Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018)

Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) by codesnik on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:45PM (#28534624)

romans even had cheesecakes! for some reason called "placenta" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giPXpKy2lQ0

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) by 174SIGSEGV on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:00PM (#28534737)

Placenta is a flat cake, from Ancient Greek πλακοῦντος. Presumably, human placentae are named for their shape.

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) by ThePadawan on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:10AM (#28535794)

Fun fact! The German word for placenta is still "Mutterkuchen" (mother['s] cake)!

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) by leto_ii on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:32AM (#28536300)

fun fact, we still have it in Romania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C4%83cint%C4%83

It's called the same and it's delicious :D

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Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) by taejo on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:22AM (#28536981)

And in Austrian German crepes/pancakes are called Palatschinken, which comes via Slavic languages from plăcintă, so ultimately from Latin placenta

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