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Leftstone2 t1_iua8htv wrote

Well nobody knows because no historians wrote down the process when it was invented. That said, it was probably just invented on accident. Some cheese people were storing in a cave got accidentally inoculated and someone tried it and went "huh, this didn't make me sick and tastes pretty good. I'll add some to the rest of the cheese I'm storing too!".

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Flashmasterk t1_iuakqqj wrote

I feel like 99% of food came about by something random happening and then someone daring someone else to try it.

"Ewww, the cheese got all moldy! I give you 3 drachma to try it"

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Rhuckus24 t1_iud49jy wrote

Like surstromming. How hungry, and how determined do you have to be to eat that shark that as a society you figure out the many steps needed to render it edible?

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Shishliker t1_iud5e7o wrote

It's just fermented herring, you take the fish, add salt and leave it be.

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Flashmasterk t1_iue0m70 wrote

Had some this summer. Not bad with pickles and onions

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Flashmasterk t1_iue0khn wrote

I think that's harkarl. Sustromming is herring I believe

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