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kitten seeking answers's avatar

cheese is a currency too

Rat's avatar

According to Rat, cheese is the original currency, and gold coins are round and yellow to imitate it: https://ratsays.substack.com/p/gold

(it's the umpteenth time this theory is brought up, but Rat is really proud of it)

kitten seeking answers's avatar

oh wow, I had no idea!😻

Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

Want to create cheese cartels with an underground market? Ban it.

Tardigrade's avatar

Interesting. "The ingredient, known as fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC), is a genetically engineered version of rennet, an enzyme used to coagulate milk during cheesemaking."

The cheeses I buy typically specify either animal-based or plant-based rennet. I wonder how labelers classify this FPC stuff.

Rat's avatar

I believe the current consensus is that yeast, mold, and other fungi are neither plants nor animals; and bacteria are even more distant cousins.

Tardigrade's avatar

That distinction might be too subtle for the labeling authorities ;)

Rat's avatar

«For about a century, biology books have classified rabbits as a separate order from rodents. Unfortunately, rabbits can’t read and keep gnawing.»

I vaguely recall fungi used to be considered plants, too; and government might be slow to adapt.

Mark Alexander's avatar

Cheese is most definitely a drug, one to which I'm addicted.

Tardigrade's avatar

Now that's some drug trafficking I can heartily support.

RANGER71's avatar

Cheese has Pfizer all over