Why making soy sauce once took years
Getting that absolutely perfect umami flavor required massive wooden barrels and a level of deep culinary patience modern humanity no longer possesses.

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You weren't actually supposed to eat the outside pastry; it functioned as medieval Tupperware designed solely to bake and hold the questionable meat inside.
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The flour dough was so incredibly tough that weary bakers literally had to stomp all over it for hours just to ensure you had spaghetti.
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Lacking metal pots, they simply pulled red-hot rocks from a fire and dropped them directly into water-filled squash shells until it angrily bubbled.
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You didn't go out for a massive steak dinner; you went out to sip hot meat water because you felt a little bit under the weather and lacked modern medicine.
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Before the glorious invention of smooth milk chocolate processing, snacking on cocoa felt uncomfortably close to chewing on sweetened, slightly acidic dirt.
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Invented out of pure desperation and convenience, it was an easily dissolvable powder that provided zero culinary joy and maximum jitters.
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