Why Did Pirates Eat That? (feat. Tasting History)

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  • Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
  • Max Miller from @TastingHistory joins us to demonstrate one bizarre buccaneer recipe.
    Check out his episode here: • Surviving on Leather
    **DO NOT ATTEMPT AT HOME**. Max Miller is a professional historic recipe reenactor.
    Imagine being at sea for weeks on end. The supply of food and water is running out. No major port will let you in to restock. For pirates, finding food was often more important than finding buried treasure. In this episode of Rogue History, we bite into the creative ways pirates sustained themselves.
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Комментарии • 219

  • @TastingHistory
    @TastingHistory Год назад +671

    Thank you so much for bringing this leather eating pirate to my attention! I had such fun working on this video.

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 Год назад +29

      eatin leather in the name of education and science!

    • @duckrutt
      @duckrutt Год назад +14

      I think your definition of fun might be different than mine...

    • @lalaboo251
      @lalaboo251 Год назад +6

      Tasting History with Max Miller ! Look at you fantastic! 🌞

    • @musicmaniac32
      @musicmaniac32 Год назад +34

      Thanks to Max Miller, I hear *clack clack* every time someone says "hardtack biscuits" like at 1:01. How Pavlovian of you, Tasting History!

    • @pbsorigins
      @pbsorigins  Год назад +82

      We loved working with you on this. Please don't send us your dentist bill.

  • @julphines
    @julphines Год назад +185

    Max over here doing the real historic reenactments I want to see. Thank you for your sacrifice.

  • @MintyScales
    @MintyScales Год назад +282

    PBS AND Max?! Does it get any better?

    • @gregjeskeep4511
      @gregjeskeep4511 Год назад +27

      Thank you! We are fans of Tasting History and then this episode came up and it seemed like a no-brainer! We're so glad Max was just as excited to work together on this episode as we were. Check out his full episode on this recipe: ruclips.net/video/zBurkdTyJhE/видео.html

    • @MintyScales
      @MintyScales Год назад +7

      @Greg Jeske, EP Fantastic series and such a fresh, eye-opening, informative look into piratical history. Keep up the great work and thank you!

    • @sarahwatts7152
      @sarahwatts7152 Год назад +2

      Absolutely not!

    • @natsinthebelfry
      @natsinthebelfry Год назад +11

      Yes, it does! PBS, Max AND Our Flag Means Death ❤

  • @SimuLord
    @SimuLord Год назад +155

    Got sent here from Max's video, and two things jumped out at me in quick order:
    One, the presenter Joel has awesome hair, and
    Two, this was really informative and interesting.

    • @gregjeskeep4511
      @gregjeskeep4511 Год назад +16

      YAY! Hi Fox D, good to have you aboard. Max has been awesome to work with and we are fans of his show too :)

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Год назад +180

    1:03 Missed opportunity to demonstrate Max’s iconic Hardtack Biscuits.

    • @gregjeskeep4511
      @gregjeskeep4511 Год назад +14

      HA! Not wrong.

    • @sarahleonard7309
      @sarahleonard7309 Год назад +40

      I know. I found myself expecting the clip, and then had to remind myself that this wasn't his video.

    • @tontocorazon
      @tontocorazon Год назад +4

      I was waiting for it too

    • @witchthief9735
      @witchthief9735 Год назад +28

      the clip played automatically in my head when he said it 🤣

    • @devilshouseofkitsch
      @devilshouseofkitsch Год назад +17

      Clack clack

  • @curtisthomas2670
    @curtisthomas2670 Год назад +31

    I cracked up at the description of the pirates not being able to stop themselves from laughing at the pigs bring seasick on deck 😄

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 Год назад +9

    for some reason, this makes me want a comedy about 17 century pirates going on a food run

  • @pbsorigins
    @pbsorigins  Год назад +138

    Watch Max Miller share his leather recipe on Tasting History! ruclips.net/video/zBurkdTyJhE/видео.html **DO NOT ATTEMPT AT HOME**

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 Год назад +2

      one of the rare recipes my mom wont be cooking for dinner lol

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko Год назад +26

    Just wanted to say thanks to you at PBS Origins for collaborating with one of my favorite food-history hosts, Max Miller!

    • @pbsorigins
      @pbsorigins  Год назад +2

      He's one of our favorites too! We hope you stick around for more

  • @kathyastrom1315
    @kathyastrom1315 Год назад +23

    My 8th great-grandfather John Frost was the captain of the Bonetta Pinck sailing from Barbados to Boston. On July 4, 1717, it was boarded by pirates from the ship Le Grande. In his report filed when he returned to Portsmith, NH, Frost said that the pirates took “several barrels of sugar and forty hogsheads of rum.”

  • @infowarriorone
    @infowarriorone Год назад +30

    Max Miller's channel is great, I recommend it to anyone who has any interest in food and/or history.

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Год назад +60

    I finished watching Max’s latest video and now I’m here to learn more.

    • @padminimayur4049
      @padminimayur4049 Год назад

      PR, how do you manage to be everywhere? Do you sleep?

  • @elenavaccaro339
    @elenavaccaro339 Год назад +9

    Came from Max's channel.
    With the livestock on deck, no wonder they were always swabbing the decks.

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Год назад +17

    So many food jokes, I love it
    I always wondered why on earth the sea-going crews of the day didn't just - you know, fish??? But then I learned just how truly HUGE the Atlantic is, and how much of it is just, open ocean. There ARE no fish. It's weird to contemplate when always we see this great amazing footage of enormous schools of fish.
    Also, small shout out to the game "Return of the Obra Dinn" that taught me about livestock really truly being A Thing On Board. (Gruesome, but educational!)

    • @sierrah5928
      @sierrah5928 Год назад +3

      Thank you for saying that lol because I was wondering the same thing 😂

  • @darthbee18
    @darthbee18 Год назад +18

    Joel: "After being stranded, crew members under Henry Morgan were forced to eat..."
    Me: "Oh no.... CANNIBALISM?"
    Joel: "...leather satchels..."
    Me: "Oh! WHEW!!" 😩😅🥴
    I used to think that sailors (no matter what kind - whether it be those in the navies, merchants, pirates) would just go fishing if they ran out of protein source, but ofc even in on-shore circumstances fishing isn't that easy 😅😂. Damn being a pirate is sure *tough* on the stomach 🙃

  • @thisisme2681
    @thisisme2681 Год назад +4

    So excited that you did a collab with Tasting History!

  • @ckhprojectpro777
    @ckhprojectpro777 Год назад +4

    Here via Tasting History. Bravo, Max!

  • @mgmcdb7606
    @mgmcdb7606 Год назад +37

    I've heard of sailors dropping off enough goats and rabbits to breed on small islands about the world so they could be sure that there'd be something to eat later. This more often than not would destroy the islands ecosystem. But also why there are quite a few islands named goat/rabbit Island.

    • @cocoa_kiss
      @cocoa_kiss Год назад +5

      Interesting never thought of that. I do know of an island with the name Isla de cabras, full of goats.

    • @alexchavez3244
      @alexchavez3244 Месяц назад +1

      Like Australia

  • @MxWolvie
    @MxWolvie Год назад +6

    What!!! Max Miller featured on my favorite channel?? Are the stars aligned?

  • @LeClaw
    @LeClaw Год назад +13

    just not the same hearing someone else besides Max say "Hard-Tack" 🤣
    but I got to say this video is very informative and you just earned a new sub 😎👍

    • @Amy_the_Lizard
      @Amy_the_Lizard Год назад +3

      I know right? I was sad they didn't feature the infamous hardtack clip...

  • @bnthern
    @bnthern Год назад +7

    wonderfully presented - when i was aboard a combat vessel our supply ship (2 in a row) could not make contact - we ate rice / moldly and maggot bread - but thank the lord we had water - 4 days was hell!

  • @zogkuma
    @zogkuma Год назад +8

    You got me at Max Miller! I love watching his channel! Also I love the interesting content from PBS as well!

  • @randommeasures4618
    @randommeasures4618 Год назад +37

    Great collab between 2 awesome history buffs! And absolutely waiting for this series to come to podcasts--Joel's voice is perfect, and the length is perfect for breaks! Pirate podcast, plssss!

  • @fluffydragon84
    @fluffydragon84 Год назад +5

    Not me expecting a 'tack-tack' when the first mention of hard tack came up.

  • @guguyao
    @guguyao Год назад +6

    This is a crossover I did not expect!

  • @Firegen1
    @Firegen1 Год назад +10

    The collab that ends up as a gift. Like many I came over from Max's channel. It's lovely to see your work. New subscriber.

  • @mermaidmeeple1608
    @mermaidmeeple1608 Год назад +3

    1:02 - As someone who came here from Max's channel, it was weird hearing "hard tack" without seeing/hearing them clacked together

  • @carlasipocz406
    @carlasipocz406 Год назад +11

    Arrived here via Max and this did not disappoint. Well done!

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Год назад +20

    Joel is a great host because I, too, get Hangry when I don’t have an afternoon snack.

  • @debrabarnhardt1103
    @debrabarnhardt1103 Год назад +2

    Two of my favorite channels got together...hurrah!

  • @TeddsPicks
    @TeddsPicks Год назад +9

    You're awesome thank you for clarifying all that ... I've been watching Max for a couple of years now thanks for the backstory!

  • @Lohengrin1850
    @Lohengrin1850 Год назад +14

    PBS and Max!! Love both of these videos.

  • @gnothisauton2116
    @gnothisauton2116 Год назад +22

    Good stuff. Thank you. When they mentioned turtles being stored on their backs all I could picture was a huge game of Mario Bros with those things sliding around, hitting masts, sailors and whatnot. Gold coins?

    • @Amy_the_Lizard
      @Amy_the_Lizard Год назад +4

      No gold coins, just turtle vomit and poop probably. All the sliding would probably make them naseus, and they can and will poop if upset. Witnessed firsthand shadowing at a vet clinic - though admittedly those turtles were sick already, which is why they needed medical care in the first place - but since these were wild turtles, there's a high likelihood that they had at least sub-clinical intestinal parasite infestations to begin with, and the stress of their capture and storage would weakon their immune response, and potentially allow the parasites to really sink their claws in and make the turtles sick. So basically, these probably weren't healthy turtles either...

  • @TerriMRoberts
    @TerriMRoberts Год назад +10

    Yay, a new Rouges episode!! And on food no less, one of my favourite historical topics. Well done Joel & PBS team!

  • @strob5657
    @strob5657 Год назад +4

    I can't read the word Hardtack without the Max Miller clip anymore

  • @capkanada
    @capkanada Год назад +4

    Excellent crossover, y'all!

  • @EmilyJelassi
    @EmilyJelassi Год назад +12

    I came here from Tasting History. Very interesting video! Love the style and delivery of the channel.. I’ve subscribed 😊

  • @marim0y
    @marim0y Год назад +2

    I cannot tell hot how much I LOVE this series. Every episode is better than the last.

  • @emijliastarovic8524
    @emijliastarovic8524 Год назад +3

    I love this collab with tasting history!! Max is awesome

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Год назад +3

    4:13 I didn’t need to know but thank you for that lovely detail. I can’t unsee it.

  • @insulaarachnid
    @insulaarachnid Год назад +2

    I love this collab with Tasting History!

  • @raguelelnaqum
    @raguelelnaqum Год назад +3

    Would be really interested in a video discussing the distinction between pirates identified as privateers versus corsairs. I've noticed that unlike Privateers, which are quintessentially maritime condottieros, many pirates identified as 'Corsairs', be they French, Maltese, Portuguese, Ottoman, Mughal, Italian, Spanish, Moroccan or Barbery in origin, despite their home nations having equivalents to letters of marque, committed acts of piracy that were considered such by their victims, but unlike privateers (which were effectively mercenaries), picketoons of various stripes (such as buccaneers, deabraqons, cācyānnā, or wokou), or subsistence raiders, their acts are normally glossed over in their home nations. A lot of these corsairs were also commissioned members of their militaries unlike privateers or the other groupings, which makes me wonder if part of the reason why the subject isn't as discussed as often compared to terrestrial-based military brigandry is the conflation of these corsairs with nationalist movements.

  • @sophroniel
    @sophroniel Год назад +5

    You're one of ny favourite storytellers!!

  • @seadawg93
    @seadawg93 Год назад +2

    I want videos more often. If we can’t get a full video, I’d be happy with some videos in between of our host being cool and pirate-y on the set, maybe reading pirate poetry or playing violin.

  • @jukthewise8776
    @jukthewise8776 Год назад +1

    I love Max Miller. So glad he referred us to your channel. I've only watched this episode so far, but I'm a new sub and will definitely be watching more!

  • @CleoHarperReturns
    @CleoHarperReturns Год назад +3

    Rogue History needs his own channel.💜

  • @ve2vfd
    @ve2vfd Год назад +5

    No *click* *click* when hardtack was mentioned? ;)

  • @theeutecticpoint
    @theeutecticpoint Год назад +7

    Saw Max, clicked extra fast
    hardtack -click- -click-
    delightful and educational
    The song at the end is such beautiful harmony, but is it "pop your nose in a jug of"..."piss"?
    Where might one find the whole song specifically used at the end?

    • @ProfessorYana
      @ProfessorYana Год назад

      I think it's "pop your nose in a jug of this". (I presume "this" is rum or a similar spirit.)

  • @jryddle
    @jryddle Год назад +1

    I came from Tasting History before this and when you said "Hard Tack" I was waiting for the tap tap of his little bit he shows. Great colab!

  • @lisafish1449
    @lisafish1449 Год назад +2

    Brilliant introduction. Pirates two favorite restaurants.

  • @BigboiiTone
    @BigboiiTone Год назад +1

    As a life long fan of PBS, and a recent fan of Max, this is like my dream video!!!!

  • @cauldronmoon
    @cauldronmoon Год назад +2

    I found you from @tasting history with Max Miller. Thank you 👏😀💜

  • @janetgerney2094
    @janetgerney2094 Год назад +1

    Like a few others, I was directed here by Max and Tasting History...so informative!
    Subscribed!

  • @hollish196
    @hollish196 Год назад +1

    Incredibly interesting! I always watch Max, which is what lead me to this video. I'm very glad it did.

  • @sarinaprasad4520
    @sarinaprasad4520 Год назад +2

    love you guys paired up!

  • @sarahnunez318
    @sarahnunez318 Год назад +1

    I'm so proud of Max!!!!

  • @alexixeno4223
    @alexixeno4223 Год назад +8

    MAttpat, via FoodTheory, took a look at eating leather recently. I can't remember if he went this far in preparing it but he did mention the act of digestion would be so labor intensive for your body that you would lose calories

  • @paiwanhan
    @paiwanhan Год назад +2

    Hardtack *clack clack*. I mean, can't have Max on without this bit.

  • @karencorcoran4628
    @karencorcoran4628 Год назад +2

    Just watched Max, he sent me over. Excellent choice.

  • @666mrdoctor
    @666mrdoctor Год назад +5

    If they only knew about sauerkraut and vitamin c.

  • @sadie4479
    @sadie4479 Год назад +1

    Omgz Max Miller on a PBS channel! Yes!!!

  • @DrIgnacious
    @DrIgnacious Год назад +2

    I like that autoplay took me right to this from Tasting History.

  • @wompa70
    @wompa70 Год назад +1

    Got here from Max's channel. You got another subscriber.

  • @TomFJC
    @TomFJC Год назад +1

    Another great episode.

  • @10191927
    @10191927 Год назад +1

    Wow I actually learned something new about pirates, I had no idea they so heavily relied on indigenous people for food and trade as well as survival techniques. Goes to show just how bad pirating really was for those that chose the lifestyle.

  • @jennatomlin1273
    @jennatomlin1273 Год назад +1

    I'm so excited to see this crossover!!

  • @stephenwallace3771
    @stephenwallace3771 Год назад

    Fantastic! I love everything about this series!

  • @StarfishRunner
    @StarfishRunner Год назад

    Love this series thank you

  • @Astrih_Konnash
    @Astrih_Konnash Год назад +1

    (came here because of Max Miller's awesome leather-eating video)
    The "buccan" is similar to the Brazilian "moquém", used by the Brazilian indigenous peoples to "moquear" (roast) the meat, keeping it edible for a longer time - quite interesting interesting 😄

  • @ZombieLogic101
    @ZombieLogic101 Год назад +1

    Max sent me over and my dude........That fro has covered most of your head......You sir have one of the coolest hair do's I've seen in a long time! XD

  • @itsdonaldo
    @itsdonaldo Год назад +3

    I love dried beans and salted meats. I should eat oranges and round out my pirates diet.

  • @nahenedream
    @nahenedream Год назад

    Good for you, Joel. Great series! All the best. Dr. T.

  • @gypsydonovan
    @gypsydonovan Год назад

    So glad Max led me here. Subscribed,

  • @Waywren
    @Waywren Год назад +2

    Max sent me, as he's sent many of us as I can see.

  • @infinityknivess
    @infinityknivess Год назад +1

    Damn my two favorite channels doing a collab

  • @edj8008
    @edj8008 Год назад +3

    As max said eating modern leather is very dangerous he orded a non toxic leather from somewew

  • @Pou1gie1
    @Pou1gie1 Год назад

    @6:30 My grandfather's ship got torpedoed and sunk during WW2, and I was always told he survived on leather shoes for months. When he came home my grandmother didn't recognize him and thought he was a hobo, as my grandfather would often take in needy people. He actually survived this twice. He recounted that sharks were picking off men who had survived with him and some men went mad and swam off thinking they saw something that wasn't there.

  • @joejoemojo
    @joejoemojo 4 месяца назад

    i got here from max’s video and your channel is epic

  • @Nmethyltransferase
    @Nmethyltransferase Год назад +1

    Max made it to big time now!

  • @mackdegale6606
    @mackdegale6606 Год назад

    I love all of his jokes and puns

  • @chrisk5651
    @chrisk5651 Год назад +1

    Great to sea Max!!!

  • @jackdorsey4850
    @jackdorsey4850 Год назад +2

    Max Miller recommended you I subscribed to you Please do not let either😁 of us down

  • @sarahwatts7152
    @sarahwatts7152 Год назад +3

    I just feel bad for the tortoises...

  • @utubebgay
    @utubebgay Год назад

    I imagined the 'clack, clack' meme when he said hardtack. Great vid.

  • @pluspiping
    @pluspiping 4 месяца назад

    I had previously learned pirates weren't generally rich, using most of their efforts to keep themselves simply stocked and fed, but I guess I never thought of how difficult it might be simply to go shopping for food when you have a reputation of being a maritime mugger.
    And wow, that joke about mutineers being too starved and slight to die by hanging was DARK.

  • @repeatdefender6032
    @repeatdefender6032 Год назад +1

    According to my grandma, I’m descended from Morgan the Pirate, but I’ve never been able to confirm it.

  • @Bezaliel13
    @Bezaliel13 Год назад +1

    Bit wacky to think that every ship was a little farm on the sea.

  • @brutalusgaming8809
    @brutalusgaming8809 Год назад +1

    I would be interested in a list of the songs you sometimes use.

  • @baggieknight8411
    @baggieknight8411 Год назад

    And WOW over 200 posts and not 1 said anything about the video there all praising Max Miller and his channel!!!!!!!
    How about giving some love to PBS Origins for another GREAT video!!!!!
    KEEP IT UP

  • @lucbisaillon
    @lucbisaillon Год назад +1

    Also, boucanne means smoke

  • @travissmith2848
    @travissmith2848 Год назад

    And on a related note, it is my understanding that "Pirate booty" often had as much or more food, medicine, charts, and other things needed to simply survive. Gold's nice, but you can't boil it long enough to make it edible and even if you did it won't supply any nutrition. Similarly, powder and cannonballs didn't exactly grow on trees. So, if you could intimidate someone into surrendering it was better than fighting (and a lot less risk of sinking a ship and loosing the whole thing too).

  • @aaronpoole5531
    @aaronpoole5531 Год назад +1

    I'm sure I could answer this myself with a quick search but I'm curious if the term poop deck is related to live stock well.... doing just that

  • @jinxedfates
    @jinxedfates Год назад +1

    our boy

  • @doominionl.o.3358
    @doominionl.o.3358 Год назад +1

    Teaching the Europeans how to live off the land was the ever-important Indigenous bargaining chip in gaining external help against neighboring groups and tribes. It was this arguably-mutual cooperation which may have helped the Caribs become the predominant post-contact native population.

  • @TJonLongIsland
    @TJonLongIsland Год назад

    The descriptions in this video are more applicable to sailors than to pirates. Sailors were worked hard and cheap, and had no say in the course, cargo, or management of the ship. Pirates had a basic democracy on ship, had a vested interest in the ship and it's cargo, and could vote away an unusually harsh captain or quartermaster.

  • @piggybackride89
    @piggybackride89 Год назад +1

    yes please!

  • @CatchThesePaws
    @CatchThesePaws Год назад +1

    So merchant sailors would have had access to those supply stops? This has been a very interesting series that confirmed a lot of the research I’ve done for a sailor story :) it has pirates but it’s not the focus. A main part of the story involves merchant sailors. While not as horrifying as the East India Trading Company was, the trade in my story has its colonial flaws.

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher Год назад

    4:43. That image belongs to a series on the history of medicine published by Life Magazine, as far as I remember. How happened that Getty Images now owns it?

  • @chrisgaber1929
    @chrisgaber1929 Год назад +2

    Sponsored by Arby's. Afterall, it's not literally leather!

  • @Deedeedee137
    @Deedeedee137 Год назад +1

    What's the name of the group that did the song at the end