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civilization's first software, run on yeast and patience
means A staple food made by baking a dough of flour and water, usually leavened with yeast, and by extension slang for money.
from From Old English 'brēad,' which once meant a morsel or piece of food before it narrowed to the loaf we know. It has cousins across the Germanic family — German 'Brot,' Dutch 'brood' — all pointing back to a Proto-Germanic root possibly tied to the idea of brewing or fermenting, the bubbling of leaven. Curiously, the older everyday word for the stuff was 'hlāf' (which survives in 'loaf' and in 'lord,' literally the 'loaf-keeper'). The slang sense of bread as money is much younger, 20th-century, sibling to 'dough' — both treating cash as life's daily sustenance.
- ancient tech
- baked 14,000 years before farming existed
- living dough
- sourdough holds wild yeast colonies, basically a pet
- riot fuel
- bread shortages helped spark the French Revolution
- slang origin
- why money is called 'dough' and 'breadwinner'
- space crumb
- banned on early shuttles, crumbs threatened equipment
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