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I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces
by elil17 5y ago
I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!
- dclowd9901 5y agoI had this same exact thought the last time i was making bagels. What an absolute miracle it is! And whoever came up with using it to fluff and soften bread through some natural symbiotic reliance of raw nature is just such an incredible step it seems utterly designed from above. Yes, I’m saying maybe a god exists and loves us because they gave us bread.
- TimTheTinker 5y agoBenjamin Franklin thought beer was enough proof that there is a God who loves us and wants us to be happy :-)
- flatiron 5y agohttps://www.anchorbrewing.com/blog/say-what-says-who-benjamin-franklin-on-beer-or-not/ https://www.anchorbrewing.com/blog/say-what-says-who-benjami... He never said that.
- luckman212 5y agoNever let the truth get in the way of a good story.
- TimTheTinker 5y agoInteresting, thanks! Looks like he actually said something similar about wine though: We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy! (from a 1779 letter from France to his friend André Morellet)
- kwertyoowiyop 5y ago“Every good quote eventually gets attributed to Lincoln, Wilde, Churchill, or Jobs.” — Benjamin Franklin
- sombremesa 5y agoAlcohol definitely does more good, just consider the uses it has aside from being ingested.
- cyberpunk 5y agoAlso, consider how many flights went smoothly because of alcohol.. I mean, outing myself as British here but (every flight) without a stuff gin or three, that woman in-front of me would have had a stern talking to I can tell you! :}
- quickthrower2 5y agoI wonder if British are more reserved because they’ve evolved to have about a unit or two of alcohol in the blood stream at all times at which point it’s the sweet spot. I jest of course. Also I’m a Brit.
- cyberpunk 5y agoWell, we certainly developed an effective preventative against malaria... And that's before we get to the ballmer peak [0], which I think many of us experienced at one point ;) 0: https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
- PapaSpaceDelta 5y agoI suppose that I have to put this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4 here. Many a true word…
- pfdietz 5y agoYeast are not bacteria. They are eukaryotes.
- dgb23 5y agoI‘m thankful for nerds who make corrections so I can learn some interesting fact.
- victorcharlie 5y agoActually, yeasts are unicellular fungus. I believe that fungus are the most important life-form in this planet by far. Pretty cool, huh? :)
- bckr 5y ago> unicellular fungus Belongs under the Eurkaryote heading, no?
- Trex_Egg 5y agoyes
- HWR_14 5y agoFungi, like plants and animals, are eukaryotes. However, eukaryotes and bacteria occupy the same rung in the taxonomic divisions (they are domains), so it's the more appropriate correction. The third domain is prokaryotes.
- butwhywhyoh 5y agoI'm thankful for oxygen because we can breathe it! And it can be found pretty much everywhere in the atmosphere of planet Earth. And I'm thankful for all the other elements that I'm composed of. They can even be used to do other miraculous things. Wonderful!
- amelius 5y agoNestle is fighting over control of freshwater sources. I reckon oxygen is next. In the future, be thankful with your wallet.
- lisper 5y agoYou don't have to wait. Oxygen bars are already a thing, and have been for quite a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar
- blowski 5y agoFor a moment, I thought it was going to be an empty chocolate bar wrapper. I wonder how much better this actually is.
- pfdietz 5y agoNestle uses 0.003% of humanity's fresh water consumption, so I'm sure you're properly allocating your worry budget there.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI'm thankful for mitochondria which allows us to use the oxygen to perform aerobic respiration, enabling more complex forms of life. It seems they were once bacteria which were somehow absorbed by eukaryote cells and turned into an organelle, an hydro-eletro-chemical power plant. Thanks bacteria!
- amelius 5y agoBe careful with certain anti-bacterial drugs, they might affect your mitochondria.
- SubjectToChange 5y agoYeast is a type of fungus.
- elil17 5y agoTrue lol thank you. Meant to say “microbe”
- HWR_14 5y agoAlcohol let our ancestors survive. Weakly alcoholic beer was far healthier than water because its production likely killed germs in the water.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoI recently read that that’s a myth, unfortunately.
- rags2riches 5y agoBrewing typically involves boiling. That can kill a germ or two, or so I've read. That's true for brewing tea as well.
- bumby 5y agoEdward Slingerland Haha written about a hypothesis that beer was the major reason for inventing agriculture. I don’t know how well received that theory is, but it was an interesting and unique take
- axiolite 5y ago> Alcohol let our ancestors survive. Only true in dense cities and perhaps onboard seafaring vessels. Most of humanity could find unpolluted sources of water. You could also say that, without the crutch that was small beer, humanity might have been motivated to learn and implement water treatment/purification techniques and proper sanitation systems centuries earlier.
- adrian_mrd 5y agoThankful for marmite :)
- cyberpunk 5y agoDamn right. Vegemite isn't even shiny...
- CogitoCogito 5y agoI like this and totally agree! I baked two naturally leavened loaves of bread this morning for thanksgiving and am currently drinking a beer. On a regular day I would eat some form of yogurt as well. It really is an amazing little part of life. :)
- jchook 5y agoAlso yeast is used frequently in medical and biological scientific studies, and helps us learn more about the role of DNA, aging , and certain kinds of cancer.
- chronogram 5y ago> alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)! Alcohol in the medical field is critical in doing good. A lot of harm has been prevented by alcohol.