funny kefir microbe names
- Subject: funny kefir microbe names
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:39:21 -0600
- Yahoo! Message Number: 95078
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Dear Kefir Krowd,
I am trying to change the subject by getting interested in the micro-guys in the milk kefir grains. I am interested in this because I want to try to do another fermented food that would increase even more the different kinds of the microbes available.
Dom has one list that combines a list of the milk kefir grains and a list of the sugary (water) kefir grains. I don't know why he combined the two lists. So there is no way to tell from his list which is watery and which is sugary. But there are 25 different microbes in the combined list.
There is another list below the 1st list that is just milk kefir grains, and it has 56 microbes.
One would have to be a microbiologist to explain the discrepancy; I am not a microbiologist. Suffice it to say that this is a very complicated matter. But what is interesting and funny is some of the names for some of these microbes. There are so many microbes in the world that it is no wonder that someone gave them strange and funny names:
Lactobacillus casei subspecies tolerant
Lactobacillus fructose
Lactobacillus hilarities [as in hilarious]
Lactobacillus homophobia [I dare not comment on this one.]
Lactobacillus. admonishes [I just love this one]
Saccharomyces pretoriensis [as in Michael Pretorius, a very wonderful composer in the 1600's]
Lactobacillus fermentum [as in ferment]
Candida humilis [as in humility]
It would not surprise me if Dom named some of these microbes. I don't know if the homophobia subspecies goes with the tolerant and the admonishes strains. An expert in Ancient Greek and Latin could probably find more funny and interesting names.
Roger
Mitchell and Katrina Bird's Incredibly Lucky Daddy
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