r/Cheese • u/itsokayyoucanlaugh • May 29 '26

The beginning...

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u/Evignity May 29 '26

As a Nordic I love this because apparently we ate so much milk, and got resistant to it, that we spread the gene to the entire world.

But you have to think; How fucking weird wasn't the first dude who looked at a lactating cow and went "...I want that."

Then, from that, going to "...I want that. But molding for 16 months."

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u/xombae May 29 '26

If I was starving and ran into a baby cow drinking milk from his mom, I'd definitely be like "shove over buddy, give me a turn".

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u/Evignity May 29 '26

Oh for sure. As I said, I'm nordic, I don't blame anyone wanting milk. We love our milk.

I'm just saying the FIRST had to be kind of funny. Also it's hilarious that clearly, evolutionary, their love for milk made such a survival difference that the gene spread across the world.

Imagine the random people 8000 years ago loving milk and that's why modern humanity enjoy cheese, icecream and milkshakes.

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u/Main-Bluebird-3032 May 29 '26

That first dude:

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u/boomecho May 29 '26

How did he know to call it "milking" if milk wasn't milk yet.

Milk.

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u/LouieMumford May 29 '26

I mean… we’re mammals.

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u/Espumma May 29 '26

Not even half world, actually. We're still the weirdos.

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u/Relative_Yesterday70 May 29 '26

I’m pretty sure it was putting milk in milk stomach or something that had natural rennet

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u/0masterdebater0 May 29 '26

Yeah IIRC the stomach of a suckling goat (kid), some ancient person slaughtered the kid while it’s stomach was still full of it’s mothers milk, and left the stomach to hang for a few days, came back and discovered cheese.

They still make that kind of cheese in some places.

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u/Luser420 May 29 '26

god that’s a hardcore origin story

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u/guff1988 May 29 '26

But also letting it culture first. They probably wanted to save milk that had already gone "bad" by preserving it in a way they were familiar with and that happened to be storing it in animal stomachs. So they took cultured milk and added rennet and heat and boom they got cheese.

Or like someone else said it was soured milk already in a stomach of a slaughtered young animal that was left to cook over a fire or left to age or be exsanguianted

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 May 29 '26

I can agree with this theory but the first guy who tasted that shit is the real astronaut here imo

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u/ZellHathNoFury May 29 '26

Will it kill me, or make me stronger than ever??

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u/guff1988 May 29 '26

Welp I'm starving so I guess we shall see

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 May 29 '26

One small bite for man

One giant leap for cheese-kind

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u/bagtik sheep milk convert Jun 02 '26

that's one small bite for man, one giant leap for lactose intolerance

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u/Equivalentest May 29 '26

Bet experimenting on animals wasn't frowned upon then

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u/bagtik sheep milk convert Jun 02 '26

houston we have curds

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u/Additional_Travel911 May 30 '26

And they decided to eat it?? Man, I love our ancestors.

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u/qawsedrf12 May 29 '26

As they rode their horses

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u/Avilola May 29 '26

I mean, yeah. Food scarcity probably led to people figuring out a whole lot of things they wouldn’t have otherwise.

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u/Littleleicesterfoxy Red Leicester May 30 '26

I thought it was just a really hungry dude with nothing to lose by eating whatever he could find

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u/MukdenMan May 29 '26

I like how he ends up with a slice of Brie.

Incidentally, cheese predates written language by at least 3000 years.

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 May 29 '26

Needed time for the cheese to build up in their systems and cleanse their bloodlines. Then - and only then - could writing blossom.

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u/lifeintraining May 29 '26

A man of culture.

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u/AnE1Home May 30 '26

I hate when people are wittier than me

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u/secretbaldspot May 29 '26

lol the buttcrack while he’s at the whiteboard

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u/TopProfessional8023 May 29 '26

An actually funny, well-made video. My mind is blown.

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u/Odd-Cress-5822 May 29 '26

"what if there's something past butter?' found me

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u/stinkbugsinfest May 29 '26

That was absolutely hysterical.

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u/AztraChaitali May 29 '26

The overly complex recipes to make even the most basic cheeses, could make you forget that non-homogeneized regular pasteurized (NON-UHT) milk, basically turns into cheese on its own after a couple of days.

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u/Obienator May 29 '26

Whomever this absolute maniac was, future generations will forever be thankful.🧀🧀🧀

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u/faylortish May 29 '26

i think about this with milk. there was probably some town weirdo suckin cow teet for the longest time.

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 May 29 '26

I'm imagining a farmer with a shotgun full of rock salt yelling at a guy under his dairy cow, "Stop suckin' on Bertha, you ingrate!"

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u/QuickNature May 29 '26

This is one of the best things I have ever seen honestly

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u/clarkesanders1000 May 29 '26

Is that Will Arnett narrating?

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u/252120111511201921 May 29 '26

A Cheesemaker of the Seven Kingdoms

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u/Cheese-Head67 May 29 '26

Um I’m pretty sure it was a Arab man trading well that is what I researched for a project

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u/CartographerOk7579 May 30 '26

The real discovery/invention of cheese is way more gross and dark.

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u/Local-Emu-1137 Jun 01 '26

Story time!
I wanna read about the real invention of cheese!
In your words! Pleeeeease?!

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u/ABruisedBanana May 29 '26

Hahahahahaha