RegularJoe
@RegularJoe@lemmy.world
🎲 Role player, Game master.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 5 days ago:
It starts with libations and food offerings.
Sweets were fed to the gods in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient India[7] and other ancient civilizations.[8] Herodotus mentions that Persian meals featured many desserts, and were more varied in their sweet offerings than the main dishes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert#History
The Romans continued the practice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine#Desse…
back to the main dessert article:
Europeans began to manufacture sugar in the Middle Ages, and more sweet desserts became available.[14] Even then sugar was so expensive usually only the wealthy could indulge on special occasions. The first apple pie recipe was published in 1381;[15] The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.[16]
And then there’s this guy:
Evidence for the domestication of the cacao tree exists as early as 5300 BP in South America, in present-day southeast Ecuador by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture, before it was introduced to Mesoamerica.[8] It is unknown when chocolate was first consumed as opposed to other cacao-based drinks, and there is evidence the Olmecs, the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, fermented the sweet pulp surrounding the cacao beans into an alcoholic beverage.[9][10]
Chocolate was extremely important to several Mesoamerican societies,[11] and cacao was considered a gift from the gods by the Mayans and the Aztecs.[12][13]
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
"Obese children grow faster, so they tend to be taller than their healthy-weight peers. "
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- Comment on Ni! 4 weeks ago:
…and your father smelt of elderberries!
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 4 weeks ago:
While the image is “Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station”, he sure looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
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- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 5 weeks ago:
So…
- ABC:
abcnews.com/International/…/story?id=130047630
- Associated Press:
apnews.com/…/canada-shooting-british-columbia-66b…
- CBS:
cbsnews.com/…/at-least-10-people-killed-in-a-scho…
- CNBC:
cnbc.com/…/ten-dead-after-a-shooting-in-canadian-…
- CNN:
cnn.com/…/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-02-11-26
- FOX:
foxnews.com/…/transgender-ex-student-identified-a…
- NBC:
nbcnews.com/…/fatally-shot-british-columbia-schoo…
- PBS:
pbs.org/…/suspect-in-canada-school-shooting-is-id…
- USA Today:
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- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 3 months ago:
'T" is in the first row. A t should be revealed in the second row for that answer.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 3 months ago:
Your pretty polly might cost a pretty penny.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 3 months ago:
A pretty penny.
- Following Doom & Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D Is The Latest Classic FPS To Get A Voxel Transformationwww.timeextension.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Twin Cities-based ICE employee among 16 arrested in sting operation 3 months ago:
In a post-Miranda statement, Back allegedly said he doesn’t know why he didn’t “bail” after “Bella” told him she was 17 and said, “I don’t really know if there is anything to say. It’s all there in the texts,” the complaint said.
yeah, it’s all there in the texts.
- Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock tradingwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 154 comments
- Comment on Global Warming [Photographic Evidence] 4 months ago:
- Comment on Global Warming [Photographic Evidence] 4 months ago:
😏 Not sure the admins will allow those to be posted…
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I would check with your doctor rather than soliciting advice from randos on the Internet.
That said, sleep apnea makes breathing on one’s back difficult.
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- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 5 months ago:
For a publicly traded business, this could greatly benefit the share holder with a more efficient AI CEO to steer the ship.
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- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 5 months ago:
M&Mius Withius Peanutius
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