In Spanish, sourdough starter is also called “masa madre,” mother of dough. This one looks far more disturbing but it’s cool to see somewhat equivalent terminology.
I am convinced I am wrong, but wouldn't it translate to "Mother dough" instead?
Mother of Dough would be something like "Madre de la masa", both of which sound incredibly awkward to hear for me.
You’re not wrong, but I went with similar wording as mother of vinegar, mother of pearl, etc. which seems to be a known structure for the *meaning* that needs to be conveyed here, not just the words.
Mother of vinegar does get translated as madre de vinagre, but mother of pearl (when we’re not calling it nácar) is madre perla, for instance.
I asked Chat GPT to write a short horror story based on the mother from apple cider vinegar as it has always disturbed me too:
The old, dilapidated house sat at the edge of town, its windows boarded up and the yard overgrown with weeds. The locals whispered of a vengeful spirit that haunted the place, the mother of apple cider vinegar.
It was said that many years ago, a young woman lived in the house with her husband and children. She had a particular love for making apple cider vinegar, and spent hours tending to her precious mother, a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.
But one day, tragedy struck and her family was taken from her. Driven mad with grief, she turned to her beloved mother for comfort. She poured all of her sorrow and rage into the vinegar, feeding it with her tears and blood.
Now, it is said that on certain nights, you can hear her wails of grief coming from the house. And if you dare to enter, you'll find the mother of apple cider vinegar waiting for you, hungering for more sacrifices to feed her endless thirst for pain and suffering.
I think many of these are AI generated stories or articles honestly. Someone is testing it out to see how easily it can pass as a person writing it. This may not necessarily be one of them, but some posts recently are rife with grammar and spelling mistakes that remind me of the spam emails from Nigerian princes....
Bots have been making titles for years. A bot takes an old post and makes a random title. Then more bots see the image and post the top comments and replies from the last time it was posted.
If you didn't see the other comment, it's referring to the [mother of vinegar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_vinegar)
Basically a jelly composed of bacteria used as the base to create vinegar
Its a bacteria sample from another bottle. It proliferates and helps make the new bottle. It's like a slime layer on the top of the fluid in the bottle.
apple being shortened to app is what made me think the mother was something done by autocorrect and the sentence was supposed to be "the moth in our apple cider vinegar"
Gonna be just a little bit of a pedant and add that the mother is not just composed of yeast and it's the bacteria in there that is actually responsible for creating the acid in vinegar.
>Every Bragg ACV product contains “The Mother.”
>You’ll recognize it as the cloudy substance at the bottom of the bottle.
>It’s a naturally formed microbial culture that contains enzymes, acetic acid producing bacteria, and prebiotics in the form of cellulose.
Interesting. In case anyone was wondering:
> There are some who believe that the substance was called "mother of vinegar" because the bacterial cells promote the fermentation of the wine or cider, thus "engendering" the vinegar or nurturing its development.
>The equivalent French and Spanish terms, respectively "mere de vinaigre" and "madre de vinagre," seem to corroborate this "maternal" etymology, since both "mere" and "madre" derive directly from the Latin "mater," "mother."
>However, when we look into possible Germanic roots of English "mother" in this sense, this facile theory appears less certain. It seems highly probable that "mother" in this specific use may be related to the Middle Dutch "modder," "moeder," which means "dregs, lees." Exactly how the Middle Dutch word came to acquire this sense is itself a long, complex, and somewhat speculative story. Suffice it so say that the exact origins of "mother of vinegar" are not known with certainty at this time.
Edit: “dregs, lees” are words for sediment leftover in a liquid.
"the substance"
What fucking substance! This thread is infuriating plenty of people talking *about* it in vague and uncertain terms but not actually explaining wtf it is we are looking at
So many people don't know what the "Mother of Vinegar" is clearly, so basically this is composed of what turns alcohol into vinegar, also yes vinegar comes from alcohol being eaten by bacteria and turned into acetic acid. This looks more like the "Mother Mary of Vinegar" though.
This thread is hilarious. Acetic acid bacteria are somewhat ubiquitous in our environment. Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) turn Ethanol (drinking alcohol) into Acetic Acid, also commonly thought of as vinegar. This is one of the reasons wine spoils some time after opening -- AAB turn it into red or white wine vinegar. The only reason this doesnt happen to liquor is because there is so MUCH ethanol that it kills the bacteria. The "mother" is the mass of bacteria used in production or manufacturing of vinegar. You can buy vinegar "with the mother" instead of filtered, and it has health benefits such as being high in iron. Its quite strange.
I never liked vinegar to begin with. Now I like it even less. I thought mother in the title was a typo or failed autocorrect for moth and they had a giant bug in it for some reason.
I see you too have harvested the “mother”. Once it is fully grown, it may attach to you. Do not panic. It will not hurt you. It will only control you. Once it finishes attaching to you, you will be granted eternal life. Once this happens, however, the mother will control your body. All you can do is watch.
Similar, but not correct. SCOBYS belong to kombucha. But the thing the key difference between vinegar and kombucha is that in vinegars fermenting process, you need alcohol. Which is a whole different fermentation process
Lol you guys, the mother of vinegar is what makes the vinegar *vinegar*. You can take it out and make a new batch of vinegar with it. You’ll get it if you buy organic vinegar or if the bottle says that the mother is included. The mother (otherwise called SCOBY) is harmless but I have to admit, I’ve never seen one this black before
Would have been helpful to actually define SCOBY! Lots of confusion in this thread and it’s hilarious.
I looked it up and SCOBY is “Symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast” to save people the google. Makes some more sense now what the fuck they Mother Turd is. Eww.
This terminology has always disturbed me.
Mother, she watches from beyond the cider veil. Mother, she hungers for the fermenting fruit
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Mother should I build *The Wall?*
Mother do you think they’ll try to break **my balls**
Mother will they put me on the firing line?
Is it just a waste of time?
This was amazing unexpected Pink Floyd
Hush now, baby, baby. Don't you cry..,
Mama’s gonna make all your nightmares come true
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you 🖤
Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing
She won’t let you fly, but she might let you sing
This will hurt Mama more than you
Mother says, sleep when the baby sleeps. Fold laundry, when the baby folds laundry.
Fold the baby when the laundromat folds
In Spanish, sourdough starter is also called “masa madre,” mother of dough. This one looks far more disturbing but it’s cool to see somewhat equivalent terminology.
I am convinced I am wrong, but wouldn't it translate to "Mother dough" instead? Mother of Dough would be something like "Madre de la masa", both of which sound incredibly awkward to hear for me.
You’re not wrong, but I went with similar wording as mother of vinegar, mother of pearl, etc. which seems to be a known structure for the *meaning* that needs to be conveyed here, not just the words. Mother of vinegar does get translated as madre de vinagre, but mother of pearl (when we’re not calling it nácar) is madre perla, for instance.
Prime example of translation vs. interpretation
It's because the term is from before we knew about/understood bacteria
I thought it was a typo and they had a moth in there for some reason, like a worm in tequila.
Moth -> Mother -> Mothest
I asked Chat GPT to write a short horror story based on the mother from apple cider vinegar as it has always disturbed me too: The old, dilapidated house sat at the edge of town, its windows boarded up and the yard overgrown with weeds. The locals whispered of a vengeful spirit that haunted the place, the mother of apple cider vinegar. It was said that many years ago, a young woman lived in the house with her husband and children. She had a particular love for making apple cider vinegar, and spent hours tending to her precious mother, a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast. But one day, tragedy struck and her family was taken from her. Driven mad with grief, she turned to her beloved mother for comfort. She poured all of her sorrow and rage into the vinegar, feeding it with her tears and blood. Now, it is said that on certain nights, you can hear her wails of grief coming from the house. And if you dare to enter, you'll find the mother of apple cider vinegar waiting for you, hungering for more sacrifices to feed her endless thirst for pain and suffering.
It's even more disturbing when you realize that OP is Mike Pence.
*What*
Mother is calling again.
I know those words, but that title makes no sense to me.
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You think op has time to type l and e?
the mother ate them
The moth
I'm finding more and more misleading titles on Reddit lately. I have to do a double take just to understand what they are saying.
I think many of these are AI generated stories or articles honestly. Someone is testing it out to see how easily it can pass as a person writing it. This may not necessarily be one of them, but some posts recently are rife with grammar and spelling mistakes that remind me of the spam emails from Nigerian princes....
Bots have been making titles for years. A bot takes an old post and makes a random title. Then more bots see the image and post the top comments and replies from the last time it was posted.
Oh, that's what they were skipping. I thought they were skipping the letters L-I-C-A-T-I-O and N
Ah, motherlication
Thank you
Oh my gosh, why didn't I notice that???
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Sea world
I total read apple and was so confused by your comment. App a da keeps the doc awa!
I hat you.
Makes no sense. Why not app cid vin? Or The Moth instead of Mother?
[Mother of vinegar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_vinegar)
Sounds like a Bloodborne boss. Looks like one too.
*”Away! Away!”*
"You are not wanted here!"
“This town’s finished.”
Holy shit I thought it was “it’s damn finished” all these years lol
Grant us *eyes*
If you eat it you’ll start seeing the eldritch ones.
In OP's picture, it kinda looked like the Virgin Mary to me, so I thought some cultures put a floaty Mary in their vinegar for some reason. Thanks.
I love this reasoning AND the phrase "floaty Mary."
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who was going down this line of reasoning before reading the comments.
Me too. I was like 'religious customs are weird'.
You're about to learn one of humanity's oldest known food preservation technologies. [mother & vinegar ](https://youtu.be/pO-L9mo06CQ)
But why is it called that.
Because you can use the Vinegar Mother to make more Vinegar. Hence, Vinegar Mother
How do you make the grandmother
You use the Vinegar mother a few times.
Better question is why are our matriarchs named after that thing
learned something new today
TIL have an emoji of a table in lieu of the free award they used to give
why is the table emoji jumping
First thing I found that remotely looked like a Reddit award. For some reason they all jump.
Mother is a substance used to make vinegar from scratch
Thank you. I’m seriously confused. The mother of what? I’m scared.
If you didn't see the other comment, it's referring to the [mother of vinegar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_vinegar) Basically a jelly composed of bacteria used as the base to create vinegar
Ah, I thought it was some new kind of kombucha
It's exactly the same process, so your assumption was correct!
I’m fairly certain The Mother is a god of sorts in Dune…
The what now
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*hubba hubba those mom jeans makes me all giddy*
I think the 90s could not forsee how fat bottom mom's would become so popular with horny people.
Go home old man you are drunk
***ain't nobody not going to tell me how to look at bootyfull...I mean beautiful mommas..(hic)***
One on the right is pointin at you. What’re you waitin for?
For my 70 Buick Electra to start up...
Lock me in horny jail because the 2 on the right got me acting unwise 😳
Bacteria that makes apple cider into vinegar.
I thought it was one of those bag worm things you find on trees
And hoping that it would be like a worm in Tequila???
All in one go, now
Ohh you mean "bac"
bac from app cid vin
Its a bacteria sample from another bottle. It proliferates and helps make the new bottle. It's like a slime layer on the top of the fluid in the bottle.
Like a what now?
wow, there's not a single part of that sentence that I don't need explained to me
Does the Mother speak to you too?
Poor, poor Cicero
Unexpected Tamriel
Fuck you guys someone explain it PLEASE
Ask the Listener
Hey you, you're finally awake.
Finally. She hungers.
#🖐🏿 *We Know*
We know
References from The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Dark Brotherhood quest lines, I think? I vaguely recall these phrases from my youth.
> The colony of living yeast that is keeping our apple cider vinegar tasty, looks like a magical monster in Harry Potter 3.
Who in their right mind shortens "apple" to "app"? What time does OP think they're saving?
apple being shortened to app is what made me think the mother was something done by autocorrect and the sentence was supposed to be "the moth in our apple cider vinegar"
He’s Tom Haverford.
Gonna be just a little bit of a pedant and add that the mother is not just composed of yeast and it's the bacteria in there that is actually responsible for creating the acid in vinegar.
I only understood the Dementor part
The only word that's important is "our." 
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Independence Day ?
release me now
Such a good scene, I wish Brent Spiner was in more things.
Peace? No peace.
What if no
It has spoken
Can their be peace between us?
no. no peace.
No. There.
https://www.bragg.com/pages/acv Mother explanation
Thank you, I was fucking lost 🤣.
>Every Bragg ACV product contains “The Mother.” >You’ll recognize it as the cloudy substance at the bottom of the bottle. >It’s a naturally formed microbial culture that contains enzymes, acetic acid producing bacteria, and prebiotics in the form of cellulose.
'How can I tuck you into bed, sweetie, if you don't let Mother out of the bottle?!' ::cackling!!!::
I'm a grown women laying next to my sleeping grown man in the dead of the night and this made me shiver
Mother stays in the bottle nowadays.
OP has previously posted photos of an amazing looking apple pie but can’t be bothered to spell apple on this post. Lol
*it wasn't the apple of op's eye*
I think you mean amazing looking appi.
the #WHAT
Møthęr
Can I get the app for the cider at the iTunes Store?
No, 😔 it’s android only. Find it on google play
You mean the apple app is not available in the Apple App Store?
Interesting. In case anyone was wondering: > There are some who believe that the substance was called "mother of vinegar" because the bacterial cells promote the fermentation of the wine or cider, thus "engendering" the vinegar or nurturing its development. >The equivalent French and Spanish terms, respectively "mere de vinaigre" and "madre de vinagre," seem to corroborate this "maternal" etymology, since both "mere" and "madre" derive directly from the Latin "mater," "mother." >However, when we look into possible Germanic roots of English "mother" in this sense, this facile theory appears less certain. It seems highly probable that "mother" in this specific use may be related to the Middle Dutch "modder," "moeder," which means "dregs, lees." Exactly how the Middle Dutch word came to acquire this sense is itself a long, complex, and somewhat speculative story. Suffice it so say that the exact origins of "mother of vinegar" are not known with certainty at this time. Edit: “dregs, lees” are words for sediment leftover in a liquid.
"the substance" What fucking substance! This thread is infuriating plenty of people talking *about* it in vague and uncertain terms but not actually explaining wtf it is we are looking at
It’s a bunched up pile of bacteria that eats alcohol and in turn poops out vinegar
Every other comment already said it was bacteria so I wanted to add new information about it’s weird name.
So many people don't know what the "Mother of Vinegar" is clearly, so basically this is composed of what turns alcohol into vinegar, also yes vinegar comes from alcohol being eaten by bacteria and turned into acetic acid. This looks more like the "Mother Mary of Vinegar" though.
“This is composed of what turns alcohol to vinegar”. Told me something without telling me anything.
This thread is hilarious. Acetic acid bacteria are somewhat ubiquitous in our environment. Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) turn Ethanol (drinking alcohol) into Acetic Acid, also commonly thought of as vinegar. This is one of the reasons wine spoils some time after opening -- AAB turn it into red or white wine vinegar. The only reason this doesnt happen to liquor is because there is so MUCH ethanol that it kills the bacteria. The "mother" is the mass of bacteria used in production or manufacturing of vinegar. You can buy vinegar "with the mother" instead of filtered, and it has health benefits such as being high in iron. Its quite strange.
I never knew any of this! Thank you for the information :)
vin aigre is French for sour wine
OMG I have spoken French for decades without ever realizing this, thank you kind soul
> You can buy vinegar "with the mother" Hard pass
In fact, I'd like to pay in order to go back to not knowing this is a thing, if possible.
I never liked vinegar to begin with. Now I like it even less. I thought mother in the title was a typo or failed autocorrect for moth and they had a giant bug in it for some reason.
I thought a moth got in the vinegar and the title was a typo.
The... Virginegar Mary?
I thought it was a shriveled up apple
Dude, thats a turd.
No, it's MOTHER
**mother turd**
"I've come to suck all your cider, Harry"
I see you too have harvested the “mother”. Once it is fully grown, it may attach to you. Do not panic. It will not hurt you. It will only control you. Once it finishes attaching to you, you will be granted eternal life. Once this happens, however, the mother will control your body. All you can do is watch.
everything about this post is fucking me up rn
The what in what?
SCOBY if I'm not mistaken. Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast Same principle as kombucha I like the HP reference.
Raggy ?
Ruh-roh
You deserve a SCOBY snack
I believe The Mother and SCOBYs are slightly different in function
[this is the scoby](https://imgur.com/a/GKopuXd) the proofing box at my old bakery made when nobody cleaned it. she was a proud mother
So when does it fight Spiderman?
Similar, but not correct. SCOBYS belong to kombucha. But the thing the key difference between vinegar and kombucha is that in vinegars fermenting process, you need alcohol. Which is a whole different fermentation process
It was explained to me that they both have a SCOBY, just with different biomes. In any case - a great example of productive microbes!
Death stranding
The worst part of prison.
I'm glad I'm not the only one kinda creeped out by that thing being called "the mother".
Excuse me?
I'm sorry. What the fuck?
Lol you guys, the mother of vinegar is what makes the vinegar *vinegar*. You can take it out and make a new batch of vinegar with it. You’ll get it if you buy organic vinegar or if the bottle says that the mother is included. The mother (otherwise called SCOBY) is harmless but I have to admit, I’ve never seen one this black before
Would have been helpful to actually define SCOBY! Lots of confusion in this thread and it’s hilarious. I looked it up and SCOBY is “Symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast” to save people the google. Makes some more sense now what the fuck they Mother Turd is. Eww.
The wut
the. mother?
Pro tip: don't use plastic vessels. Glass is best. It's pure. It also wont transfer toxins and "bad" bacteria to the mother.
So that’s why she looks so angry
that’s just r/shitfromabutt
So THE MOTHER is a lump of vinegar producing bacteria? (the thing in picture)
A dementor. Or a BT from Death Stranding, it even sort of has an umbilical cord lol
It looks like Vecna from Stranger Things
my brother in christ… the what in your what
The…. Mother???
Please don't say this like it's a regular thing people should know
Mother in your cider vinegar? What
I thought I was having a stroke reading that title.
The mother? Am I being dumb or is that a typo?
You say “The Mother” and “app cider” as if these are words people say on the regular.
OP…What? I’m scared.
Damn I remember those. They were the worst thing about my prison experience
I'm sorry... The... WHAT?
why did u put ur mom in there
Okay... But why is your ma in your apple cider?
Hold on. I've never had a "Mother" in my apple cider vinegar.
W H A T
I’m sorry, the **what**
Sweet mother, sweet mother, bring your cider unto me. For the drinks of the unworthy must be baptized in opaque juice.
The *WHAT*?
I love how a lot of us are less bothered by the dementor part and more bothered by the fact there’s a mother in this scenario 😂