cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/52901772
Rice needs very wet and fairly warm conditions to grow whereas wheat is a cool weather crop and doesn’t need as much water
Anon thinks about wheat
Submitted 1 day ago by Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Wheat doesn’t need to be grown in a marsh.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wait until you hear about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make chocolate or coffee palatable, especially compared to
hot leaf juicetea.faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Ayyyyy teaaa gang rise up.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Present and accounted for!
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Cacao isn’t too bad. Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds into a pile, ferment a few days, roast, peal, grind and you got it. There are some details to the ferment but it’s not more complicated than any other ferment d food.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than “unpleasantly gritty”. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as “chocolate” today wasn’t invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not to mention coffee beans that have been shat:
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Beer. It was always beer.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
The stupid level of processing is…boiling it? Same as rice, people only discover processing it a bit later.
lb_o@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If you think about it then boiling is not that easy.
There is almost no way to boil something until you discover pottery and ceramic, and this is quite advanced tech for many early civilizations.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The Haida on the west coast of Canada put red hot rocks in their canoes to render fish. You underestimate humans ingenuity.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah let me just replace these rolling wheat hills with a rice farm. It’d totally work because wheat and rice have the same growing conditions. Dumbass
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Fucken owned 'em
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Wheat is just fancy grass. People learned how to process wheat before they learned how to wipe their asses with a communal sponge on a stick.
Wheat calories are what unlocked the big brain thinking that first said, “Guys, let’s put just ONE sponge on a stick. And share it!”
protist@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Rice is just fancy grass, too. So are oats, barley, and rye. All fancy grass
hansolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
Exactly. Not crazy that ancient humans would see them and smash the seeds up and eat.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Meanwhile the Inca: 🥔
Gsus4@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Taters? Boil’em, mash’em, stick’em in a stew?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Also freeze drying them first. Ancient taters were poisonous, since they are nightshade. And freeze drying them would reduce the toxins.
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Which proves Middle Earth was in South America.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
wheat has almost twice as much protein. A wheat-fed peasant, you’re probably going to be stronger and healthier than a riice-fed peasant.
red_tomato@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A person probably made some fermented wheat beverage on accident and thought it was nice.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I once made prison wine by accident by leaving a bottle of Coke under my bed for a couple weeks.
I didn’t drink it but it smelled really strong.
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Plus rice also needs to be polished, which is a not insignificant amount of processing.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They polish rice!?
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Mmm, shiny rice.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Brown rice isn’t polished, though, right?
skisnow@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
“be wheat” yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because if you let it sprout a bit, then roast it, then boil it, then let it sit…
Well you get beer.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Processing wheat involves letting it dry and opening both ends of the barn so the hulls blow away
Hupf@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Rice is easy. The soy sauce though…
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wheat is not that difficult to process.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 day ago
The communal sponge was a feature, not a bug 😂
ynthrepic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat…
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Bread” with rice flour, maybe.
My mom has celiac disease and while the options for gluten free bread have gotten a lot better since the 80s she still sneaks a slice of real sourdough because it’s not the same.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 day ago
You can all tropical cultures have some form of rice bread. Indians have rice bhakhari, South East Asia has rice paper, rice mixed with wheat in banh mi, Liberia and Sierra Leone have ginger rice bread. Its a fundamentally different bread and requires different complimentary food. If you use it as replacement for wheat bread it will not taste the same. Its like you made wheat pilav and then complained its not the same. Of course it’s not the same that’s the point.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Do you know if she’s tried Fat Head dough/bread? I’m pretty sure it’s gluten free, it was my go-to on keto. Made with mozzarella cheese. It’s really, really good.