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Universalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.

(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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Of course its bollocks
Sugar beet has been part of animal silage for centuries. You need yeast to ferment sugars, and yeast doesn't like living in acidic stomachs.
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 19:46, 2 replies)
But it works with the monkeys and elephants eating molasses...
...I saw it on TV when I was a kid. Giggled like a loon, so I did
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 9:37, closed)
Apples have natural yeast...
one of those city-tv-chefs-living-in-the-countryside-and-fliming-it-for-telly jobs made cider from apples (duh) and they said that apple skin has on it/contains a wild type of yeast
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 12:16, closed)
Yes...
...if you mill and press your apples and leave them nice and quietly in a vat, that is what will happen.

But a cow's gastric juices are strongly acidic, and yeast won't work under those conditions.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 20:11, closed)

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