Milk from Cows?

[Dog Moon]

Yeah, that's definitely true. There's even a Bread.com. If figure if there's an item you want to know about, the first thing to do is go to ITEM.com. Half the time that works. The other half, you Google ITEM and you can find tons of sites of the Item no matter what it is.

 

[reveal]

Yeah, that's definitely true. There's even a Bread.com. If figure if there's an item you want to know about, the first thing to do is go to ITEM.com. Half the time that works. The other half, you Google ITEM and you can find tons of sites of the Item no matter what it is.

A google of "history of bread" found the breadinfo.com site.

 

[Ranger REG]

They don't need to, thanks to that wonderful invention called "thought". Humans know human babies drink milk, and grow up to be strong and healthy. Humans know that calves and colts and goatlings drink milk, and grow up to be big and strong. The analogy is pretty darned clear, there. Why does it seem at all strange that humans would then try the milk of other species?

Society demands we don't breastfeed folks older than 3 years.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Ranger REG
Society demands we don't breastfeed folks older than 3 years.

Does the mother even produce enough milk to feed a child much older than that anyway?

 

[Umbran]

Society demands we don't breastfeed folks older than 3 years.

Modern society, yes. But aside from the fact that we aren't talking about modern social mores, we're also talking about a society with much less wealth, and a greater need to exploit every source of nutrition it can. That social taboo seems like a weak impediment to experimenting with and developing a new food source.

 

[Umbran]

What confuses the hell out of me is bread.

Once you know how to make it, it's not so hard. But I can't help but imagine that bread was the most difficult food item to invent. You take wheat, ground it up into flour, and it ain't so tasty by itself. You set it on fire and get nothing. You bake it and get crisp flour. You mix it with eggs and fat, and you end up with a weird sludge that's maybe palateable. You bake that sludge, and you get a cracker. And people like crackers.

It is a bit simpler than that, RangerWickett. Most breads don't have any eggs in them. They get their structural integrity from wheat gluten, not from egg protein.

So, you have grain. You boil it, to make porridge. Someone figures out that if you crush the grain, you get better porridge. You are now on your way to flour. Simple flatbreads are nothing more than flour and water. Yeast can comes in later, in the same way it comes to early beer. Maybe it comes directly from early beer, even....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Henry
Let's not get into the McDonald's Coffee story, please -- there are a lot of misconceptions running around for that story, and plenty of arguments buried in it.

I gotta ask who brought it up and why...I didn't see it when I read through this thread and can't fathom why someone would think it relevant.

For the record, I once met the attorney who handled the burned woman's case. While we were talking shop, she mentioned that McDonalds turned down repeated offers to settle.

They made their burning hot waterbed, and had to sleep in it.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Milk is also essential for completing the phrase, "____ and cookies."

...of Legacy.

Imagine the milk for a Paragon Cow of Legacy!

 

[Dog Moon]

Though I don't have all the facts of that case, I see no reason why they should have settled [We'll ignore the outcome]. I don't think I would have. If you order coffee, you better expect it to be hot. But oh well, a part of me is sorry I ever brought this subject up.

So how much milk could a Paragon Cow of Legacy produce in a single day?

And how much beef could that Cow produce by killing it?


Mmmmm, beef. And steak. And ribs. And hamburger. Crap, now I'm hungry.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Go back to Henry's post (#23 in this thread)- there's a link that will tell you why. Basically, it boils down to a combination of hundreds of documented cases of severe burns caused by hotter than normal coffee (180+ deg. F as opposed to about 130 deg. F)...that McDonalds had settled before for between $10k-50k, an industry standard of generally not serving food hotter than 150 deg. F, and other factors.

In the eyes of the law, that's a pattern of releasing a defective product.