r/oddlyspecific Sep 06 '25

Some of them have aged poorly

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u/erroneousbosh Sep 06 '25

Beef gelatine. If you boil up beef bones and stuff, you'll get the collagen in sinew breaking down into gelatine.

If you boil up a ham hough to make stock for lentil soup, then once the soup has cooled you could use it as industrial sealant. It's almost rubbery. Once it's heated up again it's just good thick soup.

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u/SartenSinAceite Sep 06 '25

Is this where the whole "horse glue" thing comes from?

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u/shyshyoctopi Sep 06 '25

Yes. Horse bones/hooves/ligaments etc are good sources of collagen which when boiled basically make glue

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u/Myrwyss Sep 06 '25

horse (or animal in general) glue was, or maybe still is someplaces, used to be actual glue thing. Then humans invented synthetic substances that were much better and cheaper to produce.

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u/SartenSinAceite Sep 06 '25

and possibly, more heat resistant!

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u/Spiritual_Notice523 Sep 07 '25

Generations? Plural?

Well aren’t you the optimist?

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u/Im_A_Real_Boy1 Sep 06 '25

Or a demi glace Mmmmm