It's a bit like<p>> I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.<p>But I can't find the original source.
This is ridiculous, and untrue at the latest, but to be fair it can be dependent on varieties and geography. There are several varieties of early and late stage lettuce (butterheard, battavian) and tomatoes (brandwyne, big rainbow). Or... plan your planting. While I don't eat cheeseburgers, one can use the same cow for rennet (or make rennet free cheeses!) and the burger, and said cow can basically be slaughtered on-demand. This, I've done several times - with relatives who were butchers.<p>For a real challenge I suggest making soy-based tofu at home. Growing the soybeans is the easy part. Natural sources of gypsum for calcium sulhphate - at home, is painful. Then, lemons place a hard climate requirement. Mind you there are probably other ways to do this.
Reminds me of Half Life: Alyx's comments on a Club Sandwich: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cERBPQSkY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cERBPQSkY</a>
>> The weekend before Thanksgiving, my wife and I had some friends and family members over to the house to slaughter turkeys. We’d raised eight of them from poults, letting them free range around our land for most of their lives, and their time had come. It took the bulk of the day to slit their throats, bleed them out, pluck them, gut them, and put them on ice.<p>I don't know how people can do that, slaughter an animal they've raised themselves. Me, I make cheese. When the time comes to cut into a wheel, I don't want to do it. They look so lovely, I just want to keep them that way for ever (which is of course impossible- even hard cheese goes bad eventually). I can imagine, if they were actually living, breathing things that I had brought up from babies, I'd really have trouble destroying them.<p>That doesn't mean I couldn't kill an animal, I'm just saying I couldn't kill an animal if I had brought it up myself, fed it, cared for it, and so on. If I had animals, I'd probably ask the neighbours to do it and offer to do theirs in return. But even that would feel dirty, giving up my little goat or sheep to be killed by some stranger? Now that I think of it, that actually sounds worse and I'd be really torn between doing it myself and giving the animal away, I think.
Im pretty sure you could technically have butter, a bun, ground beef and cheese during the best part of the last 1000 years. The hamburger not being invented earlier has more to do with cooking and eating habits than its practicality.
How to Make Everything did something similar with a chicken sandwich.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/URvWSsAgtJE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/URvWSsAgtJE</a><p>Though he didnt use quite as extreme a definition of "from scratch." Everything in the sandwich did appear to be made or acquired by hand, but it doesn't look like he raised the chicken or cow himself for example.
Reminds me of Thomas Thwaites "The Toaster Project".
<a href="https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/</a>
I wonder if there is a diet that shows real benefits by restricting to the simplest of foods.<p>no things that take other things like cheese (rennet), just essentially out of the ground/off the tree/slaughtered from paddock to plate food.