• gigaqps@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Ironically almond milk was invented because God said people couldn’t have animal milk during lent so they improvised.

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      I don’t think that’s quite accurate. It was used in the Middle Ages on fast days, for sure, but we have earlier examples from West Asian cultures (e.g. the C12 Iberian Arabic Kitāb al-Ṭabīḫ and a mention by the C11 Persian author Ibn Sina).