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Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make bread
(www.cbsnews.com)
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Yeah we used to grind up mummies into powder to make paint and stuff, it was a color called Mummy Brown
holy shit you weren't joking
This Futurama joke makes more sense now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s
Dude we used to grind up mummy and snort it for medicine.
Apparently people used to eat honey till they died, then into a barrel of honey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
Honey mummy, bread mummy, jerky mummy, if we find ourselves a cheese mummy we've got a damn fine sandwich!