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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh, the ants are an ingredient. I was hoping to learn they had somehow trained ants to manufacture yogurt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk"

Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants

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Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do they have to be Greek ants?

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Aunt is Thea in Greek

Theía (Θεία) is “aunt”

Theá (Θεά) is “goddess”

So obviously yoghurt comes from goddesses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like that apparently we did this before we knew how it worked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

we did most kinds of fermentations before we knew how they worked

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would alien ants work? I know there used to be farms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fortunately, Ender and Bean handled that for us.

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Spoons for yogurt!

Forks? Turn em into a Mohawk

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Long time operating. Not often recognized.

Has many sub-sets. For example, LeafCutter-AntOS incorporates fungi to cultivate garnered plant matter into fuel for their whole system.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt.

Today, most yogurts are produced by fermenting milk using commercially made starters. However, the industrialisation of the process has meant that countless traditional fermentation practices from around the world are overlooked.

The rest is paywalled.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Will there be fruit on the bottom? Or did the ants eat all the fruit?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

The ants are the fruit. They're nature's raisins!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that’s gonna be a ‘no’ from me, dog.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a little upset no one told me ants were making the yogart this whole time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They say knowing about the food you're going to eat makes it more delicious... is yogurt more delicious for you after knowing this information?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The world is full of magic

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i'm hungry now. where ant yogurt

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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Shelve it with that animal shit coffee

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Are we putting it on the castoreum shelf or the one with the big lump of ambergris?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure my imagination is worse than reality, but I'm afraid to read the article and find out.

I assume it's either ant vomit, feces, or something that's fermented... Possibly all three.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It’s not that bad. A traditional yogurt-making practice is to put a couple ants into some milk. The microorganisms and enzymes that the ants introduce helps kick off the fermentation of the milk, turning it into yogurt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think I might be the only one in this thread that doesn't totally hate this idea. Lol. But I also don't really have a problem with the idea of eating ants in general. They taste of vinegar, and are overall a bit tasty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do citronella ants have a different note?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's no worse than how hotdogs are made. Fewer assholes, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I dunno, ants can be real bastards

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

So do they like… float? in the milk? 🤢

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