> [yogurt] is thought to have been invented in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC. In ancient Indian records, the combination of yogurt and honey is called "the food of the gods". Persian traditions hold that "Abraham […]
> The cuisine of ancient Greece included a dairy product known as oxygala (οξύγαλα) which was a form of yogurt. Galen (AD 129 – c. 200/c. 216) mentioned […] Pliny the Elder […]
> Until the 1900s, yogurt was a staple in diets of people in the Russian Empire (and especially Central Asia and the Caucasus), Western Asia, South Eastern Europe/Balkans, Central Europe, and the Indian subcontinent. […]
> Dahi is a yogurt from the Indian subcontinent […] derived from the Sanskrit word dadhi […] Dadiah or dadih is a traditional West Sumatran yogurt made from water buffalo milk, fermented in bamboo tubes. Yogurt is common in Nepal […]
(And so on; I stopped quoting…) It's pretty universal and ancient; mentioned even in the Vedic literature. And a common food too: as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curd_rice&oldid=1... says, it is (with rice) consumed ”at the end of almost every South Indian meal”.
You mean the word “yogurt”, I guess, because this is not true otherwise. Some quotes from the Wikipedia article on yogurt (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yogurt&oldid=1081...):
> [yogurt] is thought to have been invented in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC. In ancient Indian records, the combination of yogurt and honey is called "the food of the gods". Persian traditions hold that "Abraham […]
> The cuisine of ancient Greece included a dairy product known as oxygala (οξύγαλα) which was a form of yogurt. Galen (AD 129 – c. 200/c. 216) mentioned […] Pliny the Elder […]
> Until the 1900s, yogurt was a staple in diets of people in the Russian Empire (and especially Central Asia and the Caucasus), Western Asia, South Eastern Europe/Balkans, Central Europe, and the Indian subcontinent. […]
> Dahi is a yogurt from the Indian subcontinent […] derived from the Sanskrit word dadhi […] Dadiah or dadih is a traditional West Sumatran yogurt made from water buffalo milk, fermented in bamboo tubes. Yogurt is common in Nepal […]
(And so on; I stopped quoting…) It's pretty universal and ancient; mentioned even in the Vedic literature. And a common food too: as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curd_rice&oldid=1... says, it is (with rice) consumed ”at the end of almost every South Indian meal”.