I thought it was nomadic people carrying milk in animal bladders or something
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altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months agoYou know that’s how we probably got cheese? Some woman with a yeast literally put her hand in the yeast area, then in the milk container and created cheese accidentally.
Or feet! It could have been a guy with the most stinky feet. We just don’t know.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
groet@feddit.org 2 months ago
100% this, but animal stomach and not bladders. Because stomached contain rennet which are the enzymes that are used to make cheese. Cheese is not made with yeast. It very certainly is not related to a woman with a yeast infection …
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It was. Based on everything we know. That other guy just has an active imagination.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Ah! That makes way more sense!
undefinedValue@programming.dev 2 months ago
Cheese requires some stomach enzymes or something like that, making it wildly unlikely the first cheese was human derived.
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not all require rennet, like cottage cheese for instance
mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That requires some form of acid.
It’s most likely that stomachs were used to transport milk, and gave rennet from that source.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
So more like “honey! I gutted the cow like you asked, where should I put the guts?.. Oh put those in the milk and let that sit for a few months in the cool part of the cave!”
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
They put the milk in animal stomachs because they’re fairly easy to make watertight.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The ancestral plastic bag… But you must murder an animal.