• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    When they say wine they don’t mean what you’re thinking. When they say bread they definitely don’t mean what you’re thinking and I’d hate to think what the cheese was like.

    People really don’t have a grasp of how much effort goes into modern food production to make it the quality that it is.

    It’s fairly obvious when you think about it, there’s a lot of documented evidence of people living on ships surviving almost entirely on beer. If that was modern beer they’d all be incapable of operating the ship after about 2 days, dead shortly after from alcohol poisoning, clearly that didn’t happen.

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      4 months ago

      Ive known alcoholics that drank 12-24 packs daily and still were perfectly functional. This is 4-5% abv beer, and they did all of the normal activities you would expect. If you didnt know they had a disease/addiction, you likely would never have noticed how much they had to drink that day. They easily consumed 2-3000 calories/day just from beer.

      Human tolerance for alcohol is way, more adaptable than youre implying.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t know about the wine or cheese but I have to disagree with you on the bread thing.

      There are people that make multigrain, wholegrain, sourdough, etc bread based on medieval recipes and while they’re not wonderbread they’re also not unrecognizable as bread to a modern person and they’re not terrible either. There are even people who buy the grains and stone grind it themselves to make it more authentic.