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This is ridiculous, and untrue at the latest, but to be fair it can be dependent on varieties and geography. There are several varieties of early and late stage
by cik 6y ago
This is ridiculous, and untrue at the latest, but to be fair it can be dependent on varieties and geography. There are several varieties of early and late stage lettuce (butterheard, battavian) and tomatoes (brandwyne, big rainbow). Or... plan your planting. While I don't eat cheeseburgers, one can use the same cow for rennet (or make rennet free cheeses!) and the burger, and said cow can basically be slaughtered on-demand. This, I've done several times - with relatives who were butchers.
For a real challenge I suggest making soy-based tofu at home. Growing the soybeans is the easy part. Natural sources of gypsum for calcium sulhphate - at home, is painful. Then, lemons place a hard climate requirement. Mind you there are probably other ways to do this.
- joefourier 6y agoThinking a cheeseburger would have been impossible to make in the past would be like taking the famous I, Pencil essay to mean that pre-Industrial societies couldn't make any pencils at all, rather than that industrialisation allows disparate people to coordinate together to make complex products for incredibly cheap. In the same way, a cheeseburger would have been certainly possible to make for any pre-Industrial European of moderate means - at its heart it's just ground meat and a slice of cheese between two fluffy buns, with a variety of optional condiments. The marvel of industrial civilisation is that you can get a cheeseburger anywhere, anytime, for an absurdly low price. In fact, if you discount the tomato, a delicious cheese-burger would have been completely possible to make as early as Ancient Rome, see this excellent Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b4zdd5/would_it_have_been_possible_for_a_roman_citizen https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b4zdd5/would...