• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    lol … the story of invention of Worcestershire Sauce

    a bunch of guys were trying to recreate Oriental fish sauce in the UK … the thing they came up with was terrible so they put the barrel of the stuff in the basement and forgot about it

    They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce

    … the fun part of these stories is that this is all based on survivalship bias … these are all stories of foods that actually turned out. It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.

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      They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce

      Damn, I hate it when my mother is right about patience being a virtue