Who invented wine? Who decided that squishing the juice out of a small fruit and then letting it rot would taste good?
I can understand milk. It was definently some teenage bet in the 1200s, some guy was like “I bet ye” (because they said ‘ye’ a lot back then) “I bet ye 20 doubloons to imbibe whatever comes forth from yonder awfully replulsive apparatus hanging beneath that large wild beast.” And then he drank, and became rich by marketing the liquid, and still charged his friend the 20 dubloons.
But wine… it just doesn’t make sense. Was there ever a period when someone was like, “Let’s let this meat rot, eat it and see if it gets us loaded?” For that matter did they really think a liquid that made you nauseous and puke was good for you? I mean this discovery was made by people who thought the world was flat. Their science skills were akin to the grape they were squishing.
It’s quite amazing where we are now, where instead of betting someone to suck a cow tit, or seeing what rotting fruit tastes like, we can put pretty much anything in the microwave for 5 minutes and have a 5 course meal.