Posted on 04/08/2021 4:57:22 PM PDT by mylife
I don’t trust pop corn.
Eat grits.
field corn soaked in lye!!!?
Myth
The human body cannot absorb much if any of the nutritional value in corn until it’s processed in an alkali bath and converted into hominy. It’s then then dried and ground into Masa Harina. That’s what corn tortillas are made from. The nutrition in the corn is then accessible to humans. How early Americans figured this out and used it as the staple in their diet for thousands of years has always puzzled me. The staple foods of the rest of humanity, grains like wheat, barley, oats, and rice, are directly digestible or can fermented into into bread and beer. That and making cheese from animal milk are relatively simple in comparison. One can conceive of those being accidental discoveries. But chemically processing maize into quality food? And how they figured out getting chocolate from cacao beans is even more puzzling.
LOLOL
A good Kentucky toast to my Neighbor 🥃🥃
WARS HAVE BEEN STARTED OVER LESSER MATTERS
meh.. I like flour tortillas with pork lard
spread of butter, spread of beans....
I sure am glad they figured out the chocolate thing ...
problem with Kentucky is all the horse shit
The corn + alkali could have come about from a chance combination with wood ashes.
As for the cacao beans, I've read that originally the fruit pulp was eaten fresh.* The pulp is juicy and sweet, the seeds are bitter. Perhaps someone left the fresh beans + pulp in a heap and accidentally left it to ferment, then accidentally got fire in contact with the fermented beans... and the rest is history.
*Recommended: Young, Allen M. The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao. 1194: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC and London. 200 pp.
so blueberries off the vine are bad for you?
No I do not think they digest differently. I think corn was not introduced as a normal side dish there at that time. Personally, I’ve never had it in all my returns. But, I’m sure they introduced food grade corn decades ago. I’m assuming at that point (originally referred to) it was only used as farm grade hence why she didn’t want it.
Jimmy crapped corn and I don’t care...
You understand you need to chew it right?
That was from a Mazola corn oil tv commercial from the 1970s, right?
And here, half a century later, we still remember that. Amazing!
But the quadratic formula? Long gone!
Regards,
The story they tell here (in Germany) is that the friendly, post-WWII "Amis" asked the defeated, starving Germans what they needed most to get their agricultural sector back on its feet. The Germans answered "Korn!" ("Korn" = German for "grain"). And a misunderstanding was born. (However, the Germans quickly came to appreciate maize, and so no real harm was done.)
Regards,
Corn = sugar + inflammatory fiber. None for me thanks.
I will stick with only eating meat & drinking water as I have done with wonderful results for 998 straight days. Truly a wonderful way to live!
If you want to experience life without inflammation I highly recommend it!
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