Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt.
Today, most yogurts are produced by fermenting milk using commercially made starters. However, the industrialisation of the process has meant that countless traditional fermentation practices from around the world are overlooked.
The rest is paywalled.
TIHI
I’m sure my imagination is worse than reality, but I’m afraid to read the article and find out.
I assume it’s either ant vomit, feces, or something that’s fermented… Possibly all three.
It’s not that bad. A traditional yogurt-making practice is to put a couple ants into some milk. The microorganisms and enzymes that the ants introduce helps kick off the fermentation of the milk, turning it into yogurt.
I think I might be the only one in this thread that doesn’t totally hate this idea. Lol. But I also don’t really have a problem with the idea of eating ants in general. They taste of vinegar, and are overall a bit tasty.
It’s no worse than how hotdogs are made. Fewer assholes, anyway.
I dunno, ants can be real bastards
TIHI
Shelve it with that animal shit coffee
Are we putting it on the castoreum shelf or the one with the big lump of ambergris?
i’m hungry now. where ant yogurt
Will there be fruit on the bottom? Or did the ants eat all the fruit?
The ants are the fruit. They’re nature’s raisins!
Do they have to be Greek ants?
I’m a little upset no one told me ants were making the yogart this whole time.
Neat.
Oh, the ants are an ingredient. I was hoping to learn they had somehow trained ants to manufacture yogurt.
Yogurt model of Ant OS
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
“Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk”
Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants
