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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt.

    Today, most yogurts are produced by fermenting milk using commercially made starters. However, the industrialisation of the process has meant that countless traditional fermentation practices from around the world are overlooked.

    The rest is paywalled.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIHI

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    • 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure my imagination is worse than reality, but I’m afraid to read the article and find out.

      I assume it’s either ant vomit, feces, or something that’s fermented… Possibly all three.

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      • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not that bad. A traditional yogurt-making practice is to put a couple ants into some milk. The microorganisms that the ants introduce helps kick off the fermentation of the milk, turning it into yogurt.

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shelve it with that animal shit coffee

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      • tektite@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are we putting it on the castoreum shelf or the one with the big lump of ambergris?

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  • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks, ants.

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    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants.

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    • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants

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    • AsudoxDev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants.

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    • Nathanator@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants.

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    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants.

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    • shaman1093@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks.

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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants.

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    • herorobb@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thants

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanos

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      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Surely not TheAntOS!

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      • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanatos

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      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh snap

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Will there be fruit on the bottom? Or did the ants eat all the fruit?

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    • Blum0108@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The ants are the fruit. They’re nature’s raisins!

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would alien ants work? I know there used to be farms

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smooth.

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      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Spoons for yogurt!

        Forks? Turn em into a Mohawk

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fortunately, Ender and Bean handled that for us.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i’m hungry now. where ant yogurt

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they have to be Greek ants?

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    • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aunt is Thea in Greek

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      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Aunt is Thea in Greek

        Theía (Θεία) is “aunt”

        Theá (Θεά) is “goddess”

        So obviously yoghurt comes from goddesses.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a little upset that no one told me ants were making the yogurt for all these years.

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    • AsudoxDev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They say knowing about the food you’re going to eat makes it more delicious… is yogurt more delicious for you after knowing this information?

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The world is full of magic

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk”

    Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants

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  • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yogurt model of Ant OS

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

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  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s gonna be a ‘no’ from me, dog.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, the ants are an ingredient. I was hoping to learn they had somehow trained ants to manufacture yogurt.

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  • NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like that apparently we did this before we knew how it worked.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      we did most kinds of fermentations before we knew how they worked

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