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fandomhigh2022-07-22 04:33 am
somethingwithturquoise) wrote in fandomhigh2022-07-22 04:33 am
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ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [07/22].
"Morning, everyone!" said Summer, perhaps a bit too cheerfully, but that was starting to be par for the course for her classes these days, wasn't it? She stood at the front of the classroom with several little disposable cups scattered around in front of mysterious unlabeled pitchers of various different beverages. So already, you knew this was going to be...fun.
"I have very recently fallen into a bit of a wealth of beverages that prove that food crimes are not just a thing of the past: there are many of them alive and well and happening today, even outside my own kitchen. A lot of these come from the synthesis of artificial flavors and chemicals that allow food scientist to do things like make a soda taste like grass or bacon or s'mores. Which begs the question: just because you can, does it mean you should?
"Odd pops, however, are indeed thoroughly modern, but, as we learned last week, ancient people could sometimes do some weird stuff to beverages, too. Granted, their reasons typically had a lot more to do with the fact that easy access to clean and uncontaminated water was a rarity and adding things like vinegar to you drink was a good way to kill off bacteria that would make you sick, where there are arguably absolutely no benefits to consuming a ranch-flavored soda, but I digress.
"I thought, since I have all these modern weird sodas from a mysterious benefactor," who she will happily blame for all of this should anyone complain...and she expected at least someone to complain, "I thought we'd do something a little different today. Blind taste tests, on a variety of different different drinks, and the goal is for you to figure out: Ancient Beverage Crime? Or An Abomination from This Day and Age, Happening Right Under Our Very Noses? And we'll just see where that takes us."
"I have very recently fallen into a bit of a wealth of beverages that prove that food crimes are not just a thing of the past: there are many of them alive and well and happening today, even outside my own kitchen. A lot of these come from the synthesis of artificial flavors and chemicals that allow food scientist to do things like make a soda taste like grass or bacon or s'mores. Which begs the question: just because you can, does it mean you should?
"Odd pops, however, are indeed thoroughly modern, but, as we learned last week, ancient people could sometimes do some weird stuff to beverages, too. Granted, their reasons typically had a lot more to do with the fact that easy access to clean and uncontaminated water was a rarity and adding things like vinegar to you drink was a good way to kill off bacteria that would make you sick, where there are arguably absolutely no benefits to consuming a ranch-flavored soda, but I digress.
"I thought, since I have all these modern weird sodas from a mysterious benefactor," who she will happily blame for all of this should anyone complain...and she expected at least someone to complain, "I thought we'd do something a little different today. Blind taste tests, on a variety of different different drinks, and the goal is for you to figure out: Ancient Beverage Crime? Or An Abomination from This Day and Age, Happening Right Under Our Very Noses? And we'll just see where that takes us."
Re: Drink Drinks and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 07/22.
Re: Drink Drinks and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 07/22.
After a pause he picked up another drink to try, which turned out to be the Kumis, this one was a bit harder for him to guess, "this is some kind of milk drink?" he tried.
Re: Drink Drinks and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 07/22.
"Fermented mare's milk, to be specific," she offered. "Popular especially among the nomadic tribes of the ancient Mongolian steppes. The fermentation process is actually very important, actually, because mare's milk apparently contains so much lactose that you will have a very bad time if you drink it straight. Forget about it if you're lactose-intolerant, you could probably die."
Probably not.
But you might wish you did!
Re: Drink Drinks and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 07/22.
Goose was very curious, "I wonder how much I would actually be able to drink of it?" he wondered.
That was not the point to take away from this Goose.
Re: Drink Drinks and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 07/22.
"Well," she decided, "you're welcome to have whatever's leftover after class. I didn't make much, though. I have no doubt you should be able to handle that without a problem."
She'd seen him do much worse to himself.
"I take it you like it?"
Re: Drink Drinks and Discuss! - ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes, 07/22.
“I can definitely take your leftovers and see what happens” Goose grinned as he finished off what remained of the drink, “I do like this quite a lot,” he added.