[HN Gopher] Ancient Popcorn (2012)
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       Ancient Popcorn (2012)
        
       Author : glth
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-08-26 10:40 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | OkayPhysicist wrote:
       | It's funny how old relatively modern foods can be, and how new
       | seemingly traditional dishes are.
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       | Any European dish with tomatoes or potatoes in it is less than
       | 500 years old. Meanwhile French Onion soup hasn't changed much
       | since the Roman era. Kombucha may have been tranding recently,
       | but it dates back thousands of years, meanwhile the relatively
       | simple ciabatta roll was created in the 80's.
        
         | dfxm12 wrote:
         | It makes you appreciate how good a new food has to be to break
         | into the culinary ouvre. Think about how long croissants and
         | doughnuts have been around (since at least the 13th and 15th
         | centuries), and boom, cronuts pop up out of nowhere in 2013 and
         | seem to have taken the pastry world by storm. 10 years later,
         | doughnuts and croissants are still a staple at every bakery,
         | from fancy shops to fast food places like dunkin' donuts, and
         | while cronuts are still around, they are more of a niche thing,
         | somewhat forgotten. It certainly did not have the staying power
         | of, say, pizza margherita...
        
           | farnsworth wrote:
           | The Aztecs had both chocolate and peanut butter. But it took
           | America to put them together.
           | 
           | But seriously, is a cronut just a doughnut-shaped croissant
           | or does it actually bring something completely new to the
           | table?
        
             | OkayPhysicist wrote:
             | It's also fried. So it's a lot like a donut, but instead of
             | the cake-y/ risen pastry that donuts normally contain, it's
             | croissant.
        
         | pazimzadeh wrote:
         | What type of cheese did they put in their onion soup during the
         | roman era? Did they have Comte & Gruyere?
        
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         | maximinus_thrax wrote:
         | > Meanwhile French Onion soup hasn't changed much since the
         | Roman era.
         | 
         | I bet it did. Any historical sources to back that up?
        
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