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Scientists and Chefs Team Up to Make Yogurt From Ants
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | October 6, 2025 | Ella Feldman

Posted on 11/04/2025 1:57:59 PM PST by nickcarraway

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β€œhad a slight tangy taste with mild herbaceousness and pronounced flavors of grass-fed fat."

Wow, I can't wait for that.! (spit)

21 posted on 11/04/2025 4:30:44 PM PST by unread ("A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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22 posted on 11/04/2025 4:32:25 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I thought of the movie “The Menu”.


23 posted on 11/04/2025 5:06:18 PM PST by GingisK
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Well fantastic!

Maybe they can figure out how to make lattes from toenail fungus as well?


24 posted on 11/04/2025 5:08:36 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Humus, from uncles.


25 posted on 11/04/2025 7:26:17 PM PST by ggboss (Vote them out)
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To: blackdog

Hate to break it to you but, cultures of Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus are found commonly in animal gut tracks and manure as well.

The original yogurt strains from with all industrial yogurt is made was isolated from “naturally fermenting milk inside animal skins, stomachs and intestines.

All of those bacteria are gram positive and every one of them lives and thrives inside mammal species GI track.

So yeah about the air thing it’s a giant nothingburger compared to industrial fermentation processes. Humans have been using bacteria from the air, guts, manure, fish guts oh yeah two of the three above bacteria also love fish guts it’s how you ferment and make fish sauce same acid making bacteria. You take fish whole fish unguted or it won’t work, you put them in a clay barrel outside in Vietnam heat for THREE YEARS and let those bacteria do its work the only other ingredients is sea salt to pull moisture out and give the gut bacteria a chance to take over before e.coli does. Eat up big guy. Don’t even ask where beer yeasts or blue cheese, brie or stinky feet cheese get it’s cultures hint the last is exactly what
It smells like same bacteria on human feet and pits makes that cheese.


26 posted on 11/05/2025 9:50:10 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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Some cheeses are made with the same bacteria as stinky feet it’s literally the same species of bacteria.

We are a meta organism. Humans have more mass in bacterial DNA that human and have more bacterial cells by number than human cells , trillions in our GI track you would die without them and people do when they take antibiotics and it kills their gut symbiosis, you know how they try to save your life? They ask a family member for fecal matter and put that in capsules which you swallow or die, the other way is less pleasant they go up the nose with a hose all the way past the stomach into the upper GI and yup liquid inject a fecal culture which you must have to live.

It just science bro.


27 posted on 11/05/2025 9:55:03 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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My students ask well how do we originally get our gut ,skin and mucous membrane bacterial cultured which we need to survive?

Your mother passed it to you at birth and inside the womb. At birth you come out right next too and usually with fecal matter children of C sections must be given first milk by their mother or they also risk not having a healthy immune system. 75% of your immune system is your gut track symbiotic relationship with trillions of bacteria that your mother gave you a start with.


28 posted on 11/05/2025 10:01:44 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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Eat your pound of ambient dirt, dust, and filth. I however make my own lacto fermented vegetables. Kimchi, saurkraut (any crispy vegetables will do. Saurkraut merely means "sour crop" in German. One quarter cup of home fermented veggies has about ten times the good bacteria as a cup of yogurt and very few calories)

So yes you are something like correct. I just don't see the point in creating an industry that's unnecessary. Kinda like bottled water and Kuerig coffee pods. Stupid.

The best starter culture for lactobacillus is one oak leaf in the fermentation vessel. The little buggers that love the oak tree leaves are of a species that offers a more crisp and robust end productive, never becoming soft or mushy. I have no idea how, but my chemical engineer wife says it's the unique tannins in the oak leaf.

29 posted on 11/05/2025 10:07:40 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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30 posted on 11/05/2025 10:10:19 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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“You vill eat the bug yogurt and you will be happy” - Klaus Schwab ( from the supervillain’s retirement home)


31 posted on 11/05/2025 10:14:20 AM PST by jpp113
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[β€œ...On the same day, the World Economic Forum announced the appointment of Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, as interim co-chairman alongside AndrΓ© Hoffmann, Vice Chairman of pharmaceutical and diagnostic giant Roche. This appointment takes effect immediately....”]

After the Godless United Nations
the World Economic Forum is probably
Satan's premier Globalist entity

Well it IS interesting that the ONLY place where the Earth 🌎🌍 intersects the letters πŸ”€ in their name is where it could make 3 odd 6s with the top one being the most distinctive - a foreshadowing? πŸ€·β€β™€οΈπŸ€·β€β™‚οΈπŸ€·


The official WEF symbol makes a sloppy 666....
probably just by coincidence...


(Eat Zee Delicious Bugs

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32 posted on 11/06/2025 2:13:12 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Just Eat Zee Bugs!! /World Economic Forum

C’mon man!!


33 posted on 11/06/2025 2:16:49 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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