Comment on Anon thinks about wheat

• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sounds like you’re assuming step 1 of eating it was processing it into bread. Beyond that, ancient people eventually tried to eat everything. Seeds, grains, and nuts were not uncommon.

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah makes sense, thats always kind of how I thought it went down. Can’t be picky about your calories, great great great great great great great granpappy Cruxifux.

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  • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can boil whole grain wheat down into porridge. It’s not the go-to use for wheat now, but the rice cooking method still provides a nutritious meal.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Insects, cats, random mushrooms, anything when you’re hungry enough.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You don’t have to do all of that to eat it, you just have to do all of that to make bread. You can make bread from oats, you can also process it less and make porridge.

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the conditions in which they made it, porridge was often also beer(ish).

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can also just straight up eat it. Yeah, you’ll get the shits from eating excessive amounts of fiber, but that’s probably the first way it was eaten

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    • Soulcreator@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean you’ll probably get runny shits from eating it due to the excess fiber, but I’m fairly certain the ancient nomadic tribes who first started eating wheat like that probably had significantly more fiber in their diets than modern man and eating it like that would probably be far less of a shock to their system than us puny fiber weaklings.

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      • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You are correct but no need to say “modern man”. Biologically we are the same as those humans. We would just need to adjust to the new diet. Our bodies can still handle their lifestyle

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      mmm hallucinogenic grain fungus.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And planted…

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All you need to do to make wheat edible is soak it in water to make it soft enough to chew. Wheat in water is “gruel”.

  You can improve upon it by boiling, which will dehydrate the gruel into a primitive bread. The drained, starchy liquid, if left to sit for awhile, will become a primitive ale. Grinding makes it easier to eat.

  Every dietary use is an evolutionary progression from soaking wheat in water.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yup, it’s not so much that wheat requires all of this processing, it just makes it tastier and easier to eat.

    I reckon that after inventing farming, people probably just had a lot more time on their hands, so they sat around trying to come up with ways to avoid having to eat the same boring gruel every day.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I reckon that after inventing farming, people probably just had a lot more time on their hands,

      AFAIK farming actually took a lot more work hours than hunting+gathering, it’s just less risky. But yeah, simple soaked or boiled grain is pretty boring compared to meat, berries and nuts.

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      • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean, people obviously still engaged in hunting and gathering (they do to this day) to enrich their diet, it just wasn’t as crucial to survival.

        Also, most of the work of farming happens in the spring and the fall (i.e. sowing and harvesting seasons). The rest of the year it’s pretty hands off, which gives you plenty of time to engage in other activities.

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Interesting!

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