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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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To: SunkenCiv
They also detected traces of different herbs and cooked potato starch. So..... they were trading with Peru 3000 years ago?
Really.
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posted on
11/07/2021 6:12:14 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Arrowroot also comes from the Americas.
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posted on
11/07/2021 6:22:08 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
That’s the journalistic error to spot!
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:13:25 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: WMarshal
In a half-assed documentary on New Kdm of Egypt, a besieged city (Jericho I think) featured a pile of corn kernels to show they had food and could hold out for a while. Genius.
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:16:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
I actually searched for this article on other websites because I was wondering if they had just mistranslated a word for some other kind of tuber as potato the way any type of grain is sometimes called "corn".
No joy so far.
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:20:18 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s what you get in a depraved culture where everyone is special and has a full box of 11th place trophies. Nobody is forced to excel so they do not develop a need to win, a strong work ethic or to truly master their craft.
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:27:23 PM PST
by
WMarshal
("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:31:19 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!)
To: Larry Lucido
"All that meat, and no potatoes?"
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:37:54 PM PST
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ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!)
To: ApplegateRanch
This beer making joint antedates the Roman Empire. :^)
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:39:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
A thousand yours this way; a thousand years that way: it all cancels out: Dem’s Newer Math.
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:47:23 PM PST
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ApplegateRanch
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To: ApplegateRanch
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posted on
11/07/2021 7:53:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
The making of beer is a scientific exercise.......................
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posted on
11/08/2021 5:32:03 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
“... cooked potato starch...” LOL!
To: SunkenCiv
It is a translation error by the journalist. In the article in English they wrote:
“What the experts discovered was a substance called miliacin, considered to be an indicator of millet. They also detected traces of different herbs and cooked potato starch.”
Here is the original in Czech: “Objevili i pozůstatky přidaných bylin a vaření škrobových zrn.” from this article
https://pardubice.rozhlas.cz/jedno-z-nejstarsich-bylinnych-piv-v-evrope-se-varilo-na-pardubicku-ukazal-8576362
The translation of this is “They also discovered the remains of added herbs and cooked starch grains.”
Most green plants store energy as starch, which is packed into semicrystalline granules.
The original paper
In 2017, a luxury bronze bucket was discovered near Kladina village in the Czech Republic. The bucket is dated to the ninth century BCE, and it is a unique artefact, having no parallel in Europe. Stylistically, it is a “transition type” dated between the Late Bronze Age (11th–10th century BCE) and the Hallstatt Period (eighth–sixth century BCE).
Detailed palynological analysis of verdigris and soil infill of the bucket identified a wide range of pollen grains belonging mainly to herbs, with bitter-sour properties, and cereals. Subsequent chemical analysis by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of soil extracts revealed the presence of the compound miliacin that is a chemical marker of millet. Moreover, a starch analysis reveals the presence of enzymatically modified starch grains. These data, with the help of archaeological knowledge, indicate that the original content may have been millet-based food/beverage with addition of herbs. We suggest that this luxury vessel, given the contents we have identified, was deposited, in the late spring/summer months of the year.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/arcm.12711
Problem solved.
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posted on
11/14/2021 4:03:10 AM PST
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AdmSmith
(GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
To: AdmSmith; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ..
Thanks AdmSmith! Update re-ping to list.
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posted on
11/14/2021 8:16:29 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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