Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down10
arrow-up1417arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.en.wikipedia.orgSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square76fedilink
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up121·1 month agoHoly shit, one kilo of butter from 60kg of coal?! That’s some pretty spenny butter for “agreeable taste”
minus-squareRBG@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 month ago“The Germans preferred Ersatz.” (Or at least that’s how I remember that quote from Catch-22 when I read it 25 years ago…)
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoEspecially when they had problems getting the coal they could mine, where it needed to be used.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 month agoThey used something else instead…
minus-squareeleitl@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoYou might be surprised what the material and energetic footprint of dairy is.
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYou don’t have to waste the other hydrocarbons when you crack something. You just use em for something else or burn them for power. Though the flare towers in refineries prove me wrong to a degree.
Holy shit, one kilo of butter from 60kg of coal?!
That’s some pretty spenny butter for “agreeable taste”
“The Germans preferred Ersatz.”
(Or at least that’s how I remember that quote from Catch-22 when I read it 25 years ago…)
Especially when they had problems getting the coal they could mine, where it needed to be used.
They used something else instead…
You might be surprised what the material and energetic footprint of dairy is.
You don’t have to waste the other hydrocarbons when you crack something. You just use em for something else or burn them for power. Though the flare towers in refineries prove me wrong to a degree.