[SunkenCiv]

The residues of Harappan-era ware indicated that inhabitants might have employed both boiling and frying techniques

Times of India

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The Harappans boiled and fried food.”

So “who were the Harappans?” I asked myself. The article cleared it right up: “Surkotada, a Harappan site in Gujarat’s Kutch district.”

[ckilmer]

Wasn’t this one of the early civilizations that were overthrown by the big horse warriors from the steppe?

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.food.com/recipe/fried-boiled-eggs-104664

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For once a headline is right. first boil, then fry.

[Red Badger]

First stir-fry!.........

[Chickensoup]

Not to be a snark but what else would they have been expected to do?

Take-out
Oven baked
Microwave
???

[LukeL]

So people cooked food during the Bronze Age? How much did this riveting study cost?

[frank ballenger]

Little sign translated as:
Number of sauce packets depend upon size of meal ordered.

Harappan Happy Meals Include a Terracotta figurine or miniature cart.

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Note:
Various artefacts such as diverse figurines, miniature carts and others, mostly in terracotta, are frequently found to be briefly mentioned as toys in traditional Harappan accounts (Rogersdotter, 2006). Besides terracotta, other materials used for making toys include: faience, stone, shell, copper and bronze.

Terracotta Toy Artefacts of Harappan Culture: A Medium of ...
Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology

[Fai Mao]

You fry, boil, roast, bake, or eat it raw. Not many other options.

Why is this surprising?

[Openurmind]

This reminds me of the time a study group came from Berkeley out to the desert Southwest. They came to see what kind of plants they ground up because they were convinced they were mostly vegetarians and used their Matate grinding stones for grinding seeds and such. They found very little plant residue on the Matates, it was mostly all Mice, Rats, Ground Squirrels and Lizards that they were grinding to a paste. lol

[x]

But did they eat beef?

[BenLurkin]

Mysterious 5,000-year-old jade dragons could reveal origins of Chinese civilisation

Vishwam Sankaran
14 hours ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/china-civilisation-origins-ancient-jade-b2626240.html