Beer I can understand: humans will go to great lengths for drugs/alcohol, and with a growing tolerance I could see how moving from place to place looking for fermented fruit wouldn’t suffice.
Bread I don’t know why bread in particular would start the work investment needed just to create food. It’s not mindblowingly delicious but does require some devoted time/chemistry. Why wouldn’t ancestors simply move from place to place in search of other food, compared to the timely and difficult process of farming?
Thanks!
EDIT: thank you for the thoughtful responses! The longevity of it/hard tack makes absolute sense. I felt there was something obvious about bread in particular that I was missing. Easy grain to farm + longevity of the food = invest in farming for food. Thanks!
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Bread is easy to transport and doesnt go bad as fast as say fruit or fresh meat.
Bread also can be cooked into something like Hard Tack which is basically bread jerky and that stuff never goes bad.
So its two very easy things to make out of a pretty simple thing to farm.
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