What it was like to visit a Medieval Tavern

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@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

Here the knife I talk about: www.oldworldironworks.net/ And here's the Odin's Skull Mead I mentioned - bit.ly/maxmead

@pawem5105 2 ай бұрын

I love classic "That's a knife!" reference. :)

@lisavranesevic5754 2 ай бұрын

We Serve Odin's Skull at my place of employment. There is also Viking Blood by the same company. It's great! Also, if you happen across it Viking Alchemist Meadery out of Georgia is AMAZING.

@kariannecrysler640 2 ай бұрын

Definitely some more about meads please! Any ancient brewing would be extremely enjoyable to learn about.

@Kaijugan 2 ай бұрын

Also, about the Meadery I mentioned. The owners? They love Tasting History. I think they even mentioned watching a few of your Viking videos in particular

@newindianajones1 2 ай бұрын

Odin’s Skull is a decent mead. Reminds me of Fireball with less alcohol.

@bonniherself 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact, somewhat tangential, but young goats are unruly, hard to control, and tend to get into things and make messes. Historically, when people called children "kids", they were calling them ill-mannered and rude.

@KP-tt5es 2 ай бұрын

That's funny, I call my kids goats when they start climbing the furniture

@iamthereddemon20 2 ай бұрын

@@KP-tt5esthe turns have indeed tabled

@karowolkenschaufler7659 2 ай бұрын

this is exellent trivia. thank you. a fun fact of the first order!

@cathyu.1487 2 ай бұрын

Can confirm! I've raised goats - they're generally sweet and adorable, but very high energy. Can definitely be a handful!

@shorttimer874 2 ай бұрын

There is a goat featured in some of the stories in the Grantville Gazette which are part of the 1632 sci-fi series who demonstrates this perfectly, I forget his name now...

@nigelchaos 2 ай бұрын

"Bestir yourself to correct these matters" is a really gentle way to say "GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!"

@mojewjewjew4420 2 ай бұрын

"Or else"

@JR-tr1df 2 ай бұрын

I am using this from now on when I can. Thanks for pointing this out 😄

@ThinWhiteAxe 2 ай бұрын

@@JR-tr1df same 😂

@101Volts 2 ай бұрын

"So don't be *vain,* and don't be *whiny;* or else I'll have to get *Medieval on your Heine!"* - "Amish Paradise"

@44R0Ndin 2 ай бұрын

I have a feeling that time has lowered the impact of those words, because I'm certain that back in the period of it's writing and since it was from another element of the church, that note would have carried power "from on high", the like of which can only be matched by threat of legal charges being filed today. In modern terms, over here in the US we'd call that the crime of serving alcohol to minors, which results in instant revocation of your liquor license.

@Anna-hb4uy 25 күн бұрын

The “Died by misadventure” story is relatable, just recently I was drunk at home and gave myself a black eye by falling

@chriscase6929 19 күн бұрын

Also sadly the official cause of death for the much missed Bon Scott.

@cyberneticshadow5572 15 күн бұрын

That damn "falling sickness" 😂😂

@lucasshea3382 5 күн бұрын

Did the same thing except I was one cm away from being a pirate needless to say I have slowed down on the drinking 😂

@Anna-hb4uy 5 күн бұрын

@@lucasshea3382 oof I’m glad you’re okay! I too have cut back on drinking since the incident 😅

@niksal1 Күн бұрын

@@cyberneticshadow5572yoo that shi was funny, 😂

@overlordlaharlyun5444 Ай бұрын

Human history is really comedic of how no matter where you are people are people

@drums4b 23 күн бұрын

Right! Someone once told me that times change but people don't. Um......baloney to put nicely.

@WheresWaldo05 17 күн бұрын

*no matter when they are

@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69 14 күн бұрын

@@drums4bPeople used to make dick jokes and fanfics thousands of years ago. Fast-forward to modern day and the only things that changed were the languages and medium.

@Kulthul 2 ай бұрын

I love the painting of the person, holding the other person’s hair while they vomit. It’s just proof that humans never change.

@SunnyIlha 2 ай бұрын

😂 he barfed because he drank too much. The other dude has to hold him away from hurling all over him. I don't drink a drop myself I'm a teetotaler, but I've gotten snuckered a few times in my life.

@MainPrism 2 ай бұрын

Ironically I paused the video to look at some comments. I just so happemed to be at 15:32 and this exact picture was on the screen 😂😂

@Alpenjodler1 2 ай бұрын

holdeth mine hair

@Hailstormand 2 ай бұрын

"Hold my hair...[barfs]

@SunnyIlha 2 ай бұрын

@@Hailstormand 16:25 😲😆

@elizaripper 2 ай бұрын

I now want a D&D campaign that doesn’t leave the tavern because you spend the game figuring out what to order. 😃😋🥘🍻

@leksluthor3 2 ай бұрын

„make an Investigation check please“

@mrbuisnessdziffko5229 2 ай бұрын

It ends up being a very long session of dice rolls determining how wasted you are xd playing a dwarven berserker was a boon. We also drank irl, to make it more immersive

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

I think that sounds great

@dud3655 2 ай бұрын

Dude... shrink the players to the size of ants... the kitchen has now become an entire country to explore. Let's say the party was accidentally served a shrink potion and their goal is reaching an antidote on the counter that was once a few dozen meters away from them, now thousands...

@WildWestSushi 2 ай бұрын

i thought i would have to scroll more to find a roleplay comment lol

@placidandy 20 күн бұрын

Brewing up ale and selling it from one's house used to be one of the few occupations available to basically anyone, specifically women who were often barred from professions. Brewsters used to be able to support themselves after their husband passed away or otherwise buggered off by selling small beer to the local kids. Heartwarming stuff!

@shawnbottom4769 4 күн бұрын

One of the reasons it was necessary to establish the "standard pint" in those days!

@yoeyyoey8937 Күн бұрын

What professions were women barred from and where?

@placidandy Күн бұрын

@@yoeyyoey8937 most professions were strictly controlled by guilds or similar structures, such as licenses from the crown or royal appointments, this meant that there were literal gatekeepers to entry into professions- one couldn't simply decide to apprentice in a trade they had to be accepted by the relevant guild first. Women were barred from membership. For most of the feudal period there were strict structures in place to protect the social position of the various trades.

@yoeyyoey8937 Күн бұрын

@@placidandy that makes sense. Were there any women’s guilds or did they just do whatever work didn’t require a membership?

@placidandy Күн бұрын

@@yoeyyoey8937 there weren't souch women's guilds, as professions that were specific to women. For instance an unmarried woman who supported herself with sewing/spinning was called a spinster and someone, often female, who brewed ale was a brewster, hence the surnames today. This is all relating to the fixed and defined "professional trades" which were very rigid, the real world being what it is among poor families every family member would be pitching in with whatever the household was doing. A "cottage industry" meant a job that a household was performing alltogether, for instance if you had a loom in your house then every family member was probably helping to run it.

@kailexx1962 Ай бұрын

You can find Verjuice (Sour Grape Juice) at middle eastern markets/grocers. Its used for Shirazi (Persian Cucumber Salad).

@FauxReal. Ай бұрын

Just like you get Asian ingredients from an Asian market, you get middle eastern ingredients from middle eastern markets

@TimGreig 24 күн бұрын

You can get it at most supermarkets in Australia. Its no big deal

@margaretf718 20 күн бұрын

This is not in American grocery stores and I found your comment helpful. ta

@robm6510 18 күн бұрын

@@FauxReal.And medieval ingredients from cultures that haven't progressed beyond medieval times ...

@libbykelly2809 8 күн бұрын

@@robm6510oh…

@PoppycockPrincess100 2 ай бұрын

It's incredible to think about how one person's actions and choices could forever influence the development of a language.

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

And rather arbitrarily

@kielbasamage 2 ай бұрын

The man who started adding -ussy to the end of random verbs:

@curiositycloset2359 2 ай бұрын

I think ghost was a mistake

@world4saker 2 ай бұрын

how about of drinking wine getting sloshed and screaming at people which wine is good and which is shit and get paid damn is one specific job

@Yandarval 2 ай бұрын

You only have to look at the coach and horses that Noah Webster drove through the English language.

@julieneff9408 2 ай бұрын

"A lot fewer orcs and elves" - so, not none, just fewer?

@fillhixx 2 ай бұрын

Well,……yah..

@01cthompson 2 ай бұрын

I wish I could say the same about the bar down the street.

@michaeldonahue1009 2 ай бұрын

Evolutionary science posits that there must have been at least some orcs in earlier times. Oakland Raiders fans had to have come from somewhere.

@rcrawford42 2 ай бұрын

A: "Mutants." B: "Trolls." A: "Mutants." B: "Trolls." A: "Mutant trolls." B: "I'll buy that."

@Qardo 2 ай бұрын

It is said some humans are Orcs. Though, I will not speak further. May upset certain people. Even though they said it first.

@purple_menace6604 Ай бұрын

I love that wine scammers were publicly humiliated. In the ancient and medieval world alcohol was serious business!

@chaoticklutz3633 10 күн бұрын

Beyond serious. There were death penalties in Ancient Mesopotamia for wine and beer tampering. If someone was found to have tampered with wine/beer or knowingly sold bad wine/beer for money, they would be shoved in their own wine/beer barrels and drowned in their liquor.

@Terpenesteve Ай бұрын

I know it can't be just me...but for some reason Medieval meals always look so good...They might not have had the best, or the most..but man did they do the best they could with what they had. Sometime a good hearty stew on a cold rainy day is just what the soul needs. Awesome video as always! I am so enamored by all these old recipes. Pretty much the foundlings of a lot of common day stews or soups we have nowadays !

@mikeg3439 18 күн бұрын

I had farm raised food in a remote village in Italy. It was the most FOOD tasting food I had ever had. It was like mother nature herself was nourishing me. I came back to California and food just seemed like a shadow of it at best. We have bred out and modified much that is good in food, with mass produced farms that answer more to shareholders by far, than to consumers. If you can manage it, grow your own organic food. You'll notice the difference, trust me.

@user-cp6fn2de5l 17 күн бұрын

I make a strew we call BROWN.. like game of thrones.. meat, heaps of vegetables including root vegetables and cooked for ages.. and barley.. at the end.. it’s delicious.. nothing better than a bowl of brown on a cold day.. 😂😂

@user-vq5dc7rh2j 14 сағат бұрын

@@mikeg3439 There is indeed a huge difference in taste, smell, nutrition and even feel when you compare organic homegrown, normal foodstuffs to the modified monstrosities that look very pretty but have a fraction of the nutrients. Especially eggs! good quality eggs smell and taste great but the factory farmed ones are just bland, tasteless and sad and often with skewed omega profiles thanks to the garbage they are fed. Also applies to pigs in a big way. Chickens and pigs are the epitome of "you are what you eat" and pork especially can go damn near toxic thanks to the horrible things they are fed. I spent last summer on a farm, just a small basic farm but organic, more like they used to farm even just 100 years ago. And the pork was absolutely delicious, as were the eggs. And no wonder since the pigs just ate what the people ate, just organic veggies and the like. Honestly never felt so good as that summer, food is such a huge part of our well-being and yet its also so difficult to realise how badly your body is doing because you just get used to the poor quality food all around you.

@UK_Canuck 2 ай бұрын

I had to smile when you mentioned the brooms indicating an alehouse. When I was living in southern Germany, our village was surrounded by vineyards. Every year, just before the new harvest, you'd see hand-lettered signs everywhere saying, "Besen" (broom), and pointing pointing toward one farm or another. As you got to the farm's lane, there would be a twig broom sticking out at the roadside. You'd find yourself seated at a trestle table in the barn, eating rustic sausages, potato salad, and sauerkraut. And drinking wine. Lots and lots of wine which was being sold off cheaply in order for the vats to be emptied and made ready for that year's harvest. Yum! 🍷🍷🍷

@chastitymarks2185 2 ай бұрын

Those are called "Besenwirtschaft" (broom pub).

@schnetzelschwester 2 ай бұрын

They also sell in September-October "neuer Wein" = "new wine", which is half fermented grape juice. It is sweet and sparklig and hasn't yet the full alcohol strength, but be careful! It can knock you out if you drink it like lemonade.

@dirtyfiendswithneedles3111 2 ай бұрын

Sounds serene and incredible

@lilykatmoon4508 2 ай бұрын

That sounds amazing!

@valor101arise 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating

@thefez-cat 2 ай бұрын

If anyone wants to know, a "spart axe" (more commonly spelled sparth) is a large axe intended for use as a weapon rather than a tool. They are believed to be descended from the Dane axe, though a precise definition isn't really possible from the available writing (so far as I know). Basically dude wasn't just walking around with his lumber axe, he was armed and looking for a fight.

@andersjjensen 2 ай бұрын

A sparth looks very much like a typical Viking bearded axe, but the axe head is often mounted "upside down" which allows for a shorter handle. Both types have about the same mass as their equivalent small wood axe, but the head would be forged much more drawn out in every direction, as human targets don't require the metal to have as much girth as a stubborn oak tree.

@HuSanNiang 2 ай бұрын

in German you have a Spaltaxt , it is one sided and still used to split logs.

@cherylmaden5989 2 ай бұрын

@chrismurphy3184 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Can always rely on someone in a Max video to explain stuff!

@lordeden2732 2 ай бұрын

Wrong way around was a tool which during times of trouble doubled up as a weapon

@amogus694 25 күн бұрын

Verjuice is still used widely in Syrian cuisine (probably other middle eastern cuisines as well ) from salad dressing to cooking everything has verjuice in it. people always have multiple bottles of verjuice in the attic ready to be used.

@JacobafJelling Ай бұрын

“Smite” lovely. Good to hear some old ‘rare’ words. Brings about joy to me

@kennyleung9909 14 күн бұрын

Smite the "kid." 😄

@hangedups2608 6 күн бұрын

WAS YOU ABOUT THEN ?

@MikeFowlerguitars 4 күн бұрын

Perchance we should hear it again.

@Notaripoffbruh 3 күн бұрын

@@MikeFowlerguitarsI would definitely hark to that idea

@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 2 ай бұрын

Always loved the idea of going into a warm, cozy pub on a dark & rainy night and getting some hearty stew and a refreshing drink.

@v4v819 2 ай бұрын

Come to my town there's no shortage of inns, taverns and pubs to come out of the rain into... Not to mention the local watering hole...

@alanaw27 2 ай бұрын

Same in my Scottish village. Two local pubs which serve good food. One is a very old and used by travellers for centuries as it was on the main route to Edinburgh.

@r3tr0actiongamer24 2 ай бұрын

The fact your name is kidzbop makes you uncomfortably Creepy

@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 2 ай бұрын

@@r3tr0actiongamer24 I'll get ur children's... Lol jk, I just thought the name was ironically funny

@Monkee2112 2 ай бұрын

Ireland still exists for you.

@L_mattox 2 ай бұрын

I hope that in 500 years, they’ll have infotainment holovideos like this, and they’ll be explaining the recipes & goings on of American diners and bars and such.

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

I’m actually working on a video on diners, so you don’t need to wait 500 years. Just a month.

@leahreiss2943 2 ай бұрын

What about Automats? 🧐@@TastingHistory

@nicholesnow 2 ай бұрын

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Days of Yore

@jerseygirlinatl7701 2 ай бұрын

@@leahreiss2943I heard on last week's Milk Street Radio podcast about documentary that was just made about the rise and fall of Automats. Has commentary from Mel Brooks. He even wrote and sang a song!

@Deadxman616 2 ай бұрын

yes I need to see one try to figure out Dinner slag

@FreyaofCerberus 21 күн бұрын

I am constantly surprised at how delightfully wholesome this channel is. It doesn't hurt that it's combining my favorite two things. History and food. But it's the wholesome host that really sells it.

@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr Ай бұрын

Death by misadventure is when you accidentally die after knowing the possibility you would die that way

@myself8354 3 сағат бұрын

Such as going mountain climbing and falling to your death. You perish from something going wrong and succumbing to environmental hazards you were trying to avoid.

@himesilva 2 ай бұрын

I love that having a ne'er do well friend with a gambling problem appears to be a timeless issue

@jonathanbennett1373 2 ай бұрын

The more things change the more they stay the same 😂

@guntguardian3771 2 ай бұрын

No puggies back then though.

@lisapardini9790 2 ай бұрын

This reminds me of the poem, “peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot 9 days old” Now it makes sense. Always interesting Max!

@nickryan3417 2 ай бұрын

The video on Pease Pottage was another good one. While the name of the dish is often mis-stated as "peas porridge", that was never the dish. For extra fun there is a place named "Pease Pottage".

@just_passing_through 2 ай бұрын

Peas pudding is essential with corned silverside. Yummy!

@Jay-hr3rh 2 ай бұрын

For 55 years I've been saying "piece porridge."

@ccburro1 Ай бұрын

I would assume that they had to keep their stews/porridges on low cooking all the time since they had no way besides that to safely store “leftovers”?

@TheBlackbelair Ай бұрын

This is what children probably chanted as mother was cooking.

@himssendol6512 19 күн бұрын

When i was in middle school my mom had surgery and was hospitalised for 3 months. My dad had a continuous soup/ stew going in a mid size pot the whole time. The soup would slowly change due to the different meat and vege he'd add every couple other day. After dinner when the pot is cooled enough it would go in the fridge til the next evening. Me and my brother ate surprisingly well during those months. 🤷‍♂️

@CheredaReneeShaw Ай бұрын

As someone that started homebrewing mead during lockdown, I'm always excited for mead videos

@schildkroete 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Thanks to the Vikings, the English word "egg" was actually borrowed from Old Norse, and so it's actually closer in pronunciation to the words for 'egg' in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic. Cognates for native Middle English "ey" ("eyren" in the plural) still exist in English's closest linguistic relatives such as Frisian, Dutch, and German, and like the word "ey" , those cognates also lack the final "g" sound.

@CrizzyEyes 2 ай бұрын

I noticed that as a bit of a German speaker. The German word is "Ei," and "Eier" for plural, pronounced pretty much the same way.

@VoodooMcVee 2 ай бұрын

@@CrizzyEyes Exactly. And before there was a standardised orthography for German, everyone wrote everything the way it was spoken, even in dialect. That's why spellings such as "Eyer", "Eyren" or "Eyeren" were perfectly possible.

@LaniusExcubitor1337 2 ай бұрын

Eieren is the Dutch word for eggs.

@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 2 ай бұрын

the reason for this by the way is a process called 'sharpening' (or Holtzmann's law) that Old Norse went through, where geminate J's and W's (note that J has the German quality here) hardened or 'sharpened' (sharpening is a loan translation from the German term Verschärfung) into a geminate ggj and ggv (the V is a W sound) sound. Egg was originally ajją in Proto-Germanic as it's reconstructed before becoming egg (the J was lost word finally) in Old Norse and ǣġ in Old English (the G there is incidental, that's just how Old English wrote J sounds, though some did come from the palatisation of G's) a similar thing happened again in Faroese, itself descendent from Old Norse, called Skerping in that language, which is how Jógvan is cognate to John in English. Latin Iōannēs was loaned as jóan, which being treated like "jówan" basically (makes more sense when you realise that Faroese also diphthongises long vowels, somewhat like English, in such a way that it generates a W type sound), got turned into Jógvan, note also the ó is shortened, fronted, and unrounded (though not in all places) like as in "yeh")

@dustintacohands1107 2 ай бұрын

Old English sounds insane when spoken properly

@robromeo9486 2 ай бұрын

I am so grateful you chose this path over Disney. It's been wonderfully enriching. Seriously thank you.

@megatronisfun Ай бұрын

Was he going to make Disney videos? Like the history or what? Now I’m curious lol

@lifeincolour09 Ай бұрын

@@megatronisfun He used to work at Disney and when he was called back he chose KZfaq instead. This is the full video watch?v=jHpkqBFKmvA of him explaining.

@megatronisfun Ай бұрын

@@lifeincolour09thank you for answering, I want to watch the video but can’t click the link, what’s the name?

@lifeincolour09 Ай бұрын

@@megatronisfun It's just called "I quit" so it might hard to find. You can right click on the link I gave you and then press "Search Google for" or something like that and you'll find it. Or simply copy the text into Google search. KZfaq does let me paste full links in comments.

@benjalucian1515 Ай бұрын

@@megatronisfun I think it's called "I quit."

@tobito2013 Ай бұрын

"Died by misadventure," totally sounds cool.

@soundwave1021 Ай бұрын

Death by misadventure is still commonly used by British coroners to this day😊

@hangedups2608 6 күн бұрын

WE STILL USE THAT TODAY, PAL

@janisameduri2212 5 күн бұрын

A version of the term was used in the magnificent series of Outlander!

@sarahk2722 25 күн бұрын

I'm sorry but "Died by Misadventure" is going on my tombstone. Excellent work on this one Max, you really drew me in to the time period!

@garyvincent5619 2 ай бұрын

"I'm not drunk! I just have the falling sickness!" 😆

@Jonas-lj8ul 11 күн бұрын

Gonna want to remember that line...

@its_clean 2 ай бұрын

4:35 Max my dude don't ever apologize for your tangents. "Anyway I just thought that was interesting" is literally the reason we love you!

@thenoeticskeptic5819 22 күн бұрын

The lievito madre (mother dough), a fermented mixture of flour and water containing microorganisms like wild yeast and lactobacilli, is the starter for Sourdough bread. Each time the dough is made, a piece is taken aside for use in the next batch. Some San Francisco, California bakeries have been using mother dough since the mid-1800s.

@oafik4939 11 күн бұрын

I did enjoy the bit of digression on the origin of the word eggs, I thought that was perfectly in theme with the video and think that actually was a very welcome addition. I came here to learn, and learn I did.

@richardjohnson4052 2 ай бұрын

Your perpetual stew sounds like what I grew up with on the farm and ranch. Mom would just keep topping it off with more water, spices and whatever meat and veggies were handy. It was on the cast-iron stove that was a stove and heater so was always hot. If hungry, we scooped a ladle for whatever meal. When my father was born, my grandmother set a chili pot on the cast iron stove and went to bed. Grandfather would keep refilling it until one day my 3 uncles got so tired of chili 3x a day so they dragged that pot into the desert and buried it, letting it ferment. Some day, some developer will discover that pot which will explode and destroy dozens of square miles of Arizona desert.

@blakksheep736 2 ай бұрын

Pfffffffffffffft

@DrSabrinaRojek 2 ай бұрын

Sounds epic

@silence-humility-calmness 2 ай бұрын

its quite amazing the liberties people take in explaining the explosiveness of sealed fermented foods!! they do not have remotely that kind of power, even to explode a glass jar is hard for a ferment ,,and not all ferments can build even that kind of pressure

@richardjohnson4052 2 ай бұрын

@@silence-humility-calmness It was a joke! Like when military people stationed in Korea joke about kim-Chi being a land-mine.

@silence-humility-calmness 2 ай бұрын

@@richardjohnson4052 you win the exchange!! i solute you!!

@HFG 2 ай бұрын

I'm not a big "cooking show" guy, but Max's warm and friendly, conversational delivery really sells the show. He seems like he'd be a quality guy to hang out with.

@DenSchimmige 2 ай бұрын

I bet he did put all his points into Charisma 😂

@HFG 2 ай бұрын

@@DenSchimmige hahahaha! The best comment. I can't decide if he's a bard or an alchemist though.

@sillerbarly4927 Ай бұрын

We all know he has to be a warlock with hard tack as his patron

@knote4958 3 күн бұрын

"Take veal, kid, or hen, and boil them in fair water" THAT SECOND OPTION THERE GOT ME

@milesnoell Ай бұрын

Germany still has "broom restaurants" that are seasonal establishments. When the fresh batch of wine has it's first drinkable results, the vintners serve it to those eager to taste how things turned out with a simple menu to accompany it. At the right time of year, unassuming addresses that house the wine barrels will mount a broom sticking out to announce that they have become a restaurant for the occasion.

@atomic_wait 2 ай бұрын

If you're ever in Seattle, in the nearby town of Carnation there's a historically accurate medieval village run as a living museum called Camlann. It includes a tavern with period accurate food and drink, and it's very tasty. Would recommend.

@paca_bill4863 2 ай бұрын

Yep, the Bors Hede Inne is a wonderful place to find some 14th century fare. We've been there for several of the Medieval Feasts they offer during the year. Lots of fun and great food, especially if you come in period garb! Highly recommend!

@atomic_wait 2 ай бұрын

@@paca_bill4863 I've considered volunteering there but I've never been the theater kid type, seems like it lends itself to the theater kid type of personality.

@kathleenhensley5951 2 ай бұрын

I have one of their older cookbooks!

@Paperskinglassbones 2 ай бұрын

Added to my travel wishlist. Thanks!

@EmersSarah 2 ай бұрын

What?!? I've lived in the Seattle area my entire life and have not heard of this place. How is this possible?!? I am checking it out immediately- Thank you!!

@LewisMR2 2 ай бұрын

That picture of a medieval town at 8:51 is called Exeter, I was born and raised there and still live there now. That bridge you see is actually still standing to this day.

@kavalogue 2 ай бұрын

How old are you now???? 8-900??

@evelanpatton 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for that cool share. 🎉 How lucky you are to live within a place whose local environmental investments by society still exist. In the U.S.A. We have some trees still left from this time, for the indigenous people’s lived with bio-mimicry, sustainable resource management, sustainable seasonal migration, & smaller communities- knowledge a little more naturally “alchemical”. Still, I love and am grateful to be able to be present in both, for different reasons. 🤎💚💛🧡

@MrPhilodoxical 2 ай бұрын

Wait until Joe Biden gets ahold of that bridge.

@squarecoffee8750 2 ай бұрын

The city still has its roman wall ! Aswell as a 14c house that was physically moved to save it .

@morbidlyobeserobocop3038 2 ай бұрын

@@kavalogue They don't put salt in their food, helps em live longer

@nickmarlowe1566 19 күн бұрын

I didn't even notice the darkrai plushy stuffed animal. Until 20 minutes in. This guy is awesome!

@bobharristhebag 25 күн бұрын

I'm English and didn't know half of all that info. Great job.

@PLuMUK54 2 ай бұрын

My Grandma kept a stewpot on the cast iron cooking range from the time of her marriage in the 1910s to the 1950s when the range was removed. It was even transferred from her first home to the house where I currently live. Every day, vegetables were added to the pot, at weekends, meat was added, and daily potatoes were placed in the oven to bake. It was the only way to provide good food at a time of poverty.

@kellygable1668 2 ай бұрын

hey thanks , answered my question . they just kept adding to the same pot .

@PLuMUK54 2 ай бұрын

@@kellygable1668 People added what they had, either what they could harvest in their garden (if they were lucky enough to have one) or whatever was cheap in the shops. Meat might not be added for weeks if money was short. As a result, the flavour varied almost daily. In bad times it might be almost a soup. In good times it would have beef and lots of vegetables. The gravy was so dark it was almost black. Each day water was added as well. The taste was unbelievably good. These days I sometimes make a stew in a slow cooker and leave it for several days bubbling away. Not as good, but a nice reminder of times past.

@Narnendil 2 ай бұрын

Did she ever clean the pot during those years? Wouldn't the inside of the pot gradually get more and more coated with layers of old food?

@SuzD0n 2 ай бұрын

Also known in my area as a stock pot.

@ianheding7830 2 ай бұрын

The rule... I think... would be once any meat or bone was added... nothing could be taken from the pot for a good 12 - 24 hours... ie the time needed to kill any added germs. A crockpot will work the same way...ie if you toss a chicken in a crockpot and have a feed 3 hours later.... you will get very sick... wait 24 hours... And you will be fine.(personal experience)... keep to this rule and the crockpot will feed you Forever.

@caseysilkwood47 2 ай бұрын

I am far more obsessed with the "more mundane" everyday life in the middle ages (or any time period for that matter) than I am with the royalty and nobility. I love video games like the Guild series that let you live the life of the everyday medieval citizen. Have you read Ian Mortimer's "Time Travelers's Guide to Medieval England"? It's one of my favorites!

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

I’ve read that several times as well as his other books. They’re fantastic.

@danielmantell3084 2 ай бұрын

Heh, was thinking about that book the entire time watching this video. More, "Good things to know when being teleported to the past".

@Ephesians5-14 2 ай бұрын

Me too! I want to know how average and poor people lived because that was the vast majority of the population.

@rnabo031 2 ай бұрын

Than you will like Kingdom come: Deliverance

@caseysilkwood47 2 ай бұрын

@rnabo031 I love it. It is one of my all-time favorites, and I remember being so excited when they first announced it.

@runzoni Ай бұрын

I adore you. Thank you for your wonderful mix of history and food. Good show!💚💚💚

@bobbyhumphries2929 24 күн бұрын

As someone who is THE household cook for the wife and kids, I LOVE videos like this. My home IS the TAVERN for our neighbors. Great video.

@Del-Lebo 2 ай бұрын

I am SO happy that you mentioned "perpetual stew"!!! I am 58 years old and I have been doing this every year starting a year after moving away from home when I graduated college and got my own place in 1991! Starting on winter solstice in my Big crock pot! I will have that on my kitchen counter until vernal equinox! It is a wonderful and fun "recipe" that really satisfied whenever I , and family, want a cup of broth, or a big bowl of proteins and veggies! I use a digital thermometer unit that will alert me if the temp' drops below 140F....My crock pot is awesome...keeps at 141-143 on the keep warm setting! Love it! I just put the last leftover into a big container a week ago. Brilliant Max! Thank you again!

@adrielrowley 2 ай бұрын

How does the thermometer sit in the stew? As a single person who is disabled and on SSI, love this idea and like to give it a go.

@kikitcat5 Ай бұрын

Are you worried about a fire hazard?

@Draconaa Ай бұрын

My mum did this from May to September (Australia's winter) (1980s) and I loved a cup when I got home from high school.

@dulciemidwinter1925 Ай бұрын

In Poland they Make Bigos, Hunters stew.

@mikeoglen6848 Ай бұрын

@@Draconaa wouldn't it "go-off" in this time?

@Blackbubble90 2 ай бұрын

The broom outside the original alehouses was interesting: in Germany, there are still so called "Besenwirtschaften", directly translated that is something like Broom pub. They have a broom outside the door for recognizability. Those are temporary pubs where vintners used to seasonally sell their own wine. These are also part of the Alemannian "Fastnacht" every year, when all over the villages and towns broom pubs pop up to sell alcohol (not just wine) for a few days. They have different regulations than permanent pubs, there is actually a "Besenverordnung" (broom decree) to regulate them

@m.h.6470 2 ай бұрын

Came here to say just that. They usually "pop up", during early wine season, so when you can get the first "Federweiße" (German term for partially fermented young wine).

@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 2 ай бұрын

Neueswein? That's what it was called near Mannheim when I lived there.

@m.h.6470 2 ай бұрын

@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 "Neuer Wein" and "Federweißer" are two names for the same thing.

@ThePokemap 2 ай бұрын

I think this is also the origin of witch’s or at least the out fit and cauldron stereo type

@LessThanLucid 2 ай бұрын

@ThePokemap I was looking for someone to comment on that. I think I saw an article in the Smithsonian about women brewmasters and witch iconography.

@rochelleferrera595 Ай бұрын

I tripped over this video today and I absolutely loved it. I love vintage recipes but you made it even more awesome

@halwis 18 күн бұрын

First-time viewer - your passion for food and history is apparent.

@Zippsterman 2 ай бұрын

As a beekeeper I've made my fair share of mead, I'd definitely like to see you do a video covering it. People tend to expect it to be sweet since it's made from honey, but every fermented drink starts sweet and dries out as the sugar is consumed. I much prefer dry mead, which ends up in a strange duality where it smells sweet but tastes clean and dry. It also ages incredibly well, and will last decades if stored properly.

@borjaslamic 2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure he did one, couple of years (has it been years?) back.

@excession3076 2 ай бұрын

There's a lot of Meads on sale in the UK, most I'd say or at least the ones more readily available, that have been "back sweetened" or flavoured with various fruit/herbs. It's kind of hard to get hold of a good mead that has been completely fermented. And as you say, it's dry and clean, but expensive as it comes from smaller, specialist makers. My son in law makes mead, unfortunately he's not that good at it TBH. But he tries....and it's pretty alcoholic so it hits the spot, lol.

@supergeek1418 2 ай бұрын

As a former bee keeper, myself, I totally relate, and agree. It's been 25 years since I last kept bees or made a batch, but I still have a few bottles, and the last time I had some it was still quite flowery, and incredibly smooth. Mead (like honey) lasts a *very* long time.

@FunkyFyreMunky 2 ай бұрын

Hello fellow home-brewer. I'd love to see Max do a video on "Pyment", which is an old method (popular with the Romans) of bulking up a poor grape crop's sugar content with honey. It can make an interestingly complex tipple with the honey notes working well with the grape.

@miriambertram2448 2 ай бұрын

J draper is a great channel.

@trublgrl 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, "Likewise, the woman brewer shall be punished by the... trebuchet..." made me double-take as well. I'm glad Max looked into it. The explanation reminded me that when I was a kid, the summer camp I went to, HAD a dunking sort of trebuchet, though no one called it that. They did theatrical themes at the camp every week, and one was that outlaws were raiding the camp. The punishment, once they were caught, was a good ol' dunkin' in the pond. On a trebuchet, apparently.

@flannelpillowcase6475 2 ай бұрын

That sounds incredible

@lukascph 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting! Probably where the Simpsons writers got their catapult from.

@nellgwenn 2 ай бұрын

I immediately got a vision on Monty Python...Run Away!

@andersjjensen 2 ай бұрын

Executioner: "This dishonest hag, who goes by the name of Mary the Piss Pitcher, has been found guilty of thinning down the Ale not once, not twice, but THRICE by the Royal Ale Conners. Her life, in the eyes of the law, is thus forfeit as a reminder for all who witness". ZOINK "Shriiiiiieeeeeeek" SPLAT! I mean, it sounds Medieval all right. Wouldn't even be the most gruesome practice of the time period. Though perhaps a bit excessive for fudging the QC. Glad they only resorted to mechanical dunking. But it does beg the question: Was the practice so common they had to utilize mechanical help to not build a back-log, or did they use the trebuchet solely because it looked scary?

@evelanpatton 2 ай бұрын

Too much litigation in our country today to try & maintain that kind of historical recreation, someone could “poke an eye out” & then sue (not just wear a patch for life & have a great story for which to scare the kiddies with…arrrrr!

@anika7345 Ай бұрын

Stow on the Wold and the Cotswolds are so beautiful! You'll have a wonderful time!

@redthrow9827 24 күн бұрын

Just found your channel, just subscribed. As some others have already commented (as user @HFG also commented) , your conversational delivery of the video and the small bits tangents you go into before coming back to the main topic makes it easier and interesting for one to keep watching.

@scinanisern9845 2 ай бұрын

Bubble and squeak. My mom saw electricity born and come to town. Her mother used to go around and plug things into the sockets to make sure the electricity didn't leak. She saw WWII and worked to do what she could to prepare for invasion. I often sat beside her and asked many questions of what was life like before the light bulb, before the war. She spoke of many things including the taverns and inns. The ever simmering stew was featured by the low fire, and always ready for a bowl. Hunters game, garden critters, vegetables were added as needed with no particular favor for one or another. The pot was ever simmering, and so in time water would boil off, leaving a skin over the top which would grow quite thick. As the stew simmered underneath the bubbles would gather under the skin until enough pressure developed to open an escape and the pot would squeak and wail as it exhausted the built up gasses. Bubble and squeak... whatever is in that pot.

@tanhanunna6815 2 ай бұрын

What great narration! ❤

@Thecaptainblackadder 2 ай бұрын

It is funny that I have also witnessed electricity come to my village even though I am a millennial (1982 born in rural India). I can find parallels to many of the things mentioned in this video even though food, language and the habits are different.

@patmalloy3569 2 ай бұрын

It's unfortunate to learn that these ways of life will soon be gone, if they aren't completely already.

@Thecaptainblackadder 2 ай бұрын

@@patmalloy3569 happy for it to be gone. It is one thing to watch a KZfaq video about how was it to be without electricity and altogether a different reality to live without electricity.

@matheusgraef 2 ай бұрын

this is incredibly well written.

@StacyL. 2 ай бұрын

"You sayeth egges, I sayeth eyren..." NEXT T-SHIRT IDEA RIGHT THERE !! 😂😂

@jowiemowie9081 2 ай бұрын

"Eyroun" or "eyren" is almost how you pronounce eggs in dutch! Its written like "eieren"

@vidarvaggen 2 ай бұрын

@@jowiemowie9081 damn that's right, and Ei/Eier in german. We sayeth egg in Norway. Don't know if we were influenced by England, or vice versa.

@mikespangler98 2 ай бұрын

The dictionary said Eyren is a straight import from the Dutch. It makes sense.

@powderedground78 2 ай бұрын

@@vidarvaggenah thats true. The Danes spell it aeg and id have thought Bokmal would have been influenced by that. Does seem as though English may have influenced your spelling of it. Oh arent eggs wonderful?

@vidarvaggen 2 ай бұрын

@@powderedground78 yes you might be right about that. I was thinking about the vikings and know they influenced the english language a bit. Just heard the word "ombudsman" in a british police show, just as we say it in Norway, and thought that was funny. It apperantly derives from the old norse "umboðsmaðr", which means "representative". Anyway i did some shallow googling and egg might be an old norse word, but we also say "egg" for the knife's edge. I'm not sure why I'm talking about this because I'm normally not into etymology, haha.

@Moridorable Күн бұрын

The single frame of Mr. Sheffield was perfect.

@dariennevictoria30 Ай бұрын

my favorite tasting history episode yet! thank you max!!

@artinaam 2 ай бұрын

I'm lucky enough to be the brewmaster at the oldest restaurant/inn in Poland (and probably in continental Europe as well) - Piwnica Świdnicka (Świdnicka Cellar / Schweidnitzer Keller in German) in Wrocław. Originally it started as an alehouse and no food was served there (people even used to come with their own snacks which they bought at the market square) and then became a full scale restaurant in the late 18th century. Last year the place celebrated its 750th birthday and all of the bricks definitely date back to the Middle Ages - the inn is located in the gothic cellars of the city hall. If you ever find yourselves in Wrocław, then feel free to come for a beer and some local food! :)

@kavalogue 2 ай бұрын

It blows my mind that there's such prestige and history to the restaurant/inn you work at. 750 years. And then on the other side of Europe there's Sean's bar that's just been existing since the 12th century some 1000 and something years old. Do you honestly think the people who started these establishments thought they'd exist that long? Absolutely crazy

@ronbork684 20 күн бұрын

Thank you Max for this very interesting and enjoyable video. What interesting stories, delicious foods, and joyous times will be had when all these past generations return in the resurrection that Christ Jesus foretold, and William Tyndale championed above the immortal soul Doctrine supported by Sir Thomas More. John 5:28,29

@pgfrank2351 2 ай бұрын

"Because he was drunk, Robert sprang forward and struck Ralph across the crown of his head with a spart axe....." We all have that one friend that gets a little out of control when their drunk

@patriot5471 10 күн бұрын

I found my way to your channel and glad I did! My wife watches cooking shows all the time but your knowledge of the history with the recipes is incredible!

@Kayakdes 28 күн бұрын

Really enjoyed this. I grew up near a tavern that has stood on that site since the medieval period it is my favourite in the country

@rtyrsson 2 ай бұрын

Maybe someone has pointed this out in comments already: English, being a Germanic language, has many words similar (if not identical) to the German. In this case "eyren" woild be derived from "eir" which is German for eggs. Often in German the plural is expressed by "-en" at the end of the word, but not in the case of eggs, but the rural English may have retained the -en out of habit. But they may be how eyren came about.

@stevenlee4407 Ай бұрын

A quick check of Danish and Dutch languages has aeg and eirien, which might suggest the influence of Scandinavian and Germanic languages in north and southern regions of England

@Elija_H. Ай бұрын

Eggs in German is actually "Eier"

@appiebrule Ай бұрын

In Dutch we say "eieren" and sound like eyren...

@GiselleMFeuillet 2 ай бұрын

The last time I was this early I got out of Florence right before the Plague lockdown, then spent several weeks out in the countryside with nine of my closest friends, swapping stories.

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

Sounds delightful! Tell Boccaccio I say sup.

@GiselleMFeuillet 2 ай бұрын

@@TastingHistory **wipes away a tear** I'm so happy someone got the reference!

@joanhoffman3702 2 ай бұрын

Wait until you learn how to put the devil into hell! It’s a real knee slapper! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mayamcqueen1144 2 ай бұрын

@@GiselleMFeuilletmy favorite book!!

@kathleenhensley5951 2 ай бұрын

Lovely time, that, but sorrowful too.

@TikiRainbows 5 сағат бұрын

I like the illustrations of the ale making, it looks like children were put to work and stirring the ale with paddles in the family private homes

@thoughtful_criticiser Ай бұрын

I've not been to Stow on the Wold for 45 years but I still remember it fondly for the great time I had.

@GoodVolition 2 ай бұрын

Falling sickness sounds like something a mobster would say. "Ol' Jimmy the Shiv? Oh he caught a case of fallin' sickness".

@marlabrunker738 2 ай бұрын

FWIW: "misadventure" is when you do something for fun that you know has an element of risk (getting drunk at a tavern, in the example provided in this video [~16:00]), but then whatever you were risking actually occurs (falling down on your way home, breaking your skull, and dying, in this case). Other examples would include most sports injuries: skiers don't expect to break their legs, scuba divers don't expect to get the bends, horse riders don't expect to get thrown, etc; but these are known risks and they do happen. Such instances are misadventures. (I apologize if this is old news to y'all. I only learned it recently.)

@gwennorthcutt421 2 ай бұрын

now i can tell my dad he had a misadventure while skiiing (someone else crashed into him)

@arthas640 2 ай бұрын

thank you for adding to my autistic hoard of trivia information and grammar

@Llortnerof 2 ай бұрын

In other words, they went on an adventure and failed in some unexpected but not unreasonable or unusual way.

@marlabrunker738 2 ай бұрын

@@Llortnerof Yup. All those corpses on Mount Everest? Deaths by misadventure.

@jenx5870 Ай бұрын

Basically, an accidental death caused by a risk voluntarily taken by the deceased person. That would be the official definition of death by misadventure.

@Morgy09 19 күн бұрын

This was so pleasant! Perfect amount of history!

@daviddye7677 27 күн бұрын

Stowe on the Wold is a delightful place. Up on Market Square is the Old Stocks Inn (next to the old stocks). The served a traditional full English Breakfast.

@americaneclectic 2 ай бұрын

My cousins were in Canada and asked for cinnamon rolls for breakfast at a restaurant. The waiter was puzzled until someone else said, “Oh, they mean cimmon buns.”😊

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

See, it still happens today!

@zanefraser5560 2 ай бұрын

Interesting. I live in Nova Scotia, and both terms are used. I myself (maybe incorrectly) use cinnamon roll, when referring to the raised (yeasted) type. If you read this Wiki entry on National variations, you will they mention Canada as calling them buns… but that may be a regional thing.

@fillhixx 2 ай бұрын

Or Soda and Pop for sugared carbonated beverages. Same. As. It. Ever. Was.

@ZakTheFallen 2 ай бұрын

It heavily depends on where you go in Canada. I live in Ontario and I've always known them as both.

@01cthompson 2 ай бұрын

Travel to California from Connecticut and ask for a "hard roll".

@Lionstar16 2 ай бұрын

I love your little shout out to William Caxton as I live on a street named after him and there was even a pub called 'The Caxton' before it was renamed 'The Print House'

@cph2004 Ай бұрын

Here in the north of England, we have what once was a poor man's dish named potato ash like a stew. Chopped potatoes, carrots, green peas, grounded meat, and gravy slowly simmer in a pan until the potatoes and carrots go soft. A little salt and black pepper. Done.

@davek8706 Ай бұрын

The thought of a stew going for hundreds of years is absolutely wild

@artcoughlin8403 2 ай бұрын

definitely ending some work emails with "bestir yourself to correct these matters" love it 😆

@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17 2 ай бұрын

There needs to be an episode of a medieval cartoon where "it's the day of the wine inspection" and the tavern owner is in a frenzy over the possibility of being kicked out of the guild.

@alexdwyer8591 Ай бұрын

lol remind me of that it’s always Sunny episode where Charlie had to run everything for the health inspector

@Alizudo 4 күн бұрын

A sitcom set in medieval Europe is an interesting idea, TBH.

@robertreynolds580 Ай бұрын

I absolutely loved this...food and history...instant like and subscribe. Probably going to try the recipes too.

@jasonnguyen9806 3 күн бұрын

Dude I came across your channel last night and damn. Love your content, humor, and personality. Great find!

@liryns 2 ай бұрын

I love how in this recipe “egg” was “eyroun” - I went down a rabbit hole of documentaries where Canterbury Tales affects the course of English… and as I’m typing this you bring it up!

@adamgreenhaus4691 2 ай бұрын

All those spices! And saffron?!?! This is one fancy schmancy medieval tavern!

@rayf6126 2 ай бұрын

Saffron was a lot cheaper back then, a lot of it is grown in Afghanistan, and areas like that. War makes exports more dangerous and therefore more expensive. It wasn't always grown during times of war.

@hilarylonsdale608 2 ай бұрын

Saffron was grown in England, making it cheaper than imported spices. Still fancy, but not cloves and mace fancy.

@WASDLeftClick 2 ай бұрын

Yeah that seems like the kind of meal a traveling noble would spring for, or something made for a common meal at a king’s court.

@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 2 ай бұрын

Saffron is not very expensive when added to dishes, because of how little you need. Though it was probably the super nice dish for travelling merchants to keep their morale up, with how much meat 🥩 is in it. So basically like the fancy, nice stuff you find in travel locations like airports 🛫 and motorway 🛣 services. The idea being, it is okay to indulge, because the trip is more useful than the extra cost of the food.

@danielcrafter9349 2 ай бұрын

@@rayf6126- saffron back then also had the bees that pollinated the saffron We killed all those bees off by human interference Saffron is now pollinated by human hands - that's why it's so expensive

@pandamoves6470 3 күн бұрын

This is really educational. Thank you for this.

@bigblueboringer 26 күн бұрын

Every town in England claims to have the oldest inn, lol. You could probably organise a month-long “oldest inn” pub crawl and still have more places! Hope you enjoy your trip next month and experience some real ales and pub grub!

@katybeaumont 23 күн бұрын

Listen to the Oldest Pub episode of the History Hit podcast where the guy explains the issues with “oldest pub” claims.

@Jonas-lj8ul 11 күн бұрын

You'd die of alcohol poisoning before you ended the row!

@andersonic 2 ай бұрын

I hope to heaven you meet up with JDraper in London! Two of my favorite infectiously enthusiastic history buffs.

@cauldronmoon 2 ай бұрын

I love Jenny Draper of London. She is entertaining, funny and smart.😀

@michelehood8837 2 ай бұрын

Love J Draper!!!

@unrulycrow6299 2 ай бұрын

That would be such a FUN collab tbh

@VinceWhitacre 2 ай бұрын

Hopefully Max will take one of Jenny's tours - they can do a video together.

@SchleeSchlee 2 ай бұрын

I'm on board for bringing the word "smite" back into popular usage 😂 thanks for another great video, Max!!

@TastingHistory 2 ай бұрын

😂 let’s make it happen

@ChuJungyin 2 ай бұрын

Did someone say "smite"? ⚔️🛡 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ec5lqbpztanWnGQ.html

@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 2 ай бұрын

So a papercut is now a paper-smite?? Talk about a hypochondriacs dream injury.

@RonJohn63 2 ай бұрын

@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 I'm not sure that "smite" does double duty as a noun and verb.

@beashemmad.sayson545 2 ай бұрын

@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059what’s a hypochondriac

@philhagoes9339 3 күн бұрын

Just found your channel! Excellent deep dive on history. Awesome!

@samwade4380 Ай бұрын

Great content! Engaging and funny historical content with a cooking twist. Love it!!

@writerinrwanda 2 ай бұрын

Home brewing has recently been banned for the most part in Rwanda, but before then people would brew at home and put a banana leaf over the door to show that they were selling. Usually beer made from banana, sorghum, or honey and served in a calibash. Potent stuff. The nuns in Nyamirambo used to brew a banana beer so strong that you had to take your own plastic bottle and they would never sell you more than 1ltr, which was plenty. Looked like muddy river water and trampled like an elephant.

@CrizzyEyes 2 ай бұрын

Banana beer sounds amazing, I'd love to try it.

@writerinrwanda 2 ай бұрын

@@CrizzyEyesIt's kind of an acquired taste. Take alka seltzer 😄 They have a version in a can called Akarusho, but it's not so good. Bit overpowering.

@anna9072 2 ай бұрын

Lol, “first of all, there were a lot fewer, like, orcs and elves…” 🤣🤣🤣

@kathleenhensley5951 2 ай бұрын

I miss the elves most of all. Elves should exist, the world is lessened by their absence.

@JeepusChrystler 2 ай бұрын

I smell dendrophile propaganda, do not believe the daggerhead lies. _This post was brought to you by the Dwarf Gang._

@zennvirus7980 2 ай бұрын

That actually depends on the ethilic quality of your libation. I assure you, dear traveller, that after a few mugs, the pointy-ears and those rough beasts start to come in for a pint.

@SunnyIlha 2 ай бұрын

Maybe only the princess got to eat the choicest part of a hairy, great tusked boar.

@SunnyIlha 2 ай бұрын

@zenn Except that reminds me of American Werewolf in London.

@shidensasaki5527 Ай бұрын

Two things: One, I love this entire channel about learning how to make historical food. Man, most of this sounds like it'd be fine to eat, but also a little difficult to replicate sometimes. Two: ...Is that a Darkrai in your kitchen?

@aerocarnie Ай бұрын

It probably is! His husband, Jose, collects Pokeman plushes and adds one to the background of each video. They're usually meant to have some connection to the theme of the video! Sometimes it's obvious, like the Statue of Liberty Pikachu for the Ellis Island episode. Sometimes it's more of a stretch, since Max has made so many videos by now lol. I wonder if this might be "Dark Pokemon = Dark Ages" or something? I'm not up on my Darkrai lore.

@shidensasaki5527 Ай бұрын

@@aerocarnie Oh wow! That's pretty sick that he puts a plush for every theme of the meal. Hmm, well, see. Darkrai isn't just a Dark-Type, but he's known for putting people to sleep and such with his unique move. So Dark Ages, Inns and such, makes sense.

@aerocarnie Ай бұрын

@@shidensasaki5527 Aha, Sleep = Inns! That really is perfect. I love it!

@MSMiruam 16 күн бұрын

Love all the context and clearing that you give, as well as showing the old texts!! Subscribing to your channel

@DreadSwine 2 ай бұрын

Made this dish for my family this Sunday and it was so good. Super unique but amazing! I'll never financially recover from buying the saffron though

@chillinwosbornesm9281 Ай бұрын

The saffron 😂😂😂

@docE3885 23 күн бұрын

Grow your own

@mattburgess5697 22 күн бұрын

Buy in bulk and save. You know, buy the jumbo 3 gram packet.

@Hakken1 15 күн бұрын

I was thinking the same watching this. Apparently they just threw saffron around back then like a common herb.

@mmyr8ado.360 15 күн бұрын

Either you bought the really good stuff from Syria or you got swindled by the double digits. Hope it's good.

@davidcenteau-depina6192 2 ай бұрын

Max is excellent at making unappetizing food sound great and my 10 month old granddaughter loves his voice. She just veggies out on the couch with me and watches the video.

@PhillipManholes Ай бұрын

4:49 thank you for clearing that up, my gosh...

@coltonsheffield9741 9 күн бұрын

One of my favorite episodes. The history is amazing.

@amygodward4472 2 ай бұрын

For a few years I lived off grid in the woods in rural France. In the winter, I had the stove going at a slow constant and on it I would have a large dutch oven with a potage i would have going for months with herbs I found around (marjolaine, thyme, bay leaf, juniper berry), with turnips, carrots, onions, garlic and wheat grains. A glass of red wine and hunted venison added a few days later and I inadvertently made the most delicious dish I have ever tasted in my life. I was so so poor at this point in my life, but I have never eaten better!

@Defx10 2 ай бұрын

You should make a youtube channel telling about this period in your life. It would be fascinating!

@paigey-poo4235 2 ай бұрын

Mmmmmm that sounds so good next time I get my hands on some venison I’ll have to try to recreate it . I would see if my cousins have any I can barter for

@capoman1 2 ай бұрын

God bless you. And God bless the unique experiences we all have to share.

@Imperial_Lizardgirl Ай бұрын

@@Defx10 I agree with whole of what's left of my mending heart.

@jenx5870 Ай бұрын

Minus the venison, it sounds good. I can't eat deer meat - too gamey. I could probably try that with beef, though. I add marjoram and thyme to my beef stew and soups. This recipe sounds similar. I would love to live in the middle of nowhere again. Just not off the grid. My son would have fits without his Internet and video games.

@Venurkel 2 ай бұрын

As a native Dutch I noticed that we picked eyren (or eieren as we write it) over eggs ;) Great to see how English is one big cocktail of languages. Love the channel Max! Highlight of my Tuesday commute back home.

@misterthegeoff9767 2 ай бұрын

It makes sense that eyren was the word used in the south then as that is where the germanic settlers were compared to the Vikings further north with their eggs. England is a big cocktail of different invasions and migrations which explains the mess that is the language.

@ChrisTian-rm7zm 2 ай бұрын

In German it's "Eier"

@user-ml5yw8tf8b 16 күн бұрын

The term "Room and board", came from medieval inns. You would purchase overnight accommodations, but you would share a bed with strangers, so you were provided a board to separate yourself from the other occupants of the bed. There could be two or three men per bed. YIKES!!! I learned this from a historic rooming house tour in St. Augustine, Florida.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166 4 күн бұрын

Hmm! The tour operator may have been indulging in a bit of folk etymology with that one, alas... The "board" in question is actually the collapsible tables used in the common room: boards over trestles, removed at night to squash more paying guests into the floor space near the warmth of the dying hearth. So "room & board" really is just the medieval way of saying "bed & breakfast"... although the food in question would tend to be a hot evening meal rather than a morning one. Strangers just squashed up in inn beds or floor spaces together - generally the most you might achieve in terms of separation might be bunging a bolster (hard long pillow) in between, if any was provided. Privacy and personal space for medieval people were considerably different concepts than they are for us today! 😅

@andreareichenbach8637 Ай бұрын

I wish you were my history teacher when I was in high school ❤. Love your videos. I binge watch regularly lol.

@hlynnkeith9334 2 ай бұрын

Max, 15:00 So glad that you cleared up the use of the trebuchet. I, too, got the image of a woman being flung 400 yards as punishment. The chastisement doth not fit the crime.

@Vulcanerd 2 ай бұрын

Today, on Tasting History with Max Miller, Max shows you exactly how to make A Modest Proposal stew with children! Thanks Max!

@napoleonfeanor 2 ай бұрын

He was just kidding

@s.shepherd5653 2 ай бұрын

"Then smite your meat." --Max Miller

@cyruswarr1192 5 күн бұрын

anyone who can make history interesting and fun.. while teaching a recipe... gifted.. thank you sir.. first time watching this channel.. liked and subscribed