personally yes but I feel like we'd probably be weird about people who want to eat it like we are with breast milk. like I'd imagine humans would reserve it for feeding infants like how birds do with their regurgitated food.
Kuchikamizake (口噛み酒; mouth-chewed sake) or kuchikami no sake (口噛みの酒) is a type of sake produced by a process involving human saliva as a fermentation starter.
They do that in South America where tribes spit into a communal pot. I think they were chewing cassava or maize or something like that. There are enzymes (like amylase) in saliva that break down the starches into fermentable sugars.
I think I'd pass, personally. I hear it's quite sour and I hate sour beer.
The closest analogue we normally have is a wet nurse, and most people don't like that idea. How would you feel if your mother/sister/daughter was one? Then make it worse, because there's profit to be had by bottling it instead of just feeding someone else's child. You don't need to scale at all before it becomes a problem.
If my mother/sister/daughter was a wet nurse, I'd have zero problems with it if they did it by their own choice. Same as if they were able to bottle and sell their own breastmilk for a couple extra bucks, kinda like how people are able to donate blood or plasma or semen for a little money sometimes.
Provided it's not being abused and they are not enslaved or abused into doing it, I don't see a problem with it
Edit: also that the milk went through a proper pasteurization process to ensure safety to anyone who was buying it
Right, but pasturized doesn't mean 100% sterile. Thats ok, because diseases don't spread as much across different species. Most cow diseases don't affect humans. But with milk produced by the same animal that consumes it that's a different case.
I'll be honest, it likely depends on the social connotations of doing so. It feels on the same level of would I drink human milk and could I tell which milk was made from a set of three friends.
Depends on whether or not it tasted as good as honey. Even honey itself can taste wildly different, depending on what pollen was gathered by the bees to make it. Clover honey is the most common I see, but blackberry honey tastes even better IMO.
I can't stand honey. It smells like when people sneeze, so I have never wanted to even taste it. So I guess bee phlegm and human phlegm smell the same to me?
The smell comes from a person's saliva which often gets spewed into the air after a sneeze. The droplets hang in the air a long time. Some peoples' sneezes have a sickly sweet odour that smells the same as honey to me. Other sneezes don't smell like much of anything to me though. I don't know if I'm smelling an infection byproduct, a food, or maybe a lack of hydration causing their saliva to have a strong smell, but it always smells the same to me. As for taste? I think I'd rather not explore that. I imagine it might taste like it smells, so like honey.
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RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 26 pts · 1d
personally yes but I feel like we'd probably be weird about people who want to eat it like we are with breast milk. like I'd imagine humans would reserve it for feeding infants like how birds do with their regurgitated food.
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 21 pts · 1d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchikamizake
Kuchikamizake (口噛み酒; mouth-chewed sake) or kuchikami no sake (口噛みの酒) is a type of sake produced by a process involving human saliva as a fermentation starter.
Pennywise@quokk.au · 8 pts · 1d
They do that in South America where tribes spit into a communal pot. I think they were chewing cassava or maize or something like that. There are enzymes (like amylase) in saliva that break down the starches into fermentable sugars.
I think I'd pass, personally. I hear it's quite sour and I hate sour beer.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
I think you're referring to chicha. I have tried it, but didn't like it. It made me think of buttermilk with alcohol.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
ohh this is the thing they did in the Your Name anime
Southsamurai@reddthat.com · 18 pts · 1d
That's a misleading description of what bees do.
That being said, if we could actually make honey that way, id be making my own and be happy with it
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
I love eating girls out, is it really worse ?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Would you eat cheese if it were made from human milk?
AskewLord@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d
breast milk flavored ice cream was a thing, and is still available.
sadly human milk products are illegal for sale.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
I wouldn't say sadly. Alowing human milk products to be sold would be risking a lot of infectious diseases to be spread.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1d
The human rights violations are pretty staggering, too.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
There wouldn't have to be violations. I wasn't thinking about industrial scale.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
The closest analogue we normally have is a wet nurse, and most people don't like that idea. How would you feel if your mother/sister/daughter was one? Then make it worse, because there's profit to be had by bottling it instead of just feeding someone else's child. You don't need to scale at all before it becomes a problem.
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 21h
If my mother/sister/daughter was a wet nurse, I'd have zero problems with it if they did it by their own choice. Same as if they were able to bottle and sell their own breastmilk for a couple extra bucks, kinda like how people are able to donate blood or plasma or semen for a little money sometimes.
Provided it's not being abused and they are not enslaved or abused into doing it, I don't see a problem with it
Edit: also that the milk went through a proper pasteurization process to ensure safety to anyone who was buying it
AskewLord@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
hucows are a fetish thing.
ghen@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
And more slavery
AskewLord@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
animal milk isn't allowed to be sold raw either. it has to be pasteurized or ultra pasteurized.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Right, but pasturized doesn't mean 100% sterile. Thats ok, because diseases don't spread as much across different species. Most cow diseases don't affect humans. But with milk produced by the same animal that consumes it that's a different case.
Venator@lemmy.nz · 10 pts · 1d
If I was a bee I would.
Zomg@piefed.world · 7 pts · 1d
That's someone's fetish for sure ..
AskewLord@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
is beeplay like petplay for polycules?
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
This is someone who understands
socsa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 1d
Would it be "delicious?"
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 1d
I'll be honest, it likely depends on the social connotations of doing so. It feels on the same level of would I drink human milk and could I tell which milk was made from a set of three friends.
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1d
Don't look up how traditional honey-mead is made...
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1d
Depends on whether or not it tasted as good as honey. Even honey itself can taste wildly different, depending on what pollen was gathered by the bees to make it. Clover honey is the most common I see, but blackberry honey tastes even better IMO.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Probably not because that sounds gross
Grabthar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I can't stand honey. It smells like when people sneeze, so I have never wanted to even taste it. So I guess bee phlegm and human phlegm smell the same to me?
AskewLord@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d
you can smell sneezes? or taste them?
wild.
I've had my dog sneeze in my mouth, but it didn't have a flavor or a smell.
Grabthar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
The smell comes from a person's saliva which often gets spewed into the air after a sneeze. The droplets hang in the air a long time. Some peoples' sneezes have a sickly sweet odour that smells the same as honey to me. Other sneezes don't smell like much of anything to me though. I don't know if I'm smelling an infection byproduct, a food, or maybe a lack of hydration causing their saliva to have a strong smell, but it always smells the same to me. As for taste? I think I'd rather not explore that. I imagine it might taste like it smells, so like honey.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
wild stuff.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18h
If it was delicious and sanitary I don’t see why not
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Well I already find honey disgusting so that’s a hard no for me.
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
No problem
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Yeah why not.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · -7 pts · 1d
It’s a hard no from me.
Honestly being vegan I don’t understand how people aren’t bothered by cow’s breast milk or chicken’s eggs; y’all just nasty.
remon@ani.social · 9 pts · 1d
How is it more nasty than eating plant feet and genitalia?
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1d
I eat meat, lots of it. also because we eat to survive, not to appease our feelings.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 2 pts · 1d
Oh you must live in the Arctic Circle or similar where there’s essentially no plants.