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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @KarenSDR
    @KarenSDR 6 месяцев назад +273

    I remember an old song I learned in school:
    "The biscuits in the army
    They say are mighty fine.
    One fell off the table
    And killed a pal of mine."

    • @kagakai7729
      @kagakai7729 6 месяцев назад +13

      Rip my boy Dickus Maximus, he didn't deserve to go out like that man 😢

    • @kevingooley9628
      @kevingooley9628 6 месяцев назад +4

      "I don't want no more of army life, gee ma, I wanna go home."

    • @PopeSixtusVI
      @PopeSixtusVI 2 месяца назад +1

      They say that in the Army
      The chicken is might fine.
      One jumped off of the table
      And started counting time.

    • @blake7587
      @blake7587 2 месяца назад

      Not a real historical song so it doesn’t mean much.

    • @SCBlahBLah
      @SCBlahBLah Месяц назад

      @@blake7587it brought a smile to quite a few people so stop being a sour puss

  • @mirandalarsen3111
    @mirandalarsen3111 6 месяцев назад +709

    Why isn't this titled "History Hits Tortures Dan Snow for Likes"?

    • @HistoryHit
      @HistoryHit  6 месяцев назад +148

      A thumbnail paints a thousands words...

    • @B3llyFl0p
      @B3llyFl0p 6 месяцев назад +2

      i don't get it??

    • @matthewc4590
      @matthewc4590 6 месяцев назад +11

      Dan has refined tastes. These dishes make him gag.

    • @dbfi01
      @dbfi01 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@HistoryHit A roman soldier would not lie down and eat, like a roman senator... Get your history straight...!

    • @kjejon1
      @kjejon1 6 месяцев назад +14

      @@dbfi01 Relax ffs

  • @BeeMcDee
    @BeeMcDee 6 месяцев назад +360

    I heard him say ‘hardtack’ and had a Pavlovian response of hearing *clack clack* straight after.

    • @Janelane529
      @Janelane529 6 месяцев назад +47

      You watch Tasting History too? :D

    • @eloquentsarcasm
      @eloquentsarcasm 6 месяцев назад +34

      Max Miller the legend! Who would have ever thought such a simple bit would grow to this level, lol!

    • @BeeMcDee
      @BeeMcDee 6 месяцев назад +23

      @@Janelane529 one of my favourite channels. Max is the best!

    • @Leesek1011
      @Leesek1011 6 месяцев назад +13

      Max!

    • @katierandall9191
      @katierandall9191 6 месяцев назад +6

      Me too 😆

  • @JG44763
    @JG44763 6 месяцев назад +111

    Finally a full complete series of Dan eating all of the foods cold

    • @clvrswine
      @clvrswine 6 месяцев назад

      *.

    • @DakotaFord592
      @DakotaFord592 2 месяца назад

      omg!!! This man is so beautiful!!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!! So, I can sniff and taste them!!!!!

  • @CarolynParsons-mv1ji
    @CarolynParsons-mv1ji 6 месяцев назад +483

    If anyone else on here watches Tasting History, as soon as he said hardtack, did you envision the video clip of Max going *clack, clack*? Lol!

    • @Pompom-xy3uu
      @Pompom-xy3uu 6 месяцев назад +26

      *clack* *clack* XDD

    • @albertamcknight9882
      @albertamcknight9882 6 месяцев назад +6

      🤣🤣

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 6 месяцев назад

      Max is Waaay better, and his manners are much better. I cringed every time he slapped his chops.. I feel like they have tried to rip him off with this, they even used the same quotes, but they failed miserably.

    • @CarolynParsons-mv1ji
      @CarolynParsons-mv1ji 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@hogwashmcturnip8930 I hadn’t been paying that much attention, but you’re right!

    • @alexb882
      @alexb882 6 месяцев назад +10

      For all the stuff Mr Snow is subjecting himself to, he didn't eat leather on camera (and if you are reading this Dan, DON'T), Max did =x
      ...although tbh, if I had a choice between jellied eel, and a leather bootstraps.... I fold, I'll have a grilled cheese haha
      Love both channels, not taking sides lol I like food and I like history 🤓

  • @MrFukinfantastic
    @MrFukinfantastic 6 месяцев назад +11

    I laid on that bed and walked that exact room a few months ago! I travelled from Texas to Butser Farm and got there on a day they closed for staff training! The group were SO NICE! All the staff invited us in to have the whole place to ourselves while they freshened up their knowledge. Regularly checked in on us to make sure our questions were answered and we had a good time! I will never forget that place. Recognized your set immediately

  • @evelinharmannfan7191
    @evelinharmannfan7191 6 месяцев назад +58

    In Germany during WW II cigarettes again became the main currency on the black market. Almost everybody started smoking, sometimes even children. Because nicotin would calm your shattered nerves after an air raid and even dull the feeling of constant hunger. That was certainly unhealthy, but at a time when you felt you could die any minute, a longterm healthy lifestyle seemed less urgent.

    • @PopeSixtusVI
      @PopeSixtusVI 2 месяца назад +2

      Don't forget brandy, chocolate bars and toilet tissue. We Americans found out about that last one in 2020.

  • @Anamillio
    @Anamillio 6 месяцев назад +21

    This was a great documentary. I love that he is actually tasting the food vs just talking about it

    • @marniekilbourne608
      @marniekilbourne608 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes, I just wish he wasn't talking with his mouthful lol. Ugh.

  • @ismarwinkelman5648
    @ismarwinkelman5648 6 месяцев назад +54

    A lot of these dishes look as if they would have tasted much better when prepared well

    • @elizamccroskey1708
      @elizamccroskey1708 6 месяцев назад +14

      I kept thinking the same thing. I don't know why the upper class food was so poorly prepared. I get that if you're juggling all the work of running a household and possibly having some craft to bring in income that cooking would be just a get it done thing, but if cooking is your whole job . . .

    • @dtw8446
      @dtw8446 4 месяца назад +7

      Yeah you have to correct for modern brits cooking this... who else would serve bean stew cold?

  • @OG21020
    @OG21020 6 месяцев назад +87

    I think there's one aspect missing here. Dan Snow is not starving. He does not exert himself from sun up to sun down with hard manual labour. He does not walk miles back and forth every day. For those soldiers in the trenches, for the poor in Victorian UK , the food they ate everyday that tastes terrible to us today would be normal and heartening to them. They would be grateful and thankful that they had those to eat when faced with starvation.

    • @corinnamattison
      @corinnamattison 5 месяцев назад +24

      Yup, it's not a reality show. It's a historian tasting food from history. The context is implied.

    • @violetskies14
      @violetskies14 4 месяца назад +8

      Also a lot of these dishes weren't shown at their best, pottage as I understand it was not preferred cold, it was almost always eaten hot like a modern soup, and it almost always included local herbs and whatever flavorings were available. Depending on the time and place it would have most often and wherever possible contained salt or something that had been preserved in salt too. The posca had way too much vinegar in it if it was astringent, it was basically the ancient version of a cordial, a flavouring to make the water taste better, the vinegar should only be enough to make it a bit sour, no where near enough to make your throat sting. Pickled herring is gross though.

    • @dtw8446
      @dtw8446 4 месяца назад +2

      The Victorians certainly complained about the terrible adulteration of their bread and indeed laws were passed to correct the awful quality of bread and the terrible working conditions of British urban bakers. He doesn't do justice to a lot of the food here but Victorian urban bread was notoriously terrible in quality. American writers like Jack London comment on it when visiting London.

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 3 месяца назад +4

      ​@@violetskies14he even said that the pottage was heated, even stewed over a fire for days as new ingredients were added (to replace what had been eaten) - and then ate it cold🤦

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 3 месяца назад +2

      His trotters probably weren't cooked well enough either.
      When you're brought up to eat certain foods, they become a staple or even a delicacy. I was brought up eating offal (ox, maybe sheep, not pig mind 🤢 pig flavour is too strong) and rabbit (more like chicken than chicken) and love both. And most of what we ate were cheap cuts so now I have no particular desire to feast on expensive cuts (although I will try them before discounting them entirely and have never, absolutely not ever, been able to overcome a distaste for tripe - nope definitely not going there!). I really miss mutton.

  • @maryjackson1194
    @maryjackson1194 6 месяцев назад +76

    Spam is not meant to be eaten cold. Some people actually like it , but only when fried to render some of the fat.

    • @carlbirtles4518
      @carlbirtles4518 5 месяцев назад +4

      Dip it in batter and you can have a “Spam fritter”.

    • @Cartoonist62
      @Cartoonist62 4 месяца назад +4

      Exactly! People back then weren't stupid! They would have cut slices and fried it. No different than bacon! Salty and good! Honestly same for the sheep feet, there are better ways to prepare these items. Then again we are talking Britain so maybe this was as good as it got. 😅

    • @tristan8041
      @tristan8041 3 месяца назад +6

      Not sure I can trust his tastes after seeing his reaction to spam. I slice and cook it in a pan but have eaten it cold on occasion. It’s still good. Tastes like a cold pork paté.

    • @thecynicaloptimist1884
      @thecynicaloptimist1884 2 месяца назад +1

      It isn't? I have it cold all the time haha! Just use it as a meat filling for a sandwich, perfect!

    • @SunniRae-st9sj
      @SunniRae-st9sj 2 месяца назад +1

      Cold spam sandwiches are amazing!

  • @wadejustanamerican1201
    @wadejustanamerican1201 6 месяцев назад +96

    I read that hard tack or biscuits weren't meant to be eaten without soaking them first. My hats off to you for surviving all of these meals.

    • @donnyboon2896
      @donnyboon2896 6 месяцев назад +2

      Agreed.

    • @anngcampbellbower4385
      @anngcampbellbower4385 6 месяцев назад +5

      There's a dish in Newfoundland (pronounced as Neu - FAEN - land, the 1st "d" is silent whereas the 2nd "d" is pronounced) that uses hard tack called Fish & Brewis (pronounced as Bruse), it's either soaked or boiled with potatoes & veggies or boiled then fried. Each Newfie family has their own recipe for using hard tack.

    • @xScooterAZx
      @xScooterAZx 6 месяцев назад

      Yup. You break em up like crackers and pour soup over them. Or stew. When they sodften they're fine. I used to love them as a kid. My mom made them for when I went out riding my horse.

    • @jujutaylor2186
      @jujutaylor2186 4 месяца назад +2

      Where did you read that? Please share your source for our curiosity and further learning

    • @wadejustanamerican1201
      @wadejustanamerican1201 4 месяца назад +2

      I'll have to look through my civil war books to find which one. Hopefully I can find the book in a couple of days. I'll get back to you.

  • @gina928
    @gina928 6 месяцев назад +14

    Pickled pig's feet! I was raised on those. My Nannie was raised in the South and used to make this. It really was delicious.

    • @donnagray1988
      @donnagray1988 2 месяца назад +1

      my Gran would boil trotters until they fell apart then make a delicious soup or sometimes stew

  • @vkat4167
    @vkat4167 6 месяцев назад +27

    Pig trotters are actually a part of traditional dish among Eastern Europeans. It is cooked for long hours, better overnight, then cleaned from skin and bones, and the broth was divided on small portions and cooled in wells or basements where the T was never higher than 6-8C. The broth which is the collagen extract turns into jello, and was eaten with garlic or horseradish. People who had meat, added meat on the bottom on the jello form, also pepper or other spices, so they could get much more delicious jello, and it looked nice too. From biochemical point of view this dish is very fulfilling and healthy, because it’s a pure collagen, very well extracted from joints. Humans digest it easily, and it goes directly to build our skin and joints. BTW biochemically pigs are very close to humans, we even can use pigs’ organs as transplants. My friend who was a vegetarian for over 2 decades suffered from terrible joints pain, had to use a cane to walk. I recommended her to stop idiotic diet and eat collagen foods at least for 2 weeks… she refused, but after the pain became severe so she barely was able to walk, she did similar dish as I described earlier but used chicken feet, not pig’s. How long it took her to be able to walk as normal human, what do you think? 3 weeks. After that she decided to eat chicken ones a week.

    • @TheRougefish
      @TheRougefish 6 месяцев назад +7

      Bulgarian here, I totally get the picture and it's delicious! Crushed garlic with wine vinegar for maximum enjoyment.

    • @ddz1375
      @ddz1375 5 месяцев назад +5

      My mother was from Germany, born in 1931. She used to make the best pigs feet. She made it flavored with a bit of bay leaf, caraway and a splash of vinegar. Delicious with spicy mustard and some rye bread. Also used to scrape the fat off and spread it on bread with a shake of salt.

    • @jujutaylor2186
      @jujutaylor2186 4 месяца назад +2

      My grandma used to make me pig feet. I only ate her pig feet cooking. Loved that down south from the rooter to the tooter cooking/eating mentality.

    • @natedizzy4939
      @natedizzy4939 Месяц назад

      Are you making an argument for cannabilism? 😂😂

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka 22 дня назад

      There's a south asian dish that's extremely similar in concept, and mostly made by Muslims so it uses goat or bovine trotters instead of pig's feet. It's called Paya soup, and it's one hell of a hearty meal. I'd add that being south asia, spices are way cheaper and so its quite liberally seasoned.
      It's especially popular as a dish made by bakers for themselves and their labour, and rarely if ever, sold to outsiders.
      Bakers in these parts often work through the night, and when the rest of the city would wake for breakfast and demand fresh bread, they'd be exhausted and ending their workday. That soup and bread is one of those meals that hits you in the soul. If the baker shared his meal with you, it would be like him calling you family.
      The nutrition is also brilliant, especially if you're convalescent.

  • @lindsaydrewe8219
    @lindsaydrewe8219 6 месяцев назад +41

    Chocolate with chili is brilliant, and yes it does cure everything, as far as I’m concerned😂

    • @nothingruler14All
      @nothingruler14All 5 месяцев назад

      It's incredibly high in antioxidants! Maybe not a cure for everything, but certainly very good for you...as long as you go easy on the sugar.

    • @dtw8446
      @dtw8446 4 месяца назад

      Chocolate and chili really will make you feel better, as chocolate contains psychoactive theobromine that makes you feel nice and capsaicin activates temperature regulating nerve cells in your gut, making you warmer as your metabolism speeds up a bit.

  • @paulathomson8904
    @paulathomson8904 6 месяцев назад +71

    You have dripping completely wrong! It is the fat that is in the baking tin after a large piece of meat is roasted so it contains the flavor of the meat plus any spices or herbs rubbed into meat before cooking. Yes there was a layer of fat on top but I grew up in postwar Britain and we loved dripping spread on bread. Your father was right!

    • @ogg5949
      @ogg5949 6 месяцев назад +9

      I grew up with what my mum called yorkshire pudding- pour flour/eggs/ milk mixture into the fat drippings in the tin from roasting the meat and bake- the best stuff ever! Still my favorite today. I've delighted many an American pallet with it. I grew up in America and have never understood why no Americans ever heard of this dish. I always assumed my mother brought it over from Britain. It was considered a delicacy served on holidays in our house when we would eat roast beef. The rest of the time we ate fish and spam. Though I do still love spam salads.

    • @connordickerson6815
      @connordickerson6815 6 месяцев назад +4

      ​@ogg5949 Yorkshire pudding it's my favourite part of a Sunday roast, simple but delicious..

    • @Iaintwoke
      @Iaintwoke 6 месяцев назад +5

      He only had the white fat and not the tasty brown jelly that normally goes with it.

    • @DavidLee-yu7yz
      @DavidLee-yu7yz 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@Iaintwoke I also suspect that was not proper dripping but lard, not the same thing at all.

    • @oana-mariauliu5828
      @oana-mariauliu5828 6 месяцев назад +1

      Moreover, you can use it to make the most delicious pastry.

  • @Frank305786
    @Frank305786 6 месяцев назад +9

    They make sweet breads in Argentina and it’s delicious. They make him in the grill until crispy and put lime on it. I have gotten a lot of American friends into it. It’s pretty good.

  • @kjslaw5257
    @kjslaw5257 6 месяцев назад +27

    My grandmother would fry Spam, and we would make sandwiches. They were delicious! I’m sure you know how much Spam is loved in Hawaii! Great video! I’m sending it to my sister the chef! 😊

    • @xScooterAZx
      @xScooterAZx 6 месяцев назад +1

      I lived in Hawaii for several years and used to go to Zippy's to eat noodles with eggs and spam in it! I also had breakfast there too and it had Spam with scrambled eggs too. Awesome!

    • @kwokfanfan3606
      @kwokfanfan3606 6 месяцев назад +1

      Spam fried rice was one of the first dish I learned to cook at age 11.

    • @esbliss13
      @esbliss13 6 месяцев назад +1

      My mom made fried spam, I always liked it.

  • @shotgunbettygaming
    @shotgunbettygaming 6 месяцев назад +32

    01:08:40 Ohhh the disrespect shown to SPAM😆You never eat it cold Dan, thats disgusting🤣You fry it up in thin slices and eat it with eggs or as a sandwich. Scramble some eggs, dice some SPAM up, add rice and seasoning, fry it all up together...delish!

    • @kateg7298
      @kateg7298 3 месяца назад +1

      I agree with you. I was raised on fried spam and eggs. Hawaiians love it too. I was surprised to find Spam sushi there. It wasn't bad..

    • @lylemitchell1991
      @lylemitchell1991 2 месяца назад

      Wonderful spam! oh wonderful spam
      I love spam, even cold tbf

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 Месяц назад

      when I was at college in the late 1970s, Friday night was spam fritters. Loved them! Im vegetarian now.

  • @bradwalker4687
    @bradwalker4687 6 месяцев назад +3

    Dan Snow is such a Legend. Great work, Sir!

  • @helengrierson2978
    @helengrierson2978 6 месяцев назад +26

    I bet the tribes were laughing: "this Emperor wants *parsnips* instead of gold, we're rich!!"

    • @adrianaslund8605
      @adrianaslund8605 3 месяца назад

      Parsnips are great though. Fry it or saute it and it's delicious, salty and sweet.

  • @AutismFathers
    @AutismFathers 6 месяцев назад +58

    You should link up Tasting History by Max Miller. There could be awesome collaboration videos!

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 6 месяцев назад

      That would be Max Slumming it. Plus doesn´t make have a thing about bad eaters?

    • @dziooooo
      @dziooooo 6 месяцев назад +9

      Yeah, but Max Miller does actual research, prepares the meals correctly and tries them fresh, and with an open mind,

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 Месяц назад

      I just linked it! He uses Apicius' cookery book, too. I'd be surprised if Dan was not familiar.

  • @AdmiralMila
    @AdmiralMila 4 месяца назад +7

    I imagine a lot of these would be a lot more palatable if they were actually warm (and been prepared properly). I can't imagine the potage would have been served cold and herbless back in the day.

  • @brandonarkell5357
    @brandonarkell5357 6 месяцев назад +29

    Maize alkalized in lime is called hominy. It's hominy.

    • @lorierush6561
      @lorierush6561 6 месяцев назад +6

      Hominy grits. Yummy 😋🤤

  • @heatherevert274
    @heatherevert274 6 месяцев назад +15

    Spam is so much more edible when sliced and cooked and served hot.

  • @tiglathpiglezer
    @tiglathpiglezer 6 месяцев назад +34

    I was born end of the 60s. Our parents were WW2 kids (1 early teen, 1 small child). Products of the "Protestant work ethic", they ate what they were given and expected us to do the same. We had bread and dripping often (the Monday remnant of the small Sunday roast)... it was delicious! The way it is "served" with no effort in this programme is ridiculous drama. In reality: Toasted chunky brown bread, re-melted beef dripping, white pepper, salt.... and in the summer a tomato (home grown and ripened in the airing cupboard) and small chunk of cheese on the side. Simple and lovely!

    • @snowysnowyriver
      @snowysnowyriver 6 месяцев назад +2

      You have brought back happy memories to me. I used to love bread and dripping and my favourite was pork dripping. Also bread fried in dripping, that was delicious. A favourite supper was a thick slice of fried drippjng bread, with fried tomatoes on it and an egg on the top. My mother always roasted a couple of onions with the pork, so the gravy and dripping had an onion taste too. I know a lot of people will cry that it was unhealthy, but I'm 72 and still here! My parents and grandparents lived into their 80s.

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el 6 месяцев назад

      Damn so different to Native Americans, real Americans grow up eating tacos, tostadas, chili and tomato salsas, potatoes, and tons of slow cooked meats.

    • @dukey19941
      @dukey19941 2 месяца назад

      Nothing better than a home grown tomato. So delicious. And that bread dripping...YUMM!

  • @darinwink-ou4qk
    @darinwink-ou4qk 6 месяцев назад +29

    It would be interesting to see if Dan's opinions would change if he revisted these foods with some "historical hunger" such as after fasting for a few days.

    • @nuuuuuuuut
      @nuuuuuuuut 6 месяцев назад +1

      I mean.. anything is good if you're starving. Not much of an evaluation in that case.

    • @darinwink-ou4qk
      @darinwink-ou4qk 5 месяцев назад +1

      It appears you've never experienced true hunger if you describe fasting for a few days as "starving"

    • @nuuuuuuuut
      @nuuuuuuuut 4 месяца назад

      @@darinwink-ou4qk It's a colloquialism, smartass.

    • @jjboswell5043
      @jjboswell5043 3 месяца назад

      It wasn't that common for people to be starving. You talk as though it was the norm, which it certainly was not. The average field working peasant ate between 7,000-9,000 calories a day to get through 12-14 hour working days

    • @darinwink-ou4qk
      @darinwink-ou4qk 3 месяца назад

      @@jjboswell5043 My point was it didn't seem to add much educational value to watch Dan Snow try historical food and then tell us it tasted disgusting. It appeared that he needed some extra motivation to speak about these dishes in historical context. Much as you say people weren't starving; they also weren't including in their diets staple dishes that they thought tasted terrible..

  • @bexproctor360
    @bexproctor360 5 месяцев назад +5

    I really enjoyed this ! Found if fascinating and enjoyed the light humour , really good ! Thanks Dan for your sacrifice!

  • @heatherevert274
    @heatherevert274 6 месяцев назад +9

    Did the person cooking the sheep and pig feet do it without any herbs or spices in the broth? And perhaps didn't cook long enough? These items should fall apart readily after cooking and having a strong flavor from the cooking liquid helps make the texture more palatable.

  • @andrewclarke9304
    @andrewclarke9304 6 месяцев назад +16

    Pottage looks nice. Basically just a vegetable stew. I make a similar type of soup all of the time. Needs salt and herbs to make it tasty though.

  • @brightphoebesays
    @brightphoebesays 6 месяцев назад +31

    And sweetbreads is not ovaries in testicles, it is the thymus gland of the throat, and the pancreas.

    • @mustwereallydothis
      @mustwereallydothis 4 месяца назад +5

      I'm glad at least one other person knows that.
      They are also meant to be grilled so the outside is crisp and caramelized. The ones he tasted appeared to have been boiled.🤢 It's unfortunate that whoever cooked them knew less about preparing them than they did about what they even were. I can only hope that they at least knew enough to clean and dress them correctly. I somehow doubt it, though

    • @jjboswell5043
      @jjboswell5043 3 месяца назад +1

      Sweet meats and sweet breads are different. Sweet meats are the testes etc

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 Месяц назад +1

      'ovaries in testicles'? surely an impossibility!

    • @brightphoebesays
      @brightphoebesays Месяц назад

      @@helenswan705 LOL! I didn't notice that typo before. I use "dictate" a lot.

  • @RichWoods23
    @RichWoods23 6 месяцев назад +23

    My dad used to love his bread and dripping, though my mum couldn't stand it. It brought her too many bad memories of childhood, incorporating aircraft falling out of the skies and respectful funerals for foreign and/or enemy pilots whose families would likely never get to visit the graves.
    Three decades after the war we used to eat spam sandwiches, with the block of spam cut into thin slices like luncheon meat and covered with pickles. I've never eaten it like that since I left home, but I do love spam grilled or fried and eaten as part of a full English or in a bap with a shit-ton (technical term) of brown sauce.

    • @Devils-advocate78
      @Devils-advocate78 6 месяцев назад

      Why would respectful funerals for foreign enemy pilots cause your mum to not want to eat dripping? That is most bizarre comment I’ve ever read 🙈😂

    • @MrJakeTucker
      @MrJakeTucker 6 месяцев назад +3

      As a nipper in the 1960s my mum would take me to visit the grandparents at the weekend. My nan would give me dripping on toast. A big fat 'doorstop' piece of toast, proper butter and dripping. Along with some tea from the teapot, loose tea stewed to the max. I loved it. Dan here is having dripping on bread cold which I imagine wouldn't taste as good as it is warm/hot.

    • @angrydoggy9170
      @angrydoggy9170 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@Devils-advocate78 Enjoying or disliking the taste of certain foods is highly influenced by the mental state you were in when eating them before. Similar to enjoying the smells of something like a freshly mown meadow because it unconsciously reminds you of that great vacation you had in your childhood. Taste and smell can bring you back to good times and bad times, causing you to dislike or like them. For instance, i only need to put a King mint in my mouth for relaxation as it brings me back to my childhood days going on walks or bike rides with my grandfather (he always had a roll of those mints in his pockets). On the other hand, I hate the taste of McDonald’s as that was I was eating when my first long time girlfriend dumped me (and probably because it’s crap anyway).

    • @pontiacfan76
      @pontiacfan76 6 месяцев назад

      Spam is nasty. But if that's all you had be surprised what you would eat.

  • @seneschal4617
    @seneschal4617 6 месяцев назад +16

    You know, I have never ever once considered WHY there's pineapples everywhere on old timey stuff. Now I know. Also, I LOVE Spam but the thought of eating it cold from the can makes me feel ill haha

  • @johndittmer8488
    @johndittmer8488 6 месяцев назад +13

    Believe or not, spam is extremely popular in Hawaii due to their experience with it in WW2. You can still get spam, egg, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast there.

    • @vickywitton1008
      @vickywitton1008 6 месяцев назад +5

      We still like Spam in the UK too

    • @daniellehogue4117
      @daniellehogue4117 5 месяцев назад +2

      Musubis are one of the best foods, period.

    • @itstallgirl
      @itstallgirl 15 дней назад

      Not just because of WWII. I'm Kānaka maoli, Polynesians already had a very pork centric cuisine and culture. We brought pig and chicken with us across the Pacific. Add that WWII and today's relative poverty of most Native Hawaiians (and local immigrants and other Polynesians) resulting in Spam being popular across the Pacific (Hawai'i, Samoa, Guam, Tonga, Marshall Islands, etc.)
      Spam is ono grinds too which helps!

  • @LLC4269
    @LLC4269 5 месяцев назад +1

    I absolutely adore food history. Annie Gray is always one of my favorite guests on all history podcasts! Anything social history from shampooing your hair and keeping clean to what people eat is just right up my alley. Thank you so much for this video! It was also pretty hilarious 😅

    • @EmMiller-wu3dy
      @EmMiller-wu3dy 5 месяцев назад

      Add Tasting History by Max Miller too.

  • @maryjackson1194
    @maryjackson1194 6 месяцев назад +6

    I deliberately ordered sweetbreads at a French restaurant, and they were delicious. They were the pancreas and thymus...I don't think they are still just any offal.

  • @katbullar
    @katbullar 6 месяцев назад

    I wish we had more documentaries with Dan Snow. He's super nice!

  • @gso619
    @gso619 6 месяцев назад +7

    I love how they included the stuff miserable soldiers and intentionally abstaining monks would eat and it was still better than the diet of the average person in victorian England. I swear, the more I learn about the period, the more it seems like the single worst time to be alive as a normal person.

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 3 месяца назад

      It all depends upon where you lived. The towns were rapidly growing in size and chiller vans weren't a thing so there was the potential that food was past its best by the time it got to market. Plus less had to spread further 🤷 corners were cut and safety wasn't yet paramount.

    • @Aemond2024
      @Aemond2024 2 месяца назад

      Monks were excellent at making dishes because they had to make quality because they worked for God

  • @kateg7298
    @kateg7298 3 месяца назад +1

    My father used to eat a lot of these foods, like drippings, pigs feet and loved army rations. He also loved the old C rations that you opened with a church key. I developed a fondness for some C rations because we ate those when we travelled. The best was some sort of King Ranch tasting chicken in a can.

  • @blake7587
    @blake7587 2 месяца назад +2

    Dan Snow isn’t really a “historian” or an “expert” he’s a TV personality.

  • @robinwhitebeam4386
    @robinwhitebeam4386 6 месяцев назад +7

    I bought hard biscuits from an Italian shop 50 years ago while travelling around Europe by train , they were wrapped in a paper bag and did not go soft for the next ten days. I do not think they tasted of much. We dipped the in red wine!

    • @xScooterAZx
      @xScooterAZx 6 месяцев назад

      You dont sip them. Just break them up and pour soup or s tew over t hem and wait till they softed. Usually a few minutes.

  • @aurevoiralex
    @aurevoiralex 6 месяцев назад +4

    The word "potage" means soup in French, to this day. It's not made from any specific ingredients but it's usually vegetable based and might contain meat, but not necessarily. Always eaten piping hot and with loads of delicious buttered bread!

  • @frankknudsen842
    @frankknudsen842 6 месяцев назад +3

    I have a deep partiality towards spam. In 06' in Iraq, through or due to a supply chain order mix up, I received a 40-foot shipping container of spam. And the convoy crew although tired of spam learned to love spam. 😅

  • @jessicanone4202
    @jessicanone4202 2 месяца назад +1

    I still practice fasting like the medieval period. It has helped my health a lot!!! I also have lost 10lbs

  • @EmMiller-wu3dy
    @EmMiller-wu3dy 5 месяцев назад +2

    I came here from Max Miller’s Tasting History. I’m conditioned to expect a British accent from Roman characters, so this was excellent.

  • @DavidWalter-gz8ue
    @DavidWalter-gz8ue 2 месяца назад +1

    The French Army still gets wine in their rations, one carton of Red and one of White.
    And Spam is very popular in South Korea.

  • @Gawainer
    @Gawainer 6 месяцев назад +14

    In Ireland pottage was called stirabout because you put things in the pot and stirred it about

    • @Hooibeest2D
      @Hooibeest2D 5 месяцев назад

      Ha same in the north of the Netherlands roerom same meaning.

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 Месяц назад

      aha, a technical term.

  • @matthewcuratolo3719
    @matthewcuratolo3719 6 месяцев назад +14

    I once tried cajun-blackened spam. I spent half the night afraid I'd die and the other half afraid I wouldn't.

  • @spuffed
    @spuffed 6 месяцев назад +16

    I am very sorry to hear that the editor responsible for cutting out smacking, spitting and slurping was unwell and unable to work. Get better soon, buddy!

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 6 месяцев назад

      Revolting isn´t it. I have always had a thing about eating and I would have to leave if I was at table with him!

    • @NoTbAdDuDE134
      @NoTbAdDuDE134 6 месяцев назад

      i love to hear dan slurping 😈

    • @christopherjahn2044
      @christopherjahn2044 6 месяцев назад +4

      Why would anyone edit out the etiquette? Noisy eating is good manners in a number of cultures.

    • @DavidLee-yu7yz
      @DavidLee-yu7yz 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@christopherjahn2044 You have the same humour as me, love it ;-)

  • @Lord_Baphomet_
    @Lord_Baphomet_ 6 месяцев назад +7

    20:20 the way he is holding that tortilla is almost infuriating

  • @Chanceisafoodie
    @Chanceisafoodie 6 месяцев назад +5

    LOVED Dan Snow before this video and I love him even more now that he’s put himself through all of this for our knowledge and entertainment! 😂

  • @digitalstowaway
    @digitalstowaway 5 месяцев назад +5

    The way he’s holding it, looks like he’s never eaten anything on a tortilla in his life 😅 🌮

  • @xScooterAZx
    @xScooterAZx 6 месяцев назад +3

    My mom used to make hard tack for me to go on a long full days horse ride. You take it,break it up and just drop it into broth or stew,or soup and wait for it to soften. It isnt bad really.

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 6 месяцев назад

      Or you put it under the saddle and let the horse's sweat soften it.

    • @xScooterAZx
      @xScooterAZx 6 месяцев назад

      @@RichWoods23 Umm,..I think I'll pass on that one. LOL Didnt the Indians do that and the Mongols?

    • @MoondustManwise
      @MoondustManwise 6 месяцев назад +1

      Mongols used to do it to cook their meat on long journeys, though as far as I'm aware it was wrapped and wasn't directly touching the horse's skin

  • @bigstyx
    @bigstyx 4 месяца назад +2

    My dad loved pickled pigs, feet but a jellied German styled with pickle spices

  • @gregedmand9939
    @gregedmand9939 6 месяцев назад +36

    Dan wasn't listening when his mom said "Never talk with your mouth full Danny!"

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 6 месяцев назад

      His eating was heard to watch. She clearly never told him not to `slap his gills either

    • @michelpare3636
      @michelpare3636 6 месяцев назад +1

      😂

    • @teresabetancourt4734
      @teresabetancourt4734 6 месяцев назад +4

      Not to mention, “Use your napkins, darling…”

    • @teresabetancourt4734
      @teresabetancourt4734 6 месяцев назад

      This was very good. I thank you for your personal tortures

    • @dalestaley5637
      @dalestaley5637 6 месяцев назад

      But Mum, I'm doing a documentary on food! 😂

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus42 6 месяцев назад +5

    Pottage sounds just like Chicken Carcass Glop (tm) that kept us going through Thatcher's Britain in a pokey bedsit in Devon.
    My mum would save her Sunday chicken carcass & freeze it. We'd take it home & boil the pygostyle off of it in a pressure cooker with an onion and salt & pepper.
    Strain that stock, add a dash of light soy sauce, sliced button mushrooms, sweetcorn & spring onion & you've got the nicest Chinese chicken soup you've ever tasted. Just right for those willow pattern bowls with china spoons!
    Anyway, that would've wasted a week's food so that was a special treat.
    Normally we'd add leeks, onions, root veg ect. to the stock and add all the meat we could find still adhering to the bones.
    Throw in some barley, lentils ect. Often called "Soup Mix" nowadays, and that makes a great chicken stew. Especially with dumplings if we could afford the suet.
    Each day we'd add an onion, more pulses, veg... Day two was nearly as good as day one.
    By day 5 finding a bit of chicken was cause for celebration. It started to become greyer then too. And because of the starch in the pulses & gluten in the dumplings it would set to a firm, grey gel. Seasoning became more and more important especially by Saturday. It was like salty, peppery wallpaper paste by the end of the week.
    But Sunday arrived and we'd walk the hour's walk to me mum's. Sometimes we'd get to partake of the roast chicken... But mostly not.
    So we'd reinvented Pottage had we? It definitely keeps you going through a cold winter.

  • @kathrynsamuelson1983
    @kathrynsamuelson1983 6 месяцев назад +12

    Sweet potatoes are from a different plant family from potatoes.

  • @jamespembleton2666
    @jamespembleton2666 6 месяцев назад +12

    I believe, technically, the Victorian period began in 1837 when Victoria became queen and ended when she died in 1901. Then don't forget Edward VII from 1901-1910. Best do a fact check on that. A bit disappointed that a history show would get that so wrong. Makes me mistrust the accuracy of the other information presented.

    • @dtw8446
      @dtw8446 4 месяца назад +1

      Victoria had such a long reign and Edward such a short reign that people forget and take Victorian right up to World War I. It's an understandable mistake I guess as we so often think of World War I as the end point of the that long 19th century Victorian era.

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 Месяц назад

      seems obvious!

  • @JacobafJelling
    @JacobafJelling 2 месяца назад

    I like this version of Dan Snow. Great sense of humor

  • @neanderthal-
    @neanderthal- 6 месяцев назад +10

    Aztec menu looks good and healthy.

    • @wowplayer160
      @wowplayer160 6 месяцев назад +1

      What will future generations say about the poison we consume nowadays.

    • @reecefalcon7747
      @reecefalcon7747 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@wowplayer160 that its poison

    • @lorierush6561
      @lorierush6561 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@ralph0149 😮 yuk

    • @lorierush6561
      @lorierush6561 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@ralph0149 lol 🤣😆😆

    • @lorierush6561
      @lorierush6561 6 месяцев назад

      Parts of it do.

  • @joejankoski8471
    @joejankoski8471 6 месяцев назад +5

    Maybe at the front you might eat Spam straight out of the can, otherwise you'd fry it up like ham or bacon.

  • @brycevo
    @brycevo 6 месяцев назад +3

    May I suggest frying Spam. It's way better than just canned

  • @paveladamek3502
    @paveladamek3502 6 месяцев назад +18

    One of my ancestors served in the Roman army, his name was Biggus Dickus and according to my grandfather he never complained about food.

    • @janwoodward7360
      @janwoodward7360 6 месяцев назад +2

      Oooooh, shades of Monty Python!😊🎉

  • @annettefournier9655
    @annettefournier9655 6 месяцев назад +4

    If you don't like frogs legs then they weren't prepared properly. They have a light delicate chicken taste. They must be skinned and soaked in lightly salted milk overnight. Then wet and dry battered in a light tempura and fried. They should be light and crispy. Very delicious 🎉

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 3 месяца назад

      I thought that they looked like they still had the skin on. Certainly there was something encasing them. It looks as if quite a few of these foods weren't cooked long enough so that may certainly have added to the problem.

  • @aaronbutler5309
    @aaronbutler5309 3 месяца назад +1

    The song playing in the world war 2 rations is from Giuseppe Vasapolli. He does the music for Hollywood graveyards.

  • @catevanslife
    @catevanslife Месяц назад

    My late Dad once lived in what had been a 14th century brewing shack in Shakespeare country - and yes, he enjoyed real ale. This is such a fab video, thank you. 💖

  • @desstanbridge8283
    @desstanbridge8283 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wow...I was really cringing at some of those dishes. My grandparents who grew up in the war years in SA loved that dripping on freshly baked bread with apricot jam. They pickled and made canned fruit with anything they could get from a tree or pull out the ground.

  • @omegaalpha7909
    @omegaalpha7909 3 месяца назад +1

    The way you ate that frog leg told me all I needed to know 😂😂😂

  • @Caesar_Himself
    @Caesar_Himself 6 месяцев назад +8

    Dan Snow has never heard of a cooker, a frying pan or a pot. HEAT THE FOOD FIRST MAN.

  • @maryellencook9528
    @maryellencook9528 6 месяцев назад +3

    All that Dan lacked with that pickled herring, aka lutefisk, was a large fire with a group singing Icelandic folk songs. 😊

    • @slottsdraken
      @slottsdraken 6 месяцев назад +4

      Lutfisk (Swedish version of the word) is NOT pickled herring! Lutfisk/ludefisk is dried rehydrated "stockfisk". The sort of fish is similar to cods. Pickled herring is fatty fish marinated raw in a mixture of spices, sugar and a sort of vinegar called ättika often with onion and raw carrot slices. .

    • @maryellencook9528
      @maryellencook9528 6 месяцев назад

      @@slottsdraken thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that it was herring.

    • @slottsdraken
      @slottsdraken 6 месяцев назад +2

      I'm Swedish living in Sweden, and really interested in traditional food. The lutfisk is getting more and more rare. People don't like it anymore but I love it! It is bought rehydrated, cooked in the oven and served with boiled potatoes, sort of bechamel sauce and allspice where my family is from. Some eat it with peas and stuff but that is HERACY! :-)

  • @xScooterAZx
    @xScooterAZx 6 месяцев назад +2

    Watching your videos is so much fun! I LOVE SPAM!

  • @brightphoebesays
    @brightphoebesays 6 месяцев назад +4

    Gerard was his last name. John was his first. He was John Gerard, and he wrote a herbal, a book of herbs called "Gerarde's Herball".

  • @crawdaddy.actual
    @crawdaddy.actual 6 месяцев назад +5

    It blows my mind that people today still eat Spam outta the can instead of frying it.

  • @Rhiannonganon
    @Rhiannonganon 6 месяцев назад +1

    My college was next to the Huntley and Palmer's building in Reading, I walked past it every day until I was 19

  • @kjslaw5257
    @kjslaw5257 6 месяцев назад +4

    I live in the Southern US, and pickled pig’s feet (trotters) are a thing here. I have never eaten one, never will, but you will see them in big jars all over the South.

  • @sweinnc
    @sweinnc 6 месяцев назад +23

    Pickled herring is wonderful. I would eat it daily if I could.

    • @jamesg9468
      @jamesg9468 6 месяцев назад +7

      Rollmops...yummy. Funny thing is, a lot of herring is fished up here in Britain, but we aren't that keen on it here (more into cod). Most herring is exported to Denmark and Germany.

    • @ismarwinkelman5648
      @ismarwinkelman5648 6 месяцев назад +2

      Zure haring op een wit bolletje en wat uitjes 😋

    • @sweinnc
      @sweinnc 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@jamesg9468 I’m living in the US, but originally from Sweden. I cannot get good and affordable pickled herring here.

    • @stephenconnolly3018
      @stephenconnolly3018 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@sweinnc Maybe a business idea. Drive throw herring fast food shop.

    • @twonumber22
      @twonumber22 6 месяцев назад

      have you gone mad

  • @J24-k8f
    @J24-k8f 4 месяца назад +2

    Hold on, corn/maize dried out, then cooked in lyme, and cooked into a porridge-like thing? You sure you aren't talking about grits?
    Also, hominy or corn is dang good with beans, chiles, a lean meat, and squash. Some folks call it three sisters, some call it succotash, but it will keep you full, regular, and healthy at a cheap price while being tasty.

  • @gypsygirl3255
    @gypsygirl3255 6 месяцев назад +13

    Maize gruel=grits
    I even like hominy

  • @alisonarmstrong8421
    @alisonarmstrong8421 6 месяцев назад +3

    Trotters were pickled or smoked; today I have smoked ham hock, without the cloven hoof party. Good with sauerkraut and boild potatoes.

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 6 месяцев назад

      There are Many ways of doing totters. Not only smoked. They are still a common dish in Spain. I make them myself to a Spanish recipe.

  • @kevin4gwen
    @kevin4gwen 5 месяцев назад +3

    You know how many things were hilariously classified as fish. In the manevil period just so they could be eaten at lent
    Beaver, this type of water goose,

  • @OtterThunder
    @OtterThunder 4 месяца назад +1

    Why does everyone assume that hard tack is eaten as is or just "dipped" in liquid? Surely they would have boiled/rehydrated and cooked the tack in like a stew to make a porridge? It's what sailors do and what east coasters still do in Canada.

  • @josephmarzullo
    @josephmarzullo 6 месяцев назад +3

    My family is of southern Italian descent and we sometimes eat laying down.

  • @susanmercurio1060
    @susanmercurio1060 3 месяца назад +1

    "Maize porridge" is made of ground hominy and it's called grits in the Southern United States

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 3 месяца назад

    Spam is heavily favoured in many asian countries. They fry it and glaze it with sweet marinade. With good cooking it does seem pretty good actually.

  • @silverleafmaple
    @silverleafmaple 2 месяца назад

    Oh my, Dan. Ty for posting :)

  • @steelrain4362
    @steelrain4362 6 месяцев назад +6

    That was great!

  • @Absintheskiss
    @Absintheskiss 6 месяцев назад +4

    My late great Aunt cooked a fabulous pigs trotter. It was cooked in a stew with onions and vegetables. I swriously doubt that the trotters would have been served cold, but hot with a slab of bread to mop up the juices.

    • @seileach67
      @seileach67 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, maybe if they were cooked in a cuisine where they are traditionally well-liked such as African American, or Chinese, or as another commenter said Eastern European.

    • @seileach67
      @seileach67 6 месяцев назад

      Maybe he would like them better then

    • @FC-PeakVersatility
      @FC-PeakVersatility 3 месяца назад

      And they would have been cooked a lot longer than those look to have been.

  • @1rwjwith
    @1rwjwith 6 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic show!

  • @basstrammel1322
    @basstrammel1322 5 месяцев назад +1

    Let's make a spin-off with Dan Snow tasting all sorts of eel.

  • @terrencebushell9588
    @terrencebushell9588 6 месяцев назад +1

    Cool episode! I always wondered what people ate before the Colombian exchange. I just can't imagine a world without tomato's...

  • @Fwyd
    @Fwyd 6 месяцев назад +3

    The drum tattoo under the pigs’ trotters is hilarious!

  • @rainerbandowski1999
    @rainerbandowski1999 6 месяцев назад +1

    I would like to like that vid 5x over, just for his bravery.

  • @TheWizzylizzie
    @TheWizzylizzie 6 месяцев назад

    I absolutely loved this, thank you.

  • @Kelnx
    @Kelnx 6 месяцев назад +1

    I get the picking at the jellied eel and the sweetbreads but I really don't see why he was so afraid of frog legs. He was nibbling at it like it was poison. Fried frog legs are great. You gotta take a big old bite like eating a chicken wing.

  • @michealbohmer2871
    @michealbohmer2871 5 месяцев назад +3

    "No European, African or Asian had ever tasted a tomato before Christopher Columbus..." So, apparently, Australians have been enjoying tomatoes and chocolate for as long as the Americans!

  • @andriettebergakker6604
    @andriettebergakker6604 Месяц назад

    My grandparents all liked dripping. I understand why now. Both my grandfathers served in WW2 for South Africa.

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 3 месяца назад

    Thing about hops India Pale Ale is very hoppy because the hops acted as a good preservative over the long journey.
    Hops are also mildly sedating. Which was observed to make people act mellower under its influence. Less fights and such.

  • @Nargon46
    @Nargon46 Месяц назад

    I dont know why watching these is so relaxing 😂

  • @KCIIIII
    @KCIIIII 6 месяцев назад +1

    This is so awesome!!!

  • @RichWoods23
    @RichWoods23 6 месяцев назад +5

    When I was a kid I saw a fisherman catch a six-foot conger eel at the local docks. It took three men to haul this writhing monster up the slipway, clear enough of the water that one of them could get in to hit it at the base of the skull and kill it. It was the ugliest thing I'd ever seen, a slimy thigh-thick mud-brown body topped off with a large head and a gaping mouth full of evil spiked teeth. I never had much of a liking for the taste of fish anyway, despite growing up on the coast, but that put me off even thinking of ever trying eel one day. I couldn't watch Dan cut a piece of flesh off that conger eel.

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 6 месяцев назад +1

      Oh, FFS, you had to do jellied eels as well, didn't you? I left the room.