yeast

I've decided (with no real proof) that yeast has been one of the basis of "civilization".

Leavened bread, all manner of alcoholic beverages, depend on our tame yeasts. For a long time, folks drank beer or wine because the quality of water was, at best, questionable.

Bread and beer, bread and wine (where did I hear about that one before? hmmmm.), absolute mainstays of life.

Then there's whiskey -- "water of life".

By golly, is our vaunted civilization based, to at least some part, on YEAST SHIT?

Is that what we are so damn PROUD of?

YEAST SHIT -- foundation of western civilization.