Every time a lobster or a cockroach is ready to size up, they have to molt, shedding their old skeleton and leaving them soft and vulnerable for days or weeks while they wait for a new outer shell to harden.
Frenchman Francois Boullier invented the grater way back in the 1540s, as a way of using up cheese that had gone hard.It was an instant hit You'd be 106 if you were doing a souffle!
These can be lifted off by pouring a liquid into them, such as plaster, molten alloys, or silicon rubber, which can later harden and create an impression of the print.
Now the genius enslaved workers would then peel off the wax, soak the hardened rinds in water to soften, create a filling made from other leftover table scraps.