On: Researchers learn about what they ate in medieval Sicily from cooking pots

[failwhaleshark]

What's a sherd?

And I've never had "beer bread." What does that taste like?

[hprotagonist → failwhaleshark]

- an alternative spelling for shard, which is the normal spelling in the archaeological context. https://www.etymonline.com/word/shard, https://www.etymonline.com/word/potsherd

- “beer bread” is the result of lazy phone keyboard typing. But also, there is such a thing: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6717/beer-bread-i/ , a form of quickbread. The crumb is usually a bit dense but it’s certainly not bad with stew.

- Bread beer, on the other hand, is called kvass. Though very unlikely to have been drunk by medieval Sicilians, it tastes pretty good, especially the kind with raisins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass

[failwhaleshark → hprotagonist]

I'm being Sunday funday silly. :D

I'm down to kvetch some kvass. Sounds groovy. Guinness are basically loaves of bread in liquid form. Beer must've originated in botched breadmaking and some genius drank it just to find out what would happen.

[hprotagonist → failwhaleshark]

current archaeological evidence suggests that bread originated from brewers screwing up the beer, more or less: we have older evidence of (millet) beer than we have of bread.

[JasonFruit → hprotagonist]

For that informative and utterly humorless answer, I believe I love you.

[_0ffh → hprotagonist]

The possibilities are practically endless!

I can't decide if I want to try bread beer bread first, or rather beer bread beer!

Then I suppose I'll move on to beer bread beer bread and bread beer bread beer :D