappointed as when I saw fields of corn in the Lord of the rings movie.
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posted on
11/07/2021 9:22:29 AM PST
by
WMarshal
("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
To: SunkenCiv
Well there’s a new twist on pre-Columbian contact theories...
Maybe the pre-Incans sent potatoes to the Olmecs who traded them with the Chinese (in exchange for teaching them how to make cool looking ink characters), who then gave them to the Egyptians who said, who in the hell wants potato beer? so they sent them into Central Europe to one the Lost Tribes of Israel which was hiding out in Bohemia (before moving to Utah), who then gave them to the Steppe people in Russia who then invented vodka.
This reporter could be on to something!
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posted on
11/07/2021 9:22:50 AM PST
by
nicollo
To: Freedumb
UFOs were an essential part of ancient transcontinental trade. Everybody knows that. Sheesh.
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posted on
11/07/2021 9:50:29 AM PST
by
D Rider
( )
To: nicollo
As some Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe
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posted on
11/07/2021 9:59:11 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(leave the gun, take the canolis)
To: SunkenCiv; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; mylife; Rebelbase
Maybe an early Leif Erikson made it to New York and back a while ago.
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posted on
11/07/2021 10:07:57 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Larry Lucido
Sounds like no one was keeping an *eye* on that Leif Erikson!
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posted on
11/07/2021 10:19:41 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
With the wormwood, maybe it is an early version of absinthe?
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posted on
11/07/2021 11:26:38 AM PST
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: dynachrome
When I first read their boner last night, I looked up ancient european starch or something like that, found some papers about it, and wormwood was just one of the source plants (others included wheat, which is used to make starch in Europe today, along with the more common corn) used to make starch. Since they were always looking for food sources, figuring out processing and prepping foods, and finding ways to get high, it’s not unlikely that they discovered a few of the properties of wormwood. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, btw.
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11/07/2021 12:03:09 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
I bet that beer tasted like the horse had diabetes.
To: irish guard
Heh heh... that’s vivid...
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posted on
11/07/2021 12:21:32 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder”
Ouch! (I have tried it, but I don’t like licorice. Overproof nasty stuff)
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posted on
11/07/2021 2:53:17 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: SunkenCiv
Probably something like Arrowroot. You find it in the shallows of european ponds. Its used for thickening soups or making cookies.
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