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Before refrigeration there where hundreds of way to preserve food so it would last through the winter. Mince meat was one of them.
Strip the last of your grapes and let them dry out not only concentrated the sugars but helped preserve them. Same for most fruits.
They added chopped animal fat, ( similar to the way we use lard or shortening now) for taste and to add caloric intake and to keep it from going bad.
They would pack jars of this mixture and fill them with left over brandy, (never a really big item, wonder why) or other spirits and with what spices they could find.
They would also use the grape skins from wine making and other such types of cooking things so that they let nothing go to waste.
When sugar began to be made more easily they moved away from mincemeat as a savory main dish or side and more towards an desert.
It's one of those things like fruitcake. It's meant to travel well without spoiling and, to last a long time without needing to be stored in the cold.
So why the hell did we have it at grandma's for Thanksgiving every year? She had a freaking Whirlpool side-by-side, for Christ's Sake.
Ack! An asteroid is going to pass closer than the moon later today. So much for "Earth Day"!
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Seriously, DX110 is predicted to make it's closest approach today. But, since it's only about 45 to 130 feet across AND it's going to pass somewhere around 217 thousand miles, I think we'll be all right. I'm gonna keep working on my ED story just in case anyway.
Ooh... unless it's a planned event by aliens to dust us with an immunovirus to sterilize ninety-nine percent of the worlds population to make us easier to invade in about fifty or sixty years.
And what's wrong with that plot bunny?
The one percent work their, uh, tails off to repopulate before the invasion.
When worlds collide, other things can too?
Man its weird to have my story done this early.
I finished my very first Sci Fi story for this contest. It might not get a lot of reads, but I had fun writing something different, and I've always been a fan of sci fi stories.
Still fiddling with two stories, can't really get inspired to put my nose to the keyboard until I'm closer to the March 28th start date.
I noticed this contest only has a two week window as compared to the nearly four week windows for the Halloween and Christmas contests. I assume that's due to the limited popularity of Earth Day compared to the other two holidays?
And that reminds me ... this dryad story I am VERY slowly writing ... which category would that belong in? Non-human? Fantasy?