• KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Also corn, anything from cows or chickens, distilled alcohol, coffee, tea, any sort of pepper, bread...

        • lvysaur [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Cheese is MENA/maybe Indian
          Bread is also MENA

          turnips and wild fish only. And wisent I guess

        • kristina [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          cheese is just spoiled milk basically theres no way it wasnt independently discovered. some say earliest examples are in poland, china, really just all over the place

          • lvysaur [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            cows were only domesticated in the Mideast and India.

            Dairy is non-european.

              • lvysaur [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                goats and sheep were also domesticated in the mideast

                but sure I guess we can pretend that some paleoeuropean milked a wooly rhino or something once

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              4 years ago

              im gonna go out on a limb here, but given the degree to which lactose is tolerated in germanic regions, i'd say europe has had a hold of milk for 10k+ years. i know evidence shows that southwest asia had goats first, but the genetic evidence implies european ancestors were exposed to milk for quite some time, which implies some rudimentary form of cheese making as a byproduct

              aight im done nerding

              • lvysaur [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                but the genetic evidence implies european ancestors were exposed to milk for quite some time, which implies some rudimentary form of cheese making as a byproduct

                It's exactly the opposite. Cheesemaking bypasses the lactose because lactose is water soluble. Even moreso if aged cheese.

                Yamnaya (basically the "Aryans" that are worshipped so much) had a 0% frequency of the lactose tolerance gene, despite being buried with loads of cattle: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l1YmSXd7yQA/VhlDdgADsfI/AAAAAAAAAx0/081XEAvT0PQ/s1600/pigmentation%2BMathieson.jpg

                Keep in mind that these Yamnaya Aryans were half Middle Eastern by DNA.

                but given the degree to which lactose is tolerated in germanic regions

                Also irrelevant, lactose is tolerated just as much or moreso in Gulf Arabs, Northwest India, and Sahelian Africa.

                • kristina [she/her]
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                  4 years ago

                  neat. is it really? i thought the population in northern europe was 80-90%, whereas those areas were around 40-50%

                  • lvysaur [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Nope. That's a combination of eurocentric sampling and white wewuzzery.

                    The high lactose tolerant areas are northwest/central Europe, northwest India/Pakistan, Arabia, Mauritania, Fulani areas, Tutsi areas, several Somali/Ethiopian areas.

                    The intermediate areas are Southern India, eastern Europe. Slavs in particular are around 50%, Greeks are majority intolerant (80%).

        • volkvulture [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          cheese was invented somewhere between Europe and the Middle East, though China does have limited cheese-making culture that dates back thousands of years it's not as old as what's been found in Europe and Egypt and elsewhere

          https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11698