So, fun fact for all of you history dorks, but you know that legend about Cleopatra being so rich and trashy that she would drink her wine with crushed up pearls in it?
Pearls are mostly Calcium Carbonate. When they mix with acids (such as those in wine) they produce carbon dioxide like little balls of fancy alkaseltzer.
What Im saying is, call Cleopatra a trashy hoe all you want, but she was the trashy hoe who invented instant champagne. Bitch was living in 3018 while everyone else was in 18
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Just remembered that the first time I ever heard this story
about Cleopatra was in an article by a historian who’d been arguing with
another historian about whether or not it was true – Other Historian insisted
it was just a legend because pearls could not be dissolved in wine.
OP Historian eventually bought a couple of small cultured
pearls, dissolved them in wine or possibly wine vinegar (it did take a few days
at least), made a salad dressing and served it to Other Historian at a dinner
party as a gotcha.
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