Butter was discovered by accident when humans were still nomadic tribes. Milk was transported in animal skin bags and the agitation from travel turned it into butter. Probably being chased by something or running very fast.

For every person that managed to make maple syrup there must be several that made a stew from danger-mushrooms.

I think there's a lot of "dare you to eat that" in food history.

blue cheese was discovered from a guy eating lunch in a cave, and leaving it unfinished to go talk to a pretty girl. when he came back months later the cheese had molded into blue cheese and he ate it and it was good

Who though to stab a tree and collect the juice? I want that mf knighted

Yogurt is also very interesting, as its bacteria originates from ants. Who would think "hmm ants have infested my milk container but hey let me taste what they did to milk anyways"

The first one would have been obvious by the time Europeans reached the Americas because reducing things to increase the intensity of flavours by removing water would have been a known cooking technique for a long time by then (and I'm guessing would have been figured out soon after the invention of pots). Then, it would have been a matter of someone who was aware of that technique tasting raw sap, realizing it was sweet, then trying to extract the sugar through reduction, then discovering it's still pretty good as a syrup rather than dry sugar.

And extracting sap from trees goes way back, as that's what frankincense and myr were (and disappointing to find out these "precious substances" just smell like church).

Just wanna mention, you don’t need to boil maple sap for anywhere near that long to make syrup. It can be done in an afternoon unless you’re trying to make gallons.

Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked... without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

From the 1888 A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Unfortunately the rest of it is pretty trash.

It is true and this is a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich?wprov=sfla1

Well now I have a delicacy called the toast sandwich.

Delicacy is maybe not the word I'd use, but it certainly exists

That actually sounds kind’a dynamite.

Sweden: hold my sandwich cake!

Smörgås tårta.

I've not heard of anyone else making such a thing, but not surprised it does exist. However, I can 1-up that with my childhood creation - the triple fold sandwich. One slice of buttered bread, one slice of buttered toast & one slice of butter fried bread. Fold each one in half, overlapping half of the adjacent piece. You get a mix of three different bready textures & flavours in each bite. I haven't made it in a few decades so I may not enjoy it so much now, but it was good at the time!

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As a Brit I’ve never heard of such a thing. Sounds awful like putting a pie on a muffin (bread roll, barm cake) 🤮

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5gv0ZjVAtA

It's actually an ok snack. I made one after seeing it mentioned i line a while back. The combination of textures is nice.

Enter, Zwieback.

You don't have to specify that the house burnt down, they usually don't burn up.

And then you have those people who cut the crust off bread.

Like a mouthful of worn pantyhose that has done an office shift and then inhale through the nose

How'd you find my diary?

Get a load of this guy who has beehives in entire groves of chestnut trees.

those store bought bricks look and taste like dirt

Even without comparing them to anything, it's an accurate description.

I also often call it that (I'm Polish-British)

Yeah, what we call "bread" in the US is "toast bread" in Germany. I've heard stories of Germans going to US supermarkets and wondering where the real crusty bread is.

Yeah it does look a bit thin

It's remarkable how England and English colonies have a whole variety of thick slabs of batter that they consider ’food’.

You're gonna lose your mind when you find out about the original Chips Ahoy!™ in the blue package.

Accents like that and the shit cropping are becoming the sort of artifacts that authenticate a human touch. Like using dogs to weed out Terminators.

We should all love Maillard and the wonderful culinary reaction he invented! Can you imagine trying to enjoy food before we created caramelization? That had to be just awful, it’s no wonder they just ate everything raw.

I’ll allow it.

My friends and I performed this for our high school talent show. We didn't have a toaster for the drums though.

It does kills fold.