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Re:Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep ... by thaumasiotes on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:28PM (#31462600)
> Every culture has a flatbread.

They do? Bread in any form is not a major element of every culture. The Hawaiian equivalent seems to have been poi, which isn't even solid.

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Re:Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep ... by hbarka on Saturday May 21, 2022 @07:32PM (#31463232)
Native Hawaiians had breadfruit.

A Navajo friend of mine made amazing flatbread. They call it Fry Bread. Tastes wonderful.

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Re:Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep ... by dekhn on Sunday May 22, 2022 @10:27AM (#31468518)
I'm always looking for counterexamples of my claim.
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Re:Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep ... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:05AM (#31490081)
Following up in another way, Eskimo culture can be safely assumed to lack flatbread since the diet lacked pretty much any plant-based element. Any other non-agricultural cultures, like pygmies, would also lack the ability to produce bread. (Not to say they don't eat it today; pygmies are commercially entwined with the settled people around them.)
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Re:Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep ... by thaumasiotes on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:45PM (#31485163)
The obvious places to look are Polynesia (as mentioned), Australia, and sub-Saharan Africa. What are the indigenous flatbreads?
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