Bread & Butter | David Mitchell's Soapbox
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- David chews over carb-free diets ...then spits them out. On a scale of deliciousness, bread and butter are, always have and always will be King and Queen.
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Hahaha, I love how completely true this is. In Atlantic Canada, where I am from, the main industry is fishing. Both my step-father and Grandfather have told stories of their lobster sandwiches (which is what all the poor kids ate) and how jealous they were of the kids who got bologna sandwiches. It completely reversed by the time I was a kid, but one thing that was never questioned was that SOMETHING had to be shoved between two slices of bread.
Look.. if bread wasn't meant to be filled with things, why did it evolve to grow into slices?
Explain _that,_ atheists.
Just say the province you're from. It's only the Americans that don't know Canadian geography.
I'm still mystified by the "Lobster Roll" sandwich. I grew up enjoying the occasional -- i.e., once a year on my birthday -- lobster tail with drawn butter as a fantastic treat. Plopping the costly meat on bread and slathering condiments on it seems outrageous to me. I still only order lobster roll to see if someone can make it taste better than lobster tail with drawn butter. I haven't had it yet.
@@pacificostudios’ve had a similar experience with lobster rolls. There’s a place where my family is from in PEI that has the greatest lobster roll. I get it every time I visit. Its nothing but fresh lobster all buttered up in a toasted bun, and a bit of mayo to hold it all together. They use nearly a whole lobster with each order and every time it’s wonderful.
Now I’ve been all over Atlantic Canada and spent most my time living in its biggest city, Halifax. No matter where I’m at, every single lobster roll is filled with celery, green onions, and whatever else they use as filler. Ends up tasting more like a lobster salad than a lobster roll. Not to mention the prices they charge for it. Now, I never bother unless I’m in PEI. Can’t knock the simple formula but everyone here always wants to reinvent the wheel.
@benjaminclarke7984 no, we know Canadian geography just fine. We did fight a war after all.
"Bacon alone is like watching a series of Harrison Ford interviews"
Hahaha.. No!
Just wait until he finds out about America
No one in America would say this.... American bacon is better.
@BOWSER Sorry, can’t beat a bit of Danish
"I'm always irritated-Well, you knew that already" - MOOD
"I'm always irritated - well, you knew that already." Brilliant! And it couldn't be more true.
2:03 "Certainly, I would defy anyone to eat anything else as much as we eat bread and butter and still find it as delicious as bread and butter"... that bit is just too good
"Rincewind had eaten in many countries on the Disc, and sometimes he’d been able to complete an entire meal before having to run away. And they’d always lacked something. Oh, people did great things with spices and olives and yams and rice and whatnot, but what he’d come to crave was the humble potato."
A man of culture I see!!!
Oh how I miss Pterry!
"For people who couldn't afford proper foods and were reduced to slurping cold snot from a rock." lolololol. My thoughts on eating oysters perfectly expressed.
That's why you deep fry them!!! (Baked on the half-shell with butter is pretty amazing, too.)
Oysters taste much better when cooked. Raw oysters are disgusting.
@@ajbahlam much better than awful is still bad
Food wimps.
A bloke I used to know reckoned we shouldn't eat bread, because it takes the human body 5,000 years to get used to a foodstuff (I don't know where he got that figure from either!)
1) How are we ever going to get used to it if we don't eat it?
2) The Egyptians were making bread 7,000 years ago anyway.
You get these idiots talking bullshit about any food type.
It's the same type of people who follow whatever get rich quick schemes they can find, they are convinced life is full of "hacks" and if you just find the right hacks and use them you gain eternal life, infinite money, etc, etc.
The reality is that the best diet is most things in moderation, and the best way to get money is to get yourself good at something and then doing that thing for money. You don't get to skip the hard boring parts with hacks or gorge yourself with absurd amounts of whatever with hacks.
Ok, so start eating grass then and let us know when your body has adapted
I love the idea of 5,000 years of humans tearfully stuffing their faces with bread and hating every minute of it just in case it will turn out to be a good idea for later generations.
I heard a vegetarian say that it takes 20 years for the human body to digest a piece of meat. If that were true, and you fed a baby nothing but meat, it wouldn't do it's first shit until it was 20 years old. Then it would look down into the shitter and say
" They don't even make those sort of sausages anymore."
@@dougwhiley4028 Again, absolute b*llocks. Human digestive juice is the most powerful natural solvent ever discovered. Given time, (a couple of years) it will digest bone.
"Cold snot from a rock"!!
Yes and it's "slurping cold snot from a rock" made me giggle
In the immortal words of my colleague Bob, "he's buttered his bread, and now he'll have to lie in it"
Never look a northbound gift horse in the southward mouth, or something.
A toast,
"To wheat, corn, potatoes, and rice. Without which we wouldn't be here today".
A toast. xD
Evi1M4chine I bet your a fun dinner guest
Glr
@Evi1M4chine I bet you’re one of those people that tries to lecture people on your keto diet whenever you see someone eating a sandwich.
The point about lobster is totally spot on. Lobster used to be a cheap food eaten by people in New England because it was widely available. It was only when the technology was developed to ship it and wealthy people started getting it shipped to show how wealthy they were that it became a food associated with wealth.
Agreed. Chicken and rice are both are essentially hot meal versions of bread and butter. Both are so versatile and delicious that we won't shut down on them as a staple
But bread and butter is bad for us- if we didn't eat all this poisonous bread and butter, we'd live to 250!
+mrfictioneer ha
Lol, I see what you did there.
turns out that's actually not far from the truth, carbs aren't too good for you, especially in something lacking nutrients and fiber as much as bread does. i know that's a reference to QI though.
skatejam7 carbohydrates give you energy. Energy is a good thing
cigarettes give you dopamine. Dopamine is a good thing.
Why did David stop making these? They get more views than the majority of BBC uploads, he must have been making a bit of money off these and they couldn't have been that difficult to make.
I think it gets to a point where your not enjoying doing them anymore, there is only so many things that one can rant about and I think even for DM it became a little tiresome.
All good things come to an end.
+TheRhinehart86
I think you are overestimating the financial incentive. This particular video has about 500,000 views after 5 years. Others in the series are similar. RUclips don't publicise how much they pay uploaders per view, but many say it averages at about 0.1 cents. So this video would have made about $500 in 5 years. It's a professionally made video, not just some girl in front of a webcam chatting about makeup (name your own suspects), so it will have cost more than $500 to make. Hardly a money tree.
Probably gets a lot more money for all those Tropicana adverts he's been doing
Evi1M4chine if you think that, why waste the time to watch his video and leave a comment on someone else’s comment? Also, why do you think that? What has David Mitchell done to offend you so much? He’s just voicing his opinions, if you don’t like them then don’t listen, but try to accept that some people do like them.
"I'm always irritated, well you knew that already..."
Season 4 opener just proves this man never disappoints.
I've never heard that bacon sandwich analogy before, but agree with it heartily. And now...I want a bacon sandwich. Excuse me...
I'm struggling to think of a better description of anything than "oysters are like slurping cold snot off a rock". 😂
" cold snot from a rock", loved this analogy, I've always thought of oysters as 'the mucus of the ocean', if I wanted to swallow a slimy mouthful of sea water I would, but alas, it is not to my tastes.
"Cold snot from a rock".......this really cracked me up......lolololol!!!!
Also, licorice is amazing. David's disdain will not deter me from proclaiming this fact with pride!
"Slurping snot from a rock" OMFG I'm dying
Good. One down.
So I absolutely agree with David, despite being one of those knobs who tries to eat a diet primarily consisting of vegetables, fruit, nuts, eggs, fish and meat... I broke down so hard I went out and bought a fresh loaf from a local bakery and ate almost the whole thing with a stick of butter when I first heard this. Long may they reign!
The bacon sandwich/Indiana Jones comparison was ingenious. Bacon _is_ fantastic - as an ingredient. And Harrison Ford _is_ fantastic - as Indiana Jones.
Despite David's assertion of apples being cheap and unloved, I have much love in my heart for the humble apple especially baked into desserts.
I think the Royal Gala is the best apple.
Apples are certainly not cheap, even if they are given to horses. In Hawai'i, the price was astounding. Still, I grew up buying a half-bushel of apples and making pie with them.
Oh, how I miss David's Rants. BRING THEM BACK! Right. Onto the topic. Just bread and butter?...amateur. Toast the bread, spread with butter, sprinkle upon it a generous amount of sugar and cinnamon. That, my friends, is food for the gods. A modern day ambrosia.
"slurping cold snot from a rock" is the most accurate description of eating oysters I've heard.
I plucked up the courage to eat one, convinced to do so by some student friends after a very heavy session on the Old Peculier in the early 70s in Scarborough. It remained in my stomach for 10 seconds and was then evicted over the harbour wall, where a Herring gull ate it. I hope it enjoyed it more than I did.
I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
Yes! Wonderful! Perfect timing! Sitting here, pondering about all these diets, you say all that needs to be said, in a sort of mildmannered yet furious way! Love it!
To all those who follow carb free diets there are few culinary pleasures as simple or enjoyable as freshly baked still warm bread, generously sliced then covered in proper butter. The delicious aroma as the butter melts.
I'm rather partial to the tantalizing texture of cheesecake as my fork cuts through the soft, spongy body, knowing that within minutes I'll be enjoying the simple yet engrossing experience of its delectable flavor flowing through my entire body. Its like entering a new woman for the first time.
can you read me bed time stories please.
trust us, we know. How do you think we got fat in the first place?
Evi1M4chine ...Or how to make 80 years feel like 500...
Getting fat is fun, being fat isn't.
Getting thin isn't fun. Being thin is.
When I sometimes have a few friends over and get hungry I'd instigate a Toast Party. Basically toast as much bread as possible and put all the jams, spreads and butter we own onto a tray with various knives. Then people can happily nom the toast with whatever spread they felt like. Toast parties, simple and cheap ways to keep guest happy.
I'm the one who's laughing, I actually love brown toast.
Better than pretending that the toaster is the crusher from Star Wars ;-)
Racist. They prefer "wholemeal" or "multigrain" to the "b" word, tyvm.
For some reason... I feel like I have sand in my sock but I haven't set foot on a beach in a year and half and didn't even have these socks then.
+Ellis01234567890 what has that got to do with anything for christs sake ?
+Bjarki Hansen ha has sand in his sock goddamn it!!!!
show some respect!!!!
Yeah man it’s whack. I know the feeling.By that i mean my word is my bond. That on any value society attributed to the freemasonry in our industries. Merciless the need to control. They only have one weakness, and may it be the sand in your shoe is not sand all but resalised sensation you use in the masking of your spiritual self with economic leaching and narcissism. Be real. Holy by the name of his name who shall not be spoken. Mute to the wicked. Barnyard of barricaded barcoded electronic super sonic social order disorder syndrome and cheers to the young, fortunes and fortitude amuster.
Thanks for that Ellis, back to you in the studio... (4 years later... does he still have sand in his sock?)
2:28
Pardon me, did you just say something about liquorice? *Dutch angry stare*
Yes. I'm with the Dutch. I love liquorice.
Those of us in Yorkshire stand by the Dutch indifference
Hungarian here, liquorice I will defend 'till my last breath.
It reminds me of that story about salmon, where quite some time the monks in an abbey were complaining because they got salmon so often because then it was practically poor man's food. Now we pay quite a lot for it and consider it one of the better fish.
The best series on the internet is back!
David Mitchell justifies all of his opinions perfectly. A very intelligent man, and a funny comedian.
"Long may they rule over us! And confusion to the usurper Atkins!" When he said that, I really wanted to say, "Here, here!" ... Also I'm now craving bread and butter. Darn you, David Mitchell.
I gotta say, I think chicken, apples and rice are freaking delicious and always a treat despite their availability
Oddly enough at the end of this video I found myself standing and saluting
ah go on David bring these back
Breathing 100% oxygen is bad for you, but I wouldn't propose to become healthier by foregoing the stuff altogether. I guess that's why I'm not the founder of a bafflingly popular/idiotic diet
Evi1M4chine
Act a douche much?!
It's possible to live perfectly healthily without bread, but not without oxygen.
The weird thing is the sense that people (inc. D. Mitchell) seem to have, that because bread tastes good it is morally good, so therefore people who say "Don't eat bread" are morally bad. It makes zero sense.
I absolutely love bread and butter. Thank you for this glorious putting-on-a-pedestal of King Bread and his Queen Butter.
"Slurping cold snot from a rock."
Perfect summary of my thoughts on eating oysters.
Mmm ....celery and licorice
Confusion to the usurper Atkins indeed.
I love the "harrison ford, steven spielberg" analogy!
I agree. His insult to licorice was completely uncalled for.
When I was in Thailand they made fun of me for loving rice (any vegetable actually) whichw as only meant to be filler to them. MY first meal there was a sandwich that came with a slice of lettuce -- as a garnish. They all had a laugh when I put it on the sandwich, assuming (as one ought) the lettuce was on the side so it didn't make the bread soggy on a cheeseless sandwich.
Interesting! In Vietnam, food isn't even considered to be a meal if it doesn't have rice - it's only a snack
Jam is a carb...
Gabiotta Back to school kid
Seriously, it is made of fucking sugar... :(
I heard it's made of carbboard?
+Gabiotta FUCKIN GOT IM BRO
ARGUMENT: OBLITERATED
You're a carb
SNOT OUT OF A ROCK HAHAHAHAHAHAHA love this man
That turn and zoom in half way through was golden
this transformed from a bit taking the piss out of modern diets to a full scale propaganda campaign in favor of bread and butter.
There are no words to express my joy at the return of David's spot-on rants. And I agree, bread and butter are too delicious for me to ever contempate giving them up, no matter how badly I would want to lose weight.
'slurping cold snot from a rock' is poetry.
I thought the Harrison Ford Spielberg analogy a bit out of place till David ended it with the Harrison Ford interviews. That really drove the point home 😀
"The working man's supper: cold snot from a rock..."
I will never ever eat oysters. 🤮
🤮🤑
I'm a bread fan all my life, listening to people rave on about potatoes and pasta. You're dead right Mitchell, bread is, and always was king.
Been in Korea for 4 months, and good bread and butter are what I miss most...thanks for the relief, David.
I've missed this sooooo much since it came off. David Mitchell, very funny.
I had bread and butter and toast and butter for breakfast...now I want more.
Scampi used to be posh...
Scampi also used to be er.. scampi. True scampi is made of langoustines (aka Norway Lobsters, aka Dublin Bay prawns), but these were expensive, so the dish was posh. Then a cheaper substitute was made using an abundant large fish whose bodyweight is about 75% made up of a large ugly inedible head, which rendered it almost unsellable, hence the idea to make cheap scampi-substitute out of it to shift a few more of them. This also put Scampi within reach of the ordinary person and gave them a taste for it, even if that taste was only for the substitute rather than the real thing. The fish in question was Monkfish. Then a couple of decades ago highbrow celebrity chefs started cooking with Monkfish and popularised it to the extent that its supply struggled against the demand and it shot up in price, making the substitute dearer than the real thing, hence suddenly the ordinary person was eating the real thing, and posh people were eating the substitute. As time went on the langoustines were soon also popularised outside of their use in scampi, and became more expensive, whilst at the same time some people who had been used to the monkfish substitute of the past did not recognise their scampi as being 'true' scampi, so another cheaper substitute was made by mashing-up and pre-forming whatever cheap and abundant white meaty fish was available, which is what a lot of pre-packed and pub scampi is nowadays (unless the pack says 'WHOLETAIL scampi, which is the real langoustine one).
Scampi is the animal in UK/Commonwealth English. He's not talking about the American cooking style of the same name.
These are amazing. I’ve binged like 5 in a row
"Slurping cold snot from a rock". Priceless.
Confusion to the usurper Atkins indeed! Although I would argue that confusion is what made Atkins famous in the first place... :)
I attempted to eat a bucket of Bolognese sauce after I heard it being derided in this video.
I can see why we don't do it. I then ate a slice of toast. Much nicer.
Well, as an aficionado of licorice and celery I have to bid you a sad farewell Mr. Mitchell...I thought we were kindred spirits until you spoke those fateful words.
I love how passionate he is
I love how beautifully behind the times this perfectly-David rant is.
David never fails to rescue me when I'm suffering from insomnia. I just watch the first 30 seconds of any of his videos, and gently slip into a coma.
The hardest thing on Atkins is, when you love butter, but there's just no point in eating it without the bread 🤣🤣(Even dousing your veg in butter gets old soon.)
Good to have you back, Sir!
I ate coffee cake while watching this. Enjoyed it, too.
god i love toast
My mum actually followed that diet (and it worked) but I could never give up bread or potatoes, like what am I supposed to eat food with if there’s no bread rice or pasta?!!! That’s not a meal that’s just a snack then
He actually seems genuinely angry on this one. Which makes it even better.
I wish I could wind him up in person.
Welp.
I'm gonna make some toast, now.
Bangers as great as they are ar not complete without some bread to wrap it up with or some mash.
A sausage is gone! Oh my god, a sausage is missing!
An entire video about loving food. He always knows the right things to say.
Brown for sustainous, white for pudding.
I can't imagine why anyone chose to get mad about the Atkin's Diet over half a decade after its popularity was over, and also why they'd get mad about it in THIS way.
Have you seen anything else David Mitchell has ever done?
this was made 8 years ago
This was made 8 years ago 😂😂😂
@@fabiog9566 ... Which was over half a decade after the height of the Atkins fad, which reached its peak in like 2006-7.
@@IncredibleMD Okay, there is alot to unpack here so
1. The Atkins Diet was invented in the 60s... So I'd hardly call it a fad
2. He wasnt even getting mad over the Atkins, he was getting mad at restricting carbs. (Which is why he said "or whatever they're calling it now")
3. It's not far-off to think that people still talked about Atkins in 2012... If I were to make a skit about the keto diet (which reached its peak in 2015/2016) it would still be considered funny and pretty topical today as people still practice keto today
4. The reason he "chose" to get mad in "THIS way" is because he is a comedian... That's his job. He talks about a subject he wants to talk about and generally uses hyperbolic language and expression to drive a point and to make us laugh
5. You edited your comment (I don't care what the original was, but I'm just saying thats a bit shady)
Roman soldiers were never played in salt though. That's just a myth wich probably spawned from the fact that the english word salary is similar for the latin word for salt.
They weren't paid in salt, however the salt ration was a part of their pay as a soldier. Salt was an incredibly important item in daily life. Where do you think the 'sal' in salary comes from?
It still is an important item in daily life. We need salt to survive. It’s just today it’s so cheap and plentiful, at least in the developed world, that no one gives it a second thought. Plus, we eat so much pre-prepared packaged food that many people are getting too much salt.
From etymonline.com:
salary (n.)
late 13c., "compensation, payment," whether periodical, for regular service or for a specific service; from Anglo-French salarie, Old French salaire "wages, pay, reward," from Latin salarium "an allowance, a stipend, a pension," said to be originally "salt-money, soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt"
From lexico.com(OED):
Origin
Middle English from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’.
wish David still did these. love the new show with R. Webb
They once had a court case in the U.S. where it was determined that too many meals of lobster a week was considered cruel and unusual punishment for our prisoners.
It's as if you read my thoughts, David. Except I think I could watch quite a lot of Harrison Ford interviews.
Dear lord, David is a perpetual saltmine. I'd argue though that calling oysters "snot from a rock" is overly generous, the one time I've tried raw, live oysters, I wondered if I'd been given whale semen by mistake. I love cooked, smoked oysters though, those are delicious.
@Robert Jordan seriously how are they an aphrodisiac? "Come here my darling and kiss me, my mouth still tastes like I've fellated a whale ❤️"
bread roll and butter... at a restaurant when they give some bread and butter before your meal, i'll scoff my share down in an instant, and everyone else's around me that are too slow to eat it.
tastes so goooood.
When I saw this in my subscription box I jumped from my chair with joy.
I’m on keto and I’m laughing my ass off....
David, you are 1000% right. I’d sacrifice a family member on a alter for a bagel at the moment...
I once ate only watermelons the entire summer, and while I lost about 20kg, I still found them delicious, and it's still one of my favorite things to eat. Take that, bread and butter.
Also, don't try this at home, apparently it's not super healthy if you basically ingest nothing but water and sugar the entire summer. :/
Oh, I also couldn't fit in there that calories are defined by how much heat energy is given off when a food substance is burnt. That is oxidation of the substance. You don't oxidize food in your body, you use enzymes to break and make chemical bonds.
David, I'm so glad you're back! What a brillant rant that was! :D xxx
We love you David! You're quite possibly the best public figure in Britain, even rivalling national treasure Steven Fry!
I like liquorice and celery
That's seriously a thing?
Not together, no . . . but I was saying that I would not just discount them as foods . . they are OK foods, and I like them :)
I think his point was that these should not be considered as part of the 'deliciousness of food' scaling, probably since opinion varies greatly on the deliciousness of these things. Not that they shouldn't be counted as food.
he says 'once the truly disgusting and pointless things like licorice and celery have been discounted'
Ah, so he does. I apologise.
So much YES!!!! Welcome home D.M.
Hearing David say "Super Toast" was one of the single most enjoyable moments of my day...
Carbs are an important macro nutrient that should be a part of everyone's diet :)
Otto Von Skidmark lol ok
the important is part of diet not a main sourse of food
Carbs are the fastest source of energy, and thus wholly essential for all but the unemployed. If you are on a no-carb diet, you should be fired from your job for compromising your performance for vanity's sake.
Carbs are a blood-sugar roller-coaster. Fat is healthy. www.edify.net.au/images/the_science_blood_sugar_pic_1.jpg
Jesus he looks so good... and i cannot understand why
It's nothing over here. Yet another fantastic David Mitchell expression!
I used to think so, but I've had some horrible strawberries in the last couple of years. Some of them weren't quite ripe (which is understandable) but others tasted bitter or flavourless. Choose your strawbs carefully.