Blood has protein, and salts, minerals and vitamins, amino acids...If you don't have the time or resources to mine salt, need a quick shot of some essential nutrients, blood letting an animal is very effective. According to fit bit, 100 grams of pigs blood has 18.4 grams of protein. So a 3 ounce shot of pigs blood is basically a full spectrum multi-vitamin with added protein.
@@buffdudes Mongolians would blood-let their horses on long rides and that was their only food for days to weeks on end. I read a book a while back and Native American's would eat curdled milk mixed with bison/buffalo blood directly from the udder after they ran them off the cliffs for their yearly hunts. I believe a lot of tribal populations that had any access to milk bearing mammals would mix blood in with milk. Dr. Bill Schindler has covered this in some podcasts he's been on. Very informative and interesting to listen to.
Yea, typically it was smashed with a hammer (lol) into little pieces and cooked in a stew. It would have been eaten as is only in emergency situations, like right before a battle.
Hey guys! I'm a very long time subscriber to your channel (maybe since day 1 lol). Its so awesome to see you guys trying out Mongolian aaruul! My partner is from Mongolia, so we have it every so often at home. Sometimes, aaruul can get too dried out and hard to eat by itself, so usually people will soften it in some tea or hot water. It's actually pretty often sold in the US as a dog chew toy lol, but those ones are always super dried and completely hardened. One last thing: Mongolians pronounce Genghis Khan as "Chinggis Haan" haha I seriously hope you guys never stop making videos. You're one of my favorite channels.
That's amazing! Thank you and tell your partner hi for us as well! We appreciate the proper pronunciation lesson. We'll try our best to keep creating content. 💪
Hard Tack was also used during the Civil War and the soldiers disliked it so much that they changed the lyrics of Stephen Fosters "Hard Times come again no more" to "Hard Tack Come again no more" to sound their displeasure for this food. Did my senior Capstone in College on Music of the Civil War and music about food was a very big thing for them.
In Ireland we eat black and white pudding for breakfast and it's made from a mix of pigs blood and oats thats then fried in a pan. Its actually delicious would highly recommend 🔥
Long time greek fan here! You guys are awesome and I am so happy you guys tried Melana Zomò, disgusting as it may have been! Keep in mind they wouldn't just drink it as is. After adding vinegar to the blood, they would fry pork meat and vegetables and then they added water to the fry mixture/juices. When the water boiled they would add barley flour and then the blood/vinegar mixture. And they ate it usually with barley bread!
Spartans did not drink blood. They *boiled* blood, and made black blood pudding, called Mélas zōmós, or "black soup". Pemmican is sooo addicting. They're expensive, but I recommend The Carnivore Bar, so good.
Hardtacks were first coarse grinded and then were added to boiling soup to increase thickness. The ancient sailors were not really expected to chew that rocky piece of carb as it is. That thick soup used to contain some sort of protein like dried and soaked peas / dried and salted pork (once or twice a week) , pork fat and any other veggies the cook could preserve. The mushy soup used to be the main dish for a sailor. Similar to hardtacks in Europe/ America, the ancient sailors of India used to pack along with normal rice grains --- a lot of puffed rice/ dried flattened rice ('Chida'/ 'Chuda' / ''Poha') which had much larger shelf life.
Blood is also seen as a sign of lifeforce. It is life giving. And in most cultures it is seen as exactly that taking the lifeforce of an animal and building yourself in that way.
the taste of fresh blood is the strangest taste I've ever tried. Dakota/lakota tradition is to take a bite of warm raw liver, fresh from your first hunt kill.
So borrowing from the channel townsend as well as a hiker's practical wisdom; the answer for making all of this palatable is soup/stew. Use a bit of pemmican in the bottom of the empty pot to render out some of the fat for sautéing any greens or veggies you managed to forage (like wild onions) and/or browning any game meat like rabbit, then add water and use the crushed up hard tack as a thickener alongside some portable soup (see the townsend video on it) to make a good broth. Add all that together alongside some salt, pepper, and dried herbs and you've got a satisfying, hearty stew that's actually very tasty. Also hominy cornmeal and corn nuts are a great trail food and good for a lot of purposes. Always make your corn into hominy otherwise it's just decoration for your poop and not worth it.
Melas zomos or Melanas zomos, was not just blood with vinegar. To make it, you must fry pieces of the meat in its fat and then add some water in it. Then you add a little barley flour to start making it a bit thick, but not too thick, you want it to be watery like soup. Then you start adding the blood, which you have mixed beforehand with vinegar to prevent coagulation. Add salt to taste and some water if it has become too thick. Then it is ready to serve it.
The Mongolians would also drink horse blood, I'm not sure if it's that cheese I always imagined it more like cottage cheese but they would make a curd cheese by putting horse milk in leather sacks under their saddlebags, then the heat and motion would churn it up and then they would mix it with horse blood. So they wouldn't need to stop for fires or anything, just a quick stop to bleed the horse and get some of the curd.
I read some accounts of some old-time trappers from the colonial era. A lot of the time they would use the pemmican as part of a dish. They would eat it plain, as you did, if they were on the go and couldn't take time to make camp or a fire but if they could then it would just be an ingredient in the meal. For example they would crumble the pemmican into a pot of beans or soup as it was cooking for added flavor. It was pretty much the early version of a bouillon cube. They would also make a kind of porridge by boiling some water, crumbling the pemmican into it and then adding crumbled hard tack to soften and soak up the broth. Or, if they had enough supplies, combine it all. Beans, water, pemmican and hardtack. Pretty much anything they could do to make if taste better and be more filling. There were more than a few versions of hard tack all with different names (like ships biscuits) thru the ages. Max Miller from the Tasting History channel has done several episodes each on hard tack and pemmican and even the Spartan blood soup. I'm not sure how much of the pure rum they would have given the sailors on board the ship. I think it probably would have been more likely to be grog which is just watered down rum (from what I read in a ratio of 4 parts water to 1 part rum).
The history of tallow use is pretty amazing. We didn't just eat it, but we used it to make soaps, candles, as well as cosmetics and skincare! Not only that, but before the advent of canning, tallow was used for food preservation. :D
I've had hard tack once in my life, school field trip in like 4th grade. It actually tasted quite nice, and didn't almost break my teeth. From my understanding, it was very popular during the Civil War for obvious reasons, which you guys listed.
You should revisit the hard tack and stock fish. You could eat them straight but it was assumed you would put them into stew to cook. The hard tack eventually soaks through and is edible and the stock fish is for making a fish stock base to a soup. Great video fun watch!
14:05 Actually, for a lot of seafaring peoples, a survival technique was unaliving a lowly crewmate and drinking their blood.... This was worst case when stranded at sea, though.
I've been a fan of your channel since I started working out (when I was 17) and I'm 28 now. And I've just come to appreciate how much you guys have improved on-camera. That's not say you were never good, but nowadays I REALLY enjoy the chill brotherly hang-out vibe you guys having when doing more fun videos like this. And how professional yous are when it comes to talking about important fitness and productivity techniques. Keep it up dudes 💪
The more common use for hard tack is to grind it up and put it in stew as a thickener. Making hard tack lets it stay preserved for a long time. And when soaking it in coffee or rum, you actually have to let it soak for long enough to make it soft which is more than a few seconds haha.
the hard tack should have been cooked in water, add salt, pepper und some lard/bacon and an onion and you have brilliant soup. hard tack was the storage and transport form for carbs - not the supposed form for consumation. 🤷♂
@TastingHistory with Max Miller would be a great collaboration for you, Buff Dudes! He knows the history and food and you guys know the physicality of fitness and exercise. Could be some great content!
This is interesting, I didn´t know that in the US it´s not common to eat blood. In many parts of Europe, including the Balkans where I´m from, food with blood is very common. Blood sausage, baked blood... all great stuff. If I remember correctly, the Spartan blood broth was famous because it tasted bad and yet they ate it all the time.
As a norwegian, I would recommend you to come to Norway and try norwegian stock fish! Its really tasty and it comes in lots of varieties! You get it in sort of a chips consitency aswell!
During 18th century there was explorers and people that traded with the native americans. Those guys needed food like pemmican since they easily burnt 5000 calories a day rowing a boat on a river.
blood is good food. bloodsausages and bloodpancakes are one of my favourite foods. you might have better luck to find blood at supermarket, at frozen foods section. :)
I think the dried fish was supposed to be soaked in water first. Don't know if I'm right on this. In the UK we eat Black Pudding - pigs blood and other ingredients like fat, shaped into a sausage. Fry it and eat it with HP Brown Sauce, yummy. Looks a little like Haggis.
I always thought that ancient people re-hydrated those kind of foods before they ate it. Be it with rum or boiled milk or whatever they had within reach.
Butchers in my home area in Minnesota are accustomed to locals asking for a gallon bucket of pig's blood to make blood klub (blood loaf). It's blood mixed with flour and boiled. Delicious!
Hi @buffdudes! Tgis is probably off the topic of survival foods, but in relation to the pork’s blood, in the Philippines, we have this called “dinuguan” which is a dish with ingredients of porks blood and innards and meat. Its a good dish which is a good eaten with rice or with rice cake (“puto”) Anyways, more power to buffdudes! Ive been a following/watching your videos for 2-3 years now! I hope you continue motiviating us! 💪 yeahh!
It hurt just watching you guys bite into hard tack. So for future reference, you would want to crush hard tack and then soak it in soup or whatever for a couple hours. Not just a dip. That crap needs to be soaked.
I'll reply to this comment since I cant seem to comment on the main video. Hardtack was rarely eaten plain because it was meant as a way to easily transport flour. Instead of using a cup of flour for making biscuits you would pull out a block of hardtack, soak it, add a leavener and make biscuits. You could use it to thicken stews and soups and you cout use it with that fresh blood to make a super hearty supper. Also, when it comes to blood think mor on the micros side rather than macros. Because while fresh blood has glucose and amino acids in it the real benefit is the iron, sodium, potassium, and other micronutrients and electrolytes.
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@@backwoodsbrooksknives4625 I appreciate the reply and the education! That's good to know regarding Hardtack. That makes total sense. Guys like us back in the day would've probably been toothless without guys like you, because we'd just continue to chomp into it not knowing any better. 😄
Spartans, and other warrios in ancient armies too, are most likely to be more "athletic" than "muscular". ofc they had a lot of muscles, let alone because testosterone was way higher in ancient times, but because they had mostly not enough food for making so much gains, they also had to be quick, agile and need a lot of stamina. so most likely, they were no massive beasts as depicted in the 300 movie.
Sacred Band of Thebes, a unit said to have been formed of same-sex couples, the Spartan tradition of military heroism has also been explained in light of strong emotional bonds resulting from homosexual relationships.
Great episode! Here in sweden you can buy blood in the supermarket. Atleast here on the countryside. I use to buy that when I make blood sausage/blood pudding/blood bread. Delicious!
I don't see any swedish surströmming there, used by nordic sailors from around the 16th century. Hopefully you can enjoy it in a future episode, but I'd research it and eat it according to modern traditions and not the 'wrong' way most videos depict it. It needs to be served with the proper side dishes as well as opened up in the right way.
@turbomanmechachrist -- I'm reading about Surströmming on Wikipedia: "During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. A newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even stronger than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean hongeohoe, the Japanese kusaya or the Icelandic hákarl." ...I bet that's a smell that would curl your nose hairs, haha! Thanks for the education!
The Maasai include cow blood in their diet. Its very nutrional. Some animals like wolverine, bear and bobcat etc are know to fell an animal just to drink their blood. Maybe to quench thirst or just quick energy. Usually they do come back for the meat.
Brandon would eat dried mushrooms as a viking for berserker mode... also torrfisk is the most well known because of it notorious taste.... It was mostly eaten by the lower ranks(which was like 80%) the rest ate dried meats especially lamb and goat. Would also eat alot of dried salmon and whey..
You should check out Bill Schindler. He's an anthropologist specializing in how prehistoric people obtained and prepared their food. He's also a chef who owns a restaurant called Stone Age Kitchen. He has a book out called Eat Like a Human, which is all about how we can duplicate ancient food prep methods in the modern day.
Hardtack was generally dipped in beer or wine in ancient Greek and Roman times. The gladiators didn't eat it the way you guys were.... just saying. Many of them died with their teeth, a few had a few missing from the front but for the most part they had teeth. Many ate beans, lots of olives, everything was pickled. My husband is from North Africa and they still have Roman roads and waterways still there today. EVERYTHING is pickled cuz it's a desert and even lemons are pickled. What's weird is 20 years ago i was in the Saharan desert with Berber tribes and we ate something that they made of dried yogurt chips and the hard tack. What was weird is that the hardback was dipped In something liquid whitish which I think was a bit of water and sheep's milk with salt. Think of Bulgarian feta cheese water, dipped in there with some type of camel meat. I was scared to eat it because I have gastric diseases but it was good. What's weird is they claim the Romans ate clams and mussels daily despite being days from the coastline. I never believed them until 5 years ago in England, they dug up an old Roman site and found a bath house with mussels and oysters shells all over the place. Despite being far from the coast they claimed the Romans had a way of bringing fresh seafood far into land. Who knows.... maybe the Romans were onto something????
in scotland we eat blackpudding, basically on a daily basis for some people, it's made if dried pigs blood, granted its not liquid blood! however it's probably the whole eating nose to tail. they don't waste food as they probably did not know when they're next meal was going to be! so you would eat to survive.
Hard tack is great because anybody can make it (flour, water, bake the crap out of it ) and it lasts forever . But because of the gluten it's got protein. Add it to any kind of broth and it thickens it up , I make it whenever I got flour about to expire
actually the mongolians was drinking horse blood where they were in deprivation of water.... This was also the case with the Elder Bulgarians (my ancestors)
I heard that Mongolians did put a piece of meat between their horse and saddle and the heat from a horse and repeated pressing did a meat soft to eat. The thing about pig blood is probably a culture difference because east europeans are doing all sorts of products with it. Soup, sausages etc.
Not going to lie (being a huge Halo fan) When I heard Spartan food my mind immediately went to Master Chief eating a sandwich or something. Also Love your guys channel, have been watching for years. You bring Great Content and I am so happy I found this gem in the rubbish bin of RUclips Fitness.
Red thumb, you forgot honey. Honey has been existing for ever, everywhere in world, can be kept for thousands years at room temperature, brings 3000 cals per pound as well as all kind of nutrients.
Here in Hungary we cook the blood with onion, that's a common meal during cutting up a pig at a house. Not so common in the recent decades though. People ate every bit of the animal during hard times. Pork became important in the centuries of ottoman invasion, cause muslims don't eat pork, so they didn't steal it from the hungarians.
You should try English black pudding, its boiled pigs blood and lard it looks like a thick sausage you can eat it raw or cook it usually with breakfast.
Hard tack is still consumed in Newfoundland, Canada... One of the other things that you guys forgot to mention in your video that was eaten also by the Pirates cuz their history is very strong here is salt fish more specifically salt cod.
Very entertaining episode, good job Dudes! 👏 I was hoping to see a can of fermented baltic herring 🇸🇪 Its from the 15-16th century, so I dont know if it qualifies? 😅
My thoughts, soak and boil the fish into a soup, soak the hard tack in it for a bit. Maybe throw that pemmican into a pan and warm it up, fry some eggs with it, or the hard tack to soak up the fat. You guys could have at least tried to enjoy the worst food imaginable. The cheese looked good, I might have put some of that into the fish soup 😂
The Maasai in Africa still to this day drink cow blood. And it’s been said the have no chronic disease. They also drink unpasteurized cow’s milk . Their not the biggest guys. But shredded lean muscle. So what I’m saying is there might be something to the way our ancestors would eat . Possibly we could all benefit from looking back and doing some research. We just might end up being a bit healthier.
In Finland, we have blood sausage, blood pancakes, and blood dumplings (for lack of a better name). Usually, we eat these blood dishes with lingonberry (a very tarty Nordic berry) jam to balance the blood flavor. I would love to try all of these, except the Viking dry ass fish, hate that sht :D
Where did you guys go to buy all this stuff? Pigs blood is actually pretty common in a lot of European and Latin cuisine, blood sausage is very popular.
Great ep guys. Would love if you went deeper into the different cultures, What else did Vikings eat? I know that Mongolians drank their own horses blood
Blood has protein, and salts, minerals and vitamins, amino acids...If you don't have the time or resources to mine salt, need a quick shot of some essential nutrients, blood letting an animal is very effective. According to fit bit, 100 grams of pigs blood has 18.4 grams of protein. So a 3 ounce shot of pigs blood is basically a full spectrum multi-vitamin with added protein.
Just don't forget to add it, if you drink too much, you can get iron poisoning.
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So basically the original protein shake, multivitamin and electrolyte all in one! 💪
@@buffdudes Mongolians would blood-let their horses on long rides and that was their only food for days to weeks on end.
I read a book a while back and Native American's would eat curdled milk mixed with bison/buffalo blood directly from the udder after they ran them off the cliffs for their yearly hunts. I believe a lot of tribal populations that had any access to milk bearing mammals would mix blood in with milk.
Dr. Bill Schindler has covered this in some podcasts he's been on. Very informative and interesting to listen to.
Blood is a disease. just be silent.
Would recommend to everyone, whether they are buff or not, to watch Tasting History if you like this topic.
Clack clack.
Omg, yes lol let's ask him to make blood soup lol
@@pieRana He already did.
Great channel
Yep, that guy is good.
0:59 Normally, hard tack was rehydrated in some way. Max Miller did a couple videos on it.
Yea, typically it was smashed with a hammer (lol) into little pieces and cooked in a stew. It would have been eaten as is only in emergency situations, like right before a battle.
Hey guys! I'm a very long time subscriber to your channel (maybe since day 1 lol).
Its so awesome to see you guys trying out Mongolian aaruul! My partner is from Mongolia, so we have it every so often at home.
Sometimes, aaruul can get too dried out and hard to eat by itself, so usually people will soften it in some tea or hot water. It's actually pretty often sold in the US as a dog chew toy lol, but those ones are always super dried and completely hardened.
One last thing: Mongolians pronounce Genghis Khan as "Chinggis Haan" haha
I seriously hope you guys never stop making videos. You're one of my favorite channels.
That's amazing! Thank you and tell your partner hi for us as well! We appreciate the proper pronunciation lesson. We'll try our best to keep creating content. 💪
Hard Tack was also used during the Civil War and the soldiers disliked it so much that they changed the lyrics of Stephen Fosters "Hard Times come again no more" to "Hard Tack Come again no more" to sound their displeasure for this food. Did my senior Capstone in College on Music of the Civil War and music about food was a very big thing for them.
A collab with Tasting History or How to cook That for the science of old recipes would be great
In Ireland we eat black and white pudding for breakfast and it's made from a mix of pigs blood and oats thats then fried in a pan. Its actually delicious would highly recommend 🔥
Clonakilty White pudding is damn good
Sounds like high protein!
What is it called
Black pudding or white pudding. The Black pudding contains the blood.@@rundown132
@@rundown132black or white pudding.
It's funny cause I always say that. "It don't have to taste good, just keep me alive. If it taste good that's a bonus."
Long time greek fan here! You guys are awesome and I am so happy you guys tried Melana Zomò, disgusting as it may have been! Keep in mind they wouldn't just drink it as is. After adding vinegar to the blood, they would fry pork meat and vegetables and then they added water to the fry mixture/juices. When the water boiled they would add barley flour and then the blood/vinegar mixture. And they ate it usually with barley bread!
Spartans did not drink blood. They *boiled* blood, and made black blood pudding, called Mélas zōmós, or "black soup".
Pemmican is sooo addicting. They're expensive, but I recommend The Carnivore Bar, so good.
We need Sumo diet next.
1) Chanko nabe
2) Rice
3) Rice
4) Rice
5) Rice
6) Rice
@@SomeKidFromBritain Don't forget the rice!
@@TheBcoolGuy Ah yeah, and potentially some miso broth.
Unless Sensei Seth does it first, since he now practices it❤
@@SomeKidFromBritainbeer also
In the UK we have black pudding which is made from pigs blood. It's generally eaten as part of a fried breakfast etc. absolutely delicious!
Stock fish are still a thing here in scandinavia but you do need to boil it in water to make it enjoyable.
you need to soak it in the rum like cereal!
A true pirate breakfast
Hardtacks were first coarse grinded and then were added to boiling soup to increase thickness. The ancient sailors were not really expected to chew that rocky piece of carb as it is. That thick soup used to contain some sort of protein like dried and soaked peas / dried and salted pork (once or twice a week) , pork fat and any other veggies the cook could preserve. The mushy soup used to be the main dish for a sailor.
Similar to hardtacks in Europe/ America, the ancient sailors of India used to pack along with normal rice grains --- a lot of puffed rice/ dried flattened rice ('Chida'/ 'Chuda' / ''Poha') which had much larger shelf life.
Blood is also seen as a sign of lifeforce. It is life giving. And in most cultures it is seen as exactly that taking the lifeforce of an animal and building yourself in that way.
Viking actually did eat blood they would mix the blood into a bread dough the bake it this was primarily used for long voyages as a type of ration
the taste of fresh blood is the strangest taste I've ever tried. Dakota/lakota tradition is to take a bite of warm raw liver, fresh from your first hunt kill.
The blood was meant to be turned into a soup with pork in in 😂
So borrowing from the channel townsend as well as a hiker's practical wisdom; the answer for making all of this palatable is soup/stew. Use a bit of pemmican in the bottom of the empty pot to render out some of the fat for sautéing any greens or veggies you managed to forage (like wild onions) and/or browning any game meat like rabbit, then add water and use the crushed up hard tack as a thickener alongside some portable soup (see the townsend video on it) to make a good broth. Add all that together alongside some salt, pepper, and dried herbs and you've got a satisfying, hearty stew that's actually very tasty. Also hominy cornmeal and corn nuts are a great trail food and good for a lot of purposes. Always make your corn into hominy otherwise it's just decoration for your poop and not worth it.
Melas zomos or Melanas zomos, was not just blood with vinegar. To make it, you must fry pieces of the meat in its fat and then add some water in it. Then you add a little barley flour to start making it a bit thick, but not too thick, you want it to be watery like soup. Then you start adding the blood, which you have mixed beforehand with vinegar to prevent coagulation. Add salt to taste and some water if it has become too thick. Then it is ready to serve it.
The Mongolians would also drink horse blood, I'm not sure if it's that cheese I always imagined it more like cottage cheese but they would make a curd cheese by putting horse milk in leather sacks under their saddlebags, then the heat and motion would churn it up and then they would mix it with horse blood.
So they wouldn't need to stop for fires or anything, just a quick stop to bleed the horse and get some of the curd.
I read some accounts of some old-time trappers from the colonial era. A lot of the time they would use the pemmican as part of a dish. They would eat it plain, as you did, if they were on the go and couldn't take time to make camp or a fire but if they could then it would just be an ingredient in the meal. For example they would crumble the pemmican into a pot of beans or soup as it was cooking for added flavor. It was pretty much the early version of a bouillon cube. They would also make a kind of porridge by boiling some water, crumbling the pemmican into it and then adding crumbled hard tack to soften and soak up the broth. Or, if they had enough supplies, combine it all. Beans, water, pemmican and hardtack. Pretty much anything they could do to make if taste better and be more filling. There were more than a few versions of hard tack all with different names (like ships biscuits) thru the ages. Max Miller from the Tasting History channel has done several episodes each on hard tack and pemmican and even the Spartan blood soup.
I'm not sure how much of the pure rum they would have given the sailors on board the ship. I think it probably would have been more likely to be grog which is just watered down rum (from what I read in a ratio of 4 parts water to 1 part rum).
The history of tallow use is pretty amazing. We didn't just eat it, but we used it to make soaps, candles, as well as cosmetics and skincare! Not only that, but before the advent of canning, tallow was used for food preservation. :D
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Thanks Tonzay, you too
I've had hard tack once in my life, school field trip in like 4th grade. It actually tasted quite nice, and didn't almost break my teeth. From my understanding, it was very popular during the Civil War for obvious reasons, which you guys listed.
You should revisit the hard tack and stock fish. You could eat them straight but it was assumed you would put them into stew to cook. The hard tack eventually soaks through and is edible and the stock fish is for making a fish stock base to a soup.
Great video fun watch!
14:05 Actually, for a lot of seafaring peoples, a survival technique was unaliving a lowly crewmate and drinking their blood.... This was worst case when stranded at sea, though.
6:45 Pemmican would be huge in the Carnivore community right now
Just need to find a supplier
most cities didnt have constant clean water supply back then. it made sense to drink blood.
I've been a fan of your channel since I started working out (when I was 17) and I'm 28 now. And I've just come to appreciate how much you guys have improved on-camera. That's not say you were never good, but nowadays I REALLY enjoy the chill brotherly hang-out vibe you guys having when doing more fun videos like this. And how professional yous are when it comes to talking about important fitness and productivity techniques. Keep it up dudes 💪
The more common use for hard tack is to grind it up and put it in stew as a thickener. Making hard tack lets it stay preserved for a long time. And when soaking it in coffee or rum, you actually have to let it soak for long enough to make it soft which is more than a few seconds haha.
the hard tack should have been cooked in water, add salt, pepper und some lard/bacon and an onion and you have brilliant soup. hard tack was the storage and transport form for carbs - not the supposed form for consumation. 🤷♂
@TastingHistory with Max Miller would be a great collaboration for you, Buff Dudes! He knows the history and food and you guys know the physicality of fitness and exercise. Could be some great content!
Should've tried dipping the hardtack into a bowl of rum. Also break it into smaller pieces with your hands before eating.
This is interesting, I didn´t know that in the US it´s not common to eat blood. In many parts of Europe, including the Balkans where I´m from, food with blood is very common. Blood sausage, baked blood... all great stuff. If I remember correctly, the Spartan blood broth was famous because it tasted bad and yet they ate it all the time.
Just biting off a piece of hard tack and mentioning how hard it, is like dryscooping protein powder and commenting on how dry it is.
Their is supposedly hard tack in a civil war museum in Galena, IL from the civil war and rumor has it, still edible.
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As a norwegian, I would recommend you to come to Norway and try norwegian stock fish! Its really tasty and it comes in lots of varieties! You get it in sort of a chips consitency aswell!
In the north of Portugal there is a typical dish that is chicken cooked with rice and chicken blood, called "Cabidela"
During 18th century there was explorers and people that traded with the native americans.
Those guys needed food like pemmican since they easily burnt 5000 calories a day rowing a boat on a river.
blood is good food. bloodsausages and bloodpancakes are one of my favourite foods. you might have better luck to find blood at supermarket, at frozen foods section. :)
Roman gladiator diet was supposedly cheese and figs. I could get down with that.
I think the dried fish was supposed to be soaked in water first. Don't know if I'm right on this. In the UK we eat Black Pudding - pigs blood and other ingredients like fat, shaped into a sausage. Fry it and eat it with HP Brown Sauce, yummy. Looks a little like Haggis.
Where did you guys GET all this stuff! Love the topic. This video needs more views
I always thought that ancient people re-hydrated those kind of foods before they ate it. Be it with rum or boiled milk or whatever they had within reach.
Butchers in my home area in Minnesota are accustomed to locals asking for a gallon bucket of pig's blood to make blood klub (blood loaf). It's blood mixed with flour and boiled. Delicious!
about the blood, i just think they tended to use every single edible/drinkable part of the animal. They didnt have unlimited food back then
I heard before protein shakes were around some bodybuilders would get blood from the butcher shop to drink
Y'all were enjoying the pemmican! I am looking more into this. Beef fat with dried beef pieces in bar form? Yes please!
The channel Townsend did a video where he makes pemmican and cooks with it
Hi @buffdudes! Tgis is probably off the topic of survival foods, but in relation to the pork’s blood, in the Philippines, we have this called “dinuguan” which is a dish with ingredients of porks blood and innards and meat. Its a good dish which is a good eaten with rice or with rice cake (“puto”)
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One of my favorite video of the channel. Awesome work
Wow, thank you!
Pig's Blood are still consumes to this day, from different countries, with different cuisines.
It hurt just watching you guys bite into hard tack.
So for future reference, you would want to crush hard tack and then soak it in soup or whatever for a couple hours.
Not just a dip. That crap needs to be soaked.
It hurt us too. Thanks for the tip!
I'll reply to this comment since I cant seem to comment on the main video.
Hardtack was rarely eaten plain because it was meant as a way to easily transport flour. Instead of using a cup of flour for making biscuits you would pull out a block of hardtack, soak it, add a leavener and make biscuits. You could use it to thicken stews and soups and you cout use it with that fresh blood to make a super hearty supper.
Also, when it comes to blood think mor on the micros side rather than macros. Because while fresh blood has glucose and amino acids in it the real benefit is the iron, sodium, potassium, and other micronutrients and electrolytes.
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@@backwoodsbrooksknives4625 I appreciate the reply and the education! That's good to know regarding Hardtack. That makes total sense. Guys like us back in the day would've probably been toothless without guys like you, because we'd just continue to chomp into it not knowing any better. 😄
Spartans, and other warrios in ancient armies too, are most likely to be more "athletic" than "muscular". ofc they had a lot of muscles, let alone because testosterone was way higher in ancient times, but because they had mostly not enough food for making so much gains, they also had to be quick, agile and need a lot of stamina. so most likely, they were no massive beasts as depicted in the 300 movie.
Sacred Band of Thebes, a unit said to have been formed of same-sex couples, the Spartan tradition of military heroism has also been explained in light of strong emotional bonds resulting from homosexual relationships.
I’m sure after victory in battle warriors have banquets and sure they had roast meats yummy.
Great episode! Here in sweden you can buy blood in the supermarket. Atleast here on the countryside. I use to buy that when I make blood sausage/blood pudding/blood bread. Delicious!
Stock fish is pretty decent flavor, but it is typically eaten with butter fyi
I don't see any swedish surströmming there, used by nordic sailors from around the 16th century. Hopefully you can enjoy it in a future episode, but I'd research it and eat it according to modern traditions and not the 'wrong' way most videos depict it. It needs to be served with the proper side dishes as well as opened up in the right way.
@turbomanmechachrist -- I'm reading about Surströmming on Wikipedia: "During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. A newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even stronger than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean hongeohoe, the Japanese kusaya or the Icelandic hákarl."
...I bet that's a smell that would curl your nose hairs, haha! Thanks for the education!
Thank you for inspiring me to better my life physically and mentally.
I think you missed the *soaking* part with that rum🤣
The Maasai include cow blood in their diet.
Its very nutrional.
Some animals like wolverine, bear and bobcat etc are know to fell an animal just to drink their blood. Maybe to quench thirst or just quick energy.
Usually they do come back for the meat.
Brandon would eat dried mushrooms as a viking for berserker mode... also torrfisk is the most well known because of it notorious taste....
It was mostly eaten by the lower ranks(which was like 80%) the rest ate dried meats especially lamb and goat. Would also eat alot of dried salmon and whey..
You should check out Bill Schindler. He's an anthropologist specializing in how prehistoric people obtained and prepared their food. He's also a chef who owns a restaurant called Stone Age Kitchen. He has a book out called Eat Like a Human, which is all about how we can duplicate ancient food prep methods in the modern day.
Hardtack was generally dipped in beer or wine in ancient Greek and Roman times. The gladiators didn't eat it the way you guys were.... just saying. Many of them died with their teeth, a few had a few missing from the front but for the most part they had teeth. Many ate beans, lots of olives, everything was pickled. My husband is from North Africa and they still have Roman roads and waterways still there today. EVERYTHING is pickled cuz it's a desert and even lemons are pickled. What's weird is 20 years ago i was in the Saharan desert with Berber tribes and we ate something that they made of dried yogurt chips and the hard tack. What was weird is that the hardback was dipped In something liquid whitish which I think was a bit of water and sheep's milk with salt. Think of Bulgarian feta cheese water, dipped in there with some type of camel meat. I was scared to eat it because I have gastric diseases but it was good. What's weird is they claim the Romans ate clams and mussels daily despite being days from the coastline. I never believed them until 5 years ago in England, they dug up an old Roman site and found a bath house with mussels and oysters shells all over the place. Despite being far from the coast they claimed the Romans had a way of bringing fresh seafood far into land. Who knows.... maybe the Romans were onto something????
Should try Spartan black stew.
in scotland we eat blackpudding, basically on a daily basis for some people, it's made if dried pigs blood, granted its not liquid blood! however it's probably the whole eating nose to tail. they don't waste food as they probably did not know when they're next meal was going to be! so you would eat to survive.
Hard tack is great because anybody can make it (flour, water, bake the crap out of it ) and it lasts forever . But because of the gluten it's got protein. Add it to any kind of broth and it thickens it up , I make it whenever I got flour about to expire
actually the mongolians was drinking horse blood where they were in deprivation of water.... This was also the case with the Elder Bulgarians (my ancestors)
hardtack+pemmican, crushed together, in a bowl, just add hot liquid (wine, beer) and let soften. nom nom away.
Shout out to the polish "blood sausage" known as Kaszanka or Krupniok!
...also Pemin is very similar to "Smalec ze skwarkami" (lard with cracklings). Still a staple, especially at weddings
In Poland, we not only make a sausage with blood, but a soup also. Its called "Czernina"
I heard that Mongolians did put a piece of meat between their horse and saddle and the heat from a horse and repeated pressing did a meat soft to eat. The thing about pig blood is probably a culture difference because east europeans are doing all sorts of products with it. Soup, sausages etc.
General Tso of Ming Dynasty fav meal was some kind of fried battered chicken pieces with a sweet and sour sauce.
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Not going to lie (being a huge Halo fan) When I heard Spartan food my mind immediately went to Master Chief eating a sandwich or something. Also Love your guys channel, have been watching for years. You bring Great Content and I am so happy I found this gem in the rubbish bin of RUclips Fitness.
You guys should taste test different kinds of insects. I’ve heard they are high in protein.
In Canada we fought a 9 year war known as the Pemmican war over pemmican that's how important it was to the fur trade and the conquest of the north.
Pig blood. Go anywhere outside USA and it’s easily available
Yeah I was surprised do they just throw it away?
@@STEVEIAM1no part of an animal is wasted in modern slaughterhouses. Everything is useful somehow
Yeah, I find it interesting how we have all these food restrictions yet we're the sickest people in the world.
Red thumb, you forgot honey. Honey has been existing for ever, everywhere in world, can be kept for thousands years at room temperature, brings 3000 cals per pound as well as all kind of nutrients.
Here in Hungary we cook the blood with onion, that's a common meal during cutting up a pig at a house. Not so common in the recent decades though. People ate every bit of the animal during hard times. Pork became important in the centuries of ottoman invasion, cause muslims don't eat pork, so they didn't steal it from the hungarians.
You should try English black pudding, its boiled pigs blood and lard it looks like a thick sausage you can eat it raw or cook it usually with breakfast.
Hard tack is still consumed in Newfoundland, Canada... One of the other things that you guys forgot to mention in your video that was eaten also by the Pirates cuz their history is very strong here is salt fish more specifically salt cod.
Pemmican more commonly used bison during the nineteenth century. It fuelled the North American fur trade. Here in Canada we even had a “Pemmican War.”
Very entertaining episode, good job Dudes! 👏 I was hoping to see a can of fermented baltic herring 🇸🇪 Its from the 15-16th century, so I dont know if it qualifies? 😅
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I can recomend the swedish ”black soup”, made with goose blood
Another awesome episode from you guys! Would love to see more history episodes from you guys. You make it fun!
You forgot one crucial warrior food staple: the entrails of your enemies. But you can always make a Part 2.
My family is from Durango Mexico and they cook pigs blood to this day. I’ve never tried it myself but apparently it tastes good. I could never
My thoughts, soak and boil the fish into a soup, soak the hard tack in it for a bit. Maybe throw that pemmican into a pan and warm it up, fry some eggs with it, or the hard tack to soak up the fat. You guys could have at least tried to enjoy the worst food imaginable. The cheese looked good, I might have put some of that into the fish soup 😂
I'm surprised there wasn't the gladiator bean and veggie soup!
Soak hard tack in melas zomos, top with aaruul and pemmican. It would be one of the flavors of all time
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The Maasai in Africa still to this day drink cow blood. And it’s been said the have no chronic disease. They also drink unpasteurized cow’s milk . Their not the biggest guys. But shredded lean muscle. So what I’m saying is there might be something to the way our ancestors would eat . Possibly we could all benefit from looking back and doing some research. We just might end up being a bit healthier.
In Finland, we have blood sausage, blood pancakes, and blood dumplings (for lack of a better name). Usually, we eat these blood dishes with lingonberry (a very tarty Nordic berry) jam to balance the blood flavor. I would love to try all of these, except the Viking dry ass fish, hate that sht :D
Try making bloodpancakes with lingonberry and rye hardtack. It's very good. We had it at least once every two months in school.
Where did you guys go to buy all this stuff?
Pigs blood is actually pretty common in a lot of European and Latin cuisine, blood sausage is very popular.
Love you guys, so fun to watch you, I would suggest you to bring more foods to try because it is so fun!
Great ep guys. Would love if you went deeper into the different cultures, What else did Vikings eat? I know that Mongolians drank their own horses blood