For example, cheese is mold and mold that grows on food after it sits for a while is also mold, but that mold is disgusting whereas cheese is edible.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    30·
    7 days ago

    Cheese is not mold, though. Blue cheese contains it, other kinds are milk solids and maybe some bacteria.

    Edit: To answer the question: Soy can be turned into either bioplastic or food. Pure carbon can be diamonds or soot/coal/graphite. Electrical resistance can either be unwanted waste or the primary purpose of the circuit (like in a space heater).

  • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
    3·
    5 days ago

    Cheese isn’t a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process.

    But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil “lead”) are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn’t.

    • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      Most cheeses aren’t made from raw milk nowadays. And in some countries (e.g. the US) that’s even illegal. Even though raw milk cheeses are delicious

    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Taco Bell’s menu:

      • Finely ground beef
      • refried beans
      • shredded cheese
      • sour cream
      • a small handful of shredded lettuce
      • a few pieces of tomato
      • a single bean
      • tortilla or taco

      Mix into any combo, give it a name, put it on the menu

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    You can make just about anything from corn.

    Food, sugar, fuel, sextoys, plastic… The list is pretty long.

    • RamRabbit@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      The neat part about that is it also ties fuel and food together as (partly) interchangeable items.

      During fuel shortages, ramp up corn -> fuel production. During food shortages, reduce/cease corn -> fuel production.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    6 days ago

    I remember some food preservative used at Subway is also used in floormats and everyone freaking out saying subways has rubber in their food.

  • buttmasterflex@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Rocks and minerals, whether they are refined or not: roads and building materials; ore processed into elemental metals; soils (biologically, chemically, and physically weathered rock); quartz is used for glass (melted and shaped) and timepieces (piezoelectric application of quartz); micas: (windows made of thin leaves, Muscovite), used as reflective additives in road paint and makeup; gypsum is used as fertilizer, sidewalk chalk, plaster, drywall, etc. The list goes on and on, but my point is, geology provides many things in our world that are considered mundane or often overlooked.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    Linux distro derivatives of existing Linux distros, such as an “Arch-based” or “Debian-based” distro.

    E.g. EndeavourOS is an Arch-based distro (derivative of ArchLinux). Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro, etc.