#Bread History

[cipriannicolaepopa]

Genetics and Your Love for Bread

Have you ever wondered why it’s so difficult to cut back on carbohydrates in your diet? Why do bread and pasta seem so irresistible? The answer might lie deep in our genes and the history of human evolution, which began more than 800,000 years ago. Recent studies suggest that our ability to digest starch, a key component of carbohydrate-rich foods like bread, emerged long before modern…

[fanciedfacts]

Revolution in the Kitchen: The Story of Sliced Bread

[thingsorganizedneatly]

Did you know that there is a Toaster Museum????

[glammora]

Just thinking about bread (rice and maize too) and it's historical importance, it's role as a benchmark for the formation of societies. Then using bread as a metaphor and cultural unifier from the last supper, industrial bread factories, anti-carb and bread diet culture, the "omg I love pizza/bread/carbs lol yaay" (and its memification), bread being a binder for meals made of multiple elements, the sandwich throughout history and the feminisation and association with laziness, lower class, and idiocy. Bread was made for the first time 9100 year ago!!

[uncanny-tranny]

I recently had to do a project in one of my psych classes, and man, I knew that CBT was used for every little thing, but seeing over and over, "do CBT! CBT is the best for every mental illness!" was so jarring. I'm absolutely biased because of my own experiences, but I just don't think it's as universal a treatment model as it's touted.

If you didn't benefit from CBT, it's not because you're lazy or didn't try hard enough or lacked intelligence or foresight into your own needs. Frankly, it's a therapy model that (I think) shouldn't be the only readily-accessible model and among the only therapy models covered by insurance. Some of us should not be treated in a CBT model and that's okay. It's not a sign of poor character or unreasonable demands, and if you don't think it's a model that works for you, then it's your right to express that!

[yesterdaysprint]

Lewiston Evening Journal, Maine, January 16, 1917

[spineless-lobster]

HAPPY ROMAN BREAD DAY Y’ALL!!!!!!!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i.. i hAVE stand mixer

wh y the fuck did i decide to do the full fifteen mminute knead by hand?????

[shaimaafekry]

Beautiful morning 🌞

Cairo, Egypt 🌻🌿

[marzipanandminutiae]

explaining modern brand names to a Victorian

me: so just like. a word, usually.

Victorian: a word related to the product, or-

me: no just a random word

Victorian: huh. because I'd have thought

me: yeah

Victorian: a word related to the product's alleged best qualities

me: no no it's just any word really. the founder might have some reason behind it, but it only makes sense to them most of the time

Victorian: interesting

me:

Victorian:

Victorian: but definitely misspelled right

me: oh EXTREMELY misspelled

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

November 17th is National Homemade Bread Day, a day dedicated to baking bread at home. Well, since we have a large bread advertisement, we thought this cut would suffice!

For today, Jared letterpress printed a large electrotype of an advertisement for the Old Home Bread Company. This cut is from 1936, based on the print, and it is one of the largest cuts we have in our print shop exhibit. This was likely used to print a double sided sign for grocery stores. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press, which was made in 1852.

[cipriannicolaepopa]

The World's Oldest Leavened Bread Discovered

Perhaps the most significant beginning-of-the-year revelation is the shattering of the myth that the first bread was leavened in Egypt. Researchers at Necmettin Erbakan University (Konya, Turkey) have unearthed an 8,600-year-old “bread.” The discovery was made near a structure identified as an oven at the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük. The spongy residues, evaluated as leavened bread,…

[reality-detective]

Remember back when bread had 3 ingredients and no one was allergic to it? 🤔

[bethanydelleman]

I have this wild idea for a story that one day I will write in full. There is this magical mansion that randomly transports people from the past to the present, it's located in England and only transports people on UK soil (for ease of the history). People thought it was haunted because random people would be screaming in Old English or Pictish and then disappear. Some people are there for minutes, some get stuck permanently.

This girl wanders in and realizes that she can send people back, usually by serving them food from their era and talking about their lives. So she now has a government job as a food historian/time travel expert and she tries to send everyone back. Those who are stuck contribute to historical research. She bakes authentic period breads and makes old recipes she learns from travellers.

One traveller has been there forever, he's a queer (it's taken a while for him to accept this) knight from the 14th century. He constantly fights with the food historian because he thinks that Wonder Bread is the pinnacle of human achievement. He eats it for every meal. He's a huge influencer online (people get him to try modern stuff) and he's sponsored by Wonder Bread. He thinks that this modern sourdough nonsense is setting food back 100 years. He is terrified of finally being transported back because he'll never get cake-like white bread again.

And then the food historian falls in love with a new traveller, maybe it will be a tragic love story, but mostly I think about the sassy bread battles.

[redditreceipts]

Random thought but have you ever noticed that breadtube is...misogynistic? Idk, as someone who used to watch a lot of breadtube (still a leftist, but as I've learned more about leftist politics and movements I find that breadtube often lacks substance - just seems like a lot of rambling without critical thinking/analysis).

Like, I can't help but notice that the lot of them shy away from topics around sex based oppression, male/female socialization, sexploitation etc (and if they're not ignoring it, they're saying that none of it is real and that those are just conservative talking points).

Idk. I just feel like a lot of people would rather watch transwomen talk about how important feminist works are actually bigoted to justify violent, misogynistic feelings toward radical feminists who discuss these things. It feels like they want to intellectualize misogyny and uphold a strawman of radical feminism so that they can validate telling women to shut the fuck up about our oppression. Am I making sense?

yes, you're totally making sense, and I decided to look into that. so I made an Excel list with the most prominent Bread Tubers, the number of their subscribers, their biological sexes and their gender identities:

if you just look at gender identity, the subscribers seem to be quite evenly distributed between men, women and non-binary people:

looks kinda fair, right?

but if we look into biological sex...

it's suddenly clear that biological males gather about 77 percent of the total subscribers, while biological females gather only about 24 percent.

doesn't seem that fair anymore, right?

but it gets even worse when you take into account the male's gender identities...

there are more subscribers to biological males with female or non-binary gender identities than subscribers to biological females???

I guess there is your answer on why bread tube does not cover issues of sexism and sex-based oppression.

...and that is why an analysis based on biological sex is important and trying to erase it will let us believe that we are closer to equality between the sexes than we actually are

[queerprayers]

i want to say first of all that i fully respect a community's/denomination's/culture's right to have closed practices. i am not entitled to other people's traditions, and when i am a guest in a space i understand that everything is not automatically for me. and i know i do not have to understand to respect.

and also! when i go to a catholic church and can't receive communion i want to fall on the floor weeping. what do you mean i can't have him he's right there. sorry my baptism was the wrong kind of baptism. i'm hungry and you want me to become someone else before being fed.