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 Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:01 Post subject: Did you ever wonder?
How did people come up with some of the stuff we eat and drink? Like coffee for instance. Was some one sitting around way back when and say, hmmm this bean is nasty, but you know I think if we cook it, then grind it, we can steep it in hot water and drink it... 
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:03 Post subject:
I often thought about this about beer.
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:08 Post subject:
I was just reading about that very thing in a book on winemaking that I bought recently. Did someone try to store some grapes in a tightly packed basket? instead of the grapes growing rotten, the natural yeast in the grapeskins fermented the fruit. and they ate them anyway.....
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:12 Post subject:
Yes, I wondered.
I wondered what mealtime was like before fire was discovered and used to cook food.
And I wondered: who wrote the Book of Love?
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:14 Post subject:
| msparks wrote: | | And I wondered: who wrote the Book of Love? |
Hugh Hefner
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:24 Post subject:
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:26 Post subject:
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:28 Post subject:
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:30 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | I often thought about this about beer. |
It is thought that the predecessor to beer was a porige like dish that stay out a little too long in the dessert and turned sour and fermented. Upon eating this peoples spirts seemed to lift. the hops were added a long time after that to help preserve the beer. 
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:35 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | I often thought about this about beer. |
It is thought that the predecessor to beer was a porige like dish that stay out a little too long in the dessert and turned sour and fermented. Upon eating this peoples spirts seemed to lift. the hops were added a long time after that to help preserve the beer. |
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:49 Post subject:
And then someone left his bowl of cheer outside and it became cool (but not cold.) He drank it. He knew he'd hit upon another advancement in the art. And then, the icebox!
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:54 Post subject:
How about Botox?
How did someone think of that?
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 10:57 Post subject:
The taco  to whomever thought of that one.
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 11:28 Post subject:
Deep-fried Twinkies and the dreaded pickle on a stick. 
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Posted: 02/03/04 - 11:34 Post subject:
I think stuff like blood pudding and haggis came from the need to use every part of the animal. So much more appetizing than just slapping an intestine on the table, no? 
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