Yeah, bread is cooked with yeast, which is the stuff that makes it rise.
Yeast is actually a unicellular fungus. So, it's alive.
At least before we cook it.
I'm just glad it's asexual, so there isn't anything mating on my sandwich.
You know, there have to be so many foods that are divinely inspired or given to us by God himself, because that's just one of those things I know people would not come up with.
No person would ever look at a FUNGUS FROM THE OCEAN and a big grassy looking plant and think, "Hmm, maybe if I grind those all into powder with water and bake it, it'll be yummy!"
It's like that Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin is ranting and says, "Who was the guy who first looked at a cow's udder and said, 'I think I'll squeeze these and drink whatever comes out!"
Bill Watterson is a genius.
Anyways, it really disturbs me what is considered edible by the human digestive system.
Baked Fungus Wheat (aka bread, forevermore known as BFW), cottage and bleu cheese, tootsie rolls (which I recently discovered are about 50% wax) and BEANS!!! Ohhhh, I hate beans.
I don't understand how people eat the crazy stuff we do, and then we're afraid of germs and spiders and bird dookie. I just read an article that told me that there is a kind of coffee called Kopi Luwak which is made from cat poo or something like that.
But I am so hesitant to stick my hand in mud or grab a rusty pipe.
It's just a weird little contradiction of ours.
P.S. - I honestly would not drink the cat poo coffee.
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Kopi Luwak is also the most expensive coffee in the world, according to the movie "The Bucket List."
I love me some BFW, though.
my brother told me there's also a large percentage of animal droppings in peanut butter. And bugs too.
It makes me never want to eat again.
Well then there's honey... Bee spit and flower juice. That's my favorite.
Ha, there's actually an amazing children's book I read years ago called "It's Gross... And We Ate It" and it's about all the bizarre cultural foods, weird stuff we eat without thinking about it, and a lot of the world's older food superstitions (like how people used to think that tomatoes were poisonous). You make a really good point out of that though. For the most part all of our processed foods are things that don't take too much effort to figure out. Bread would have taken a lot of effort to figure out if there had not been some sort of divine inspiration. However, it makes a lot of sense why people would eat beans. Besides, you need to just calm down about that one. You know just as well as I do that red bean ice cream is the bomb.
i thought it promising.
Like the picture of what America will be the day I have to move to a foreign country.
I'm not saying it'll go there though. That will be a sad day.
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