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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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244 points benbreen | 1 comments | 15 Jan 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dmix ◴[16 Jan 25 17:44 UTC] No.42728384[source]▶
The bakers stamp on the bread is interesting branding

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...

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Aloha ◴[16 Jan 25 17:59 UTC] No.42728566[source]▶
I think it was the equivalent of a tax stamp
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binarycrusader ◴[16 Jan 25 18:46 UTC] No.42729210[source]▶
My recollection from a previous article was that in many cases, ovens were communal, so the mark was so that they knew which items belonged to a particular baker:

https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/

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1. gunian ◴[17 Jan 25 12:23 UTC] No.42736777[source]▶
I guess the share your home BS started hundreds of years before my time makes life seem more futyl