The Working Man's Lunch

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  • Опубликовано: 17 дек 2024

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  • @townsends
    @townsends  Год назад +188

    William Ellis's "The Country Housewife's Family Companion" www.townsends.us/products/the-country-housewife-s-family-companion-c-7323
    and Primitive Cookery www.townsends.us/products/primitive-cookery-book-bk627-p-1434
    two great resources for understanding food for the working man in the 18th century!

    • @thomasohanlon1060
      @thomasohanlon1060 Год назад +4

      Sir:
      This might be a dumb question but how prevalent was venison in the 18th centuries diet? I hunt with a musket and also a bow, as friends and family have said I was born in the wrong century,
      Thank you for your time.

    • @diy5729
      @diy5729 Год назад +2

      I grew up in a remote island in Greece and also have experienced that kind of lifestyle in a way. My grandmother and mother would make "lunch" for the workers in the fields/vineyards daily and bring it to them around 1pm as well. Everything in that meal was basically lentils, rice, thick cuts of meat, fish, many stews, huge pieces of spinach pies made with REAL dough, pan-fried liver, entrails stews made from any animal part, and even some Greek/Slavic soups served just cold.
      Think of lentil and rice cook just right with butter and just a hint of tomato paste that literally disappeared when cooked. Also chick peas and rice with very little tomato paste and butter. Also, rice pudding as dinner....yes rice pudding.
      She would make rice pudding in a huge pot enough to feed 20-30 people of rice pudding (no raisins, yuck). After it cools off its thicker and you put on it cinnamon.
      She would also make spaghetti with small fried German sausages doused in olive oil and with lots of island parmesan cheese on it. I just love JUST butter with my spaghetti.

    • @Doo-l5x
      @Doo-l5x Год назад

      Hi, are you a lefty?

    • @diy5729
      @diy5729 Год назад

      Im neither left nor right@@Doo-l5x

    • @MrSuperG
      @MrSuperG Год назад +1

      I don’t believe this was the working man’s lunch. Did time start again ? 250 years ago the food was better

  • @mmamackela284
    @mmamackela284 Год назад +5306

    This man is seriously the definition of "Find a job you love and never feel like you're working again".

    • @AdHall97
      @AdHall97 Год назад +319

      Plus: "add nutmeg."

    • @i-never-look-at-replies-lol
      @i-never-look-at-replies-lol Год назад +105

      find one that involves food too and you'll never go hungry either!

    • @king_slimy8859
      @king_slimy8859 Год назад +108

      It makes me feel bad knowing I'll likely never have this deep a work fulfillment in my life.

    • @bcaye
      @bcaye Год назад +36

      He was literally born into it.

    • @Mere-Lachaiselongue
      @Mere-Lachaiselongue Год назад +3

      @@AdHall97 Mmmmmmmm *nut*

  • @deaconmn
    @deaconmn Год назад +186

    This video brought back memories of back in the 1960's, when my grandfather used to work at the Northern Pacific Railroad shops. The noon whistle would blow, he would make the short walk home, and my grandmother would have a hearty lunch ready for him. He would have a short nap after lunch, and then back to work. Supper was a light meal, maybe a sandwich or leftovers. Thank you for bringing those wonderful times back to mind.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад +3

      Right
      Supper was lunch at dinner time!

    • @maplebones
      @maplebones 8 месяцев назад +9

      In many places a 'lunch' used to mean a light meal, or snack, that could be had at any time of day. An overnight guest might be asked if he's like a lunch before bed at 10 PM. The main meal was called 'dinner' and was always around noon for people working physically. A large meal in the evening was unhealthy because they we're too beat by then to digest it. They would instead have an evening lunch, which eventually came to be known as 'supper'. We would all be much healthier if we lived like your grand father. An hour for a big meal at noon and then back to work rather than a large supper and straight to the couch.

  • @robertbrown3064
    @robertbrown3064 Год назад +1899

    This is one of the best channels on youtube, hands down. Every video you guys put out is wholesome, educational, and oddly comforting in a "Joy of Painting" sort of way. The world gets crazier every year, but the past remains the same.

    • @dr.froghopper6711
      @dr.froghopper6711 Год назад +26

      Bob Ross would approve of this comment!

    • @dr.froghopper6711
      @dr.froghopper6711 Год назад +7

      @@augustsmith9553hahahaha! Well stated!

    • @ritwickdas4107
      @ritwickdas4107 Год назад +4

      I love the last line

    • @aaroncapricorn5867
      @aaroncapricorn5867 Год назад +2

      it's easy to not only reminisce but also respect these pioneers. townsends could easily talk to any group of families for example, spending time in the outdoors and spending time telling stories and knowledge of our pioneers making it

    • @bookittyrun
      @bookittyrun Год назад +7

      well said...
      but i would choose to put a slight twist on your last line... "the world has always been crazy, but "right now" is where the most delicious choices can be made".
      i've been watching this channel since (at least) 2013. every video produced is an eagerly anticipated and most welcome addition to my "now" moment: .
      john and crew, you are pure gold. i couldn't express how much i've appreciated your contributions of passionate productions.
      many thanks.

  • @billgrandone3552
    @billgrandone3552 Год назад +218

    John, I am 74 years old and my paternal Grandparents were from Northern Italy. They always served the main meal at lunch. My grandparents were somewhat married in name only by the time I knew them. Though they remained together fo 59 years before my grandfather's death in 1963, they were more like roomates that a married couple. Except for my grandmother cooking and serving up lunch or what they called dinner, and keeping up the house and cleaning, they lived separate lives with different friends, different sources of income, and different times to eat excepting lunch. My grandfather would be up at 6:00 a.m. and make a breakfast of a half of a jelly roll broken in pieces and soaked in a mug of milk and a cup of black coffee. My grandmother would wake at 7:30 of an omelet or bacon and eggs with coffee and a shot of bourbon in it with cream. She would start lunch at 10:15 so it would be ready for my grandfather at 12:00 when he came in from touring the bars with his friends and getting the mail. Lunch could be anything from pasta, to a weisswurst garlic sausage which was only made in two or three stores in the area by people who were Northern Italian like my family, or baked or fried chicken with some sort of potatoes. baked, fried, or mashed and always with a salad. Bibb lettuce from the garden, dandelion in the spring, and head lettuce with carrots and radishes in the winter. Followed with Nona's cookies, or her apple or lemon merigue pie. At 4:00 pm on the dot my grandfather would come home and read the paper while eating a peeled apple and watching the local news. At 6;00 pm he would make himself a light supper, maybe the other half of the jelly roll, or a headcheese sandwich, or leftover pasta or chicken from lunch. By 7:00 he was in bed for the night
    Nona and I would have supper together. Sometimes it was the warmed leftovers from lunch. Other times she would have spent the afternoon making something we both liked, like kadenlies , an Italian version of the German Knodels but with a grand touch off diced bacon,
    ham, salami celery, onion, and parsley and boiled in chicken broth to make mere dumplings into something incredible. Or we would have braunschweger or Italian salami sandwiches, or spaghetti and homemade tomato or vegetable soup, eggs fried in butter, and always coffee and a glass of wine with dessert or a light combination of the above. I miss her and her cooking,

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 Год назад +12

      @JJR0 Yes my grandfather was born in 1879 and my grandmother in 1885. My grandfather came to the US as a 20 year old after serving in the Italian Army. He was in the Military Band and played a French horn as he did in the local miners band in this country. My grandmother came over with her mother, one older sister and three older brothers, when she was a baby in 1886

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 Год назад +26

      No JRR My grandmother and grandfather being Italian were borh Catholic, my grandmother fervemtly so, my grandfather not so much, The family had a saying about him, that he went to Church twice. The first time two people carried him in and the second , six people carried him out. From what I understand, he could be mean to her, He was already in his seventies when I knew him and he hardly evn acknowledged us grandchildren except at Christmas when he would give us each a silver dollar. I stll have mine, as well as a twenty dollar gold piece and two 2 and 1/2 coins. But when I knew him his routine was to leave the house at 7:30 came bacsk at 11:00 for lunch and leave agsin, coming home at 4:00 to watch the news, make his supper, and go to bed. But though he treated grandmother badly, she would not leave him because of her faith and fear if what people woulld think. I remember well the morning he died. I and my cousin Carol were brough to the hospital to say our goodbyes and were sleeping on a couch in the waiting room when my uncle took us to grandmothers house to go to bed. About 7:00 am I heard my grandmother just wailing he heart out as she came up the stairs to the apartment. Since it wa August and school hadn't started, i stayed with her until it did. There for a while she would refer to herself as the widow Grandone when answering the phone until the family told her that it was dangerous to let people that she did not know that she lived alone, She lived in that apartment over the tavern that my grandfather built and ran for another 14 years, moving to a nursing home at age 92 just a few months before her death in 1977. The tavern is still a going affair, now over 110 years old, owned and run by a friend of mine from high school. A picture of my grandparents and great greatgrandfather in the bar on the day that Prohibition ended is pomniently displayed over one of the two bars in the now expanded bar and restaurant. I, my wife and daughter ,and two of my cousins go together for a family reunion there celebrating my and my wife's 50 Anniversary of our first meeting and the birth of our first chiild 6 years later to the exact day July 2nd@JJR0

    • @YSerafyna
      @YSerafyna Год назад +4

      Thank you for sharing

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 Год назад +6

      @@YSerafyna Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for letting me know.

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 Год назад +5

      @@nicholasfevelo3041 When Grandma made a roast on Sunday there was always polenta. And it aways lasted into the week in some form or another. But she had so much work to do in her later years that she reserved it for Sundays when everyone got together . She would not have been married for 59 years to a Peidmontese if she did not make polenta at least once a week.

  • @ew1363
    @ew1363 Год назад +1769

    When researching our family tree my Mum found a note written by my great (x5) grandfather in the 1820s, who at that time was a farm labourer living in Lincolnshire, England. In this note he detailed what he ate and drank for dinner that day - a stew of bullock, suet dumplings, carrots, onions and potatoes with cold milk tea. The labourer's wives brought it out to the field they were working in.

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 Год назад +89

      That sounds fantastic!

    • @zzzyyyxxx
      @zzzyyyxxx Год назад +112

      You might want to send that to a museum, they might find it very useful

    • @StuartFuckingLittle
      @StuartFuckingLittle Год назад

      Thats the joy of genealogy. How cool.

    • @mccleod6235
      @mccleod6235 Год назад +37

      Cool! I predict that plenty of the current inhabitants of Lincolnshire will be enjoying exactly that for their evening meal tonight. The tea will probably be hot though.

    • @terminallumbago6465
      @terminallumbago6465 Год назад +17

      What is bullock?

  • @GauravSingh-ku5xy
    @GauravSingh-ku5xy Год назад +51

    There is something about the simple and minimalistic meals that is really appetizing. Meat, potatoes and some vegetables. Simple yet delicious.

  • @FrikInCasualMode
    @FrikInCasualMode Год назад +950

    In rural Poland well into XX century mid-day meal was often delivered to people working of far away fields or forests in clay vessels called "dwojaki" (roughly translating to "doublets"). Basically two small clay pots joined together, so they could be carried as one. One part usually contained a soup of some kind (often borscht), while in other part was kasha or potatoes with whatever was available - pork, piece of chicken, boiled eggs, sometimes just milk. It was supplemented by piece of bread wrapped in clean cloth, sometimes with cheese added. Usually it was the duty of young children to deliver this meal to father and older siblings - preferably before it all cooled down LOL

    • @rustyhowe3907
      @rustyhowe3907 Год назад +70

      My mother is Greek and said in her school similar pots were used to serve up a hot lunch made at home but heated at the school and that was in the 1960's. Even what you described as the meal was very similar to what she ate.
      It's a shame how much we've lost and what we've changed as time goes on.

    • @FrikInCasualMode
      @FrikInCasualMode Год назад +40

      @@rustyhowe3907 Food of poor working people. There are only so many ways to prepare cheap, filling meals.

    • @rustyhowe3907
      @rustyhowe3907 Год назад +13

      @@FrikInCasualMode Agreed.

    • @PatrickKniesler
      @PatrickKniesler Год назад +12

      If the young ones dithered and the food arrived cold, they would surely walk home holding their sore rear.

    • @billgrandone3552
      @billgrandone3552 Год назад +15

      I live in an old mining town and the miners had something very similar made of tin or aluminum. It would have two or three sections, The top would hold bread ,butter some raw veggies, and a knife fork and hankerchief, the middle section kept the hot food, and the bottom hot coffee to keep the food warm.

  • @kareningram6093
    @kareningram6093 Год назад +41

    I've always loved history, but this channel takes it to a whole new level. Being able to learn so many little details about everyday life for people in the 18th century is interesting and really helps bring life to the subject. There's something humbling about it, too. I think by understanding more about the struggles people had to survive back then, it makes me appreciate how well we all have it now, even if we're not very wealthy.

    • @terminallumbago6465
      @terminallumbago6465 Год назад +3

      What I like is how it touches on what everyday life was like for the average person. Usually we only get to learn about how things were for the ultra wealthy because that was most of what was written down.

  • @FullMonterey
    @FullMonterey Год назад +171

    Much of Britain still calls the midday meal 'dinner' and the evening meal either 'tea' or 'supper'

    • @debbiej.2168
      @debbiej.2168 Год назад +8

      Thank you for clarifying. I'm in the U.S., and have been confused by the term tea. I have usually figured it's either lunch, or a meal that's eaten around 4 pm.

    • @TheUglydandy
      @TheUglydandy Год назад +7

      That`s how we were taught at our schools, at English language classes, 30+ years ago. Then came, through media mainly, the American English influence :).

    • @Rissy617
      @Rissy617 Год назад +2

      In Massachusetts ("New England") we called our evening meal supper a lot but still call mid-day lunch, we don't do tea. It's interesting how we kept some things like that while mixing it with US terms

    • @TP-dt7gy
      @TP-dt7gy Год назад +8

      Depends on class though. The working classes call evening dinner 'tea'. The upper classes will call it dinner or supper.

    • @tbuckley4078
      @tbuckley4078 Год назад +1

      Also in parts of Australia

  • @Arto257
    @Arto257 Год назад +240

    I'm a younger (early 20's) working-class man, and it routinely surprises me how few of my peers have inherited the habit of a late midday "dinner." It's something I adopted from my grandfather - a routine of a decently hearty breakfast, a robust dinner (usually in the field or on the job site), and a modest supper once you've gotten back home. The habit doesn't make much sense if you aren't working throughout the day. However, after working your fingers to the bone for 10-12 hours, you are routinely so tired that you can't be bothered to eat something complex. But, you're probably still hungry, so you get a little plate of something easy to eat and then wash up before bed.

    • @SusCalvin
      @SusCalvin Год назад +16

      Working class jobs here would have a lunch break where you ate what you had packed from home. You can still find places that cater to road crews where they will serve a sturdier, hardier lunch.

    • @okokokok1457
      @okokokok1457 Год назад +4

      Mr yap

    • @aryanram02
      @aryanram02 Год назад +5

      get of your high horse, holier than thou thinking in this aspect lmaoo

    • @throwdown1776
      @throwdown1776 Год назад +2

      Oh please, every working class man knows, eats, and prays to the dreaded "gas station diet"

    • @SusCalvin
      @SusCalvin Год назад +2

      @@throwdown1776 Historically it depends on things like "Can these people afford a kitchen?" Urban working class in antique cities might not.

  • @StompDeni42
    @StompDeni42 Год назад +106

    This wonderful, enthusiastic man still uploading these amazing videos after so many years is a true pearl in the RUclips ocean.

  • @rustyhowe3907
    @rustyhowe3907 Год назад +8

    I could practically smell that through my screen, it really shows you don't need to be fancy in order to make a fine dish.
    I also just got back from dealing with 'difficult' people so you being respectful of the working class is really appreciated right now.💖

  • @foxruneec
    @foxruneec Год назад +60

    Another great video. I grew up on a Kentucky farm 50 years ago. During the summer my mother would make a big noon "dinner" and we sat around outside under the trees to eat then went back to work. I have great memories of those times!

    • @MorbinNecrim86
      @MorbinNecrim86 Год назад +6

      Sounds like the kind of memories one would look back on fondly, sounds great

    • @peterdunlop7691
      @peterdunlop7691 Год назад +5

      In northern England and some other parts of the U.K. we’d have Breakfast, Dinner and Tea, whereas in London and other parts they’d call it Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Dinner is generally considered the main meal of the day.

    • @terminallumbago6465
      @terminallumbago6465 Год назад

      @@peterdunlop7691 Something I’ve always wondered: When one thinks of the UK, they often think of the meals as Breakfast, Lunch, Tea in the mid-afternoon, and then Dinner later at night.
      Is that something that’s commonly done in an average household, or is the four-meal structure more of a thing from a long time ago or just among the upper classes like royalty and nobility?

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад +1

      @@terminallumbago6465tea was usually btwn 4-5 so quite late
      Dinner was ridiculous, 8ish?
      They just got rid of dinner as a rich thing and ate tea no earlier than 5 n went to bed by 8 to get up early to work

    • @deaddan2148
      @deaddan2148 Год назад +1

      What was in this "Big Noon Dinner" if you don't mind me asking?

  • @DamonNomad82
    @DamonNomad82 Год назад +89

    0:15 Both of my dad's parents grew up in farming families in Iowa. Even in their formative years (the early 1920s to the mid 1940s) the importance of lunch as the main meal of the day was still essentially the same as you describe it in colonial times. I remember being VERY confused as a kid because they referred to lunch as "dinner", when everyone knew that "dinner" is the evening meal!

    • @keptleroymg6877
      @keptleroymg6877 Год назад

      Gf

    • @Mokey56001
      @Mokey56001 Год назад +11

      Yes! My mother grew up the same way (but in Minnesota)! And it still flavors how the holidays are done even today! Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner is at noon/1 o'clock and supper on those days is both light and made up of leftovers.

    • @dnajunkie1929
      @dnajunkie1929 Год назад +5

      Yes, breakfast, dinner and supper is what my parents called the meals. Grew up in Iowa, my parents born just before and after 1940.

    • @christinebenson518
      @christinebenson518 Год назад +9

      My dad's family were farmers, and noon meal was dinner. But my mom would use dinner and supper interchangeably for the evening meal. Once, my dad asked me over for dinner, and I asked, "Country dinner or city dinner?"
      What was more confusing was that my dad could tell me a story about grandma, and he could have meant mine, his or grandma's. The really confusing part was that my grandma was named after hers, so they both were grandma Hazel. My grandma's grandma died the year I was born, she was 99.

    • @Chilavertish
      @Chilavertish Год назад +1

      I've posted separately, but yes here in rural Ireland I refer to my midday meal as dinner , much to the confusion of my urbanite friends

  • @Johanthegnarler
    @Johanthegnarler Год назад +3

    Man this is an important channel. We need more like you for sure. Thanks for digging up these recipes and keeping history alive.

  • @nicolasteixeira6448
    @nicolasteixeira6448 Год назад +316

    As a Brazilian, I need to add that lunch is still the most important meal of the day for almost everyone around here and isn't much different from what the video described. Our lunch typically includes carbs, often rice and beans, a protein source such as chicken, beef, or the like, and a salad and/or cooked vegetables. Some people eat the same meal for dinner as they had for lunch, but I'm more accustomed to an afternoon breakfast, like eating bread with eggs and having a coffee around 5:30 PM, and then a fruit later in the evening around 8:00 PM.

    • @hopefulpellinore5490
      @hopefulpellinore5490 Год назад +17

      Bread with eggs at any time of day sounds great to me :)

    • @hulanspyder3395
      @hulanspyder3395 Год назад +7

      Yeah pao de queijo and coffee is about it for breakfast around here, some eggs too of course.

    • @hulanspyder3395
      @hulanspyder3395 Год назад

      @@nevercommentnotevenonce9334 macaco branco for a while in bjj its true

    • @william44011
      @william44011 Год назад +2

      @@hopefulpellinore5490 Have you ever made something an idol, used God’s name as a cuss word, dishonor your parents, murder (God views hate as murder), lusting, stealing, lying, wanting something another has that isn’t rightfully yours?
      Doing so we violating the law, which is sin, and because of sin there is a punishment…If a serial killer like Ted Bundy tells a judge of all the good things he’s done for society do you think the judge would let the serial killer off free? The same is with us; we’ve committed such crimes against God that we are separated from God forever; we are punished by suffering Hell for eternity, a place with no hope for us.
      But God loves us so much and with all his heart that he gave his only Son, Jesus Christ, to this cursed world to be crucified on the cross. (John 3:16-17)
      Now anyone who accepts Jesus Christ, God’s Son, as their Lord and Savior and believes he rose from the dead the third day will be saved from eternal damnation in Hell and live in Heaven in paradise with him forever.
      Many will choose to follow Satan, whether it be because they think they won’t succeed otherwise or won’t have any joy or friendships, but he will soon reveal himself as a murderer and a liar as he was since the beginning and he will curse all his followers as he cursed God and all of Satan’s followers will be cased into ever burning Hell. Don’t believe this lie I too believed in! Our God is a loving God full of compassion, yet he is a righteous God with righteous judgment. (Matthew 13:41-42)

    • @indiebekonn
      @indiebekonn Год назад +15

      Same in Central Europe, dinner(lunch in America) is the biggest and the most important meal of the day. The most social one as well.

  • @BlitzenSpeaks
    @BlitzenSpeaks Год назад +2

    The foods you're showing, I ate as a child, and still do! This made me hungry!!!
    Lima beans and bacon!
    Bacon and cabbage!
    Pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions. With salt, pepper, and a dash of vinegar!
    Fried sausage or pork chops and cabbage with cornbread.
    And of course, pinto beans with bacon or ham, and served with fresh sliced onions and cornbread.
    Mmmgood!!!!
    (There are MANY MORE!)
    In many places down South, "dinner" IS STILL Lunch, and the biggest meal of the day, so you can work it off.
    "Supper" is a small evening meal.
    Breakfast can be large, as it gives you fuel to work to Dinner.
    "Dinner at the Diner" was a phrase I heard as a child. But today, fast food has replaced most diners. There are a few still around. Still serving "home cooking" meals. But they're fewer every year. Good eats when you find them!

  • @ashleighlecount
    @ashleighlecount Год назад +375

    My grandpa ate bread in milk for breakfast almost everyday.

    • @elijahsanders3547
      @elijahsanders3547 Год назад +11

      That's cool. I've been baking sourdough bread recently, and often have a piece of it with milk to dip it in for breakfast :)

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus Год назад +25

      That's where the words "milquetoast" and "milksop" come from!

    • @odinfromcentr2
      @odinfromcentr2 Год назад +17

      My late father (1941-2023) ate that on occasion. Grew up poor in the far north of Appalachia.
      Though I think I always saw him toast it first.

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus Год назад +10

      @@odinfromcentr2Memory eternal to your father, I'm sorry. May he find Paradise. Seems like he was a practical guy.

    • @neno56527
      @neno56527 Год назад

      Mine 2 😂

  • @eds1057
    @eds1057 Год назад +5

    I love your videos man. It's so damn cozy and makes me appreciate the food I have today. And if I ever feel like taking a trip to the past I can replicate dishes here. And that's not even mentioning the historical lessons that come with the food presentation. Just perfect level of comfy, hunger, and history. Good production as well.

  • @andreas.6303
    @andreas.6303 Год назад +390

    It's wonderful how little has changed about making a pot roast. This is basically exactly the same as how we make a simple pot roast dinner today, except I use baby carrots which probably weren't a thing back then.

    • @Oddball_The_Strange
      @Oddball_The_Strange Год назад +66

      Baby carrots are just fully grown carrots that are cut into pieces and had the outside shaved off.

    • @jamesmcpherson2606
      @jamesmcpherson2606 Год назад +57

      @@Oddball_The_Strange actually baby carrots are the off spring of carrots

    • @emiyashirou1858
      @emiyashirou1858 Год назад +4

      @andreas.6303 I'm pretty sure vegetables exist since forever

    • @andreas.6303
      @andreas.6303 Год назад +20

      So I honestly didn't know that baby carrots are shaved down large carrots unless they look a certain way. What a waste of food, doubt I'll be buying them again after learning that. I honestly thought they were just a different breed of carrot like we have grape and cherry tomatoes. 😆

    • @Oddball_The_Strange
      @Oddball_The_Strange Год назад +57

      @@andreas.6303 it's often done to use carrots that aren't visually appealing (bent/broken)so that they don't go to waste.

  • @srice6231
    @srice6231 Год назад +9

    I retired and my husband started coming home for lunch so we now have our big meal midday and we actually feel better.

  • @jeromethiel4323
    @jeromethiel4323 Год назад +658

    I grew up in the Midwest, farming country. And we usually ate what was called locally, a "farmers breakfast." And it was a huge meal, heavy in protein and starch. Whereas lunch was more of a quick meal on the go, and dinner (supper) was a light meal. For example, steak and eggs with a large side of fried potatoes was very common for breakfast. Lunch was a sandwich or two that you carried out with you, and dinner might be as simple as a salad with a desert. And desert was probably a pie or a simple cake.
    You needed that heavy, fat and carb load early on, for energy. Lunch was just a sustainer, and supper was just there so that you didn't wake up hungry. And you could get away with a diet like that, because you were expending a tremendous amount of calories just doing the daily chores. It was worse during planting and harvesting season. If you ate like that today, you'd weigh 600lbs.

    • @annettefournier9655
      @annettefournier9655 Год назад +104

      That's how we were taught: eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and supper like a pauper. That way all your bulk of calories got used up as energy for your daily work. But now it's opposite.

    • @jeromethiel4323
      @jeromethiel4323 Год назад

      @@annettefournier9655 Yep. Americans don't know how to eat properly anymore. It explains why everybody is overweight.
      For example, if you go out for a steak dinner and also get a salad, the salad comes first. It should come last. You want that fiber to push the rest through the digestive tract.
      But you'll never get the salad at the end in a restaurant. I know why they don't do it, but it's contrary to how you SHOULD do it.

    • @Kuchenwurst
      @Kuchenwurst Год назад +79

      Interesting. In Germany, where I'm from, a farmer's breakfast (or Bauernfrühstück) is actually a well-defined hearty meal consisting of fried potatoes with onions, bacon and eggs mixed in, all fried up in the same pan.

    • @m_d1905
      @m_d1905 Год назад +33

      ​@@Kuchenwurst That sounds scrumptious.

    • @majcrash
      @majcrash Год назад +45

      @@Kuchenwurst Many restaurants in the US have what they call a skillet breakfast that are variations on what you describe.

  • @BenXu1
    @BenXu1 Год назад +3

    I love seeing you folks experiment with editing and direction! keeps everything fresh and improving

  • @ryiudoivl
    @ryiudoivl Год назад +12

    The chillest yet the best channel i ever seen!

  • @pedroroggla8129
    @pedroroggla8129 Год назад +2

    my god i love this channel so much... it reminds me of the simple things, a life that i strive to live

  • @lordrevan57
    @lordrevan57 Год назад +23

    Oh man this is exactly what I needed right now. 13 hour 3rd shift with commute and I’m enjoying ramen before bed lol. This is what I’m watching.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      Commuting is the pits
      Add to too long shifts n life just sucks

  • @stonetooth2506
    @stonetooth2506 Год назад +21

    "As soon as I finished breakfast I thought about lunch" me too John, me too.

  • @Mike_Greentea
    @Mike_Greentea Год назад +16

    Enjoyed the video also the film crew did a great job! Production value is top notch.

  • @catedoge3206
    @catedoge3206 Год назад +1

    this channel feels like a warm hug in a winter morning from a friend you havent seen in so long. that first sip of coffee, you feel the warmth going towards your tummy. Hmmm. Comfort. :)

  • @robzinawarriorprincess1318
    @robzinawarriorprincess1318 Год назад +25

    It's always great to hang out with the Townsends!😊

  • @Togmot
    @Togmot Год назад +2

    I love your videos.
    My wife and I are raising our kids on all home cooked meals and this channel provides a lot of inspiration and motivation.

  • @gavindagawd
    @gavindagawd Год назад +125

    I know plenty of people in the rural midwest who still refer to the middle meal of the day as 'dinner' and the later meal as 'supper' with no 'lunch' whatsoever. Confused me a good bit when I started doing more work out of town and everyone started talking about breaking for dinner at noon!

    • @natviolen4021
      @natviolen4021 Год назад +23

      In Germany there is a proverb "Morgens wie ein Kaiser, mittags wie ein König, abends wie ein Bettelmann"
      (eat) like an emperor in the morning, like a king at noon and like a beggar in the evening.
      I believe it contains a great deal of wisdom. No matter whether you work physically or intellectually, it's not healthy to have your biggest meal at the end of the day.

    • @toddgranger1002
      @toddgranger1002 Год назад +13

      The same is true in the rural South and was true in the Anglophone world on both sides of the Atlantic so long as that world was largely agrarian. My older relatives (I am in my 60s) ate their largest meal midday and ate supper from the leftovers of dinner. In my childhood, we still called the midday meal "dinner" and evening meal "supper," though with the passage of time we came to call the midday meal "lunch," except on Sundays, when after church the extended family sat down to the largest meal that day-hence, "Sunday dinner." We still maintained (as I do to this day) the word "supper" for the evening meal, and in my family we still eat Sunday dinner after church at midday.
      This is actually a healthier way to eat: the largest meal at midday, with a smaller meal in the evening.

    • @terryt.1643
      @terryt.1643 Год назад +9

      My parent grew up during the depression and we were raised that way, too. Largest meal of the day was between noon and two and a light supper afterwards after sunset. I’m almost eighty now and still eating that way. I find it hard to sleep on a big meal. Our big family Thanksgiving meal is always around one pm.

    • @Charok1
      @Charok1 Год назад +2

      In the south. It is Lunch, then Dinner/Supper means the same thing.

    • @GrumpyOldTroll
      @GrumpyOldTroll Год назад +6

      In the British working class, the midday meal is commonly known as "dinner" and the evening meal as "tea".

  • @ToEuropa
    @ToEuropa Год назад +1

    Thanks for these videos. No matter how crazy life gets, it's good to know that I can take a few minutes to enjoy a wholesome, friendly Townsends video and get re-centered. And I learn something, which is great because my kitchen is my zen.

  • @georgekobaidze
    @georgekobaidze Год назад +11

    I just want to say that I discovered this channel today and I can't stop watching it. It's just amazing!

  • @NoahSteckley
    @NoahSteckley Год назад +1

    I love that the cooking video aspect of this is fully paired with a historical rundown of how and why their life was the way it was, and how that leads logistically to the recipe. Great stuff!

  • @marcbaigrie2295
    @marcbaigrie2295 Год назад +89

    For some reason, I find myself wanting to eat more like my ancestors. I don't like to have to think too much about what I'm eating and it doesn't excite me like it does other people. Boiled eggs for breakfast and bread and pate for lunch and then something in the slow cooker for tea. I love these new ideas and I appreciate all the work that must go into themes videos. Thanks Townsend!

    • @headphonic8
      @headphonic8 Год назад +9

      Only eating those things is objectively more unhealthy than eating proper fruits and vegetables though. You can eat simply without only eating carbs and meat.

    • @OrbObserver
      @OrbObserver Год назад +14

      They ate that way because they had to. It is a very modern and privileged position to be in to have the entire culinary world at your disposal and find it boring. Your ancestors would scramble at the chance to eat as well as you are able to but are bored by.

    • @marcbaigrie2295
      @marcbaigrie2295 Год назад +10

      @Toastybees you're telling me mate. I can't help it though, it's just how I feel.

    • @davidlittle7182
      @davidlittle7182 Год назад +6

      I think that's why some people still focus so much on Sundays for this kind of food, when they have the time to do so. My kids love it when I have time to do a big stew or meat pie in the winter

    • @OrbObserver
      @OrbObserver Год назад +3

      @@marcbaigrie2295 That's a rather defeatist attitude. The way I feel about things changes all the time with new information and perspectives introduced. The way you feel about things shouldn't be set in stone.

  • @jjpetunia3981
    @jjpetunia3981 Год назад +1

    Love the movement/animation in the pictures and the information. So interesting. Thanks for all you guys put into the videos

  • @olddawgdreaming5715
    @olddawgdreaming5715 Год назад +9

    Thanks for sharing with us Jon, meals back then were nutritious at the right time of the day to get the most energy so you could get more work done and it worked. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

  • @Olympic_Sludge_Guzzler
    @Olympic_Sludge_Guzzler 8 месяцев назад

    I've watched only a few videos on this channel so far and I love it. I think a lot of people (myself included) tend to forget just how large a portion of our culture is defined by the food we eat, and looking back at what meals used to look like in a given historical context is grounding, in a way. Helps to remember both how much the world has changed, and yet how humans have stayed relatively the same. Also have to mention how well edited these videos are, presentation is phenomenal. Thank you for making these!

  • @tasteslikepennies2549
    @tasteslikepennies2549 Год назад +28

    I'm not ready for this video. I tried the working man's breakfast after the last one and I've been drunk by 9 a.m. for a month

    • @clintonadrian4958
      @clintonadrian4958 2 месяца назад

      You need to accustom yourself my friend! 😂

  • @theshuman100
    @theshuman100 Год назад +1

    1:12 "theyre working from dawn to dusk, and you working hard like that, you HAVE to eat in a different way then we certainly do today"
    later in video: one single pudding for lunch

  • @steventoyota9062
    @steventoyota9062 Год назад +5

    Love the historical aspect of this channel and yes its got that old school warmth, which I enjoy too.

  • @merccadoosis8847
    @merccadoosis8847 Год назад +2

    Townsend ~ a man after my own heart. Like him, I love to study American history and positively LOVE to eat with cooking being my # 1 hobby. GREAT video once again.

  • @MichaelGGarry
    @MichaelGGarry Год назад +26

    In parts of the UK such as the north of England, dinner is still the midday meal, with tea at evening time - even if there's no actual tea involved!

  • @charlesperez9976
    @charlesperez9976 Год назад +7

    A breakdown of my typical meals:
    Breakfast is bread olives and cheese.
    Lunch(sometimes dinner), I use a pipkin that I purchased from you.
    Half an onion,not diced or anything,just halved,with bone broth and a root vegetable like potato carrot or beet,and salt and pepper.
    I place the pipkin in the oven for about 45 minutes at 320 degrees,and eat it with bread.
    I also frequently use the pipkin to bake beans,with a bit of pork,be it bacon,or pig feet,also with bread.
    Dinner:
    Well,honestly,I tend to go to my moms house,she’s Italian,that’s where I get my meat fix!

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      Olives just go so well w/cheese! I like cucumbers too, including pickled.
      My fav is salami also, can’t have bread 😭

  • @Snafuuu
    @Snafuuu Год назад +66

    Lunch is still the biggest and most important meal of the day in my country. I can't imagine having just a sandwich for it lol

    • @crystalh450
      @crystalh450 Год назад +10

      A lot of people get 30 minutes to an hour for lunch and work in an office, so a sandwich makes more sense. School children also usually get about the same amount of time and not everyone has access to a microwave or anything else to heat your food. You wouldn't have time to make much else.

    • @megapussi
      @megapussi Год назад

      @@crystalh450 It's 2023, we have refrigeration. I cook my lunches ahead of time in batches and then put it in containers to take with me to work.

    • @crystalh450
      @crystalh450 Год назад

      @@megapussi yes, and as I mentioned, NOT EVERYBODY has access to a microwave. Therefore, not everyone CAN have a hot meal. I was explaining that is where sandwiches make more sense. Why are you trying to make it about yourself?

    • @KroltanMG
      @KroltanMG Год назад +13

      Here in Brasil this is the case too, in fact workplaces are legally required to have a fridge, microwave, table and sink for workers to use at lunchtime, or pay an allowance for workers to go to a restaurant in their noon break.
      So even people who eat in the workplace still usually have full meals.
      We even have restaurants that specialize on making lunchtime meals and deliver in workplaces, kind of like Japanese "bento", we call it "marmita".

    • @renanfelipedossantos5913
      @renanfelipedossantos5913 Год назад +7

      @@KroltanMG In Colombia people also usually pack their lunch like "marmita" and heat it in their workplace, or go out to lunch in a restaurant nearby. Streets with office buildings are usually packed with these cheap popular restaurants catering to workers.

  • @jarosawmiszel8152
    @jarosawmiszel8152 Год назад +1

    They used to lag if hungry, now our PCs lag when you apply too heavy working schedule to it. What a world.

  • @dr.froghopper6711
    @dr.froghopper6711 Год назад +25

    This is almost exactly the meal that my wife, son and I are having for our lunch. Turnips included, it’s a one pot wonder that keeps body and soul connected!

  • @rickhand8228
    @rickhand8228 Год назад

    My family came from England in 1634 , settling on Long Island then moved to southern New Jersey in 1693 and finally "removing" to central Illinois in the 1850's to farm. My grandparents farmed with horses and even my dad did some horse farming while quite young. That was hard work and they still ate their big meal at mid day and called it dinner. Fresh beef and pork were generally more available in cold weather since they had no modern refrigeration. Chicken, duck and pan fish (caught in small farm ponds and creeks) was more likely proteins in warmer weather and eggs were ever present. I'm speaking about our locality in the late 19th and earlier portion of the 20th centuries but my point is that some of the customs and menus had not changed greatly from the time period of which you speak! I really enjoy your videos and this is another winner!

  • @BlackCherryZyn
    @BlackCherryZyn Год назад +9

    Another great episode as always.

  • @brittanylooney7623
    @brittanylooney7623 Год назад +3

    I absolutely appreciate and adore your historical channel. I often find myself binge watching 😊. I never in my early years as a child and teen found myself interested in history. Now with me being an adult I’m constantly watching and learning about history. My son is always teasing me by saying “mommy loves her history stuff” and I just smile and say yes baby I am. Please never stop on educating us with your knowledge 😊❤😊❤. I was curious to know if you could do and show us the history of the wealthy. And how they would treat their slave/ servants and what they were given

  • @nutherefurlong
    @nutherefurlong Год назад +45

    I tend to benefit from a bigger midday meal and a smaller dinner. Also, every time you break out that dutch oven I know I'm going to be envious by the time you've made it

    • @Joze1090
      @Joze1090 Год назад +1

      Same here. Small breakfast, biiiig lunch after work, and a small meal before bed, if not just a snack.

  • @brandoncrumbley5409
    @brandoncrumbley5409 Год назад +1

    Wow. Really enjoyed the flashbacks to you doing the recipes real quick. Very nicely done 👍

  • @jaysoneubanks579
    @jaysoneubanks579 Год назад +17

    Keep up the good work guys!🍻

  • @princeofexane
    @princeofexane 7 месяцев назад

    I love these little history lessons. Townsend is one of the best channels in RUclips.

  • @bluecreekdetectors
    @bluecreekdetectors Год назад +8

    This is incredibly interesting! Brings the past to present by helping us better understand through food what things were like for our ancestors! Thank you!

  • @ksewald91
    @ksewald91 Год назад +5

    My grandfather worked his oil wells until he was in his 90s, back in the 1960s. He would eat a big breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast and a big bowl of oatmeal. Grandma pack him a big lunch and thermos of coffee. Back home for big evening meal after dark. He worked really hard and burned it all off, never gained weight.

  • @serek1553
    @serek1553 Год назад +6

    after not eating anything for a day and finally sitting down just so i can eat a hot meal and watch a video ABOUT hot meals back then, its a different kind of peaceful bliss

  • @Liberty_Prime12345
    @Liberty_Prime12345 Год назад

    sitting here at my desk at work and now I'm craving a nice hearty meal. darn you Townsends! your food videos always get my stomach growling! love the content!

  • @amadeusamwater
    @amadeusamwater Год назад +11

    Pot roast used to be a common Sunday lunch for us. Mom would put it in the crock pot on low heat to simmer until we got home from church.

  • @Religious_man
    @Religious_man Год назад +5

    It's no wonder men and women back in the day were able to stay fit because of how they lived and they valued it.

  • @flockthis8392
    @flockthis8392 Год назад +4

    Just found your channel love it binge watching thanks for posting

  • @solmartel360
    @solmartel360 Год назад +2

    My husband is a baker in a chain bakery shop and he stands all day, working bread and baking it. He also bikes to work because we don’t have a car. He comes back home absolutely ravenous at the end of the day and I struggle to find meals that satisfy him. I’m definitely gonna try to feed him this meal. Thank you for the share!

  • @dwaynewladyka577
    @dwaynewladyka577 Год назад +5

    A good and hearty lunch sure hits the spot. A great series. Cheers!

  • @Mokey56001
    @Mokey56001 Год назад +4

    My mother grew up on a farm in the mid 30s and 40s. It was still very common to send lunch out to the fields for the workers and family members working out there. And it was called dinner. By the time I was born, the word dinner had shifted to mean going out to eat and if you ate in it was lunch or supper depending on the time of day. But that was for the farmers. The rest of the US had already shifted the word dinner to the evening meal and used lunch for the midday meal. It was really confusing for me growing up because my family grew up in the suburbs and the only farms were fairly small. So using the "wrong" word when talking to my classmates was frustrating at times.

  • @potatolad7202
    @potatolad7202 Год назад +4

    Thank you mister Townsends for another video.

  • @GregH-p5r
    @GregH-p5r Год назад +1

    As someone learning about Jerusalem Artichokes in the modern garden, I frequently see references to it as a survival food.
    I find it fascinating that I see reference to them at the top of the page in 5:11. Of course this easy, prolific, caloric crop was well-known to the colonists. I imagine, especially in the hungry gap, Jerusalem artichokes would have been frequently on the table.

  • @racothran
    @racothran Год назад +36

    As a massage therapist...which I would call a blue collar job, (to an extent), I've noticed that a large lunch is so important. I can't keep up for the rest of the day on a meatless salad and soup. That's my supper!

    • @trequor
      @trequor Год назад

      Really seems to depend on your metabolic schedule. Those who eat a big breakfast rarely need a big lunch.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      U massage all day, daily? That’s unusual.

    • @racothran
      @racothran Год назад

      @@YeshuaKingMessiah 5 days full, 1 half day!

  • @JohnDoe-fw9ty
    @JohnDoe-fw9ty Год назад +4

    In Western Saskatchewan, Canada, us farmers still call lunch "dinner". In the cities we get looked at like we have 3 heads when we say we have dinner after breakfast and before supper. An interesting linguistic turn I thought I'd point out, an isolated geographic pocket of folks who use the vernacular of 300 years ago surrounded by those who use a more modern lexicon.

  • @ashleighlecount
    @ashleighlecount Год назад +59

    Happy Sunday everyone

  • @murkypuddle33
    @murkypuddle33 Год назад

    very informative as always. i love how after all these years watching this channel, I'm still learning! thanks everyone!

  • @movingforward6099
    @movingforward6099 Год назад +50

    One of my fav meals! Their would probably be less diabities in the America if we ate more like our ancestors . Very informative vid. Cheers!

    • @Kearnach
      @Kearnach Год назад +7

      Diabetes has been with us at least as long as we've been an agrarian people. The Egyptians knew about it.

    • @DerlChur
      @DerlChur Год назад +6

      they said LESS . since more thing had less sugar and additives.@@Kearnach

    • @misterhat5823
      @misterhat5823 Год назад +2

      @@DerlChur Additives have nothing to do with diabetes.

  • @GirlCarpenter
    @GirlCarpenter Год назад

    Much respect to you for being able to take a bite of food, and quickly keep taking so as to not completely gross me out. :) Great video as always! Thanks!!

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore Год назад +10

    Jon: What pops into your mind...
    Me: When I hear "working man?" Probably that killer Rush song.
    Jon: ...when I say "Lunch?"
    Me: Oh...

    • @Aphotic_One
      @Aphotic_One Год назад +2

      lol yeah. man i wish i could have seen them live

    • @terminallumbago6465
      @terminallumbago6465 Год назад

      Finally someone else who thinks about them on a regular basis

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      I think about them at times becuz I think about my late husband (died in 1990)
      He saw them live, yes 🙂

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for your wonderful videos! I truly appreciate the beautiful presentation in 4k.👏

  • @derfloh93
    @derfloh93 Год назад +4

    some of my relatives (grandparents, aunts and uncles) are or have been farmers, and in my childhood and youth I spent many summers and winter holidays there, and when doing work on the field, we ate pretty much exactly like that...
    big, filling lunch, just one simple filling dish (but loads of it) and water or watered down beer/hard cider (for the adults)...
    breakfast and supper were mostly the same (and usually cold) dark bread, cheese, bacon, sometimes eggs and apples

  • @ragnnohab
    @ragnnohab Год назад +44

    People eat like they work 15 hours in a field just to type numbers into Excel.

    • @kainaaguiarferreira4351
      @kainaaguiarferreira4351 8 месяцев назад +3

      I have a beard

    • @markdotinc8371
      @markdotinc8371 8 месяцев назад +10

      Hey, the brain is the most energy-intensive organ of the body! Now if only I could figure out how to use it...😅

    • @pranavmanvi9311
      @pranavmanvi9311 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@kainaaguiarferreira4351I can’t grow one :(

  • @djay6651
    @djay6651 Год назад +16

    Townsend: Most people can skip two meals and probably not notice it
    Prepper: We're three missed meals away from anarchy. 😅
    But a good pot roast, I never get tired of. Through some onions in there as well. My mom would use the liquid to make gravy. That's still one of my favorite gravy's

    • @gray_mara
      @gray_mara Год назад +5

      To be fair, there's a big difference between skipping a meal because you're busy and skipping a meal because you literally have no food. I hope you never experience that terror of looking in the pantry and knowing that there is nothing in there to feed your family tonight. It does make you feel desperate.

    • @meganlalli5450
      @meganlalli5450 Год назад +3

      ​@@gray_mara it certainly does.
      I had a very lean season where I knew I didn't have enough food for every day, and found it easier to fast completely one day a week and stretch the food I did have for the other six days. Sometimes I could eat at least once a day the other six, and sometimes not.
      I'm glad to say I'm not in that lean season now. I give thanks at every meal, and consider leftovers a true blessing.

  • @nelsonminingandabandonedplaces
    @nelsonminingandabandonedplaces Год назад +1

    Great video Jon, glad to see it and other call it dinner. Where i come from its Breakfast, Dinner, Supper.

  • @highseasbanditry
    @highseasbanditry Год назад +11

    I read the passage from Ellis as saying the proper dinner victuals include both the meat/veg dish AND a pudding. I think you might be misreading him when you imply that the pudding would be the whole meal for these people, as hard as they worked. I might be wrong, but to me, it reads as "[this or that entree dish with vegetables], is, with [this or that pudding], good dinner victuals" - the "with" implying that both should be served.

    • @restorer19
      @restorer19 Год назад

      I interpreted it the same way. "is, with" separates the two lists of possible elements of each part of the meal. A big lunch of meat and a vegetable, along with a good pudding. It made me think of the pasties some miners would be given, with their meat in one side and sweet dessert in the other.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      Or the ooor had only pudding
      Food was n is tough to buy

  • @MatterMadeMoot
    @MatterMadeMoot Год назад

    Thank you guys. Always so pleasant, informative and enthusiastic about your craft. Everyone could learn a thing or two from you.

  • @TheRealBrook1968
    @TheRealBrook1968 Год назад +9

    The way described, I am an 18th century peasant. I work blue collar 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, 330 days a year from home and only eat a large lunch and small dinner with coffee and cream for breakfast.
    I grew up in we4stern South Dakota in a Scots-Irish household and we called it breakfast, dinner and supper. If I was caught sitting down during the day, my folks would find something for me to do. I would rather choose my chore and am still a hard worker. 🙂

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      What do u do blue collar from home?
      And how do u work 14 hrs a day, every single day, rarely a day off?
      R u talking about working round the house once ur home from work, keeping urself busy instead of watching tv?

  • @Huntx24
    @Huntx24 Год назад

    Your channel and tasting history are my favorite cooking channels. I always learn something on every video

  • @TheSamElwood
    @TheSamElwood Год назад +11

    Funnily enough this one pot stew is still often considered very festive and universally loved sunday family dinner comfort food in Finland. It's often made for occasions such as weddings, independence day and christmas. Putting more effort into the broth and mixing in different meats like pork, lamb, beef, elk, reindeer and so on makes it basically higher quality for a bigger event. This is also traditionally served with mashed potatoes side so can't honestly call it one pot tho.

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 Год назад +1

      That sounds tasty. I think every culture has their own version.

    • @terminallumbago6465
      @terminallumbago6465 Год назад +1

      @@5roundsrapid263It’s interesting to think of how universal a lot of these familiar dishes are. They transcend culture and time. It’s a reminder of how alike we all are, no matter where in the world we are or what time period we lived in.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад +1

      If there’s starchy vegs IN the pot why have mashed too??

  • @kristinafinn6233
    @kristinafinn6233 Год назад

    Fascinating! I love reading period pieces with the detail of what they eat at the given period and status. Great video!

  • @Hydramus89
    @Hydramus89 Год назад +5

    In East England where there are still a lot of farm land, they still call the middle meal, dinner! But then they call the evening meal, "tea" 😂 language is amazing. Thanks for the video it is fascinating

    • @juryrigging
      @juryrigging Год назад

      Seems like most of the country. Another guy was saying Up North, you are saying in the East, and I know there are definitely some in the Southwest.

  • @VecTron5
    @VecTron5 Год назад

    I'm sick as a dog atm and I gotta thank you, your videos are good for the brain and easy on the senses.

  • @LeesaDeAndrea
    @LeesaDeAndrea Год назад +8

    My spouse doesn't eat breakfast so we have our main meal of the day at 1 PM. As for the milk & bread, I eat a couple slices of bread dipped in a cup of milk as a snack in the evening. My granny used to mush up bread & milk in a bowl as an easy light meal too.

    • @bunnyslippers191
      @bunnyslippers191 Год назад +3

      We had "milk toast" as a light meal, especially for someone who was sick. It's delicious. Just make toast, butter it, then cut it into cubes, put it in a bowl and pour milk over it.

    • @moorshound3243
      @moorshound3243 Год назад

      Ah but have you ever soaked some hard bread in milk then rolled it in honey and fried it? Oh my days its so good.

  • @Wolfram762
    @Wolfram762 Год назад

    That was awesome Jon! I learned something new today about how they treated lunch as if dinner and such a very important meal. Thanks again for the amazing content that you guys put out!!!

  • @R-MD
    @R-MD Год назад +3

    "Today, most people that we think of here in america are middle class"
    Uh... I think of americans I think of a shrinking middle class, worker exploitation, wages that haven't kept up with inflation, republican workers that are lower class but think they are middle class telling people who are doing jobs that used to pay a living wage to "get a real job" when they complain they are getting paid $6.75/hr for a job that used to be enough to buy a house with.

  • @caven7931
    @caven7931 Год назад

    Bruh. I just found your channel. What an amazing way to teach history through food. I love this and am subscribing immediately. What wonderful content.

  • @lisathaviu1154
    @lisathaviu1154 Год назад +6

    In southern Scotland, the large meal of the day is “dinner” which is served at midday. The later meal is called “tea” which is served traditionally as a smaller meal, often oatmeal or soup and bread. The term “supper” is derived from “soup.” These days, of course, the big meal is served in the evening, but it’s still called “tea.” Midday meal is still often called “dinner.”

    • @jaeden2806
      @jaeden2806 Год назад +1

      We say the exact same in Northern England also.

    • @Michael_Hunt
      @Michael_Hunt Год назад

      You guys have kept the tradition, that's cool. Here (USA) my grandparents did meals that way and it always confused me as a kid lol "Why are we eating dinner at 1pm?". My parents would sometimes slip up and use the old terms, my dad still always calls dinner supper. Watching things change through generations is interesting.

  • @j3ttmaverick
    @j3ttmaverick 11 месяцев назад

    What a delightful video to stumble across, absolutely subscribing to this phenomenally charming gentleman's content x

  • @bingevintage8124
    @bingevintage8124 Год назад +12

    You can never go wrong with a pot roast it’ll fill anyone up

  • @NonyaDamnbusiness
    @NonyaDamnbusiness Год назад +1

    When I was living in Germany for 12 years, "breakfast" there was just that - breaking fast.
    Cold cuts, bread, cheese, and maybe a pastry. Possibly some Muesli.
    Lunch was usually a soup or "schnitzel sandwich" and the big meals in German households there were usually started in the late afternoon to be served at night. Schnitzel cutlets pounded flat until they were the size of a dinner plate, breaded, then fried in a pan, Silesian-style.
    Also, check out what "Corporal's Corner" here on RUclips is making in his Etsy store. He forges really strong yet small two-prong "meat forks" that look like they're from the 1700s. I love my little meat fork he made and it always goes in my rucksack along with a handmade wooden spoon whenever I go out in the woods to camp.

  • @ineffectualgamer9565
    @ineffectualgamer9565 Год назад +13

    Here in Spain, lunch is very important. They have a huge meal. Ive never gotten used to it.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      Well isn’t ur dinner a lunch then? After the big meal at noon?
      So u would be hungry by noon next day

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      I could very much get used to stopping for few hrs to nap daily
      Having to cook it all? Not so much lol

    • @ineffectualgamer9565
      @ineffectualgamer9565 Год назад

      The Spanish way is.
      7:00 Breakfast
      11:00 Snack of a smaall sandwich
      14:00 Lunch of a full meal, 3 courses
      17:00 Snack of bread or fruit
      20:00 Dinner light meal but with meat and veg
      or later a supper of snack things, meats cheese
      Some people have two big meals a day but i personally can't handle that.
      @@YeshuaKingMessiah

  • @toddfraisure1747
    @toddfraisure1747 Год назад

    Interesting as usual. One of the better if not best show of its kind and the host is very easy to listen to.

  • @praxisxww6686
    @praxisxww6686 Год назад +12

    I wish i could eat like that everyday for lunch

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Год назад

      Wish I could even just eat it for dinner!
      Who can afford meats and most produce beyond potatoes n carrots??

  • @Moe3ter
    @Moe3ter Год назад

    been watching for years, happy to see you popping off