cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52901772
Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat...
Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.
You can make bread with rice flour too if that's your thing.
Rice needs very wet and fairly warm conditions to grow whereas wheat is a cool weather crop and doesn't need as much water
Wait until you learn about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make cocoa or coffee beans into something palatable, especially compared to hot leaf juice tea.
The stupid level of processing is...boiling it? Same as rice, people only discover processing it a bit later.
Wheat doesn't need to be grown in a marsh.
A person probably made some fermented wheat beverage on accident and thought its worth repeating.
Beer. It was always beer.
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!"
Because if you let it sprout a bit, then roast it, then boil it, then let it sit...
Well you get beer.
Meanwhile the Inca: 🥔
Plus rice also needs to be polished, which is a not insignificant amount of processing.
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.
Wheat is not that difficult to process.
"be wheat" yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat
buncha posers
The communal sponge was a feature, not a bug 😂
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
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