Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years

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Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 13, 2012 @08:54AM from the beating-the-sarlacc's-record dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found conclusive evidence for the first time that humans have been making cheese since the 6th millennium BC."

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Wow. by roc97007 · 2012-12-13 08:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Thanks. That question has been keeping me up nights.

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1. Re:Wow. by Rik+Sweeney · 2012-12-13 09:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It kept early man up too, but that's because the cheese gave them nightmares.
  
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2. Re:Wow. by anagama · 2012-12-13 09:23 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Thanks. I had thought slashdot a place for people who had an interest in the world and science. Glad I've been disabused of that notion.
  Soooo, what's your favorite episode of Jersey Shore?
  
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3. Re:Wow. by Holladon · 2012-12-13 09:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  What are you, some kind of anti-cheesite?
  Talking about cheese is ALWAYS appropriate, in ANY context, and EATING cheese is even more appropriate. Anyone who says otherwise is an unrepetant philistine utterly lacking in taste and sophistication.
  Good DAY.
And cutting the cheese by colin_faber · 2012-12-13 08:55 · Score: 5, Funny

for many many eons. :)
Ob... by mrsquid0 · 2012-12-13 08:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Blessed are the cheese makers.

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1. Re:Ob... by oneiros27 · 2012-12-13 09:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products
  
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2. Re:Ob... by somersault · 2012-12-13 11:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  This bit is pretty funny
  
  The art in this cave -- called Lascaux, the Sistine Chapel of cave art -- and in many others that dot parts of France and Spain deservedly ranks with the greatest masterworks of Western art. Yet these paintings have provoked as much vexed speculation as they have wonder and awe: What was their purpose? Why are there so many pictures of animals? The painters had many colors at their disposal, but why do black and red dominate? Why are there no pictures of sky, moon or trees? What are the strange geometric signs found in many of the caves? Why are there few images of people? Just what does it all mean? Such questions have kept generations of scholars and archaeologists busy trying to find a definitive if ever elusive explanation.
  Just imagine if in 6000 years all they can find of our current generation is a memes site. Why are there all these images of cats? Why is the same image repeated so many time with different symbols over the top? Why are the animations all in 16 colours rather than a 32bit colour palette?
  
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I keep thinking about milking the first cow... by ackthpt · 2012-12-13 09:02 · Score: 4, Funny

People must have looked on and though, "What they heck is he/she doing there?!? Oh my!"

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1. Re:I keep thinking about milking the first cow... by N0Man74 · 2012-12-13 09:33 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  People must have looked on and though, "What they heck is he/she doing there?!? Oh my!"
  Oh, come on, that was a cheesy joke.
  Are you intolerant of lactose humor?
2. Re:I keep thinking about milking the first cow... by abarrow · 2012-12-13 09:55 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I've always wondered how to first guy to drink milk from a cow was able to get the second guy to do it.
3. Re:I keep thinking about milking the first cow... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-12-13 11:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It probably wasn't a cow.
  You may be right, but I personally think that the idea of it being a bull is too creepy to consider.
  
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Mod Parent Up by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 09:23 · Score: 4, Funny

+1 Insightful.
No, by Andy+Prough · 2012-12-13 09:29 · Score: 2, Funny

it gave the guy that walked behind him nightmares.
Followed closely by.... by erp_consultant · 2012-12-13 10:12 · Score: 1, Funny

The earliest known case of lactose intolerance. Cause and effect.
Re:Cheese by rishistar · 2012-12-13 22:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Cheese is made from milk.
Unless it's Edam, which is made backwards....
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