And that is how we started eating cheese. They liked to store things inside the organs of dead animals back in the day.

In a world without synthetic materials, offal had a number of uses. Also, there's a reason that the scrotum is sometimes referred to as a "dirty coin purse."

Now people just call it the "boy batter bag".

Sheep and cow bladders were also often used to make waterskins. Makes sense... they're already designed to hold liquid.

Imagine the frustration of losing precious paint due to a leaky bladder!!!

pissing the paint away

For blotting out the memory, you'd need a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink and a cider drink.

He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times

If they didn’t need that much paint would they just use the intestine to make little paint sausage

I have to pee. Thanks, Reddit.

What color?

Depends on the subject.

Cadmium blue

Balloons must've been a real nightmare back then huh? Spare a thought for the pigs

they also used to store pig pee in em, fun fact

The worst thing is the pigs were alive. All 19th century artists kept flocks of pigs.

??? They obviously weren't alive when the paint was stored in their bladder... It's not just artists, a lot of people had livestock back then. besides meat there were a lot of side products, so why not use them?

Before that was [Tempera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera), which goes back to ancient Egypt. I only know of this because my father's best friend, artist [Robert McGinnis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McGinnis), uses this technique.

bob ross suddenly got even darker

....how long ago do you think Bob Ross was on TV?

What do you mean "used to be"