Bread

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It's driving me crazy thinking about the origins of bread. Did some ancient guy accidentally whip up a loaf one day? I wonder how many years it took to perfect the bread making process with the right ingredients.
It's not just bread, all kinds of foods. Who was the first person to think "I'm going to boil this egg". How did people come up with all these foods and methods? By accident? Trial and error?

I'm hungry but I can't even make a sandwich without researching ten different things that don't have answers.

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  • CozmoWank
    5 years ago

    Basically, one morning a caveman woke up and said, "Ya know, I'm really in the mood for some scones.".

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  • LornaMae
    5 years ago

    OH!!!!! This totally drives me crazy!!! About everything! I always wonder "how the fuck did they figure this out???" for any food ingredients combination. And all the damn technology we use!!!

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  • kelili
    5 years ago

    I see what you mean. I get those thoughts sometimes and I just google it and read from ten different sites until I'm satisfied.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I feel like Google's results have been insubstantial recently.

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      • leggs91200
        5 years ago

        You can thank big corporations for that one.
        They do their best to skew everything so their stu[id company comes up with every result.

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  • JD777
    5 years ago

    Like the invention of beer. "Crap. How did all this water get in the barley container, it's rotted!"......."What a minute"

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  • Boojum
    5 years ago

    I'm sure people have done PhD history dissertations on these topics.

    I imagine most traditional foodstuffs were discovered by accident - someone made a mistake with the way things had always been done or there was some mishap, and the result was better than what they'd had before.

    At a wild guess, some ancient woman was grinding up primitive grain seeds (crushing is a pretty obvious thing to do with something as inedible as seeds), there was a rainstorm, the coarse flour turned into mush, and she decided to dry it out on a hot stone next to the fire. And so primitive flatbread was discovered. All the other refinements like kneading to develop the gluten, and the use of wild yeast as leavening could have just as easily been discovered by accident and refined by trial and error over many years.

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  • leggs91200
    5 years ago

    There is a good chance you are stoned. Typically these types of thoughts come up when someone has smoked a joint.

    Bread was invented because if it had NOT been, then those bread lines would not have existed. Plus, butter was invented first but they didn;t know what to put the butter on so someone said, "I know, I will invent bread!" It took several tries but eventually he got it right. It was a wonder he did, which is why the brand "Wonder" exists.

    The first person to try to boil an egg - It was a female. Her name was DeQuisha Fatlips Jackson. She weighed 375 pounds, was 5'2", and got hungry one night but was out of government cheese. Well, she dropped an egg in boiling water by accident and well, there you have it.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I haven't been stoned all week maybe that will help.

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  • McBean
    5 years ago

    Bread making got going sometime between 14,000 and 11,000 years ago. More info on Wikipedia. Here's a link. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bread

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  • BlindSpot
    5 years ago

    Yeah like the discovery of Penicillin, all by experimentation

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    • LornaMae
      5 years ago

      My dad was the first person ever to have been saved by penicillin in his very small hometown. Only reason I'm here! :D

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