Why is the the military meddling in every single thing on this planet? I was reading up on instant coffee of all things and saw: "High-vacuum freeze-dried coffee was developed shortly after World War II, as an indirect result of wartime research into other areas." And now I'm afraid that soon enough somebody will tell me that coffee spread all around the globe because of The Great War or some other major human sacrifice.
@kensanata There are tons of technologies that stem from military research, the most obviously ubiquitous relating to food tech, and shelf-stability in particular (things like Twinkies come to mind). There's a pretty fantastic episode of 99% Invisible about this, called "War and Pizza". https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/war-and-pizza/
@rpdillon I thought I had listened to their entire archive but I must have missed that one!