So-called “friendship bread” is a ball of dough you cultivate, add ingredients, split off some of the dough, give away some of the dough, make bread, and keep a little bit around to cultivate for the next batch. Whoever gets some of the dough then does the same. I guess the idea is there is some sort of continuity between all these loaves of bread everywhere though (oh dear god forgive me for saying this) time and space.1
Whenever I think about friendship bread I throw up a little bit in my mouth.
What I find far more interesting… is the idea that someone could have a RepRap where every plastic part came from a different machine.
- I don’t profess to be an expert on friendship bread. I could have some of the finer points wrong. [↩]