Spyke
lemmy.world

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.

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200okreply
lemmy.world

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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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slrpnk.net

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.

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Shelve it with that animal shit coffee

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

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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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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.ml

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

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Aunt is Thea in Greek

Theía (Θεία) is “aunt”

Theá (Θεά) is “goddess”

So obviously yoghurt comes from goddesses.

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lemm.ee

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

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programming.dev

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?

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

Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants

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

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