Food History: Pickles
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- The history of pickles includes cucumber pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut, oh my! The history of pickling foods dates back to ancient Mesopotamia and features cameos from Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. Who knew this sour treat had such an impressive journey?
Food History is a show all about... well, the history of food. Join host Justin Dodd as he brings you the stories of how your favorite meals ended up on your plate. Today, we're talking pickles. While most people in the United States think of pickled cucumbers, the process of pickling has spanned nearly all food groups and centuries of civilization. Let's take a bite, shall we?
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"Recipe" comes from the Latin word for "Take". In medieval recipes, the instructions would often start with "Take three eggs" or something similar, and writing it as Recipe was a good way of showing that you were starting what we now call a Recipe.
The abbreviation (they loved abbreviations, to save space) was Rx, which is why that's used for prescription these days. "Take once per day".
Nice--thanks for that!
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@@catalinamarquez6937what?
I fuckin love pickles
same
🥒🥒💚💚
Mmm 🤤
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I was curious to hear about the Indian pickles (lemon, lime, mango, etc.). Maybe next time.
I was waiting for that too!
Pickles are really necessary for survival in certain places here. Nothing grows in the hot Indian summer, and you can get spices really easily so pickles are easy to make.
Also, you get many meat and fish based pickles in traditional food too, but unfortunately they're not well known across the world.
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8:13 Yes! Anything other than a sour pickle is nasty and against all decency.
A few years back, while grocery shopping with my neighbor, I held up a small cucumber, "Look a baby pickle." My neighbor deadpans "Haha, pickles grow on trees." I laugh thinking he is kidding to quickly realize this 40 year old man really thinks there are pickle trees. I had to stop my own incredulity and grant the man a bit of pickling knowledge.
I’ve been salivating this entire video 😩
I want an entire jar of pickles now.
There's always those few times when you aren't paying attention at the store and when you get home realize you bought bread and butter pickles instead of dill. I'll eat them, but I don't really care for them.
I love these food episodes.
Thanks! And sorry about your bread & butter misfortune, happens to the best of us...
Like getting a can of creamed corn when you were 100% SURE you grabbed whole kernel.
@@GweenPenguin LOL that's happened to me too haha. Corn is basically my favorite vegetable, every time I go shopping I buy tons of cans of it so this obviously happens too. Creamed corn actually totally sucks, whereas Bread and Butter pickles I can at least eat.
Weirdo
Making refrigerator pickles is so easy everyone should do it.
I remember from my childhood - a pickle shop. Just a little place, under an elevated section of the subway. Barrels and barrels of pickles. Very sour dill pickles made from cucumbers, pickled veggies of all kinds. My favorite among the non-cukes was pickled green tomatoes. Delicious, but not good for a walking around snack.
Just curious are you from New York? I'm from the south remember barrels of pickles in the mom/pop shops.
"Vinegar, at its most basic" nice
They say I'm full of it when I try to be nice, :D
The side story of this starts in the hood: And they’re called Kool Aid pickles
I did not know about Kool Aid pickles and I think I need to try one?
@@MentalFloss Sounds nasty and intriguing at the same time. I’d try one just to try it. Look them up on Google
They are not bad at all
Oh man the other day I accidentally bought bread and butter pickles; I'd never had them before but wow they are absolutely disgusting haha. Sugar and pickles for me just don't combine.
Kosher salt is called that because it is the type of salt used to make meat kosher by helping remove blood from it.
Yay! Thank you for including info about kimchi. Love how you talked about the kimchi fridge as well b/c so many Korean families own one
Nice! Korean food is SO GOOD. Come to think of it, we probably should do an episode on....I don't even know where to begin? BBQ? Bibimbap? Galbi-jjim?
“Some people, who are weirdos, prefer bread and butter pickles.” (Or, the loathsome anti-pickle, as I tend to call them.) Thank you, Justin, you get a thumbs-up just for that!
i've never had a bread and butter pickle, so i've always assumed they were pickles designed to taste like bread and butter
@@heliveruscalion9124 LOL, that would be less disgusting!
Try them spicy. You may change your mind.
In the UK they call pickles "gherkins" and they make an amazing chutney called "piccalilli" which is pickled vegetables in mustard and it is the best thing to eat with cheddar cheese on top of buttered toast
Gerkin is a type of pickle
Was waiting for the inclusion of pickled pigs feet.
💚*LOVE ALL PICKLES* sweet, crunchy gherkins, sour-garlicky dill, spicy 'sweet-hots' There's something for everyone. [I do take exception to the goopy/sweet mushy relish. That's a NO.]
Relish only with hot dogs
So you're saying John Harvey Kellogg didn't want us to tickle the pickle?
Oh he definitely didn't!
Complicated and troubled man, Kellogg
Veggies in bacteria pee are actually delicious
I just got a big jar of Russian pickles... you know I had to run in the kitchen to get a couple in the middle of the video
I am one of those weirdos. Sweet and Tangy pickles (Bread and Butter) are wonderful. I still need my dills, though.
My Daddy is one of the weirdos too.
No offense, but you're a bad person. 🍞+🧈 (🥒) = 🗑
“Pickle dealer”
Cooking/eating jargon: Ñoqui (gnocchi). Eating this pasta on the 29th of each month is an Argentine tradition. Place a dollar under your plate for good luck. Also, the word Ñoqui in lunfardo is used to describe somebody who just shows up to collect a check without actually working.
Haha wait, why is someone who shows up to collect a check without working a ñoqui? Just a coincidence, or is there an explanation involving the person being a lazy piece of pasta?
@@MentalFloss We traditionaly only eat ñoquis once a month on the 29 and those employes come only once a month on pay day.
@@charleschaplin8624 Ha! Love it! Thanks for the info.
@@MentalFloss other Argentinian food-related curiosity is the Milanesa Napolitana (it's a pizza schnitzel e.g. breaded piece of beef (or chiquen) with tomato sauce (ham) and cheese. Many people believe is Neapolitan style Milanesa, but apparently there was a way named Napoli
Chase a shot of whiskey or tequila with a shot of pickle juice.... Amazing.
While we're talking about cabbage, could you consider an episode on brassicas?
Bread and butter pickles are awesome, you’re just wrong.
They are horrid and an abomination.
My FIL, who was born in Poland, loved picked herring in sour cream 🤢 I say if you're eating pickled herring on New Year's day, your year can't go anywhere BUT up
włoszczyzna means Italian stuff in polish. It’s their equivalent to the French Mire Poix.
Ha, that's a great one!
Maybe the term “salad”. It is from the word “salt”, and has its origins in “salted greens”...so how did mid-20th century America justify calling fruit in whipped cream and jello molds “salads”???? 😆 I’m from the Midwest, so this might be a regional thing too.
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Ohh, is that why Justin was wearing a green hoodie the entire video! He's a pickle~!
The quote from James Lind at the 5:10 mark can be found in
"Linds Treatise Of Scurvy" reprinted edition 1953 by the Edinburgh University Press.
On page 160, in the footnotes (spanning to the next page).
It is available on Archive.org (as page 174 due to the different numbering scheme)
Thank you for pointing out how bad/weird Bread and Butter pickles are, because they’re an absolute crime against flavor. Blech.
Side note to the Vlasic stork: his voice was a Groucho Marx sound a like. Also the pickles were in the fridge section instead of the pickle aisle; that preserved the snappy crunch.
The green hoodie. Perfect! 😅🥒
Food lore: 'Shit on a Shingle' my grandma used to make it, its really old. Apparently from the first world war. Could be some very interesting history in this one, and a silly name to boot.
Hahah I'm not sure if that's a perfect fit for the way we're approaching this particular vid (focusing more on cooking terms than dishes), but that's a great one! Makes me think there could be a whole video about the history of food in the military...
Pickled carrots are one of my favourites. With onion and peppercorn, they make a great addition to burritos, and my local taco bar has them. Also, good in sushi just like pickled ginger. I love pickles in sushi, but I'm not sure what yellow pickles are that some places offer.
I once had a Heinz pickle pin as a child growing up in Western PA. Picklefest is held in Pittsburgh yearly because of the Heinz legacy. I like Heinz ketchup better than the pickles. why are all the new crispy chicken fast food sandwiches full of pickles? Is that a regional thing?
I have always maintained that there is a sweet pickle snobbery out there. Pickles on your burger? No sweat, have all the dills you want. Sweet pickles on your burger? Fuggidaboutit. Outside of sweet relish dill reigns supreme. Those of us who love sweet pickles need to rise up and join together for pickle parity.
Why is this an either/or situation? Can't one enjoy both?
Hahah even if our tastes diverge, I can get behind anyone willing to rise up for pickle parity.
I'm dying on top of the hill that is "bread and butter pickles"
My mom used to make pickled dill carrots when I was a kid, they were delicious.
Also my mom craved sweet pickles and peanut butter when she was pregnant with my brother.
Pickled dill carrots? That sounds interesting. I've never heard of them before. If I saw them by the pickles at the store I would try them.
Is there a video on freeze-dried products / and what is the difference between freeze-dried and dehydrated? And how to make your own items. I was taught in the 70s and in the south and I was labeled "special ed"
@8:14 FACTS!!!!
Mmm ogóreczki takie pyszne omnomnom
You should make a video about different types of fermentation for all those foods.... if any different, tho.
I love Bread & Butter pickles as well as sweet gherkins.
Vlasic, meh. Gedney, now that's the Minnesota Pickle.
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I don’t consider sweet pickles as “pickles “. It’s gotta be sour, garlicky, dilly, and spices floating and sunk in jar
Always found it strange how americans have named a Pickled Cucumber a "Pickle" as the word Pickle is a process such as "To pickle an onion", that too would technically be a pickle
the dutch made their own word which evolved into the english gherkin, which is a standalone word which means small pickled cucumber
Never heard of this tradition of eating pickled herring on new year's in Poland (I'm Polish btw), any idea where that came from? I'd love to learn more about that
Pickled herring wrapped around a dill pickle (roll mop herring) is a nice treat.
Probably referring to herring under a fur coat, very popular dish in the former Soviet countries and I assume this extended to Poland
I am from Ukraine: we always pickle cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrot, other vegetables using salt, onions, garlic and some leaves like blackcurrant leaves or vine. We preserve it in cold places until spring.
My comment is because she said that she compare Mr President Donald J Trump like well better he compare one of the most beautiful souls try to say this country with cucumbers and she don't even see in her face something can compare exactly with her cucumbers😂
I love dill pickles. Especially if they e the big deli garlicky kind. I don't like sweet pickles. The little ones dill of course are great too. I also like sauerkraut, Kimchi, red cabbage called rot kohl.
Bread and butter pickles are delicious, and you cannot change my mind.
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A history of hot sauce/peppers would be fun.
Definitely! Adding that to the list ASAP, thanks for the suggestion!
Great idea dude!
If your a special kinda lowlife like myself, you still go to bars with eggs in a jar right next to the swine hoofs in a jar....yum yum..
How about pickled green bananas and chicken gizzards (guineítos en escabeche con mollejas) or pickled cassava root (yuca en escabeche)?🇵🇷
A type of pickle that is definitely the most delicious pickle in Iran is mango pickle, you must try it, it is wonderful
Bread and butter pickles should be ILLEGAL. Period. 🙅🏼♀️
It’s a sad commentary on our society when you have to apologize to people who are super overly sensitive to things that happened before they were born and would or will rage because of some old ad.
And yes bread and butter pickles are satans reward to the evil.
I don't care what people think of my pickle cravings I eat pickles all the time at least a couple jars a week any flavor is good with me gherkin bread and butter hot sweet and yes I drink the juice too
As soon as I saw this video on my notifications I thought of the Seth Rogan movie An American Pickle. Also, I'm a dill person. I liked the sweet ones as a kid but my tastes have changed over the years. I also keep a jar in the fridge for when I look in the fridge and cant decide what I want to eat.
Btw, when I was pregnant I never once craved pickles.
That movie was pretty terrible, lol. It's based off of a New York Time article/story, iirc.
@@Obiwancolenobi I never heard about that story. I will have to look it up.
@@TheOfficialTarynTots Yeah, it's a different kind of humor? Little bit of New York pretentiousness to it but still amusing!
Talks about selling pickles out of pushcarts, shows a picture of raw oysters instead. 😀
“Bread and butter pickles. The pickle for the wanton sociopath!”
"Snake melons"
Makes sense why cats are afraid of cucumbers.....
In the old days we used to have shit&sugar. boogers on a biscuit. and a thing called soggy Sao's
I'd much rather have a stork being me pickles instead of a baby.
I love pickles. Even bread and butter. Gimme the mustard seeds too.
I watch for the information, but cringe at the jokes that repeatedly fail to land :l
I make a pineapple and onion relish. Odd combo, but delicious.
im like 8 weeks pregant and im on my second jar of dill pickles 🤣🤣
I ate an entire 16 ounce jar of pickles before this video was even over.
Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin
While I've never tried pickles and butter, I do know I like cheese and pickles, and considering the similarity between cheese and butter, pickles and butter may not actually be that bad...
Yeah, it makes sense. Salt, fat, acid...just one away from Samin Nosrat's holy quartet!
I can't say I've seen pickles and (typical US/EU) butter together myself .. But around here it's very common to mix pickled cucumbers with either mayonnaise and dill, as so called Tartar sauce, with thick yogurt or mileram (pasteurized sour cream, fermented by classic butter culture) as Tzatziki sauce, or indeed even with kaymak. The latter is practically butter. So I guess the combo might not be that unusual, just maybe not with what most people in the West associate with butter. #jm2c
My grandmother grew up during The Depression, she pickled everything from fish, to fruits, basically anything she could. She used to give us Shaved ice with fruit juice as a summertime treat.
1:30 Cucumbers aren't vegetables, they are fruit.
Bah quite right, our bad. I think some argue that there is a distinction between "botanical" definitions and "culinary" definitions for fruits/vegetables, but if we wanted to make use of that distinction we should have explained as much. We'll be more aware for future vids!
@6:33: In the 19th century, the French introduced dill to Vietnam as part of French Indochina, telling them that it was a condiment for seafood; and to this day, the locals still think dill only goes with seafood.
See also tsukemono
Yes! Would've been great to touch on those!
Love all types of cucumber pickles, and other pickled veggies.
Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to enjoy hot spiced ones. ☹
Oh, and I used to drink the liquid in the jars once the pickles were gone. My mother objected as the sodium was much too high. I'd still do it today, but she had a point. 🤔
We could've done a whole section on pickle juice drinkers! I've heard it as a hangover cure, a weight-loss strategy, and as just a tasty (?) snack.
@@MentalFloss I'd agree with tasty. 😋
I don't drink the juice (anymore) but I will occasionally drop a hard boiled egg in for a day or two, for cheater pickled eggs
That Cronenberg bit got me, he was a regular at a deli I worked at, he did indeed enjoy pickles.
Hahahha I could not love this comment any more, even it were [insert Cronenberg reference that I don't feel comfortable making on a professional account].
Honey its time for your 4 o'clock pickle 😆
Pickles in actuality originated in India
I've been able to get Kosher pickles that are made in saltwater brine. The company that makes them is Strubs. They also make pickled eggs. I don't know if their pickles are truly Kosher, but they are labelled as Full Sour Kosher Dill Pickles.
Weeell, in my 60 years of enjoying Bread and Butter Pickles I'd always assumed, and others of my acquaintance have agreed, that the pickles are so called because a good Bread and Butter Pickle has a taste reminiscent to a Bread and Butter Sandwich. Call me crazy but don't call my mind changed.
You forgot The most important thing after pickles that we eat in America is the "Jalapeños" which are pickles too and used for garnish is alot of our food when spicy sauce is not available.
Love me some pickles..
Pickles and kimchi are the greatest
me, a Dane at 7:53 "THAT LOOKS LIKE Rugbrød!"
Well done young Jedi
I actually was lucky enough to try pickled herring. I am a pretty curious guy so I got some to try and truth be told it has to be one of my favorite oddity type foods to get when I travel north (in the US) to the folks that make it at their restaurants.
Are “bread and butter pickles” the same as sweet pickles? Because if so, I agree; they’re the worst. Especially when you accidentally bite into a sweet pickle that you thought was a dill. :(
There’s literally nothing worse than thinking you grabbed a Dill only to have that sweet flavour hit your tongue!
Thank you for not dissing the 1970s! I pickled veggies a few times. Much easier than I thought
no wonder I hate saur kraut, it's cabbage.
can i have your pickle
Avoid the pickle park
Compliments to the chef