The fall of Tenochtitlan or Modern day Mexico city is a great story. Hernan Cortes almost has 9 lives like a cat. The great city and it's surrounding empire was demolished. And churches where built upon the Native temples and Altars , kinda sad.
Not to mention he wasn't even eating an actual maize tortilla made on a comal. It looked like some kind of new age "wrap" with wheat and some kind of green.
Fun fact: Maize cooked in lime water induces a process called nixtimalisation; among other things, nixtimalisation reduces mycotoxins by up to 97%. When maize was first exported to Spain, many rural poor didn't know they had to nixtimalise it, meaning many people actually got sick from eating it. Even as late as the early 20th century, many poor populations in the southern US didn't nixtimalise it, leading to endemic outbreaks of pellagra.
It's important to clarify that "lime" in this case is referring to chemical lime (calcium hydroxide), not the lime fruit. I hope nobody reads your comment and then cooks corn in water mixed with lime juice, thinking they've done it correctly. 😅
This was super interesting! I'm a foodie myself with a fair bit of world travelling under my belt. In my humble opinion Mexican food today, in all its incredible regional varieties is hands down the most delicious food ever created by humanity. There's some close competition of course...
Chia and Algae also played essential roles in the diets of the Aztecs. Spirulina and Chia seed are now expensive and “super foods” that rich people buzz about, but back then it was just the common way to get extra protein, iron, and antioxidants in your diet. The upper class Aztecs and royalty also had access to avocados and venison AKA Deer. The Spanish conquistadors described enclosed game reserves where the Aztecs bred and harvested venison.
tomatoes and especially corn and potatoes changed the world. the world would not be the same without them in many many ways. thank you indigenous americans!
The contribution of The Aztec to European via Mediterranean cuisine cannot indeed be overstated, rich pickings for maritime adventurers, on which subject I have not seen much via u tube.. The graphics especially early on in the film are outstanding! Nice one Dan and team. ⭐👍
Maize porridge is still popular in the Americas though in the Southern U.S. it is called Hominy Grits. One of my favorite recipes is to cook up some grits then pan fry some shrimp in butter then make a pan sauce with the drippings. Place a portion of grits on a plate, add the shrimp on top, cover with the pan sauce and Bon appetite.
Being of Mexican ancestry, I can attest to the fact that us Mexicans love our chilies. I always have a fresh picked jalapeño with my dinner. The hotter it is the better! Please do one on the Incas. They introduced the Europeans to the potato.
As a Brit who loves potato’s I thank the Incans. I also LOVE spices. I know the stereotype is we don’t but some of us do. I love spicy food and would love to visit Mexico and have some authentic food 😊
😂😂😂 British pronunciation of Conquistador had me in stitches 🤣 😂 😆 😳 (from California for reference, 80-90% of the time we use the Northern Mexican Spanish pronunciation for things). He forgot squash, it's one of the tres hermanas (three sisters) that were/are always grown together, corn, beans, and squash. Also, wheat wasn't introduced to the Americas till the Spanish brought it, so all tortillas would've been made from nixtamilized corn, which he didn't explain, it's the alkali water he mentioned, the process is called nixtamilization, from the Nahuatl word nixtamalli, the reason this is still done do this day is because the variety of corn grown is not digestible on its own, it can cause gastroenteritis and malnutrition, the alkali solution was made from pot ash and water that broke down the corn's cell walls to make it more digestible and get ghe nutrients from it. There are corn varieties that dont need this anymore such as sweet corn, but tge varieties used for most Mexican cuisine still need to be processed this way. It's kinda sad the host brushed over this point.
Watch Max Miller Tasting History. He does a great explanation on nixtamilization and Aztec food. ruclips.net/video/NPxjQetKPoo/видео.htmlsi=p3RTzRfWEpRHiTs6
I found out recently that the British didn't always have Tomatoes. Before we did, we made ketchup out of hawthorn and sometimes rosehip. Which I plan to do at some point soon, I have some I previously forgaed in the freezer 😊
@thebirdlady4304 We used turnips instead of potato as well. People seem to think we ate nothing and had nothing when we have equivalents of nearly everything.
The reason he disliked the frog legs is because they were boiled…they should have been fried or roasted, best would have been breaded with maze flower and egg then deep fried.
And pepper. No Indian today or African can claim their spicy foods without the contribution of the Americas. Peppers of any variety just didn't exist in the Asian/European/African trade routes.
They still battle with that one they claim they had x or y pepper variant especially the Indians are really adamant however it is true, before colonization of the Americas there was no peppers or chillies of any kind, the so called “thai chilli” is native to southern Mexico introduced by the Spanish to asia it isnt native to Thailand
Great video, central American history does not get enough coverage. When I travel to central Mexico some of the traditional aztec restaurants are the best I have ever eaten at. Mexico has one of the best culinary cultures in the world by far!
Cómale 2:57 - they are not used only in rural Mexico, they’re use practically everywhere in Mexico & the US where anyone makes or heats their corn tortillas. No one is gonna he heating or cooking their tortillas on a pan, which is what a “Comale” is or was back then made with clay and these days are usually made out of a flat sheet of metal. Pans todas are too thick for heating tortillas. Also, without the Aztecs British would still be eating roasted duck at Christmas dinner, Italians would be eating everything with olive oil, and many Asian countries would be eating their food without the spiciness of chili peppers.
Really good, thank you. Not sure their chocolate was like we have it. Someone will help me here. We had chocolate put on our pillows at night snd they loved something called Mali was it. Very unsweetened and very popular. They used it in lots of things. This was around Oaxaca and Sun Christibal areas. Wonderful time. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Unfortunately we don’t have a recipe from pre-Spanish contact. Those we do have use a sweetener of some kind either honey or agave syrup. Source: Tasting History with Max Miller.
Me: "It tastes empty and hollow without the milk and sugar." History: "You mean it tastes...normal? It tastes like it came out of nature. Because... it did..."
@jessewilson8676>> I was 8 years old the first time I ate frog legs. My cousin's husband took me to a reedy area next to a reservoir and fish hatchery near Tupelo, MS at dusk and he had a flashlight and did something I didn't even observe and eventually a bucket had enough for dinner. Later on, we ate beaucoup fried frog legs, some cooked greens with bacon fat, corn on the cob and fresh biscuits. I still remember that meal 😊and I'm now 71. I order fried frog legs whenever they are on the menu in a restaurant but here in the NW corner of the US (Lower 48 states) I have never seen them for sale in a grocery store or meat market. I certainly can't imagine them boiled unless just maybe they were sort of stewed in a well seasoned sauce and maybe lightly caramelized. Now I wish we weren't planning chcicken for dinner . . .
I grew up in Michigan, USA and when I was in my late teens (70's) frog legs were served in a lot of local restaurants. Today I doubt you can find them anywhere, but what happened? Why did they disappear?
Truth is way crazier then fiction. I love History, insane things happened over millions of years. He'll 300 years! Thanks ❤️ Love it. Tree frog silly (Lick) . Careful if to much.
Dan mentions dairy products several times, but the people of the New World had no cattle (and were too intelligent to try to milk a bison, sooo.... I know the Aztecs used water instead of milk for their chocolate driink - did the Aztecs invent Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink?😉
I love Dan Snow but is he really the best option for hosting this show? Are there really no mexicans in the uk? Or maybe add a mexican food expert cohost? Cause an expert in uk history does not automatically become an expert in ancient mexican history. By the way the grits (diced and boiled maize) were not eaten with milk as the aztecs did not have cows or milk producing animals.
@@terranaxiomuk yes, and that’s where Cajun and Southern people learned to make them! New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and basically all of Louisiana has French heritage. You just can’t keep good cooking from spreading!
To make any kind of sounds at our table was subject to at least being whacked on top of the head with a piece of silverware. Table etiquette was a big thing with my mom. But it was OK to fart. I'm still confused
The same ingredients are still being used in central Mexico. On top of that the population has been ruined by the same fast food diet that the rest of the world is subjected to. A few months ago I bought a meal from Popeyes in Mexico City. I figured it's no better or worse than eating at Taco Bell in New Orleans.
Cola with all that, too. @fosterfuchs >> Don't forget copious amounts of Coca Cola with all that, too. It's wreakung havoc all over Latin America. Sad.
Aztec people actually known as Mexica did not eat flesh and consume blood so freely on so many people in the elite classes were doing religious things like that
Once they (anyone) started feeling the effects of whichever psychedelic was being ingested, the _feasting_ portion of the evening would have been finished. *Psychedelics completely suppress one's appetite.*
Some friends and I took mushrooms then started grilling steaks, then they kicked in and the dude grilling turned around with soot all over his face and said, “They’re Ready!” We all sat around the picnic table just staring at the steaks in front of us not saying a word. Poke it a little and we all had to step away.
The British pronunciation of “taco” cracks me up. Why say “tom-ah-to” but pronounce “taco” like “tack-o?” Though I have no idea what the Aztec word would have sounded like.
Not sure I believe that corn porridge was served with milk. I don't think the Aztecs had any domestic animals to provide milk, unless they used human milk.
Why is it that non indigenous people has such trouble with using the actual names these cultures and people used for themselves rather than names given to them by their enemies and colonizers? They never called themselves «Aztec», but in their native Nahuatl tongue: Mexica hence Mexico! Nahua is one of many indigenous tribes still living in Mexico. Maya still exists. It’s that people love to think of these people as «long gone», or as artifacts in a museum. Something that was… sad. Also the Mexica didn’t drink cocoa sweet, but with chili.
Way less energetic than on the other capsules... Another high class stuff that could have been included besides the well known, world famous chocolate, was the raspados (extremely high class luxury food)
I don’t know why you would boil the frog , boiled meat tastes terribles you should’ve fried it or held it over a fire to get it brown & crispy like regular meat
Yes original Mexican food was vegan and very healthy minus the human meat. Your welcome Europeans for the chocolate and Italy for the tomato’s. Americans for the avocados, etc just to list a few.
The focus on human meat is just racism. The cannibalism was saved for the hueyi tlatuani and it’s council, ie for the rulers for the Europeans to understand, the common people did not eat that and it was prohibited because it was a ritual dish for the elite. Focusing on it and presenting it like they all do as if it was common is just straight up racism and white supremacy to clean the crimes of the Spanish
You mention cinnamon, which if I'm not mistaken is native to Asia so unless there is a Central American species I'm unaware of, I doubt the Aztec used the spice prior to Spanish arrival.
There was cinnamon in central america, it looked much different from the one in asia. It basically looked like tree bark rather then the long thin ones. In fact most of powdered cinnamon come from the Mexican variety, just grounded to dust.
Please do more food episodes like this. The British ones are great, but shining light on other civilizations is wonderful
As much as I enjoy European history, this kind of video is a wonderful change of pace - thanks so much!
The fall of Tenochtitlan or Modern day Mexico city is a great story. Hernan Cortes almost has 9 lives like a cat. The great city and it's surrounding empire was demolished. And churches where built upon the Native temples and Altars , kinda sad.
@@ArtBellJr Kinda sad? These guys eat humans
@@ArtBellJrkinda Sad? The Aztecs ate humans
Did they though. @@Enno9
@@Speakup117 they did
As someone who eats Mexican food almost everyday, Dan's open-ended tortilla made me anxious.
Not to mention he wasn't even eating an actual maize tortilla made on a comal. It looked like some kind of new age "wrap" with wheat and some kind of green.
Imagine being raised my Mexican parents
@@fireplusbirdfilms6517 Yes. The corn tortillas the Aztecs would have had weren't very flexible like a flour tortilla.
My Ukrainian ex cracked me up when she ate Tacos. Always ended with a fork!
😂
Fun fact: Maize cooked in lime water induces a process called nixtimalisation; among other things, nixtimalisation reduces mycotoxins by up to 97%. When maize was first exported to Spain, many rural poor didn't know they had to nixtimalise it, meaning many people actually got sick from eating it. Even as late as the early 20th century, many poor populations in the southern US didn't nixtimalise it, leading to endemic outbreaks of pellagra.
Super interesting!! Thanks ❤
It's important to clarify that "lime" in this case is referring to chemical lime (calcium hydroxide), not the lime fruit. I hope nobody reads your comment and then cooks corn in water mixed with lime juice, thinking they've done it correctly. 😅
Then how the Indians ate it?
This was super interesting! I'm a foodie myself with a fair bit of world travelling under my belt. In my humble opinion Mexican food today, in all its incredible regional varieties is hands down the most delicious food ever created by humanity. There's some close competition of course...
Chia and Algae also played essential roles in the diets of the Aztecs. Spirulina and Chia seed are now expensive and “super foods” that rich people buzz about, but back then it was just the common way to get extra protein, iron, and antioxidants in your diet. The upper class Aztecs and royalty also had access to avocados and venison AKA Deer. The Spanish conquistadors described enclosed game reserves where the Aztecs bred and harvested venison.
tomatoes and especially corn and potatoes changed the world. the world would not be the same without them in many many ways. thank you indigenous americans!
Cotton, rubber/plastic, popcorn, vanilla, chili
The contribution of The Aztec to European via Mediterranean cuisine cannot indeed be overstated, rich pickings for maritime adventurers, on which subject I have not seen much via u tube.. The graphics especially early on in the film are outstanding! Nice one Dan and team. ⭐👍
There were alot of people living there. The Aztecs were just the latest dominant(in a very violent way) culture.
The contributions of Europeans to Mexican food is also huge
Maize porridge is still popular in the Americas though in the Southern U.S. it is called Hominy Grits. One of my favorite recipes is to cook up some grits then pan fry some shrimp in butter then make a pan sauce with the drippings. Place a portion of grits on a plate, add the shrimp on top, cover with the pan sauce and Bon appetite.
Being of Mexican ancestry, I can attest to the fact that us Mexicans love our chilies. I always have a fresh picked jalapeño with my dinner. The hotter it is the better! Please do one on the Incas. They introduced the Europeans to the potato.
As a Brit who loves potato’s I thank the Incans.
I also LOVE spices. I know the stereotype is we don’t but some of us do. I love spicy food and would love to visit Mexico and have some authentic food 😊
Yeah, he talked about maize, tomatoes, and chocolate, but didn’t mention potatoes and chilies. All of these transformed cuisine throughout the world.
@@taraoakes6674Yes, but I'm pretty sure the Aztecs didn't have potatoes. They originated in the Andes.
As an Englishman thank you and your ancestors for chillis! I love those spicy little buggers.
Potatoes are good, but Europeans used other mediums, such as turnips.
😂😂😂 British pronunciation of Conquistador had me in stitches 🤣 😂 😆 😳 (from California for reference, 80-90% of the time we use the Northern Mexican Spanish pronunciation for things). He forgot squash, it's one of the tres hermanas (three sisters) that were/are always grown together, corn, beans, and squash. Also, wheat wasn't introduced to the Americas till the Spanish brought it, so all tortillas would've been made from nixtamilized corn, which he didn't explain, it's the alkali water he mentioned, the process is called nixtamilization, from the Nahuatl word nixtamalli, the reason this is still done do this day is because the variety of corn grown is not digestible on its own, it can cause gastroenteritis and malnutrition, the alkali solution was made from pot ash and water that broke down the corn's cell walls to make it more digestible and get ghe nutrients from it. There are corn varieties that dont need this anymore such as sweet corn, but tge varieties used for most Mexican cuisine still need to be processed this way. It's kinda sad the host brushed over this point.
Thats really really interesting. What part of Central America are you from?
He missed tamales too!
Came here for this comment 😂😂😂
Agreed. 😂😂😂
Watch Max Miller Tasting History. He does a great explanation on nixtamilization and Aztec food.
ruclips.net/video/NPxjQetKPoo/видео.htmlsi=p3RTzRfWEpRHiTs6
This was such an amazing episode. I just want to say huge hi from northern México.
Can you imagine a world without potatoes, chilli or tomatoes?
Or corn, peanuts, chocolate, vanilla.
I found out recently that the British didn't always have Tomatoes. Before we did, we made ketchup out of hawthorn and sometimes rosehip. Which I plan to do at some point soon, I have some I previously forgaed in the freezer 😊
@thebirdlady4304 We used turnips instead of potato as well. People seem to think we ate nothing and had nothing when we have equivalents of nearly everything.
No I can't.
Also beans
The reason he disliked the frog legs is because they were boiled…they should have been fried or roasted, best would have been breaded with maze flower and egg then deep fried.
The French are depraved
Boiled frog legs is Euw!!😫😫
@@ccptube3468yep. Any boiled meat 🤢
Boiled meat, how British.
@@michaelb1761 Says you, speaking English
A cold ass tortilla lol, good video I very much enjoyed it!!
And pepper. No Indian today or African can claim their spicy foods without the contribution of the Americas. Peppers of any variety just didn't exist in the Asian/European/African trade routes.
They still battle with that one they claim they had x or y pepper variant especially the Indians are really adamant however it is true, before colonization of the Americas there was no peppers or chillies of any kind, the so called “thai chilli” is native to southern Mexico introduced by the Spanish to asia it isnt native to Thailand
I love this series!
Great video, central American history does not get enough coverage. When I travel to central Mexico some of the traditional aztec restaurants are the best I have ever eaten at. Mexico has one of the best culinary cultures in the world by far!
It doesn’t get enough coverage to the point where people put Mexico in central america instead of north America where it is actually located.
Mexico is not central America
México is in North America.
Another fun one! So much more adventurous than I 🤭
Cómale 2:57 - they are not used only in rural Mexico, they’re use practically everywhere in Mexico & the US where anyone makes or heats their corn tortillas. No one is gonna he heating or cooking their tortillas on a pan, which is what a “Comale” is or was back then made with clay and these days are usually made out of a flat sheet of metal. Pans todas are too thick for heating tortillas.
Also, without the Aztecs British would still be eating roasted duck at Christmas dinner, Italians would be eating everything with olive oil, and many Asian countries would be eating their food without the spiciness of chili peppers.
Me watching Dan make a burrito: 🤦♂️.
Me watching all the fillings not fall right out the bottom: 😀 👍
I’m glad to see that you finally had some great food👍🏻🙂
Really wonderful series. A part of history often ignored. I learnt a lot .
Dan: “they still use comals in rural Mexico”
Me: has a comal sitting on my stove in my apt in the downtown LA
A crazy Mexican guy: uses a metal chair as a comal
Seriously 😂
Love frog legs. Had a nice platter of fried frog legs in Mexico City, 49 years ago.
But why did they feed him raw frog legs🤮🤢there's no way in hell they ate them like that
A fascinating depiction 🧡🌸🧐
So glad he liked what we now call Hominy Grits! That gruel is wonderful for breakfast!
Lmao at the way he rolled the taco up held it in his hands all loose
I love posole, especially around christmas, but do substitute for one of the traditional ingredients ;)
Lol.....aka human flesh ;)
I want to see Snow on magic mushrooms being chased by thousands of frogs.
Or Snow on toad being chased by thousands of mushrooms.
I'm easy.
Next episode
Really good, thank you. Not sure their chocolate was like we have it. Someone will help me here. We had chocolate put on our pillows at night snd they loved something called Mali was it. Very unsweetened and very popular. They used it in lots of things.
This was around Oaxaca and Sun Christibal areas. Wonderful time. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
definitely want more vis like this. these are great.
The aztecs enjoying tacos and hot chocolate 5-6 hundred years ago is a hard flex
Frog legs done right are slammin.
My understanding is that the chocolate drink the Aztec's drank was unsweetened. Not entirely convinced that's what he just drank.
Unfortunately we don’t have a recipe from pre-Spanish contact. Those we do have use a sweetener of some kind either honey or agave syrup. Source: Tasting History with Max Miller.
@@CAP198462Pre-contact Indians did not have honey or honey bees.
I had frogs legs on a student field trip to the Camargue in the 60's. Really deliceous mixed with oozo!!
Everyone in México has a comal, the rich, the poor, middle class, rural or urban, everyone. We use it every day.
Xocoltl wasn't drunk hot and also had no milk nor sugar in it, so it was a completely different drink than today's drinking chocolate.
It was a bitter slightly caffeinated drink, probably similar to the way we drink coffee.
Me: "It tastes empty and hollow without the milk and sugar."
History: "You mean it tastes...normal? It tastes like it came out of nature. Because... it did..."
I just kept waiting for everything to fall out the back of that tortilla.
Great vid
Frogs legs are awesome - cross between chicken and fish but in a good way
We eat that maize porridge still in southern North America, we call it hominy. Available dried or canned.
Great video
Maize gruel? That, my friend, is grits... and they are delicious.
I think the grits dish doesn’t use nixtamilized corn while the hominy used by the mexica/aztec was nixtamalized and then grounded to make the soup
Thank you. ✊🏾
Dan needs to hang out with Max Miller from 'Tasting History with Max Miller' here on YTube. I think they'd both have a blast nerding out over foods.
And Max can cook food that actually looks like it tastes good!
Very nice. I see Diego Rivera Murals here.
Dan scoffing at the frog legs is hilarious 😂
Boiled frog legs…umm, yuck! They need to be breaded and deep fried! Yumm
@jessewilson8676>> I was 8 years old the first time I ate frog legs. My cousin's husband took me to a reedy area next to a reservoir and fish hatchery near Tupelo, MS at dusk and he had a flashlight and did something I didn't even observe and eventually a bucket had enough for dinner. Later on, we ate beaucoup fried frog legs, some cooked greens with bacon fat, corn on the cob and fresh biscuits. I still remember that meal 😊and I'm now 71. I order fried frog legs whenever they are on the menu in a restaurant but here in the NW corner of the US (Lower 48 states) I have never seen them for sale in a grocery store or meat market. I certainly can't imagine them boiled unless just maybe they were sort of stewed in a well seasoned sauce and maybe lightly caramelized. Now I wish we weren't planning chcicken for dinner . . .
Im Mexican and that gringo taco look terrible.. love your chanel! Cheers
Dan has obviously never made a burrito!
Its all open ended🤯
I grew up in Michigan, USA and when I was in my late teens (70's) frog legs were served in a lot of local restaurants. Today I doubt you can find them anywhere, but what happened? Why did they disappear?
What’s impressive as well is the Aztecs were intelligent enough to cross pollinate their crops to create various types!!!
Pretty close to the stuff I eat today. Sure it will taste a bit different but I’d enjoy all of that.
Truth is way crazier then fiction. I love History, insane things happened over millions of years. He'll 300 years! Thanks ❤️ Love it. Tree frog silly (Lick) . Careful if to much.
french frog legs are delicious, best frog legs I had in Luxembourgh though. In a great garlic/olive-oil/wine sauce.
You should try them in South Louisiana!
I would love to try some of these recipes. Any chance you could share them?
Dan mentions dairy products several times, but the people of the New World had no cattle (and were too intelligent to try to milk a bison, sooo.... I know the Aztecs used water instead of milk for their chocolate driink - did the Aztecs invent Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink?😉
Other animals provide milk, too.
@@frompapertopeoplepodcast4889Am Indians were lactose intolerant
I love Dan Snow but is he really the best option for hosting this show? Are there really no mexicans in the uk? Or maybe add a mexican food expert cohost? Cause an expert in uk history does not automatically become an expert in ancient mexican history.
By the way the grits (diced and boiled maize) were not eaten with milk as the aztecs did not have cows or milk producing animals.
There are people from all over the world here 😂.
I have watched a few of these food tastings with Dan but I am still rolling with the look and tiny taste he gave those frog legs!
Very interesting. Is the translation for tortilla you used, "little cake", from old Spanish? In modern Castilian Spanish it translates into omelette.
You missed an opportunity, you should have him eat corn smut.
My brain is broken from hearing a Brit call grits "porridge".
Probably because we don’t have grits so it’s to help us understand what it would be closest to in our own culture.
Don’t give up on frog legs until you taste southern fried frog legs. You’ll change your mind. 😋
France is king on frogs legs mate.
@@terranaxiomuk yes, and that’s where Cajun and Southern people learned to make them! New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and basically all of Louisiana has French heritage. You just can’t keep good cooking from spreading!
@@theresajerger3335 Absolutely.
@@terranaxiomuknope, Rayne Louisiana is the frog capitol of the world!
@@revolvermaster4939 I mean for eating.
No spirulina/blue-green algae, no cuy, no dog? Man, they held back all the good stuff!
That sh*t is South American, cuy isnt even native to north america thats peruvian
Cuy is Peruvian I literally just googled that
@@Speakup117 Yeah, I misremembered. Good spotting!
There's plenty of food and stuff we brought to Athe Americas as well.
Petition to get ‘proper tenacity that’ t-shirts!
no mention of nixtamalization??
shoulda tried a warm handmade tortilla
Delicious
To make any kind of sounds at our table was subject to at least being whacked on top of the head with a piece of silverware. Table etiquette was a big thing with my mom. But it was OK to fart. I'm still confused
The frogs legs looked raw uncooked.
Maize porridge equals that old Southern US culinary delight -- GRITS.
What are Aztecs eating today?
The same ingredients are still being used in central Mexico. On top of that the population has been ruined by the same fast food diet that the rest of the world is subjected to. A few months ago I bought a meal from Popeyes in Mexico City. I figured it's no better or worse than eating at Taco Bell in New Orleans.
Cola with all that, too. @fosterfuchs >> Don't forget copious amounts of Coca Cola with all that, too. It's wreakung havoc all over Latin America. Sad.
@@anna-lisagirling7424 Yep, it's the coca-colonization agenda.
I love how this guy chomps right down on that turkey taco but takes the tiniest nibble of the frog.... I don't blame him at all.
Tortillas, tacos of anything, frogs, maize, hot chocolate
Aztec people actually known as Mexica did not eat flesh and consume blood so freely on so many people in the elite classes were doing religious things like that
Take Dan out of Europe and the food already seems more palatable. What is he trying to tell the producers? 🤔 😂
Once they (anyone) started feeling the effects of whichever psychedelic was being ingested, the _feasting_ portion of the evening would have been finished.
*Psychedelics completely suppress one's appetite.*
Some friends and I took mushrooms then started grilling steaks, then they kicked in and the dude grilling turned around with soot all over his face and said, “They’re Ready!” We all sat around the picnic table just staring at the steaks in front of us not saying a word. Poke it a little and we all had to step away.
@@CHET1How old are you?
I love food episodes, but you have to have the camera pause while you eat..... unfortunately, I had to stop watching.
The British pronunciation of “taco” cracks me up. Why say “tom-ah-to” but pronounce “taco” like “tack-o?” Though I have no idea what the Aztec word would have sounded like.
I mean kinda makes sense. It’s spelt taco, not talk-oh
Tlah-koh in nahuatl, means folded in half
Not sure I believe that corn porridge was served with milk. I don't think the Aztecs had any domestic animals to provide milk, unless they used human milk.
Dan, have you ever eaten a tortilla before, you bend your head sideways to take a bite
Milk was not around pre conquest so ummm so much for accuracy. Also no cane sugar or cinnamon 🫤
So burritos have changed very little in 500 years. There is just a slightly larger group if options for the filling.
That fake ass tortilla is getting on my nerves
Clearly you’ve never had a properly cooked frog leg.
Why is it that non indigenous people has such trouble with using the actual names these cultures and people used for themselves rather than names given to them by their enemies and colonizers?
They never called themselves «Aztec», but in their native Nahuatl tongue: Mexica hence Mexico! Nahua is one of many indigenous tribes still living in Mexico. Maya still exists. It’s that people love to think of these people as «long gone», or as artifacts in a museum. Something that was… sad.
Also the Mexica didn’t drink cocoa sweet, but with chili.
Way less energetic than on the other capsules... Another high class stuff that could have been included besides the well known, world famous chocolate, was the raspados (extremely high class luxury food)
I don’t know why you would boil the frog , boiled meat tastes terribles you should’ve fried it or held it over a fire to get it brown & crispy like regular meat
As an aside, cocoa beans were used as a currency by the Aztecs.
Xocolatl in nahutl ==> chocolate.
Get your audio together
Yes original Mexican food was vegan and very healthy minus the human meat. Your welcome Europeans for the chocolate and Italy for the tomato’s. Americans for the avocados, etc just to list a few.
The focus on human meat is just racism. The cannibalism was saved for the hueyi tlatuani and it’s council, ie for the rulers for the Europeans to understand, the common people did not eat that and it was prohibited because it was a ritual dish for the elite. Focusing on it and presenting it like they all do as if it was common is just straight up racism and white supremacy to clean the crimes of the Spanish
good video i wish he pronounced Maize properly.
What type of milk was used for the corn porridge? Aztecs didn't have cows.
No mention of mescal , mescaline? It seems a natural. 👍✌️
No, iguana barbeque with potatoes...?
The Aztecs also ate meat from Tlascalans, Spaniards and other people.
You mention cinnamon, which if I'm not mistaken is native to Asia so unless there is a Central American species I'm unaware of, I doubt the Aztec used the spice prior to Spanish arrival.
There was cinnamon in central america, it looked much different from the one in asia. It basically looked like tree bark rather then the long thin ones. In fact most of powdered cinnamon come from the Mexican variety, just grounded to dust.
@@pedroguerrero3862 Well all cinnamon is ground tree bark. The sticks are just shaved bark.
Cajun food might be a very entertaining one for a future episode. That or American WW2 C-rations.
Was that actually an Aztec recipe for the cocao? I have heard it was not very enjoyable.