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Do ppl really not know what millet is?
LeagueTroll
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Had some chat in my trade guild, apparently ppl think millet is not common pheasant food, but some hyper healthy gluten free stuff? I know it’s year 9012 now and potatoes been grown in old world for centuries, but still.
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Sylvermynx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Millet is a viable grain for many uses. It's actually a delicious "cereal" when cooked; sometimes I'll add sliced almonds and dried cranberries plus brown sugar; sometimes I'll fry it into cakes and drown them in butter and syrup as if they were "chewier" pancakes.
Millet is also, yes, wildlife and common stock food. No reason it can't be both of course - good for stock, good for pheasant, good for people. Husband grew up in an area where millet was a common grain grown by nearly everyone. It fed people, it fed stock, it fed wildlife. It's not in so much use now, for one thing all the fields where it used to be grown, and where he and his family and friends hunted pheasant are all under houses now. *sigh*
What you're on about with potatoes though, I just don't get. Millet isn't related to potatoes....12 -
Sylvermynx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭LeagueTroll wrote: »Peasant not pheasant, da-mn iPhone suggestions
Well, it's not mutually exclusive after all! "Peasants" the world around eat grains like millet etc. And so do pheasants. And so do I, who am neither a peasant or a pheasant!4 -
LeagueTroll✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »LeagueTroll wrote: »Peasant not pheasant, da-mn iPhone suggestions
Well, it's not mutually exclusive after all! "Peasants" the world around eat grains like millet etc. And so do pheasants. And so do I, who am neither a peasant or a pheasant!
By peasants i mean common folks b4 1500ad. I believe potatoes served as replacements to millet and barley.0 -
Sylvermynx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Would have depended on where they lived, and if they had money to buy - or a piece of ground to plant somewhere potatoes might actually grow. In various EU countries (Ireland, Poland for starters) potatoes were endemic, grew well, and provided not only sustenance but inebriation (at least in Poland). Farther north, or in wetter/drier climes at the time, perhaps not so much.
However, in the 14th century, many peasants were gleaners. They followed the lord's indentured servants (not calling them slaves though I suppose they were) and scrabbled through the leavings. I would imagine they ingested a good deal of dirt with the grain - as perhaps there was no acknowledgement of washing the grain before cooking. And that could certainly have contributed to epidemics etc.
Now, of course, I've no time machine. But really - millet is a viable crop and I might add really good eating today. I prefer it to rice (other than wild rice - which of course is a grass NOT a rice) myself.1 -
Minyassa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭I found it odd hearing someone talk about millet as if it was something exotic, too. I can get it at my normal grocery store, I don't even have to go to the uber expensive health food snob store for it. I made the banana millet muffins from one of my daily writs and they were awesome.7 -
Sylvermynx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I found it odd hearing someone talk about millet as if it was something exotic, too. I can get it at my normal grocery store, I don't even have to go to the uber expensive health food snob store for it. I made the banana millet muffins from one of my daily writs and they were awesome.
Oh.... there are really recipes? Oboy. Link please?0 -
LeagueTroll✭✭✭✭✭I found it odd hearing someone talk about millet as if it was something exotic, too. I can get it at my normal grocery store, I don't even have to go to the uber expensive health food snob store for it. I made the banana millet muffins from one of my daily writs and they were awesome.
Well I can’t, even the chinese stores don’t sell it, only some the indian stores do.0 -
Minyassa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »I found it odd hearing someone talk about millet as if it was something exotic, too. I can get it at my normal grocery store, I don't even have to go to the uber expensive health food snob store for it. I made the banana millet muffins from one of my daily writs and they were awesome.
Oh.... there are really recipes? Oboy. Link please?
I made my own recipe and I was bad and didn't post it yet.
I'll do that ASAP and then link it here. 0 -
Sylvermynx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭LeagueTroll wrote: »I found it odd hearing someone talk about millet as if it was something exotic, too. I can get it at my normal grocery store, I don't even have to go to the uber expensive health food snob store for it. I made the banana millet muffins from one of my daily writs and they were awesome.
Well I can’t, even the chinese stores don’t sell it, only some the indian stores do.
I live in a rather - um - out of the way area in the US desert southwest, either 340 mile round trip or 600 mile round trip from the two nearest "metroplexes". Millet is available in my local groceries - Kroger-Smith, Albertsons, Walmart, and a few smaller stores with names no one would recognize.
You could order from Amazon maybe? Millet is a good-for-you breakfast option. And it makes a KILLER pilaf to eat with grilled salmon (for which my mouth is watering - even though I am NOT a fan of spring and summer, at least when it's those seasons it's husband's turn to cook!)1 -
Androconium✭✭✭✭✭
✭Its budgie seed ffs.
In boxes marked Bird Seed.
You don't have to be abird to eat it.5 -
Linaleah✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭its kinda funny how whenever something becomes a health trend its suddenly expensive and fancy, regardless of its origins. like... recently - it was buckwheat. which when I was growing up was like.. the cheapest and easiest and most common grain to get. to the point where during the fun times of 90ties, it was the ONLY thing you could find at affordable price in some places.
I also remember first trying quinoa and loving it and it was actualy pretty affordable if not the easiest to find... and then it became trendy and practicaly overnight, prices quadrippled and it was a trendy thing to eat. meanwhile, in its country of origin, its the basic, you can even say peasant food.
so millet is basically victim of the very same thing.
that said, as far as in game items "oh this is a real thing??? " in my personal life, i was shopping for some tea at a local place and found Yerba mate. so of course I had to try it and.... oh god, I hated it so much. woops :PEdited by Linaleah on March 24, 2019 1:52AMdirty worthless casual.
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Dagoth_Rac✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭its kinda funny how whenever something becomes a health trend its suddenly expensive and fancy, regardless of its origins.
Nothing is ever priced based on some kind of intrinsic, immutable value. Items only have value based on subjective human decisions. If humans suddenly decide they like millet more than they did the day before, regardless of reason, millet really, truly has become more valuable overnight.2 -
MLGProPlayer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭The only reason I know what millet is is because I'm on a gluten-free diet. Why would anyone waste their money on that overpriced crap otherwise? Wheat is cheaper, tastes better, and is so much easier to bake with.Edited by MLGProPlayer on March 24, 2019 2:36AM1 -
MLGProPlayer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭LeagueTroll wrote: »I found it odd hearing someone talk about millet as if it was something exotic, too. I can get it at my normal grocery store, I don't even have to go to the uber expensive health food snob store for it. I made the banana millet muffins from one of my daily writs and they were awesome.
Well I can’t, even the chinese stores don’t sell it, only some the indian stores do.
Health food stores sell it. As does Amazon.Edited by MLGProPlayer on March 24, 2019 2:28AM0 -
Linaleah✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Dagoth_Rac wrote: »its kinda funny how whenever something becomes a health trend its suddenly expensive and fancy, regardless of its origins.
Nothing is ever priced based on some kind of intrinsic, immutable value. Items only have value based on subjective human decisions. If humans suddenly decide they like millet more than they did the day before, regardless of reason, millet really, truly has become more valuable overnight.
its... a little more complicated then that.
becasue there is a matter of supply and demand. and humans don't just suddenly decide to like something more then other, one day. at least not most humans. but rather few humans decide that they would like to make some money, and so they find ways to convince other humans to buy their product for a lot of money regardless of any sort of intrinsic or otherwise worth of that product.
but other then that.. /shrug. it amuses me, even when I chose to pay more for something that is not necessarily that much better than cheaper alternative.dirty worthless casual.
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Jaraal✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Millet spray (seeds still on the stalk) is the favorite treat of pet birds everywhere.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I never learned what Millet really is either.CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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Ratzkifal✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I always make fun of my Canadian friend because he didn't know what "bread" was. Like, the only thing he knew was toast and thought that's all there is. All the different "breads" in the world are just different kinds of toast he thought. xD
I had to teach him that there is more than just wheat, different methods of baking and so on and so forth. German bread diversity is UNESCO world culture heritage with over 100 different kinds of bread. Millet, rye, wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat you name it! Different flours from different grains make different bread, add baking techniques and ingredients like sesame and poppy and you get easily past the 100 kinds of bread mark.This Bosmer was tortured to death. There is nothing left to be done.3 -
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✭Even if you're not familiar with it, if you're a fan of granola for breakfast or even normal granola bars, you've probably been eating it as it's commonly mixed in.
It's the teenie little round seeds and it adds a nice texture, kind of like poppy seeds both in their size and crunch.
Many aren't familiar with it because it's considered more of a tropical grain in our modern times, despite being well known in the histories of places like China, India, and Greece.PC NA @Ertosi♠♦ My Team ♥♣
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✭✭Do you think everyone grows up in a farm or something? I had no idea what millet was 30 seconds ago."I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
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Linaleah✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Do you think everyone grows up in a farm or something? I had no idea what millet was 30 seconds ago.
I don't think its a farm thing as much as regional thing? cause back in soviet union, millet was a fairly standard grain to use as a side for a dish. rice? not as much. rice was an expensive delicacy. meanwhile here, rice is staple of limited budget cooking nowadays in US, so... /shrug.dirty worthless casual.
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✭✭✭✭✭I'ts like a mullet but not quite so long in the back?and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."5 -
Jennifur_Vultee✭✭✭✭✭I used to give millet to my parakeets...they really liked it."Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." – Albert Einstein
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MartiniDaniels✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Do you think everyone grows up in a farm or something? I had no idea what millet was 30 seconds ago.
I don't think its a farm thing as much as regional thing? cause back in soviet union, millet was a fairly standard grain to use as a side for a dish. rice? not as much. rice was an expensive delicacy. meanwhile here, rice is staple of limited budget cooking nowadays in US, so... /shrug.
Nope, they ate mostly potatoes and oatmeal as side dish, rice was pretty common as well. Fillet was secondary cheap and healthy food, which majority of population obviously didn't like.
What you are talking is more about pre-soviet times when 80% of Russians were living in small villages as serfs.1
