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Bread: Alcoholism, And Vegetarianism

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Twelve thousand years ago, humans were growing tired of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and had decided to take on farming, settling down in one place instead of constantly on the run for prey. In the effort to take on this new life, they had to store lots of grain, and it was found exceedingly difficult to make the storage containers airtight. Water would seep into the storage containers and would create a sweet mixture, also known as beer. They would find the same result if gruel was left sitting out; the air would ferment the sugar in the gruel into alcohol. Bread, like beer, was derived from gruel. There has been a debate among archaeologists about which came first, bread or beer, similar to the chicken and egg argument. No clear answer has

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