Rakı?

Water.

You already did the one I wanted which was Grog. how about a history of Rum.

Cider

Hey Max, I'd really appreciate if you put the recipes you use in text somewhere (the video description or a website would work well). Other cooking channels do this and it makes trying the recipe at home much easier!

Crime is the world's greatest seasoning......or, was that starvation?

When people asked why is flour tasted so nice, he said the secret ingredient was crime.

I just got a whole Horrible Histories sketch on my head, reading your comment.

Lots of crime.

@Andromedas "They should be paying me to eat this shit"

It’s one of my favorite things 🤣

@@TastingHistory I wish it could be in every episode, haha, it is just so funny

@@TastingHistory DOink.

@@TastingHistory you reinvented a retro-instrument

That's how they gave the 10 second warning for any fights onboard the ship.

xD informative, and chuckle-worthy!

Gold right here lol

Yes! I remember an old man back in Xochimilco, Mexico city, selling "Pahuas", which are big ass avocados, along with "Xoconostles", which are a variety of prickly pear you put on stews.

@@renard6012 what? Xoconostle is the “fruit” of a cactus, nothing to do with pears

@@LikanMX "prickly pear" is the common name given to a certain type of cactus fruit in the Southwest US. This is why common names are useless.

I agree that's about as accurate of a description as it gets.

They taste nothing like mayo.

@@lordmuhehe4605 yeah but they have a similar texture when you mush them up

I say sort of really oily butter .

What a horrid description

Price is no object when someone else is paying for it! 🏴‍☠️

Sugar would actually have been a lot less expensive in the Caribbean where it was being produced than in Europe where shipping costs are added and of course demand is huge

PLus they mostly went arround the Carribean where the sugar was grown. Grown for "free" at that...

They literally killed for it lol

@Cpt_Paduff Plunder means to steal using force. The force that most Pirates used was Murder lol.

Are you well supplied with weapons?

Sounds gross 😝

How expensive is condensed milk there? Where im from its pretty pricey.

Russian condensed milk is really cheap in the US and it tastes exactly like Brazilian condensed milk. just a little bit hard to find but you can buy it at Amazon. people don't understand why avocados are a dessert in Brazil because they never tasted the local varieties. hass avocados taste shitty with sugar.

😂🤣👍

true. its annoying when they act as though some simple thing is *sssooo exquisite!*

@@donoimdono2702 simplicity lets flavors stand out

Yeah, there are a lot of times I wonder how it's even possible for them to literally like everything they taste. Like sure, I'm maybe a little picky compared to some people, but I'm sure most people dislike some of the foods they try sometimes. Yet a lot of food youtubers never seem to show any signs of disliking anything ever, or even finding anything mediocre. It makes them seem really unrelatable, and makes me question whether any of it is worth trying since they clearly aren't being honest about everything they're trying.

@@lucienfortner841 It's an international thing. In every cookery show I have seen from whatever nation the presenter/chef has acted like 'When Harry met Sally' when, as a halfway decent cook myself I Know the flavours or quantities don't work! Decades ago we used to have a cook called Keith Floyd, who was probably the first (for us at least) to travel around places and cook 'on the hoof' as it were. They made the mistake of letting 'the natives' try his attempts at their foods and they obviously did not know The 'when Harry met Sally' rule. I used to watch just to see some local say 'That is disgusting ,Nothing Like how X should be!' Credit it to them, when it Did happen they kept it in! But I love it that Max is honest .

Well I expected the reaction from the beginning of the video. Tastes have changed quite over the centuries. Probably most people would detest a typical renaissance "festivity" dish nowadays due to the over excessive usage of spices. Back then spices meant wealth and the more the merrier, no matter how it tasted. I got exactly, what I was expecting when he said he is going to pour sugar into the Avocado cream. Might have an interesting taste, but definitely nothing you want to have.

I am going to try this next time I buy avocados.

That sounds so yummy!

Man, Avocados and condensed milk was alwaus my favorite way if eating them. It was nit until i moved to the USA where i had them savory

Zoysia or fescue...maybe Bermuda? 😊😊😊

I am an American living in the Philippines and Can verify this.

Yaaaas

Oh, honey!

End pose, end pose, end pose...

@@daveandgena3166 oh hooooneeeyyy

@@Jm96RoCk HONEEEEEEEEYYYYY

And besides, in the Caribbean itself that wasn't so expensive due to, you know, all the sugar canes in the area meaning that it was abundant and had almost no transport cost attached, it was not the cheapest thing ever, but you could also expect someone with a bit of wealth to be able to take home a decent quantity of it. So pirates probably didn't need to steal all of their sugar and probably would regularly have simply bought it with their spoils

That was my thought, as well!

You can certainly try the same thing today, but we can't guarantee results.

@@sephikong8323 Funny thing is, at the time, sugar was worth more than gold, ounce for ounce. Learned that from Horrible Histories.

@@donthaveaname15 *In Europe The price wasn't the same in the Caribbean for the aforementioned reasons, in Europe however it was preposterously expensive since the journey was long and perilous so that added a lot of cost and the demand was stupidly high. Price is always relative, but even more so at the time

This is why Australia is superior

Lmaooo this is great xD

lol..smart

My grandma told a story about when pasta became popular in Sweden. Still, new and exotic, and expensive. Some people had bought it for a wedding (macaroni) and they boiled it to the point of a lump of goo. Lesson learned I guess. 😅

​@inorrbotten1 Absolutely amazing. Incredibly the same sometimes happens today, like having a friend who doesn't know how to cook rice or something

Some things don't change over the centuries!

@Anonymous Commenter "...and rum!"

@@TurlasThe6 nah you see that rum just "evaporates" in a week they can't get to land to sell it before all the barrels are empty

@Anonymous Commenter I was gonna say, he was a pirate--he didn't buy that sugar!

Damn pirate millennials, ruining the economy with their avocado toast

Immagine him just entering trough the window

🤣

I thought the same thing!

They need to do a special together!

Add a couple shakes of cayenne to summon Chef John too

Thank you for explaining what I’ve been doing wrong with my plantains…💕

In Mexico we call them water avocado, because it is lighter than the Hass avocado, there is also a very large one that they call oil avocado with very thin skin

@J. C. Oh no! Does he have a cat?

@J. C. isn't that a Scyther (pokemon) plushie?

You don't wanna mess with us.

@@thiagokawano1618 Mate, I've been messing with Brazilians my whole life, just ask my parents.

@@Yersifanel Ya, it is a Scyther.

Or transporting it was the only cost :)

Definitely they were only paying for the shipping not the original product 😎

Pffft 😂

Ba Dum Tsk!

As a general rule, pirates don’t really pay for anything

My favourite way is a dollop of TUNA Salad on top of a cut in half avocado 🥑

Someone should make a 10-hour loop of that clip.

CLANK BANG CLANG THE GREAT HARTACK BOP 🎵

Amen

At least here in the Philippines, we eat it with condensed milk and dessert.

It's not a common thing, for sure. But it was briefly a fad in California also.

What kind of candy is popular in brazil? I'm Mexican and a decent amount of candy tends to come in a spicy variant. There's actually a candy powder that is just basically lime and chili powder.

3 species of Avocados Mexican,Guatemalan and West Indies. Mexican and Guatemalan have the highest oil content (Hass is a hybrid of both) and best for eating or guacamole, its also the most popular. West Indies variety is the one eaten in South America, Asia or was popular in Florida but is very low in oil which many say is flavorless but pairs well with sugar and grows best in high humid areas

@@luzarely6393 Spice is not popular here. We have all kinds of candies with a lot of sugar cane. Sugar cane is a staple food in Brasil. Brazilian dentistry professionals is top of the world (LOL). We are famous by brush our teeth five times a day (LOL)

10/10 agree

I was wondering if anyone else had caught that, lol...

Or… you can be like my dad, when I asked him to juice the key limes for a pie (I was using a recipe from 1927, when the book was printed). Dad didn’t bother with any of the presses! He just cut the limes in half, and squeezed ‘em barehanded. Which I only realized when I heard Mom say, “What are you doing? We have a lime press!” …my parents actually have three

How does that feel wrong? Why would you even consider doing it the way he does

@@the_only_living_ghost because the lime fits into the bowl when you put it in backwards, also reamers work opposite to the clam-shell style presses. So if you've seen those, it just "makes sense" to put the dome portion into the flesh of the lime, instead of thinking of everting the lime.

I always thought people from Nicaragua we're called Nicaraguan, not Nicaraguense.

Both surprisingly accurate.

Vietnamese also call _quả bơ_ literally means _butter fruit_ too, and bơ is french beurre

Oh! I head heard it was called 牛油果 but i was told it meant "cow fat fruit" as in like, fat scooped out of a cow carcass. cause the characters are ambiguous. and now I have learned the word for butter too.

@@jjparkrocks 油 Means oil not fat Fat is 肥

@@arcanish2113 but the combination of the two refers to butter.

I came to the comments specifically to say this. I crack up every time lol

Yeah. Me, too, and I don't know why. 😂

@@LindaMz24 it’s his goofy smile while he does it

That sounds great, I'll have to find a copy :)

Well, thank you for the suggestion. I've seen it WAS in Max's Amazon Wishlist already. I just couldn't resist buying it for him ^_^ He'll do all the studying and I'll get the best from it in his episodes. It's a win-win ;)

@@fedra76it A win for all of us!

Without getting into cultural appropriation of modern tiki (Don beach, Trader Vic and beyond) there is so much history going back to the 1600’s and further that has shaped the modern drinks. Much of it is history of colonialism, exploitation of indigenous people, and slavery. It’s history that is important and history that shouldn’t be forgotten.

Can confirm. Different Native Americans also have stories about a girl getting abducted by spirits after being thrown in a lake as punishment when the spirits told her to pee in her dad's water skin, one about the origin of oak trees being a ground squirrel biting off the tip of another spirit's penis & it growing into a tree, one where a man gets stuck in the wilderness without tools & must fashion a knife out of his own frozen poop & one where the sun & the moon are never seen in the same place at the same time because they are brother & sister, one hit on the other & they've deliberately avoided one another ever since. I think that kind of humor was just in our DNA.

@@MrChristianDT That's a lot of them 🤣🤣🤣

@@MrChristianDT omg I've seen a video about like academics trying to figure out if the poop knife thing would actually be possible. It was pretty smeary iirc.

Well, maybe a soldier, but who knows.

@@AM-kr4pv hoh, that sounds like a project for Kiwami Japan.

The irony is that limes (unlike lemons) suck at fighting scurvy

Pirates (of the Carribean) were less prone to scurvy than your average sailor. They had way better access to Vitamine C with all these fruits and their business trips didn't take them that far away from home.

@@Rakaziel But, the Brits got the nickname of Limeys because they were smart enough to realise that scurvy was eliminated with the eating of fresh fruit and or juice. Therefore the limes worked well enough for the Royal Navy's purposes. Healthier sailors.

@@Beruthiel45 The problem is that at the time "lime" also was used as a general term to describe citrus fruits - this did in fact lead to the cure for scurvy being forgotten AGAIN for a time because they began attributing it to bacteria instead of malnutrition (because they thought limes had the same curative properties as lemons (or even more so, because they were more acidic), and limes did not work, so it had to be something else, and bacteria were the hot new discovery at the time)

I think Max covered absinthe.

good call

and then you can make a fluffy duck with avocado advocaat!

@@vampSaam I had to look what a fluffy duck was and it sounds awesome!

Oh my god, that seems so obvious now that you've spelled it out for me! XD

@@sonnyajvoll5865 It was always Destined To Be

And that's why i scrolled through the comments. Thanks!

Except that it wasn't a portmanteau of Aguacate and Mole, but rather Ahuacatl and Molli. The word Alhuacamolli was already a word by the time it was written in Latin characters when the Mexica (inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico) were taught the alphabet by the Spanish.

*CLACK CLACK*

In Mexico we have a fruit called mamey, it is the same as avocado but on the outside it is brown and inside it is orange in color, it has stones like an avocado and it is super sweet and the texture is exactly the same as avocado, but super sweet, with that they make icecream , smoothies, and we eat it as you describe alone with a spoon, it is delicious

Wait until you get to sweet potatoes/yams. 🙌🏼

@@daniellem1838 P U R P L E Y A M S

They call it pear in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands too

I've seen them referred to as "alligator pears" in old recipes

@@sarahdaestrela6098 My grandma was from NJ. She said they called them alligator pears when she was a child. That would have been in the 1910s.

That sounds really good. I have had chocolate mousse with avocado blended into it in the US, but not this!

@@rachelh7926 I don't have the exact ecipe but if I remember well, my mother wpuld blend the avocado with sweetened condensed milk, then make a ganache with half a can of table cream and 2 tempered egg yolks. She would beat the whites with sugar, mix a bit in the ganache and the rest with cream. 😊

In Mexico we make desserts with avocado, like avocado ice cream.

@@JoelDashReed I've seen avocado icecream but I've never had it. Sounds tasty, but among softer tasting flavours I always buy pistachio.

I went looking for this! I actually winced.

thanks Sammie, I was hoping someone else noticed ....lol

I used to do that until my wife (former bartender) pointed out the proper way. Changed my life forever.

I did this the first couple of times I used one, 'til I realized juice just going everywhere couldn't possibly be right.

Sorry Max, I have to agree! Citrus halves go cut-side down, to let the juice flow forth.

3 species of Avocados Mexican,Guatemalan,West indies. Mexican and Guatemalan grow on the highlands and are the highest oil content which is the most popular (Hass being a hybrid of both) West indies on the other hand grows on the lowlands and is considered flavorless or watery which is what is used heavily in South America and was introduced to Asia and Florida but pairs well with sugar and milk.

Sorry but the american one is a fade that becomes popular between hipsters but never achieve mainstrean status. Avocado toast is an abomination, and guacamole is bland..All honor and glory to vitamina de abacate.

@@tsz5868 Both are nice. I grew up with vitaminas de abacate, but avocado toasts with eggs are really tasty and guacamole has to be well prepared. I agree that that name is a fad though, just like the terrible "ananás" for a little pineapple (the real name is abacaxi).

(I'm from the Brazilian pineapple capital, Marataízes, so I can complain about this sacrilege to the holy fruit)

@@tsz5868 LMAO 🤣 Guacamole (predecessor to any avocado dip) and toast is bland WTF are you talking about its the best new thing to the world thats why its being eaten allover Europe and middleeast from Norway to Israel. Read my comment above the West Indies variety which your talking about is flavorless, taste like water, its the reason nobody liked them as use in dishes trust me Florida did everything to try and sell them unless prepared as a sweet since it has a very low oil content, thats why the latter (Hass (mex/Guate hybrid)) is being shipped all over the world including in China its growing which is far more than a fade or trend.

If 'cow oil' is butter, what is tallow?

@@MegaZsolti 脂

Cow oil is an excellent name for butter!

And also alligator pear 鳄梨

@@snazzypazzy I disagree, milk oil is clearly a far better name than cow oil

Never hurts to binge again 😄

GO AGANE.

Binging with...Max Miller. Anyone else smell burnt toast? That felt weird.

Yes, on the privateers. The illustrious Sir Francis Drake was knighted for being so good at his craft, he effectively hindered the Spanish navy and trade ships.

tapioca?

@@Amedyr Nope, farinha de mandioca mesmo

@@andreasluxbr Interessante!!

Pretty fast for science!

It looks like a very smart invention. Wasting food is just horrible, it's vital to find solutions.

@@fedra76it so you eat your banana peels?

@@Devilish__ No, but I understand that applying the coating makes the whole fruit slow down its dehydration and rotting, not only the peel itself. Without having to wrap/enclose it in plastic, which is what most people do to prolong shelf life. As concerns making good use of leftovers as fruit and vegetable peels, I have a chicken coop and several composting containers. They respectively transform waste into eggs and fertilizer.

Exactly! 😂

Also it wasn't expensive in the "New World" because they had plantations full of it.

Become a pirate!

Housing Piracy! Though I dont see you skirting the doldrums to throw off your pursuers, you can always lock the door and tell them to go away.

Then become an particularly stubborn and aggressive squatter 👌

@@genghiskhan6809 worked for Australia.

@@SinStar87 to be fair it was Great Britain that was the squatters. The Aussies should class as second or third generation 😜

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Thank you, I now have coffee all over my keyboard! :-D

I will never, ever be able to look at avocados in the same way again (including the one I'm eating for lunch in a few hours). Especially if there happens to be a plantain in the vicinity.

Well NOW we will!

Now before I cut them, I scratch them a bit... :D

southeast asians are with you!

@Jinx Vanderz As an American, my surprise just copied Mexico's surprise's homework

It´s the same sense of weirdness with changed signals..funny.

Yes 3 species of Avocados Mexican and Guatemalan which are the very oily ones (which Hass is a hybrid of both) and is best for Guacamole and eating and the most popular variety. The West Indies variety is the one used in South America, Asia and was used alot in Florida but its Flavorless and taste like water because of the low oil so it pairs well with sugar and grows well in humid tropical areas

We eat it with sugar. Sometimes even call it "ice cream". Never known that people were actually eat it with salt

That's also true in Asia, where it's mostly used in desserts. Here in North America I've had very nice avocado 'ice cream' and you can also make a very good egg-free chocolate mousse with it.

Botanically, it is a berry, but it is strange to Americans to think of it as a dessert.

When I was growing up in Malaysia, we had a live-in domestic help who was from a village in Sumatra. Her job before going to Malaysia to find work was making her own ice-cream. One of the ones she made was a simple avocado ice-cream, which we had never heard of, so she made some. It was so amazing Mom put it on the menu for every social do, and for a time it was the only ice-cream we were allowed to eat. From memory it was just avocado and tinned evaporated milk, sweetened a bit more with sugar.

Some Asian boba/bubble tea shops sell avocado shakes, and it is heavenly!!

here in Indonesia, we have 2 varians : the sweet avocado (yellowish inside) and the bitter avocado (fully green inside). The skin are also different, the sweet one has a darker skin but the bitter one has a greener skin.

that's the west indie variety

criollo avocado in mexico you actually eat the skin.

Actually native to Colombia, since at the time Dampier was in the area, Panama was not an independent country.

@@sndgo1 well there is 3 Mexican, Guatemalan and West Indies (which grows in south America including colombia) the Guatemalan personally my favorite and Mexican is also good since u can use the leaves in cooking. But the West indies doesn't have a lot of flavor and is kinda watery

(~˘▾˘)~ indeed

Love this

Yep!

I came to say the same thing. 😊 The minute the plantain starts turning yellow, it starts becoming sweet and soft. (Some Panamanian sweet plantain recipes call for the plantain to ripen until completely black and the sugars have really intensified. The consistency is very soft at this point. Some people not familiar with plantains might think that the plantain has gone past its prime when it is black but in Panama, we use it to make extra sweet baked plantains and they are amazing! I'm almost tempted to go make some plantains right now as I type this! Yum! Anywho......) Anytime we make savory plantain chips, we use green plantains. I think it would be yummier to use a green ie savory plantain to dip in the guacamole. There are lots of different versions of savory plantains recipes and also named different things in different countries. In Panama, we have patacones which are scrum-diddly-umptious to quote Willy Wonka. 😉 The patacones recipe is really a simple: cut chunks of green plantain and deep fry them in deep oil. Then you remove the chunks out of the hot oil, flatten them out (currently my mom uses a Mexican tortilla maker even though that's not something we use down in Panama) and deep fry the chunks a second time. Salt to taste. What you get is a deliciously savory crispy plantain disc perfect for snacking, as a side dish or to dip in guacamole like in this video even though it is not roasted as written by the pirate mentioned in Dampier's recorded recipe. Another option is to thinly slice the green plantain and just deep fry it one time. Is only necessary to fry it once because they're already thin. The results are a crispy plantain similar to a potato chip. I thought it was interesting that the pirate William Dampier encountered this recipe of guacamole in Panama in the late 1600s because guacamole is not a common dish in present day Panama, at least in my experience. I grew up in Panama (my whole family on both sides are Panamanian) and I mostly just saw sliced avocado in salads. My mom did say that when she grew up, she ate avocado with sugar. To be fair, I was a child in Panama when I lived there (I came to the US when I was 12) and so I may have not been exposed to all the dishes in Panama so there may be some guacamole-type recipe somewhere but I never saw it. I always felt like guacamole was a truly Mexican recipe. Panamanian cuisine is completely different from Mexican cooking and, interestingly enough, we don't even have tortillas as is commonly found in Mexican cuisine.

Monica - when I was in panama in 90 there was a little shop that served small flour tortillas with roasted chicken, beans, and those mashed twice fried plantain discs you mentioned. similar in appeance, but different seasonings from mexican dishes I was accustomed to. absolutely delicious too!

Dono, sounds delicious! I need to go back to visit my family and try more of the foods! It has been years since my last visit. 😊

Are you using frying bananas? I assume yes then the green one will be crispy while the more ripening it gets the sweeter it will taste. BTW in you were a pirate in the Caribbean sugar would be plentiful.

Can I ask you something, as you are clearly people who will know (Genuine question, not trying to be a smart arse) What is the difference between a Plantain and a banana? Here we get Platanos and Bananas and to me platanos just look like bigger unripe bananas .I apologise for being stupid ,but I need educating! I asked a West Indian friend once, but she wasn't much help, because she said 'Well, they kind of Are! Its sort of like the difference between an eating apple and a cooking one? I wouldn't cook a savoury dish with a banana, but I would with a Plantain? Or use it as a vegetable with meat I would keep a banana to make dessert It's texture too.' I kind of got it.

Or maybe he's wishing us good luck with the ladies...

bimbu

It’s definitely a mood.

_”That’s not good enough!”_

But WHY is the guac gone!?

Yes! They aren’t as sweet either, and delicious!

I took nahuatl classes for cultural credits in uni, the teacher said the H in nahuatl might sound like a soft English H, like when you sigh (BTW, both the teacher, the university and me are Mexican, so...)

@@ChiliFrog That's fair, I'm just basing this off what I have read online (e.g. wikipedia and related sources). Of course things may have changed since the 1600s too, plus I'm sure there are many modern dialects. (Anyway, max pronounced it like a ch sound or something, so at least that's probably not right.)

Nahuatl language…Spanish (Habsburg Dynasty) invent…..not so. Try learning Zuni or Hopi. Its more authentic to the aztec language.

Nahuatl language…Spanish (Habsburg Dynasty) invent…..not so. Try learning Zuni or Hopi. Its more authentic to the aztec language.

Nahuatl language or the culture has nothing to do with Spaniards because it's a native tongue. Spaniards just ruined it. I said it. And yes, read up on the hopi culture.... it has the key to the root of the culture.

Thank you 😊

its hilarious

I think it has become an inside joke among regular audience by now 😂

🤣🤣🤣 My husband was baffled by the idea but like majority of cultures that eat avocado have both sweet and savoury options. It's like butter - so many uses and all delicious!

in Belgium, my husband used to get an ice cream sundae with a fresh fruit salad that included avocado... why not?

As a Mexican, I just can't. A pound of salt with my avocados, please.

Please elaborate! I've only had salty versions of avocado dishes, but that smoothie sounds good!

@@belldanime I like my avocado tacos with salt, but I put sugar once and it honestly wasn't bad at all.