🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agoAnon thinks about wheatsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square179linkfedilinkarrow-up1574arrow-down123cross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
arrow-up1551arrow-down1imageAnon thinks about wheatsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 month agomessage-square179linkfedilinkcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoCorn (Maize) is a selected grass. (Teosinte) Wheat is also a grass (Emmer) which hasn’t been nearly as modified. The american indigenous people cultivated and developed corn over 10,000 some years. An ear of corn can be boiled and eaten. Wheat? Not so much.
minus-squareEvilCartyen@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoYou can absolutely boil wheat, so I am not sure I follow…
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI guess I meant more along the lines of: “An ear of corn can be husked by hand and boiled.” Individual processing is far more accessible and feasible compared the threshing, hulling, and winnowing processes of wheat.
Corn (Maize) is a selected grass. (Teosinte) Wheat is also a grass (Emmer) which hasn’t been nearly as modified.
The american indigenous people cultivated and developed corn over 10,000 some years. An ear of corn can be boiled and eaten. Wheat? Not so much.
You can absolutely boil wheat, so I am not sure I follow…
I guess I meant more along the lines of: “An ear of corn can be husked by hand and boiled.” Individual processing is far more accessible and feasible compared the threshing, hulling, and winnowing processes of wheat.