We always assume ancient people were hard-up for food all the time.
And yes, it took them longer than it takes us to get snacks, especially with preparation and gathering. And they were highly susceptible to weather conditions and fires and vegetable blights.
But like...they probably wouldn't have decided to raise families where they did if those places were nutrient-poor.
I'm not saying they had a lot of fat people. But they certainly had SOME. Because don't try to tell me they didn't have ready snacks at hand. We love snacks. Especially when we're drunking. And evidence indicates beer was invented like the day after bread.
They died at 45 because they had no sophisticated way to deal with cavities and breech births and rocks falling on your knee and viruses they didn't understand. Not because they didn't have roasted nuts and dried fish and congealed pork fat mixed with blueberries when they wanted it.
We think "society" has made us lazy over-eaters. Sure, it provides ample opportunity to do that. But the point is, we WANT to do that. That's a basic drive, that seemingly all animals have. That's just doing little and stuffing your face. We do it, dogs do it, birds do it, T-Rexes did it.
Who doesn't want to sit around and eat all day? And no doubt any group of humans, or animals, is going to have members that accel at figuring out how to do that. And if populations are low and the biosphere is abundant, it can happen.
I just hate this idea that people 30,000 years ago were supposedly too stupid to figure out how to gather mounds of food and stuff their faces with it. If rats and monkeys can, and do!, do it, we did too.
RP Memes from a “Stupidest Thing You’ve Ever Heard” Reddit Thread
“Can you email me back the PDF I emailed you? It’s my only copy.”
“It says carbonated because they removed the carbs"
“How can Hawaii and Alaska have such different temperatures when they are right next to each other on the map?”
"If earth is spinning then why my front door is always facing east?"
"Blueberry muffins you buy premade don't have any blueberries in them. Blueberries cost too much. They dye bees blue because they have the same texture and use them."
"I don't know how you can stand to fly when there's a 50 percent chance the plane will crash. You know, because either it crashes or it doesn't. 50/50."
"I don't have an e-mail, I have a gmail"
“How do we know it wasn’t just ostriches on the radar that triggered Pearl Harbor?”
"Fish aren't animals, they're mammals."
“Once had someone try to sell me the theory that the moon is a hologram made by the government to trick people.”
"Women have 6 ovaries"
“Got into an argument with a guy that thought limes were unripe lemons.”
"A guide dogs job is to drive the car for the blind person".
“Back during the mosque shooting in New Zealand and the government there were trying to ban guns, my coworker said that they can't do that since it violates the (American) second amendment.”
“I thought Lewis and Clark lived in the 1970s.”
“I once had a coworker who believed with all sincerity that twins could only be conceived through anal sex.”
"Women can control their periods."
"You have to understand, I'm not a vibrational match for car accidents, so we'll be safer if I drive."
“A professor in college refused to give back our tests because "you should know what you did wrong"
“My best friends sister once spent an hour trying to convince me that marshmallows grew on trees.”
“Women pee out of the same hole babies come out of.”
“Water has memory”
“Old roommate said that when the weather app says 50% rain then that meant half of all the rain in the sky is going to fall. Same for all percentages. 80%, meant 80% of all the rain possible would fall, 100% rain? Yup, every single last drop of rain is coming down today.”
“"Of course a pound of feathers is lighter than a pound of quarters, duh"
“They wished they could go back to the 1800’s to see what it was like in black & white”
“Root canals cause breast cancer.”
"If we evolved from monkeys, why is it when we see a sonogram, we see a person and not a monkey?"
“Is there anything we can do to increase the speed of light?”
"I thought Greece was a myth like Hercules"
“The real reason you can drown by falling asleep in a kiddie pool is because you soak up too much water.”
"I didn't know peanut butter was made from peanuts."
"Australia doesn't exist"
"Has no one ever taught you? The woman's brain tells her body if it wants to have a baby or not."
“If I don’t finish all my eggs within two weeks I throw them out. I don’t want the light in the fridge to make them hatch.”
“Ok, let’s all just get this straight: north does not equal up.”
"I hate croutons. They taste like dried bread."
“If you as a guy wear gold ,you will turn gay.”
“Some broad I know, fully and truly believed, that Mt Rushmore was a natural formation.”
“I have street smarts because I’m good at remembering street names.”
“I have a friend that believed women didn't poop.”
"See women don't poop because it helps them attract a mate. They are more attractive to men if they don't poop."
"If you're having trouble learning Spanish, just hire a Chinese guy to teach you."
“My computer keeps telling me it can’t see the printer even after I put it in front of the monitor.”
“Africa isn't a city, it's a country.”
“Do Jewish people celebrate Thanksgiving?”
“Migrating butterflies are a problem because they create hurricanes with the movement of their wings”
“When the sun turns around it turns into the moon”
““Do women close their vaginas when they are in the ocean? Water is drawn into the body and you can explode.”
“Touching your own period blood is just asking to get HIV.”
“Someone I knew once asked me if cats laid eggs.”
"I just love pitbulls sooo much! My dream is to get a blue nose pit and a red nose pit to have babies! They'd have purple noses!!"
“You can’t put two dryer sheets in the dryer at the same time because they’ll cancel each other out”
"What the difference between a mocha and an iced mocha?"
“Clockwise and counterclockwise change depending on where the clock is.”
"You only get an STI if you don't wash your dick after sex"
"The moon isn't real."
“Birth Control pills can be taken rectally too”
“Dictionary isn’t an accurate source for finding definitions.”
“Japan is the capital of Australia”
"Science is just some supposed experts' opinions and like why do their opinions matter more than mine? That's why I refuse to accept Science as facts"
"Norweigan" is a word I made up to trick her, because there's no country called Norwegia.”
“I started taking my birth control every other day to save money”
"what's beef? Oh what? Thats cow? That's not a different type of meat?"
“Panama? That’s in Europe right?”
“Panda Express is where they save Pandas”
“Lemonade is made from limes”
“Are chapped lips contagious?”
“Did your grandfather have any kids?”
"I have 17 bottles of perfume, some people don't even have that many toes"
"Cooking destroys the gluten."
"If the moon was really originally a part of the earth, then when it broke off, it would have decapitated all the dinosaurs."
"Don't keep the window open because you'll let the WiFi out"
This summer, I traveled to Transylvania, on a Birthright-esque tour for young North Americans of Hungarian heritage. Almost everyone I told about the trip made some sort of Dracula joke. I rolled my eyes, knowing the region was much richer than this. But truth be told, I didn’t have too much yet to counter with.
Here’s the history book version: Transylvania, now part of Romania, belonged to Hungary for more than a thousand years. It’s far larger than I had imagined – at around 100,000 square kilometers, the region is bigger than the whole of present-day Hungary itself, which ceded the region to Romania after WWI. There are currently around one million ethnic Hungarians who still live in Transylvania. The community speaks the language and passionately keeps their customs alive, from music to dance to crafts and, of course, food.
And my version? It was easy to fall in love with Transylvania. From the moment I clambered off the small, tinny plane from Budapest at the small regional airport in Marosvásárhely, I was taken by its beauty. Rows and rows of golden sunflowers, framed by the verdant hills and rugged peaks of the Apuseni Mountains rolled by as we headed for our bed and breakfast. We spent a week learning about the Hungarian community in Romania, hiking, exploring cavernous salt mines and lakes, taking in medieval frescos and wandering cobblestoned streets.
We also ate well — very well.
Growing up, many of our cherished family recipes were very traditionally Hungarian (with a twist, to make them kosher), and the rich goulash, tender chicken paprikash and juicy stuffed cabbage we ate on the trip were familiar. Truth be told, aside from the dizzying assortment of wild blueberry and rosehip jams, I wasn’t really focused on dessert.
That is, until I tried a pastry called somodi kalácsin a tiny village called Torockó. Lightly sweet and yeasted, with a cinnamon swirl, it’s as if cinnamon-raisin bread and babka had a baby. While every meal served by our grandmotherly hosts left us stuffed, I loved the folded bread so much that our guide got the inn to pack us a honey-glazed loaf to go.
Transylvania was home to a sizable Hungarian-Jewish population. In 1910, according to The Museum of the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania, the Jewish population numbered above 64,000. By World War I, Hungary itself had the second largest Jewish population in Europe at almost one million. By this time YIVO’s Encyclopedia of Eastern European Jews notes Jews were “fervently assimilated” to the language and culture (and, rather sadly, looking back now), “passionately identified with Hungarian nationalism.”
Upon my return home to Los Angeles, I made it my mission to find somodi kalács. I knew that Jewish immigrants to the U.S. and Israel popularized other classic pastries from Hungary, such as chimney cakes and monkey bread (aka aranygaluska), and was hopeful I’d succeed.
While I haven’t (yet) found somodi kalácsin my city, I discovered that it’s available at Zingerman’s Bakehouse, the iconic Jewish bakery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Like me, the Zingerman team tried somodi kalács for the first time in Torockó. The recipe, they found, dates back 400 years, when the village was a flourishing mining town, whose residents could afford the luxury of cinnamon and sugar. It’s typically served for Christmas, Easter and Pentecost, and until the 20th century, Zingerman’s notes, somodi kalács was the customary wedding cake. Theirs is a pretty traditional version. However, like my own great grandmother would do often, they sub the traditional lard for butter when greasing the pans, explained Managing Partner Amy Emberling.
At Zingerman’s, Emberling told me, it’s a beloved special item that they only bake a couple days each year. “Customers order many loaves of it and stock them in their freezer,” she said. And it’s not uncommon for customers to “let us know that they have not seen this since their childhood days in Hungary.”
It’s also not uncommon to see patrons shed happy tears. I may have felt like shedding a couple happy tears myself when she shared their recipe.
there should be a 24/7 dinner right next to my apartment with blue walls and orange lights and no actually 34/7. and there are huevos rancheros. and chilaquiles. and cafe de olla Unlimited Refills and also lemon ricotta blueberry pancakes and also monkey bread. and the waitresses are nice but not in a way that stresses me out and they leave me alone and i go there and i get all my work done every time and then have time after to read for fun because it’s 34 hours in a day and also in this universe i have a pony named helvetica while we’re at it
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A cross between the traditional sticky bun & cinnamon roll. Cinnamon Caramel with Crumb Streusel covered in our homemade vanilla cream! AMAZING! The tradition just can not compare to the heavenly taste of the CinnaMon"Key"!
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A Florida Keys tradition with a Mon"Key" twist! Simply outrageous! Key lime pie can not keep up with our Key lime pie Mon"Key". Our insanely yummy Mon"Key"Buntz created with a touch of everything that makes the traditional pie so great.
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We Mon"Key"ed around with the tropical flavor of island coconuts and created the most incredible & scrumptious YUUUUUM! Layers of coconut & cinnamon caramel, filled with our signature coconut cream! Out of this world!
NannaMon"Key" Monkey Bread
Our delicious take on Grandma's banana bread. This treat for the senses is sublime! Banana bread to the MAX! Finished with slices of real banana.......what more can we say. YUUUUM!
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Blueberry Pie Mon"Key" Bread
We all LOVE a warm, crumble topped blueberry muffin; and of course the home baked yuuumm of the traditional American blueberry pie! Crumb streusel topped, warm and gooey blueberries smothering our cinnamon caramel Mon"Key"! BEYOND AMAZING!
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That's right!!!! Maple & Bacon!!! Tastes like the best french toast and bacon breakfast you have ever eaten! A treat that takes you back to breakfast in mom's kitchen. What a pairing! Bacon & maple syrup baked into the layers of the cinnamon caramel Mon"Key". OH YES......"Weak in the knees good!"
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Love Monkey Bread than might have to try this Blueberry Monkey Bread via Lemon Tree Dwelling
What do you know about World Vegetarian Day (WVPD)?
Just heard about the “World Vegetarian Day.” These things are up to me. Are these declarations made by some international governmental body? My conspiracy-minded friends may be right. There is a New World Order to which all nations must kowtow and this is a glimpse into the future.
I have always been sympathetic to vegetarians. The term was used to indicate that you don’t eat meat. There are now additional terms such as lacto-vegetarian, which refers to people who are vegetarian but still drink milk. If you don’t like peanuts then you might be a peanut-vegetarian. But if you like both peanuts and apples then you would call yourself a peanut-apple-vegetarian. It can get confusing.
The idea of eating less or no flesh seems to be accepted by the world. As a child, I can recall being considered strange in 1950s America. My entire family was considered strange by my neighbors. We didn’t eat white flour bread and we ate lots of vegetables. We were just as healthy, if not more so than our neighbors.
Vegetarianism has one problem: it encourages binging.
Last month, I went back to my neighborhood I had not seen for over 50 years. It brought back many memories such as the time my father brought home large quantities of bananas and kept them in his cellar. Basements were known back then as cellars.
The next two weeks were filled with bananas. I was in monkey heaven, as I ate bananas with every meal. We would have bushels and buckets of blueberries, baskets of strawberries, among other things, in the summer.
When I was 9-10 years old, I can recall picking strawberries with my family. My father and mother worked hard. My sister and brother were less productive, and I probably ate as much as they did. My mother shoved a quart jar in front me when I was sick from the driving down country roads. Although I felt better after filling the jar, my passion for strawberries has never ceased.
parmesan cheese, crisp croutons, caesar salad dressing
Main: American Pasta Salad - Bow-tie pasta, feta cheese, sweet basil, sliced black olives, halved grape tomatoes and it should have creamy balsamic dressing BUT I hate balsamic dressing so no.
Crust = raw pecan, almond flour, cinnamon, coconut oil & a tiny bit of salt. Filling = raw cashew, canned coconut milk but I'd assume lactose free would also work, (I say this because I HATE coconut milk) fresh lemon juice, coconut oil, maple syrup, vanilla extract and a shit ton of strawberries. Sam has joked about being lactose intolerant before and true or not i am and id like to have these meals plus Dairy free options are usually more healthy and that's probably what same would go for. While there is cheese in the first two, it's only a little and we'd be fine but a cheese cake? No way, but I love cheesecake so we're gonna make it safe for us lol
Drink: Fresh apple juice.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dean~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Main: Kansas style Hunter’s chicken -
Starter: Mozzarella sticks - Mozzarella cheese and bread cumbs, no surprises in that. Anyway, in 15×10, Dean finds out he is also lactose intolerant but canon aside, he is DEFINITELY the type to say fuck it and eat anything anyway no matter the cost and mozzarella sticks slap so who cares? Not us. Mozzarella sticks are a classic starter but If you think that they're too light, even though it's a starter and its ment to be light, you could always go for my personal homemade tomato soup - Canned tomatoes, All purpose flour, fresh cream, butter, sugar, salt, pepper and I tend to top it off with basil or parsley. Dean mentions in a flashback that Mary would make tomato soup all the time when he was little so it's why it came to mind.
Chopped radishes with lemon juice drizzled over it and a dash of black pepper, served with bread to eat the left of over sauce with. I recommend tiger bread. I thought this would work for dean cos it's 2 types of meat, it's messy and he feels like the kinda person to hear 'Kansas style' and go nuts for it.
Dessert: Apple cinnamon pie - Filling = Apples, golden caster sugar, cinnamon & flour. Pastry = butter more golden caster sugar, eggs & plain flour. Not much suprise here either. Dean's food needs are simple. I know y'all want me to say cherry pie but the meal I've made would go better with apple as a nice pallet clean. This is accidentally a very American meal but fun fact, Apple pie first originated in England, where it developed from culinary influences from France, the Netherlands, the Ottoman Empire and apple trees weren't even native to America until europeans arrived so idk why y'all decide to take it as if you did something here. Y'all did nothing here, that pie is my blood not yours. 😤 /hj Anyway, all this to say, apple pie will taste better with this and also gives a hint of Men of letters to the meal.
Drink: Cola. Simple man, simple needs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cas~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Starter: PBJ mini parfait - yogurt, crunchy peanut butter, granola & strawberries. The jam is made of frozen mixed berries (like blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, redcurrants, strawberries ect), chia seeds, orange juice & maple syrup. Because cas canonically likes PB&J & i think mini parfait are neat.
Main: American style honey & banana pancakes with vanilla ice cream on the side - Honey for the bee obsession, bananas for the monkey obsession he also has the the same episode but people over look that part. "How important is lipstick to you, Dean?", American style pancakes are fluffy like angel wings lol and vanilla ice cream also reminds me of angels, i cannot elaborate on it, it just does.
Drink: Butterfly pea flower tea latte - cashew milk, blue butterfly pea flower powder, maple syrup, vanilla extract & dried rose petals for garnish. It's a bright blue, sweet, all natural beauty. Makes my heart flutter just looking at it, just like Cas. Lol what a simp. If you don't want to empty your wallet on one drink, you can have cinnamon coffee instead because his coat gives the vibe and Misha said he uses cinnamon sprays all the time and so always smells like cinnamon no matter what hes doing.
Dessert: Angel food cake - Plain flour, caster sugar, eggs, cream of tartar, lemon juice & zest, unsalted butter served with double cream, mango sauce, juiced lime, strawberries & passion fruits cos *place angel joke here*
Drink: Ice cream cola float - Cola + vanilla Ice cream. This was the most childish drink I could come up with, it's very hit or miss for people and you get the combo of Deans Cola and Cas' ice cream because it's very cute to me. I very much feel Jack would like this drink and Sam would hate it because it's far too unhealthy and weird, making it a perfect drink.