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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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Would you crosspost this (or give me permission to crosspost) to RoughRomanMemes and HistoryMemes? This is perfect!
For some extra context for those not in the know - the Romans boiled down wine in lead pots to make sweetener, because the lead made it even sweeter. Not because they didn't know that lead was bad - they understood it full well, and even associated certain forms of lead poisoning with lead cosmetics.
But sweetener? Just a little tasty sweetener on your bread and in your wine? What could go wrong!
Be my guest!
I keep finding memes like this and was wondering if we had a fediverse equivalent for it yet.
Subbed to the historymemes one just now, but roughromanmemes doesn't seem to be visible to me for whatever reason.
You may be the first RoughRomanMemes visitor from your instance.
Lol, read that as RoughRoManMemes and thought it was a scooby-doo meme spot. It was not.
If RoughRo memes ever become a thing, I'll be the first subscriber.
That would boil the alcohol right off though... Alcohol-free wine??? Proof that they were their own biggest consumers.
Well, that's kind of the point. It was to reduce the wine to a kind of jelly which wasn't meant to be alcoholic, just sweetener.
Yeah, I get it. Partially said in jest. Just amazing that we're doing the same thing again, sort of.