Re:Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in thos...
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:13PM
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> "Indoors" lets you store food without insects or other animals getting to it & stealing it.
This isn't true of human doors; insects are very small.
We've had the technology to keep things in wax-sealed clay jars for quite a while, but I'm not aware that this was done with grain, where preventing spoilage would have been most valuable. Granaries are open to the air. (And devote quite a lot of effort to slowing the spoilage of the grain.)
If you wanted food that wouldn't rot, instead of keeping it in an airtight environment, you dried it.
Re:Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in thos...
by bluGill on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:06PM
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Every different food idem needs to be stored differently. There sometimes more than one option that will work, but you cannot treat everything the same.
This isn't true of human doors; insects are very small.
We've had the technology to keep things in wax-sealed clay jars for quite a while, but I'm not aware that this was done with grain, where preventing spoilage would have been most valuable. Granaries are open to the air. (And devote quite a lot of effort to slowing the spoilage of the grain.)
If you wanted food that wouldn't rot, instead of keeping it in an airtight environment, you dried it.