Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk

Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday September 07, 2020 @04:10AM (#24397562)

Lard was the "cooking oil" of choice before modern industrial production shifted to seed oils.

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Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr... by eru on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:07AM (#24397916)

And it's still great.

(Though to be sure, lard was the cooking fat of choice in much but not all of the world.)

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Re:Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t dr... by bad_user on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:24AM (#24399249)

Lard was also very expensive, typically inaccessible to the layman, who preferred to sell all animal products they could get their hands on.

Fat was inaccessible for cooking on a day to day basis, for anyone but the rich, until the introduction of seed oils.

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