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Grass given an afterlife as cow sushi, fermented in its own airtight sulk.
means The process of storing green fodder (like grass or corn) in a silo, where it ferments and stays preserved as moist feed for livestock through the winter.
from Borrowed from French 'ensilage,' built on 'en-' (into) plus 'silo' — and 'silo' itself traces back to Spanish 'silo,' from Latin 'sirus,' from Greek 'siros,' meaning a pit for holding grain. So the word has always meant exactly this: put the harvest in a hole, seal it, let time and bacteria do the preserving.
- process
- chopped crops packed anaerobic to pickle, not rot
- chemistry
- lactic acid bacteria turn sugars sour, not spoiled
- smell test
- farmers judge quality by its tangy funk
- origin
- from French ensiler, to store in a pit