When this was baked: France was still run by a Bonaparte Samurai still existed Italy didn’t exist yet Germany didn’t exist yet The Ottoman Empire was still a world power Whaling was still legal Dueling was still legal The source of the nile was still unknown The Suez Canal had yet to be cut
There's an uncanny valley to some of his comments, "it's not very good, but if you had to survive", put that in parallel context, nobody in 1865 were eating hardtack from 1705 😂
AnakinKB Especially on a small, magical wall of light and moving pictures that can be shared with the world in an instant. Almost like the pictures he's aware of but moving.....and in color.....with sound.....being shared with the fucking world...lol His brain would explode.
Tasting History just did a video on Hardtack and mentioned someone had a video of someone eating some from the civil war, my first though was "I don't remember seeing Steve1989 doing that", but yep, here hie is...
I read that honey last forever and they have found jars of honey in Egyption tombs thats 3k years old or older. We need to get Steve some thousand year old honey
At this point, I'm fairly certain the germs have just accepted his stomach's independence and left it at that. "We're not in the business of fighting unwinnable battles"
@@Nothingseen Steal back! Today, we're going to try this ancient ration from the Bering Strait: mammoth marrow pemmican biscuits with fossilized seal blubber.
"Tastes like moth balls and old library books." That was my flavor suggestion for the Lays potato chip contest, but I got edged out by someone that came up with "biscuits and gravy."
I suggested biscuits and gravy. I am from Kentucky so it is a staple in our diet and then some city girl won it and she had the fakest story. It pissed me off. Rigged as fuck. I had that shit planned for months.
200 years from now your great grandson will carry on the tradition by eating a impecably well preserved McDonalds Cheeseburger from the turn of the milennia.
During the Civil War, a Union soldier was issued 9 or 10 of these hardtack biscuits a day. Sometimes a soldier could eat his day's allotment and still be hungry. There was a dish called skillygalee, where you would take the hardtack and soak it in cold water, then fry it in pork fat adding salt to taste. Or you could toast them over an open fire and add butter if you could find it. There were many ways to eat it.
Well, you easily taste when milk goes bad and even when it does, it's not as if it'll make you sick. At least in my experience, when it starts tasting more cream like, it's time to throw although you can still take a few sips if you want. This is usually a week after opening it and a few days after the expiration date. However, I'm the type that never leaves things out of the fridge for long. I just pour myself a glass and put the milk back in. Same with butter and all other things. It never reaches even close to room temp. If you're in a family and eating meals together, placing everything on the table, it might not last as long. But if you're alone like me, just making your own portions and then going to the couch to eat, then things'll last longer.
funny but their is no such thing as General Tso til the name caught on to a American made for dish. its not a Chinese dish but a dish for americans eating in a Chinese restaurant.
@@halfachamorro well there is such thing as general tsos chicken. It really exists. But as you said, its an american chinese inspired dish served by american quick serve chinese restaurants. Its similar to a few different actual chinese as well as southeast asian dishes and is likely inspired by one or more of them. However, there was a somewhat well known chinese general of the name Tso. There are still living descendants of this man living in the region he is from to this day. And they have absolutely no idea where this recipie comes from.
They're not horribly rare, there have been thousands of crates full of 4-6oz hardtack trackers unearthed still in edible condition from the American Civil War.
Reminds me of fridge mystery food events from Persona 4. "This is one of the few remaining pieces of hardtack from the American Civil War, multiple generations of people have lived and died since this thing was baked." ".........Eat it?"
Watched another video about making Hard Tack. They said "there's a guy on the Internet that actually ate hard tack from the Civil War"; and I thought... I bet I know who that guy is :)
This man is a certified BEAST for eating these old rations. I remember the first video of him I saw where he ate an old can of beef from 120 years ago!
I am a Cook for a Civil War re-enactment group, been doing it for over 30 years now, I began many years ago frying my hard tack in bacon fat, which is something just about every soldier & battlefield cooks had on hand with a lot of bacon, grease & hard tack, frying for a minute or 2 makes the outside crust much softer with an easier to bite crunch to it & the inside soft, & the bacon grease gives it an excellent flavor especially when adding a couple of spices, I got this idea from an older Lady I met on the battlefield at Gettysburg once with our group camping out & she showed me a letter that had been passed down in her Family for years, one of her relatives that fought in the war had written home to his Wife & mentioned the food they ate, including the hard tack & he said it could break teeth, but many began frying in bacon fat which made it much better to eat & add oregano. Since most soldiers & cooks back then did have bacon handy they had bacon fat/grease & used it for this purpose.
Reminds me of my old Morrowind days, where I was amazingly capable of eating random scales, scrap metal, and other junk in exchange for tiny alchemy gains (and just to clear inventory).
> You opened the fridge. > There is a rather old looking hardtack in there... > This piece of condensed flour has lasted through several milestones of modern human history. > Since its creation during the American Civil War, many generations of people have lived and died since its advent. > It has survived the Second Industrial Revolution, World War I, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Great Depression, World War II alongside the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, the Cold War with its proxies, the Space Race, the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the creation of the Internet. > Eat it...?
This is amazing, we are watching it for homeschool tomorrow, then making hardtack.👍👍👍👍👍👍 Update: we made the hardtack. My daughter even ate some. She loves onion soup so we can reconstitute them in that. I did not make her watch a "how too". I researched that myself and she watched this and found it much more interesting
You know what makes this channel so great? You actually use and partake of the history that most who would have an interest in would keep tucked away in a safe or on display in a glass case. These old MREs and silverware are stamps of history that most wouldn’t dream of using or eating lol But you have old, civil war era silverware... you use it. It may just be me but that just blows my mind. I have crap from 20 years ago that I’m negligent to use because it’s “old.” Life is short and spoiler alert, we die at the end. So it’s nice to actually see some interaction with pieces if history rather than just a glance from behind a glass pane. This is obviously not to say that everything that’s old should be played with but actually being involved with the history you own is a far more palatable approach than simply letting them outlive you on a shelf, covered in dust.
I did find an extremely old can of Hershey's syrup in my grandmother's basement. No rust holes, no bulging. I've always been tempted to open it... just afraid that some Genie will pop out.
I love that you can do all that you can to discuss authenticity and not be derailed with something that isn't quite genuine. I'm not as interested as some seem in that you eat something from over a hundred fifty years ago, but having a description seems good.
@Adam Defibaugh Bad example, they're mostly indigenous! That they had to create a government to protect themselves from Indonesian/American aggression is a different story. As a people, they're much, much older than the US... nice try
I was starting to really get hungry during midnight listening Townsends videos as I was working. So switching to this killed my appetite really fast. Thanks! I hate eating at night.
The thing is that hardtack is basically a wet piece of bread baked into a hard biscuit. It's *this solid* when its made. The specific reason was that maggots didn't eat it. Weevils got into them if I remember correctly. Wood weevils.
@@SonofSethoitae That's not necessarily true. Even the ancient Romans understood this, though meat was too expensive for most people. There was an understanding that meats provided a level of strength and energy different to grain to put it simply. Having a balanced diet has always been known to be healthy, there just wasn't a way to scientifically explain it is what I'm trying to say.
"Ooh, there was sediment in the bottom....mm!" I don't know how I stumbled across this channel today but I've now watched a few videos of this dude eating and smoking things ranging from 45 to 153 years old. Surprisingly entertaining, and the commentary is actually hilarious. Steve all you have to do now is find a cracker from before July 4, 1776 and eat it. Then you'll be able to say you've eaten things older than this country. Subbed.
My biggest fear is that one day you'll eat something like this and love it so much that you'll want some more but you'll never be able to find it again and it will drive you crazy
Goddam i love you steve u have no idea but ur videos actually helped me get through a really difficult time in my life ur entertainment provided a distraction for me that honestly i needed so bad i hope ur doing well
Went into the attic of my home this house was built by my 5 generations back Grand father. Moving things around I found the field pack of my 4 generations back Grand father who served in the 2nd Louisiana Cavalry. In that pack was a paper with words hardtack and something Mass. has to be the same company. I guess he took it off of a dead yankee. No hardtack in the pack did find musket balls cloth and letters and his knife. I really enjoy your videos and binge watch them. keep up the great work.
There are pieces of hard tack that still remain from my great grandfather (many generations back) that still exist from the Gettysburg War. His name is Frederick Gilhousen. Its mindblowing to look at.
When this was baked:
France was still run by a Bonaparte
Samurai still existed
Italy didn’t exist yet
Germany didn’t exist yet
The Ottoman Empire was still a world power
Whaling was still legal
Dueling was still legal
The source of the nile was still unknown
The Suez Canal had yet to be cut
I learned sum new shit 2day
And now, gonna turn it to poo
Italy existed lol
slavery wasn't abolished yet either
1863 WV broke off from VA and became a state
this is why Steve is not allowed in museums anymore.
he eats the mummies??? so no admittance for steve anymore
@@1worldgaming18 Well they're perfectly spiced after all...
Steve probably tried to eat the paintings.
He eats everything but their food.
😂😂😂
wonder when he gonna eat the 1620 Mayflower rations tho
im waiting for him to eat bread from an Egyptian tomb.
@@reinererki3016 because his dad was horny one night
@@arthurmead5341 nice
Dinosaur jerky
Lolol
"I had biscuits that were 65 years newer that tasted worse than this"
gotta be the hardest roast in food history
More of a bake than a roast
There's an uncanny valley to some of his comments, "it's not very good, but if you had to survive", put that in parallel context, nobody in 1865 were eating hardtack from 1705 😂
and all of Steve’s viewers going “yep. he sure has”
@@darrenthetuber743Even “fresh” hardtack isn’t great. It’s like eating a bathroom tile unless you have hot liquid to soften it up.
@@TlizerzDip it in your pick of soup, coffee, or hot chocolate.
I bet the dude making that didnt think it'd be eaten in 153 years.
AnakinKB Ha, yeah!…
Soldier: here's the last piece of hardtack, sir.
Gen. Grant: Save it for Steve. He'll want to review it in about 153 years.
Perktube1 save that for our great great great grandkids
AnakinKB i bet the dude who made this dusnt think the men at the time would eat that shit
AnakinKB
Especially on a small, magical wall of light and moving pictures that can be shared with the world in an instant.
Almost like the pictures he's aware of but moving.....and in color.....with sound.....being shared with the fucking world...lol
His brain would explode.
lol
Things Steve has eaten off-screen: rubber tires, mothballs, old library books.
Steve upon opening a tin of Wehrmacht Shokacola
*It smells like an old wooden chest*
and glass
He chewing condom for fun
Compliment to the chef that is probably nothing but a skeleton in the ground somewhere.
"PROBABLY"
150 years.... Nope that's beyond skeleton
Rika the Snowleoparrd some dirt somewhere
More like his great great great grand son.
Literally crying
Tasting History just did a video on Hardtack and mentioned someone had a video of someone eating some from the civil war, my first though was "I don't remember seeing Steve1989 doing that", but yep, here hie is...
ditto, Steve is just the default old food eater unless stated otherwise
I just watched that video and now I’m here
@@mynameisbed youtube has more plot lines than marvel lmao
I wish he'd linked it in the description.
@@ArchiveTheMyth it’s always either Steve or New England Wildlife and More
I read that honey last forever and they have found jars of honey in Egyption tombs thats 3k years old or older. We need to get Steve some thousand year old honey
This needs to happen!
Agreed!!!
Yeah but it must have some sickness like smallpox or polio lol
How about some 12,000 year old mammoth from Siberia?
@@KoushikH Honey and sugar-yes-Coffee(except for instant)-not so much.
His stomach is fighting a second Civil War
With his bowels
😂😂😂😂
At this point, I'm fairly certain the germs have just accepted his stomach's independence and left it at that. "We're not in the business of fighting unwinnable battles"
Bro 💀
🤣 Love it, Jason, 🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Steve: Replacing the old "10 second rule" adage, with his personal "10 century rule".
10 decades is more like it...Or 15.
Decades. But yeah
@@StormOfMaat 10 decades wouldn't be enough, then it would have gone past the time limit.
@@cathsaigh2197 1860's are 15 decades ago, lol you missed the joke
@@StormOfMaat As if Steve wouldn't eat a Roman Empire war ration if given the chance, lol.
Indie: “It belongs in a museum!”
Steve: “It belongs on a tray!”
Nice
Steve in king tuts tomb. Hm, look at this, petrified berries and bread, “nice” takes bite, tastes like embalming fluid and old cloth.
*takes another bite*
Hes teriyaki flavored.
**steve pushes open a sarcophagus**
*nice hiss*
“N I C E...!”
Nice mmkay
This 30-year-old instant type 1 coffee should pair nicely with my 163-year-old hardtack.
156 you shot over by 6 years
Nicce
type 1 coffee instant *FTFY
"Finally, some fresh coffee!"
Do they still produce that type 1 coffee though?
Dude in 2172 be like: I'm going to eat a Cheez-It from 2019.
Lmao
You won’t be alive then
@@ericcartman3684 bet
Or a McDonald's french fry.
The descendant of Steve
That "I am no longer affiliated with the Ration Museum as of..." makes me think that Steve ate something that he shouldn't have.
Makes you wonder
Nah, they stole from him.
@@Nothingseen could you elaborate?
@@Nothingseen
Steal back!
Today, we're going to try this ancient ration from the Bering Strait: mammoth marrow pemmican biscuits with fossilized seal blubber.
@@manictigerHow about some 65+ million year old mesozoic biscuits with dinosaur jerky?
"It could be produced cheaply and it would last for years."
Like at least 150 years?
It tastes like mothballs and slavery
@Nic777 Dry
"Tastes like moth balls and old library books."
That was my flavor suggestion for the Lays potato chip contest, but I got edged out by someone that came up with "biscuits and gravy."
Meh, same difference really.
underrated comment
its ok lets try for a cheetos version! maybe we can add in some peppers! make it spicy mothballs and library books!
I suggested biscuits and gravy. I am from Kentucky so it is a staple in our diet and then some city girl won it and she had the fakest story. It pissed me off. Rigged as fuck. I had that shit planned for months.
i can't decide which flavor i like best,mothball,library book,eraser,or rubber tire,oh hell,just eat one these and ya get all of them,lol
1863 - I bet you will be able to fly in the future.
2019 - Man eats 156 year old biscuit
How far we've come...
I mean we are able to fly... in airplanes.
@SuperVlog Time that grammar is simply incredible. 10 out of 10 sir.
Friend, in 1863: noooo....he's too fat
💀💀😂
This was my favorite food I used to eat with the boys while I was giving my Gettysburg Address.
Glad you were able to catch the vid, big Abe.
Hi, Abe. Apparently, the reports of your death were greatly exaggerated. Must have been all those mothball crackers w/the boys.
How your head feeling heard a democrat shot you
@@aaronkuminski3743 Republicans now cuz the flip
@@danielmiyahara9089 🤣
Abraham Lincoln was still alive when this thing was made.
And Marilyn Monroe was net yet born when this thing was made.
And Japan was still under the Shogunate's rule, and public electricity grids didn't exist yet.
Anime didn’t exist.... Hell yeah!
Abraham lincoln dead in1865
Ronald RayGun nooooooo
"stored all those years...still edible."
You and I clearly differ greatly on our definition of edible.
Just cuz it fits in yo mouth
still very impressive though if it's still mostly carbohydrates
I'm not sure that it was edible in 1863
@@thishonestgrifter 😂😂
@@thishonestgrifter lol
You ate something older than Germany
and Italy
And italy
And modern Poland
@Pirulito Socialista oia, br
Older than Soviet Union
Can't wait till he eats Caesar's salad.
😆😆😆
aCthUaLly, it was created in 1923 by Caesar Cardini. Which now that I think about it, would still be applicable for the channel...
Best dad joke hands down
Tossing Caesar’s Salad
Steve tasting bread from the last supper: "mmm... it's very bland"
“pretty bland, but you can really taste the body of Christ, nice rich Jesus flavor there.”
@@passivegiant2708 lol
“Very well preserved”
😂😂😂😂
Proceeds to poke it with a fork: "hmm, nice hiss. As expected from the body of christ"
Next up: an ancient Sumerian military LRP ration from 4000 B.C.
Then the first sheep noah and his family ate after the flood.
@@toffeegamer4672 lol
Then the forbidden fruit from Eden :-D
Lol
The first atomic molecule before the big bang.
200 years from now your great grandson will carry on the tradition by eating a impecably well preserved McDonalds Cheeseburger from the turn of the milennia.
200 years from now, his great grandson would be at least 100 years old.
200 years from now, all mcdonalds food will be preserved
I work at mcdonalds and the cheeseburgers actually go bad after 3 hours
Rommel Tj
Legally speaking, yes.
With how much preservatives they have, it’ll still be “edible”. All you’ll have to do is go to a junkyard and find one under the seat of a minivan.
During the Civil War, a Union soldier was issued 9 or 10 of these hardtack biscuits a day. Sometimes a soldier could eat his day's allotment and still be hungry. There was a dish called skillygalee, where you would take the hardtack and soak it in cold water, then fry it in pork fat adding salt to taste. Or you could toast them over an open fire and add butter if you could find it. There were many ways to eat it.
This is the most optimistic person I've ever seen
**submerges old yeast in water and fishes it out to eat**
"wow, that actually tastes worse!"
You mean “foolish”?
His guardian angels must be working around the clock!
medical community: how the f*** is polio back
steve: 👀
Andy Boy
I LOL’d! so hard. 🤣
It isn't from steve, it's from those anti vaxxers. Polio is actually back I think.
@@PinkFloydBootlegs r/woosh
Afro Luffy ihavereddit
《 ᴀᴛᴀɢᴏ-ɴɪsᴛ 》 ihaveihavereddit
Next: petrified mammoth strip jerky from 10,000 BC
yup
"Alright, now lets get this bit of mammoth out on a tray " *quick edit to show the mammoth on a tray* "Nice!"
Mammoths were around like 4000 years ago.
nice hiss
Gordon Ramsay: "Is the mammoth frozen?"
Scientist: "Yes, for about 10,000 years."
Gordon Ramsay: "Fuck me..."
i still come back to this video to remind myself to not throw that 3 day old milk away
It's not bad if it still smells good lmao.
Milk usually lasts a week after its determined expiration date
You should buy goat milk, it last much longer, especially pasteurized and left unopened in the fridge could last for months. *Not USDA recommended.
Save them for Steve's grandkids
Well, you easily taste when milk goes bad and even when it does, it's not as if it'll make you sick. At least in my experience, when it starts tasting more cream like, it's time to throw although you can still take a few sips if you want. This is usually a week after opening it and a few days after the expiration date. However, I'm the type that never leaves things out of the fridge for long. I just pour myself a glass and put the milk back in. Same with butter and all other things. It never reaches even close to room temp. If you're in a family and eating meals together, placing everything on the table, it might not last as long. But if you're alone like me, just making your own portions and then going to the couch to eat, then things'll last longer.
Lmao “here are some fossilized crumbs that will be donated to the ration museum.. and here is a perfectly preserved piece I will now chow down on”
The irony is extreme here.
Credit where due, rations are meant to be eaten someday...
Next: General Tso's Chicken made by General Tso
SecretAgentMan00 😂😂
That was clever I won’t lie 😂😂
The inventor of that was from the 1950’s so not that crazy
funny but their is no such thing as General Tso til the name caught on to a American made for dish. its not a Chinese dish but a dish for americans eating in a Chinese restaurant.
@@halfachamorro well there is such thing as general tsos chicken. It really exists. But as you said, its an american chinese inspired dish served by american quick serve chinese restaurants. Its similar to a few different actual chinese as well as southeast asian dishes and is likely inspired by one or more of them.
However, there was a somewhat well known chinese general of the name Tso.
There are still living descendants of this man living in the region he is from to this day. And they have absolutely no idea where this recipie comes from.
I think one day we're gonna catch Steve at the Smithsonian when no one's looking, with his teeth clamped onto a dinosaur leg.
Remind me not to take a drink while reading comments on RUclips XD
"Nice hiss!"
Perktube1
lolololol
He proably would have eaten that Wooly Mammoth flesh they found frozen in the ice in Siberia.
Bill23799
lool
BBC: *shits on history*
Steve: *shits history*
*sees a rare old rancid item that has lasted over 150 years*
Steve: *C R U N C H*
*K R O N C H*
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It's far from rancid
Fossilized
@@mynamejeff8401 💀
Indiana jones "That belongs in a museum"
steve 1989 "No, it belongs in my stomach!" "alright, cool."
how did you find that thing?
😂😂😂
It has a slight nuance and nutty flavor when paired with vintage type 1 coffee.
Nice
The tray you ate it on is over 100 years old...and the cracker still beats it by 50 years
53*
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 🤓
My favourite thing about this video is Steve’s decision to conspiciously place a Phil Collins LP in the background.
Going back through Steve's back catalogue now; the decorative choices behind are generally on point lol
Someday I totally expect him to pull out a piece of mastodon meat and stone knife.... "B.C. ration , let's get this on a stone.... Nice!" Lol
Yes!
Russians found a mammoth in the 60s that still had edible meat. Shitty, but edible nonetheless.
Lmao
@@Bothrops_Asper_89 I mean if ur hungry
Steve, perhaps you should try eating Adam and Eve's apple
You picked nice username to rickroll people
So underrated...
*Local man eats a literal fuck.*
@@sweetberries4611 20 dollars is 20 dollars.
“Hmm, huh...NICE”
it's one of the few remaining.....
>eats it
They're not horribly rare, there have been thousands of crates full of 4-6oz hardtack trackers unearthed still in edible condition from the American Civil War.
Where can you buy them?
brian porter Don't know, but I've made some with flour and water, it's really simple to make.
Don't let this guy around unicorns.
Reminds me of fridge mystery food events from Persona 4.
"This is one of the few remaining pieces of hardtack from the American Civil War, multiple generations of people have lived and died since this thing was baked."
".........Eat it?"
Watched another video about making Hard Tack. They said "there's a guy on the Internet that actually ate hard tack from the Civil War"; and I thought... I bet I know who that guy is :)
Lol i just came from that video. I saw video a while back but that mention made me think of this channel . so
. round 2
Steve's trademark: "I'm not doing-- Hmm. Well..." *proceeds to do it*
I thought it was "let's get this out onto a tray...nice mmkay"
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
But did it make a nice hiss?
Up next: rations from a Neanderthal army from 100,000 B.C.
Petrified dung balls.. yummy
maybe some Napoleonic margarine?
after that 1187 crusades swordsman MRE including chewing gum and some cigarettes
Mammoth Jerky
"oldest sausage ever eaten"
You are what you eat, and therefore steve is going to live forever
Steve can only die once killed by someone worthy of eating himself to absorb his power
Or at least 153 years
I must be trash then
If that were true I would eat that Hardback too!
@chinesebassman more like bat?
This man is a certified BEAST for eating these old rations. I remember the first video of him I saw where he ate an old can of beef from 120 years ago!
Quarantine:
Day 1: Netflix
Day 123: Dude eating a Civil War cracker that tastes like mothballs and library books
Steve is the only person that could survive 400+ days of isolation.
ROFL 😂😂😂
Such feels
@@MrSeekerOfPeace that’s me
I wonder how often he eats mothballs and old library books...😄
153 year old maggot crawls out of hardtack
Steve: Nice!
nice hiss
*Extra protein.*
MAGGOTS ARE GOOD PROTEIN. WHERE'S THE SOW,BELLY
*H I S S*
Maybe thats why it tasted like moth balls
Never clicked a video so fast in my life.
HEYOOOOOO
likewise
+Lazy Game Reviews Clint, what are you doing here?
Holy shit it's protomario.
its about time u showed up proto lol
I am a Cook for a Civil War re-enactment group, been doing it for over 30 years now, I began many years ago frying my hard tack in bacon fat, which is something just about every soldier & battlefield cooks had on hand with a lot of bacon, grease & hard tack, frying for a minute or 2 makes the outside crust much softer with an easier to bite crunch to it & the inside soft, & the bacon grease gives it an excellent flavor especially when adding a couple of spices, I got this idea from an older Lady I met on the battlefield at Gettysburg once with our group camping out & she showed me a letter that had been passed down in her Family for years, one of her relatives that fought in the war had written home to his Wife & mentioned the food they ate, including the hard tack & he said it could break teeth, but many began frying in bacon fat which made it much better to eat & add oregano. Since most soldiers & cooks back then did have bacon handy they had bacon fat/grease & used it for this purpose.
**forgets to click record**
Damn that would've been tragic
LMFAO
LOL
RUclipsr kill himself after eating a piece of Bread without recording
Epic
You're literally going to shit history that's amazing
lol
you should do some type of Q&A
that's awesome! 😄
😂
But but after the first turd is out won't he be shitting on history? O:
if you can eat this and live... expiration dates on modern food mean nothing to me now!!!!
gretz lawrence exactly!!!
Reminds me of my old Morrowind days, where I was amazingly capable of eating random scales, scrap metal, and other junk in exchange for tiny alchemy gains (and just to clear inventory).
It does look as if it could use a slathering of scrib jelly.
Steve: *eats 153 years old biscuit*
Steve: *rushed to hospital*
Doctors and nurses: "Ah shit, here we go again"
Brent Kaiser mkay
Doctor as he's inserting endoscope to check upper gut: "Nice Hiss"
"Let's do an insertion".
covid1819....
@@indiegear Steve lets out a hiss....... Nice Hiss the Doctor says LOLOLOLOL!!
Next up mammoth meat aged thousands of years in the Siberian tundra
Been done before
Yeah that is actually easier
Yeah, but it also has 10,000 years of freezer burn.
Technically freezing preserves it
This dude its like the Joy of Painting of MRE's.
Whos here from Max Miller's hardtack and grog video ;)
😆
Hello there!
ayyyyyyyyyyyyy
🙋🏻♂️
Me
It's a hardtack life.
richard herbst nice
richard herbst for us
Nice.
richard herbst Good one LOL!
richard herbst tee hee
Rumor has it, Steve's colon is actually a length of copper pipe.
Todd P I wouldn't be surprised...
tweeeeeeeppp!!!!
Dead
His stomach acid must be off the charts too!
Steve: Don't eat carbonised hardtack. It's like glass
Also Steve: IMMA EAT THE ONE THAT TASTES LIKE MOTHBALLS AND LIBRARY BOOKS
clowchan fucking dead
😆😆😆😂😂😂😂
Makes me happy seeing people do historic things like this it makes me happy you’re keeping history at its greatest thank you Steve👍🏻🇺🇸🙂
Mom: What did you eat for lunch today
Son: A piece of history
Mom: What does that mean
Son: 1863 MRE
Mom: Are you injecting the ganja?
Hope you get a hand of ancient roman empire rations
Sauron he'll have to go to the Pompeii site and find some petrified bread.
just buy some Sheep pecorino
Ackerman he would be pissing shit for days.
Ackerman - Maybe some Egyptian honey?
Maybe make it his self?
> You opened the fridge.
> There is a rather old looking hardtack in there...
> This piece of condensed flour has lasted through several milestones of modern human history.
> Since its creation during the American Civil War, many generations of people have lived and died since its advent.
> It has survived the Second Industrial Revolution, World War I, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Great Depression, World War II alongside the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, the Cold War with its proxies, the Space Race, the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the creation of the Internet.
> Eat it...?
wow you seriously took your time writing this essay 🤣🤣🤣
if this is an essay you'd hate college
Sounds like something from undertale
@@theodoric7335 persona 4
Well the cook has been waiting for someone to eat it, seeing from heaven
This is amazing, we are watching it for homeschool tomorrow, then making hardtack.👍👍👍👍👍👍
Update: we made the hardtack. My daughter even ate some. She loves onion soup so we can reconstitute them in that. I did not make her watch a "how too". I researched that myself and she watched this and found it much more interesting
That is awesome. Very cool project!
Here I was scared to eat a can of Campbell's soup from 2017!
Lmao!!!
Me with a can of 2018 sardine
Milk expired yesterday i threw it out
1 year overdue is probably dangerous. 150 years overdue and anything poisonous died long ago.
Canned food can last much longuer than its expire date
as long as there is no damage on the can
While normal people throw out bread that is a few days past the expiration date, here's this guy....
Noah Qiu Foods these days are filled with so much crap
lol
That expired bread is excellent for ducks
dxjohncenacaz That is a breeding ground for mold. I don't wanna end up with some mysterious disease the hard tack may have caught during it's life
You know what makes this channel so great? You actually use and partake of the history that most who would have an interest in would keep tucked away in a safe or on display in a glass case.
These old MREs and silverware are stamps of history that most wouldn’t dream of using or eating lol
But you have old, civil war era silverware... you use it. It may just be me but that just blows my mind. I have crap from 20 years ago that I’m negligent to use because it’s “old.”
Life is short and spoiler alert, we die at the end. So it’s nice to actually see some interaction with pieces if history rather than just a glance from behind a glass pane.
This is obviously not to say that everything that’s old should be played with but actually being involved with the history you own is a far more palatable approach than simply letting them outlive you on a shelf, covered in dust.
Well said
We die at the end? Shit !
then butulism
How do you use crap?
"Palatable." I dig it.
This seems like the premise of a ChubbyEmu video. Man eats 153 year old biscuit, this is what happened to his . . . . .
Another student of culture, I see
Although not as cool as an actual ration, I once held a ration slip that was issued by Quebec during the 7 years war. Dated 1760.
Nice !
What happened to it
Steve will purchase it for his lifelong savings
@@bernardpolicarpio651 yes, and then go and check it in to reclaim his 300 year old meal
Every video summed up: "ewhh ahhh horrible" *continues eating*
He needs a shirt with that on it.
"Ewwww" "Hmmm"
Robbert-Jan merk "Ewww, hmm, alright! That's not edible, I suppose." *takes another bite*
"nice hiss"
Enzo Ciarlini *nuclear bomb explodes* "nice hiss"
I did find an extremely old can of Hershey's syrup in my grandmother's basement. No rust holes, no bulging.
I've always been tempted to open it... just afraid that some Genie will pop out.
@Metal Gear Wolf 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
B815SX Tell us if it gives a nice hiss or a Hiss of Death.
Nice hiss
Just get it out onto a tray....NICE
Send it to Steve
I love that you can do all that you can to discuss authenticity and not be derailed with something that isn't quite genuine. I'm not as interested as some seem in that you eat something from over a hundred fifty years ago, but having a description seems good.
that hardtack alone older than some countries in this world.
So true! Some Coutries are so young that they believe 153 years is a long time...
@Adam Defibaugh Bad example, they're mostly indigenous! That they had to create a government to protect themselves from Indonesian/American aggression is a different story. As a people, they're much, much older than the US... nice try
...such as Germany.
Or Italy.
"In Europe 100 miles is a long way, In the US 100 years is a long time"
@@dresden_slowjog "To an Englishman, 100 miles is a long journey; to an American, 100 years is a long time" is how I've also heard it put.
"These things used to be infested with maggots all the time, anyway let's give it a taste."
To be fair, any maggots would be long since dead.
@@overestimatedforesight yea they’d be nothing
@@overestimatedforesight hmm.. generations of maggots 😂
Extra protein
free protein
The gastronomic adventures of Steve,
Taking one for the team,
Reporting from the front lines
Let us have a moment of silence for Steve's toilet, for it has born the brunt of these endeavors.
I was starting to really get hungry during midnight listening Townsends videos as I was working. So switching to this killed my appetite really fast. Thanks! I hate eating at night.
My guess is that maggots would be considered a protein bonus.
Actually yeah
Nice
The thing is that hardtack is basically a wet piece of bread baked into a hard biscuit. It's *this solid* when its made. The specific reason was that maggots didn't eat it.
Weevils got into them if I remember correctly. Wood weevils.
Given that nutrition wasn't properly understood until much later, probably not.
@@SonofSethoitae That's not necessarily true. Even the ancient Romans understood this, though meat was too expensive for most people. There was an understanding that meats provided a level of strength and energy different to grain to put it simply. Having a balanced diet has always been known to be healthy, there just wasn't a way to scientifically explain it is what I'm trying to say.
While watching, I had to check the date on the video to make sure it wasn't the last, I mean very last, video he ever made.
Robot Jones I wondered that myself but he’s secretly a terminator so he’ll make these videos forever
I imagine the maggots would have more nutritional value than the hardtack.
Truth.
the maggots have already become fossils
@@kennethkho7165
Nature's multivitamins!
@@manictiger more like protein supplement
@@FLMKane Should let the Maggots be. Don't eat or kill them, they are living beings and should be respected to live their full lives.
You know Steve is a gem when you watch through old videos of his, see this one, and think “was this the oldest thing he’s ever eaten?” ITS FROM 1863.
nice!
You have to be shitting me. That's some Abe Lincoln shit right there
Litterally (not the shit part)
He will be shitting you, well the weight equivalent when that hardtack hits his intestines...
+pixiniarts
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+pearlmax finally someone who understands
I can smell the hardtack in the air tonight
Lol i noticed that
Lol
Oh lord
The small humor Lol nice one
Looking for any comment on the copy of No Jacket Required in the background
"Ooh, there was sediment in the bottom....mm!"
I don't know how I stumbled across this channel today but I've now watched a few videos of this dude eating and smoking things ranging from 45 to 153 years old. Surprisingly entertaining, and the commentary is actually hilarious.
Steve all you have to do now is find a cracker from before July 4, 1776 and eat it.
Then you'll be able to say you've eaten things older than this country.
Subbed.
0:44 “They will not be eaten... BUT...”
me: **softly** don’t.
Imagine joining the military and they hand you a single cracker to eat.
Now we know why the Union advance into the south was so savage.
A farm!
FINALLY SOMETHING DECENT TO EAT
"We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!"
@@riatorex8722 Yeaah!! Why can´t we have some meat?
North Korean soldier: first time?
"Just the one?"
"Don't worry, you'll be working on it for quite a while."
HE LITERALLY JUST TASTED HISTORY. BRAVO 👏 GOOD SIR BRAVO
Albin S history tastes like moth balls and library book. good news, i can taste history in library
Wormcastle sounds like an awesome band name.
Lawfirm: Wormcastle, Salt Pork, and Grog
Maybe I'll make a heavy metal band and use that name
Return to Castle Wormenstein
how is this guy still alive
Is immune system is made of plot armor
steve is built different
I heard about a mammoth being dug out of the permafrost and being eaten by some people at a party.
Would you ever try Neanderthal 12,000 B.C. rations?
Robot Bjorn dont lie
They did eat permafrost mammoth. No lie.
Yeah I saw that on Futurama
My biggest fear is that one day you'll eat something like this and love it so much that you'll want some more but you'll never be able to find it again and it will drive you crazy
Damon Langley he may have met it with the 1942 British fruit bar which was 'the best fruit bar he's ever eaten' 😅🤣🤣
Like Dr. Zoidberg eating anchovies on Futurama.
@@HarryFlashmanVC or that Eastern Germany Cola-chocolate bar
Yea. He’ll be chasing that 100 year old food dragon.
11:47 I love how happy he gets when he finds a piece left in the coffee
Goddam i love you steve u have no idea but ur videos actually helped me get through a really difficult time in my life ur entertainment provided a distraction for me that honestly i needed so bad i hope ur doing well
Went into the attic of my home this house was built by my 5 generations back Grand father. Moving things around I found the field pack of my 4 generations back Grand father who served in the 2nd Louisiana Cavalry. In that pack was a paper with words hardtack and something Mass. has to be the same company. I guess he took it off of a dead yankee. No hardtack in the pack did find musket balls cloth and letters and his knife. I really enjoy your videos and binge watch them. keep up the great work.
There are pieces of hard tack that still remain from my great grandfather (many generations back) that still exist from the Gettysburg War. His name is Frederick Gilhousen. Its mindblowing to look at.
Phil Collins is not impressed.
He certainly looks as though he isn't
Glad Phil came along for this ride