Does anyone agree with me that the greatest invention in human history...

[Kerrybuchanan]

I second Marmite and refer you to the Terry Pratchett novel (I think it was The Last Continent) in which Rincewind invents Marmite by accident.

 

[Dinosaur]

Underfloor heating, the sheer pleasure of walking around in bare feet on a stone floor when it's snowing out...well the Romans at least got one thing right.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

The best source of Vitamin B12 for vegetarians

When they realised how good Marmite is (about 1912) they fortified it with more vitamins. They are produced by bacteria, not from animals. As far as I can figure, Vegans have to have some artificially produced (via bacteria) B12 vitamins.
Marmite yeast source doesn't naturally have B12, it's an additive.
Marmite (and yeast) does naturally have most or all other B vitamins.
It's interesting that different species don't all need same vitamins and some we do synthesise ourselves from suitable food but we are one of few species that need external vitamin C (fortunately easily obtained from things as diverse as potato and most fruit, especially if sharp tasting).
I love Marmite
Invented 1902, fortified after 1912.

I did a lot of research on Amino Acids (we need some as external, some we make), vitamins and trace elements needed in Diets to see the problem of human on alien worlds. Edible alien food (with sugars/carbohydrates, fats, protein and fibre) seems probable if any advanced life at all based on carbon. But ANY of the vitamins or Amino acids we need being there would seem close to zero as there are very many things that grow here that are no use for essential vitamins and amino acid, or if in particular locations even lacking vital things like iodine or zinc.

This is why changing from a varied diet to a narrow one, or becoming a vegan or especially a "raw food" vegan has to be properly researched. You certainly can't decide to simply switch tomorrow to only buying fresh fruit and veg only in the supermarket and based on purely buying what you like. You'll be ill.

 

[Mouse]

The Internet. But it'd be even better without the idiots.

 

[Parson]

incidentally, would you say dance evolved rather than was invented? If writing is a form of communication that evolved I assume dance would be the same, although not all dance started as ritualistic.

And for a double house-point, can you complete this;

The printing press is to writing as _________ is to dance



pH

The printing press is to writing as ballet is to dance.

The Internet. But it'd be even better without the idiots.

Mouse your posts often make me smile. Strait forward with a hint of balderdash. I'd imagine that an angry mouse is a force of nature.

 

[Mouse]

Mouse your posts often make me smile. Strait forward with a hint of balderdash. I'd imagine that an angry mouse is a force of nature.

Ta very much!

 

[J Riff]

The mousetrap! The humane kind, not the poison gas or nasty snapping type. Without it, we would have a very hard time catching the cute little beggars.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

While you're catching rat/mouse, its cousin's children are building families

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

The mousetrap! The humane kind, not the poison gas or nasty snapping type. Without it, we would have a very hard time catching the cute little beggars.

We use that kind of trap at my house, too, then repatriate the mice at the park.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

The lens.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

then repatriate the mice at the park

Have you tagged to see how many are the same ones?

 

[Boneman]

I only just found out recently that you can buy Soreen, pre-sliced!!! Gotta be up there on the list.

 

[Parson]

This place never ceases to be an education: Soreen=malt loaf=British fruit cake=rotating Christmas gift like the States?

 

[Mouse]

I only just found out recently that you can buy Soreen, pre-sliced!!! Gotta be up there on the list.

Oh ah, and where did you hear this bit of excellent information?

 

[Abernovo]

It's not really a proper cake, Parson. Half loaf - half cake consistency, very moist and sticky, all yummy! And eaten any time of the year.
It does indeed come pre-sliced, but the slices are awful thin.

Suddenly in the mood for a tea loaf (loaf-cake with the fruit soaked for 12 hours in tea, resulting in lovely sticky, tea-coloured, fruit bread kind of thing). Oh well, another day.

 

[Mouse]

The slices are thin, but they stick together so you can't help but take two.

 

[Abernovo]

I see. These things are sent to try us, Mouse, but what can you do? Except eat the slices...

 

[Ray McCarthy]

that you can buy Soreen

Must be a Manchunian thing never heard of it. I miss Veda though, I like that it ISN'T sliced. I can decide what thickness of doorstep. But I've not had it for years. Briefly Tesco imported it and Soda Farls.

 

[Boneman]

Oh ah, and where did you hear this bit of excellent information?

Someone's brother, or something...

 

[Boneman]

Must be a Manchunian thing never heard of it. I miss Veda though, I like that it ISN'T sliced. I can decide what thickness of doorstep. But I've not had it for years. Briefly Tesco imported it and Soda Farls.

Just a second - Harvo? T'wife (a mancunian) introduced me to Soreen, said it were just like Harvo...