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Комментарии : 3,9 тыс.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

I'm curious who read about the amazing find from Pompeii last month. It's definitely worth checking out if you didn't.

@TheVeryAngryShrimp 3 года назад

When I read the article I _knew_ you were gonna pounce on it! 🤣

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

@@TheVeryAngryShrimp Can't believe it took me so long : )

@Kiu_8 3 года назад

I did, the frescoes are vividly stunning! As for food, there's some graffitis that mention it briefly, for example: «Casium et tres sc[- - -]rios habes» (“You have cheese and three (...)”) «Vinum acceptum ab domino VII Idus Apriles» (“Wine was received by the master on the 7th day before the Ides of April”). «Alica» (i.e. A form of wheat [either spelt or emmer]) Etc.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

@@alexbertil2756 It was the equivalent of a fast food restaurant. They've found many, but this one was in particularly pristine condition... considering it had been covered in ash for 2000 years

@TheVeryAngryShrimp 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory You can't rush perfection!

@randybutternubbs521 3 года назад

my favorite of the graffiti is this: " If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend"

@cablecar10 3 года назад

That's lovely

@absalomdraconis 3 года назад

@@cablecar10 : Maybe yes, maybe no, how similar was Venus considered to be to Aphrodite?

@buckstop 3 года назад

@@absalomdraconis Literally Roman Aphrodite

@Tinky1rs 3 года назад

@@absalomdraconis ctrl-c, ctrl-v, change name → done =)

@venuscarey 3 года назад

And if you still don't believe, what's up, I'm right here.

@chad6100 3 года назад

My favorite ancient Graffiti Is 10 feet up on a wall and says "lt was hard to get up here."

@dontmindme.justaguy 3 года назад

Isn't that one on a old church in Sweden or Norway or something?

@hanfpeter2822 3 года назад

@@dontmindme.justaguy either his description of "ancient" is wrong or it is not in scandinavia or even less on a Church there

@dontmindme.justaguy 3 года назад

@@hanfpeter2822 Well I mean if it is that church than its still pretty old, ancient would still be an ok description.

@hanfpeter2822 3 года назад

@@dontmindme.justaguy to which church are you referring? I dont know it, so i may Sound Ignorant. I just thought that christianity was not quite so widespread in antiquity and much less so in scandinavia.

@dontmindme.justaguy 3 года назад

@@hanfpeter2822 Don't remember where but it had some Viking or other old civilization graffiti etched up at the top of the church, it may not have been a church originally though. Its been a few years since I've read the story.

@jfbrko290 3 года назад

Honestly that back and forth graffiti between those two guys really drives the point home that social media smack talk isn't all that new.

@Robb1977 2 года назад

Ancient mesopotamian archeologists have found letters between rulers where they complain about the leaders being, as we would put it: "broke ass bitch".

@am5ters504 2 года назад

Its the same concept as people having arguments on the walls of bathroom stalls with sharpies

@gingermcgingin4106 2 года назад

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@gandalf8216 Год назад

The mechanisms remain the same, it's the volumes that damages humanity.

@heroinboblivesagain5478 Год назад

There is also the famous Babylonian complaint tablet.

@badweetabix 3 года назад

"Women are in awe of me. Men are envious of me." - Bigus Dickus.

@mollyscozykitchen4693 3 года назад

Monty Python reference? I love "Life of Brian", haha!

@safwanshuhaib9968 2 года назад

@@mollyscozykitchen4693 centurion..... Thruuuh hheeem tooo the fluuuuur.

@mollyscozykitchen4693 2 года назад

@@safwanshuhaib9968 The what, sir?

@safwanshuhaib9968 2 года назад

@@mollyscozykitchen4693 thruuu heem tuu the fluur

@mollyscozykitchen4693 2 года назад

@@safwanshuhaib9968 Oh, the floor, sir! Very good, sir. Shall I strike him?

@TheMohawkNinja 3 года назад

"I screwed the barmaid" Imagine finding out that even 1000 years later, people will know that you screwed the barmaid. What a legend.

@victorsuciu3794 3 года назад

Quite literally a legend!

@turnipking5152 3 года назад

Imagine if he was lying, just to boast. Lol

@SomeWhereInTheMiddleGenX 3 года назад

LMBO!! That is such a good point!! I doubt he could have even conceive of the year of 2021, let alone could have imagined that that carving would basically make him imortal!! Its just so insane to think about everything that had to happen for us to be able to read those words today!! Absolutely mind boggling!!!

@CrizzyEyes 3 года назад

@FlyingMonkies325 Don't worry, syphilis is mostly a new-world disease in those days. I'm sure he got some other infection instead.

@hanfpeter2822 3 года назад

If this guy wrote that 1000 years later he would be famous for discovering a lost city. But he would be probably even more famous for being a necrophile

@aidanfarnan4683 3 года назад

A Roman walks into a Tibern and holds up two fingers: "Five wines, please, barman."

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Classic 🤣

@mrdanforth3744 3 года назад

"bring me a martinus" Do you mean Martini? "If I want two, I'll ask for them."

@aidanfarnan4683 3 года назад

@@mrdanforth3744 love it!

@melaniejeeves176 3 года назад

Excellent!

@TotosTales 3 года назад

Oh my god dad?? I didn’t know you had a RU-vid account!!

@xenograd4422 3 года назад

justinian: no marrying actresses also justinian: *marries an actress*

@yeldosmamesh883 3 года назад

every old man: do as i say, don't do as i do

@arthas640 2 года назад

Makes sense why he'd recommend against it since alot of actresses back then were hookers or strippers in much the same way people today calling strippers "dancers" and hookers "escorts" to the point where if someone said "I'm marrying a professional dancer" or "I'm marrying an escort" everyone would assume they were marrying a professional naked lady.

@dezbiggs6363 2 года назад

I was looking for this comment lol

@Lotuschan13 2 года назад

Yep, that’s the first thing that popped out at me too.

@wandanemer2630 2 года назад

Totally worth it tho.

@dragonfell5078 2 года назад

"We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus." Imagine finding out that thousands of years later, everyone will know that you were best buds. Their names are immortalized, their friendship the stuff of legends.

@Vampirzaehnchen 2 года назад

And then they got mistaken with another Gaius and another Aulus who also were best friends and also visited this place but didn't leave any graffiti. :D

@windowzombie 2 года назад

Hey, their wishes came true!

@Amanda-zn7ox Год назад

Honestly, I ship them. I hope they lived happy lives together, and, you know, not executed or anything.

@Cobalt360Degrees Год назад

Oh my god they were roommates.

@Jack1994hoo Год назад

Oldest Bros known to man

@Terrelli9 3 года назад

One can only hope that fast food restaurant was called “Escar-On-The-Go”.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 brilliant

@LadyMcBite 3 года назад

Or Max is going to open one with that name with only historical recepies! :D

@lauracross5776 3 года назад

LOL But seriously, the restaurant's name would most likely be in Latin.

@aL3891_ 3 года назад

Service is super slow though :/

@scaper8 3 года назад

I would so totally eat at a fast food mollusk place. _Especially_ if it had a name like "Escar-On-The-Go!"

@huli566 3 года назад

"What part of Rome are you from?" "Brooklyn."

@Wackyfox 3 года назад

Well done, that man.

@isaacinkwell 3 года назад

To any and all suitors who pine for the heart of lady Priscilla of the local tavern I bestowed my only advice on thee forgetaboutit -Maximus of the forge

@thiagokawano1618 3 года назад

In some alternate reality, this is a fact.

@Rosahonung 2 года назад

Was thinking the same thing! xD

@theotmt7906 3 года назад

I love that the romans had humor that still makes us laugh, truly amusing

@ShadowFoxSF 2 года назад

I think human social interactions haven't changed all that much. We still get/make baudy jokes. We still put little graffiti places and love our pet dogs (different thing I saw of ancient writings of people whose pet died).

@theotmt7906 2 года назад

@@ShadowFoxSF indeed, we haven't changed much when it comes to socializing

@mochitheceltiberian4007 Год назад

Although there is a lot more people writing that they like men than there is now

@varedna Год назад

@@ShadowFoxSF You are talking about Xenophon the Younger writing about his dog Horme. He closed off a section of his book on hunting that was about dogs talking about his own dog saying he raised her from a puppy and cried when buried her, then ended the section with this tribute. "I had a greyhound named Horme, who was of the greatest speed and intelligence, and was altogether excellent."

@ShadowFoxSF Год назад

@@varedna maybe? The line I read was something along the lines of [dogs name] never barked without reason, and now is silent... The never barked without cause is the only part I recall somewhat clearly.

@subnormality5854 Год назад

11:12 "Ate here most agreeably, and had a screw at the same time." Now that's a 5-star Yelp review if I ever saw one.

@skyler6175 3 года назад

"Hello, I'd like an order of cocleas, with a Hippocrates Pepper to drink." "Would you like to Ceasar size that?" "I'm Roman, of course I would!"

@MrTomcus1234 3 года назад

This is why Rome fell - obesity

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣

@Aliasbaba41 3 года назад

@@MrTomcus1234 Maybe not the reason for the fall but surely why it could not get up again...

@_Fizel_ 3 года назад

@@Aliasbaba41 Damn someone beat me to it!

@MrTomcus1234 3 года назад

@@Aliasbaba41 Flavius Belisarius does not approve this message.

@BoisegangGaming 3 года назад

"Snail Hut: Fast Food, Slow Animal"

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

I like that! Trademark

@BoisegangGaming 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory Thanks :) I'm really glad I found this channel during quarantine because it's something I introduced my mom to as something to watch during dinner, and she's hooked (to the point where I have to remind her it's a new episode weekly, not daily). My siblings have all moved back out after winter break, so its comforting to have something I can enjoy with family still. Hope that wasn't too sappy.

@violetopal6264 3 года назад

😆

@playme129 3 года назад

Funny.

@cleasonaltman 3 года назад

Snail Hut, you can't out-snails the hut

@KC622V2 3 года назад

“The elite shall not marry actresses” huh? Hey, Justinian, I think your wife Theodora has something to say to you...

@adrianaslund8605 3 года назад

Yeah but Justinian was a rockstar. Kind of a free spirit.

@KC622V2 3 года назад

@@adrianaslund8605 And that's why he's FUCKIN AWESOME.

@andrewryan4417 3 года назад

@@KC622V2 Sad that he has a plague named after him though. Not to mention falling ill himself, but he recovered so that's a plus.

@Elleoaqua 3 года назад

Not to mention Evita

@legregio2 3 года назад

Do as I say, not as I do.

@Lieutenant_Dude Год назад

For anyone who is super grossed out by snails, think of them this way. You're basically cooking clams or oysters, but with a funny shaped shell.

@SuperCatPrincess Год назад

I once knew someone who was emphatically grossed out when I suggested trying escargot... but later I heard them say they loved conch fritters. Like I have some news for you about what a conch is...

@shakumyn Год назад

As if clams or oysters are more appetizing

@jesusramirezromo2037 Год назад

But clams are also gross

@Russo-Delenda-Est Год назад

But clams and oysters are also just slime and rubber... same goes for squid. I just wonder who was so desperate way back when that they decided to eat a SNAIL. And then they liked it? Was there nothing else? I'd eat leather before snails.

@mrbadger6043 Год назад

What if you're super grossed out by oysters?

@viniciusdarosasilva5340 3 года назад

-Uuuhhh can I get a uuuhhh...Cocleas? -Sir, this is a Burger King

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 did I stutter?

@Nick-nh4nf 3 года назад

lol

@vinnytube1001 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory Now my mind is filled with this movie scene, but I'm substituting cochleas for breakfast and sorry looking burgers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJs9p-VNORw.html

@stringchz 3 года назад

Today's restaurants are so unrefined.

@lc9072 3 года назад

Lemme get uhhhhhhhhhh.................. MUSSELS......and uhhhhhh..... OYSTERS......and uhhhhhh some BONELESS chicken. Ancient Rome sounded lit tbh

@thomascharky7031 3 года назад

"If you're a plebian, or don't own a villa, you probably live in something called an insula" *Housing, housing* never changes.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Didn’t think of that but... yeah.

@Grey_Wulfe 3 года назад

Except they did not have homeless shelters back then they just rounded up the homeless and introduced them to the honest life of slave hood

@lenabreijer1311 3 года назад

Yes my grandparents in the Netherlands in the 50s had a 3 room flat with the toilet in a closet on the landing and the kitchen was a closet with a sink and 2 burner gas hot plate. Oma raised and fed 5 kids there.

@plt927 3 года назад

@@Grey_Wulfe slavery and shelter, food and water or freedom and nothing else?

@Grey_Wulfe 3 года назад

@@plt927 or the other option being crucified along the road to Rome for their rebellion.

@Gravuun 3 года назад

"now pray, who can live without a snack" true words of wisdom

@ourfamilyoutdoors7331 Год назад

I once saw an old man collecting snails on a local walking trail, they were the type of garden snails with the yellow swirl, anyway I asked him why he was collecting them and he said he was collecting them to eat. He explained how he would keep them in a box and feed them only bread or carrots for a few days to help purge their systems before he would boil them to eat.

@ThessiDeluxe 3 года назад

Imagine getting killed in a tragic Volcano Desaster that will be remembered through History, and in the afterlife you find out Historians found your Summerjob as a Frycook perfectly preserved for history.

@lairdcummings9092 3 года назад

Apparently, even Romans had "Joe jobs."

@livingdeadgirl5691 3 года назад

Lucius was a partimer! Whould be a cool comedy/history series.

@Commy01 3 года назад

And your boss still wants to know if you can come in today.

@skinfaceskinhands6514 3 года назад

The giant mountain exploded can I have the day off?

@livingdeadgirl5691 3 года назад

@@skinfaceskinhands6514 By Mars, you again?! Do you really want this job?! Go back to work and do not bother me, I have luggage to pack!

@andrewk9267 3 года назад

These are still eaten in Crete today, they even have a similar name: χοχλιούς, or chochlious

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Yes! I actually looked at several modern recipe from Crete for reference. It’s what makes me sure they were live snails in the shell.

@kokuinomusume 3 года назад

"Caracoles" are also a not too uncommon tapa in Spain.

@vixis 3 года назад

I would love to go to Crête.

@anamargaridacosta1935 3 года назад

In Portugal we also have snails, they are called "caracóis"!! Have that with some beer on a hot day and you won't regret it 😋

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@anamargaridacosta1935 I’ll skip the beer, as I’m not too fond of it, but I love molluscs.

@JohnSmithAprilMay 3 года назад

Feel you on the Andes. When I was a kid, and we ate at a non-fast food restaurant, I judged how fancy they were based on whether or not they gave you Andes mints. They were just the fanciest, most delicate candies my little brain could imagine. Flash forward to my thirties, buying Andes to fill a candy jar....they're like a buck a box, retail.

@scottcates Год назад

Yet here we are. Andes Mints are the purest form of mint and chocolate.

@Izzy-cp8yt Год назад

@@scottcates I once ate at a restaurant that served what tasted like an Andes but looked like a matchstick. Now THAT was fancy to my 6th grade brain!

@lauriepenner350 9 месяцев назад

This checks out. The Olive Garden always had Andes mints and they were the fanciest restaurant my family ever ate at. I was so surprised when I found out you can just buy those things by the box

@ahoj7720 Год назад

Boiled snails are pretty popular in Morocco as street food. Various spices are added to the broth. Probably not far from the way it could have been cooked in ancient Rome. I remember a conference in France, where we were served delicious snail pies as first course. My American neighbor really enjoyed them and asked me what kind of mushrooms were used for the filling. I told her they were snails. She immediately turned pale and ran to the restroom...

@jsccs1 Год назад

I had babbouche in Tangier

@stormbringer2840 4 месяца назад

How rude ! She ate it . Now let it leave her the natural way . Unless maybe she was vegetarian ?

@lexagon9295 3 года назад

Roman graffiti in Pompeii included some real pearls of wisdom, with my favorite being "Accensum qui pedicat urit mentulam" or "He who buggers a fire, burns his p*nis". Words to live by even in our post-industrial societies.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

I'm guessing this is either a warning about venereal disease, or a version of "never date crazy" - what do you think?

@lexagon9295 3 года назад

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 I have no solid knowledge on the matter, but to my understanding "accensus" can mean something burning, something aroused and also something with an inflammation. The point might be that it actually is a three-way pun of the obvious meaning of sticking bodily parts into flames, never dating crazy and also being mindful of STDs. There might even be a sense in which it means getting too excited and thus careless leads to injury and also "you get what you ask for". All ageless wisdom in pithy form, written on the wall of a courthouse probably by someone contemplating either their own or someone else's life choices.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

@@lexagon9295 That's just... superb. Imma steal it ;-)

@zennvirus7980 3 года назад

That... is probably a "Pompeian chancre". Imagine the service there.

@asian9090 3 года назад

@@MichaelTheophilus906 they did its on the side of the building

@Childlikebitch 3 года назад

"Hey this guy love Iris, and she dont like him cus he's so ugly lol" "Im actually very handsome, you're just jealous" Iris: 🙄

@fangirl365 3 года назад

Fr I’m on Team Severus

@Ysckemia 3 года назад

the walls of Pompei were the twitter of Ancient Rome XD

@Childlikebitch 3 года назад

@@Ysckemia :O. Thats uncanny

@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei 3 года назад

@@fangirl365 Always

@jrhermosura4600 3 года назад

roman to iris: holy mother of god woman, you could read

@acethememelorde4377 3 года назад

10:38 2 bros chillin at the thermopolia 5 ft apart cause they're not gay

@hahmann 3 года назад

2 bros social distancing 6 ft apart cause they ain't gay

@joshuaperry4112 2 года назад

For anyone wondering; the protein in the egg whites/fava bean creates a matrix that works as a filter for impurities: this is the concept behind traditional consomme. Fava bean is not required; any high protein mix will work - the liquor from a can of chickpeas (garbanzo) will work as well - it's often used as a thickener for vegan food.

@killbot1974 3 года назад

"I'll have II numerus IX's, a numerus IX magna, a numerus VI with extra garum, a numerus VII, II numerus XLV's, I with caseus, and a magna wine"

@davidb3155 3 года назад

I feel like a nerd for being able to understand this lol.

@arandomperson5323 3 года назад

Underrated comment

@leonardhernandez38 3 года назад

Big smokius

@swirlyskyshock1155 3 года назад

@@leonardhernandez38 *MAGNA SMOKIVS*

@Cheese-qk1ft 3 года назад

*MAGNA * IMPERATOR * SMOKIVS*

@jacobfaski4400 3 года назад

Do I like snails? No. Am I going to watch a video entirely about how they used to be fast food? Absolutely

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

I’ll take one for the team 🤣

@vixis 3 года назад

I've eaten them but was fairly indifferent although eating such a cute animal made me feel guilty.

@csweezey18 3 года назад

@@vixis Cute? I think you mean "nauseating!"

@fedra76it 3 года назад

Same here, they disgust me a priori. My late grandma tried so many times to trick me, offering me snails disguised as "fried mushrooms"... Yet, to no avail. But watching a video is fine, especially if it is on Tasting History ;)

@vixis 3 года назад

@@csweezey18 lol. I think we will disagree on this.

@AlejandroFlores-vi8tl 3 года назад

I would kill for a historical comedy of a friend group of young romans in Pompeii, I mean it would be both hilarious and educational

@hubertcumberdale6221 Год назад

Have you seen "Plebs"? It's not in Pompeii, but it reminds me of what you described.

@AlejandroFlores-vi8tl Год назад

Damn for a second I thought I was creative

@joserodrigues-gr6yx 3 года назад

In Portugal the "Taberna" is the local traditional small cooffee place, where you can eat traditional fast food, like snails, pigs feet, pigs ear, liver, roasted chourizo, drink local red, white or green wine, have a cold beer and an expresso in the end. Somethings never change...

@sycration Год назад

Portugal, Portus Cale!

@nicholaswoollhead6830 3 года назад

Shout outs Gaius and Aulus. Truly your friendship is recognized in eternity.

@johnbeauvais3159 3 года назад

We should all wish to have a friendship as legendary

@Wackyfox 3 года назад

Wonder if they were ‘good friends’ in the same way some people are ‘just roommates’?

@graphite2786 3 года назад

I hope they both survived the eruption.

@janesullivan692 Год назад

@@Wackyfox could be, since this is ancient Rome

@janesullivan692 Год назад

Bros of legend

@ladysaranoir 3 года назад

"Now, pray, who can live without a snack" I felt that

@PrettyPinkPersephone 3 года назад

Even the ancients couldn’t resist a good snack... I’ve never felt so close to my ancestors

@dawnchesbro4189 3 года назад

That tiny spoon is meant for caviar. Metal spoons can create off-flavors in caviar, so bone or shell spoons are often used.

@UGNAvalon 3 года назад

That magcargo in the background: “Why you torture me like this?”

@fisharmor 3 года назад

"Oh, cool, a show about snails! Nifty!" "I SCREWED THE BARMAID" Max, your little surprises never cease to amuse me. You're one of the best channels!

@satoshikazami6958 3 года назад

No no, my fine gentleman. It's "I ScwEwed Da bArmeid"

@rcrawford42 3 года назад

The picture is a big of graffiti from a villa outside Pompeii that was buried along side the town. It's a rather Mr. Magoo-looking head labeled "Rufus est" -- "this is Rufus".

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 thank you. It was one of my favorites because of its brevity.

@jeffreyhenion4818 3 года назад

My favorite graffito was related to the habit of some persons to skip a trip to the public latrines in favor of using a convenient nook or doorway. “May you profit by s***ing elsewhere”.

@DefaultFlame 3 года назад

@@jeffreyhenion4818 I recall several from Pompeii that boiled down to, "stop shitting by the city wall." Apparently a common problem.

@IseeDeadLlamas 3 года назад

Man that graffiti was very... Humanizing. I often forget that these romans so long ago were humans just like you and me.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Exactly. That’s why I love stuff like that.

@brendanbuxton9848 3 года назад

The hardware is pretty much the same but there's been a few updates to the OS since then. ;)

@lexagon9295 3 года назад

You should check the videos about the epitaphs and memorial inscriptions Romans wrote about their pet dogs (e.g. Invicta's video "Pet Dogs in Ancient Rome"). Nothing comes quite as close in humanizing the ancient Romans.

@Kerithanos 3 года назад

@@brendanbuxton9848 If you can call them "updates" - it's dumbed down, loaded with bloatware and viruses, buggy and hardly works at all.

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine 3 года назад

@@lexagon9295 True, no matter the time period, you always get a feeling for the unbearable grief these people suffered for their loss. Just like us, they truly loved their pets like their own children.

@hiimryan2388 3 года назад

"1 tea spoon of salt" Torturing your garden pest before gobbling them down, I see

@multebr1666 3 года назад

I love snails with garlic and parsley butter. Honestly my old man used to make it like a snack for me all the time.

@Audioworm 3 года назад

My favorite graffiti: "On April 19th, I made bread."

@bartz0rt928 3 года назад

Literally all of instagram last year.

@manictiger 3 года назад

We're a bit predictable, aren't we? Food, sex, food, sex.

@ChristmasCrustacean1 3 года назад

they posted it on their wall

@Audioworm 3 года назад

@@ChristmasCrustacean1 *holy shit*

@PrettyPinkPersephone 3 года назад

@@manictiger and shitting, can’t forget the shit

@matesafranka6110 3 года назад

I see what you did there, with that Magcargo plushie in the background

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Perfect, right?

@eldwinc9884 3 года назад

pokemon reference for the win xD

@Altanicorn 3 года назад

And he has the shocked expression, like what you EAT SNAILS???

@liminalsoup 3 года назад

@@CommandoNolife the pokemon plushies are his fiancé's, so the gaming videos might probably come from him instead lol

@liminalsoup 3 года назад

@@CommandoNolife 😅 unfortunately he says he's not much of a gamer, he just likes watching jose play

@napalaprentice 3 года назад

the way you say "Fine French Foods Provider" gets me every time

@garygreen7552 Год назад

The reference to hourly room rates brought to mind Olongopo City in the Phillapines. The large U. S. Naval Base in Subic Bay sent many sailors into Olongopo where rooms were let on hourly rates. Many of the sailors found themselves on medical restriction after visits to Olongopo.

@senorPachuChay 3 года назад

It's kind of weirdly comforting to know that the "[name] wuz here!" graffiti is a time-honored tradition going back since ancient Rome xD. Also I agree with the website, the graffiti complaining about all the graffiti is my favorite one too: _"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin."_

@johnbeauvais3159 3 года назад

It was just Kilroy’s ancient cousin

@liamboyle7749 3 года назад

Justinian conveniently forgot that his wife Theodora was a rather popular “actress” when he married her.

@mebrowneyedgirl 3 года назад

"Actress" is a euphemism 😂

@Astavyastataa 3 года назад

Amazing how little has changed in the last 2k years.

@rcrawford42 3 года назад

@@mebrowneyedgirl To be fair, the worst accusations against her came from Procopius, who hated her and Justinian despite being well-paid to write the histories of his reign.

@SeanHiruki 3 года назад

@@rcrawford42 the man literally claimed Justinian ran around the palace at night with his head torn off and breathing fire. Typical historian

@weldonwin 3 года назад

@@SeanHiruki And that Theodora was a literal demon

@hmr28 3 года назад

I just wanted to say you are like a live version of Barbara Tuchmans books. She first sparked my love of history when I was only 10. I devoured her books much as I eagerly await your videos. Thanks for your passion and interest in the everyday lives of past peoples.

@hfar_in_the_sky Год назад

11:54 Good to know that trash talking and trolling really hasn't changed that much in over a millenia

@acepilot1 3 года назад

“Who puts fava beans in their wine” Hannibal: mmm Fava beans

@tehbonehead 3 года назад

It was a nice chianti.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

@@tehbonehead Both go well with liver, I hear.

@oldcowbb 3 года назад

fh fh fh fh fh fh fh

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

@@oldcowbb I've never seen that bit rendered in print before - that was brilliant :-D

@Komatik_ 3 года назад

@@tehbonehead In the books it was a big Amarone.

@morango501 3 года назад

In Portugal, you can enjoy these snails in a savory, spicy broth served with a side of fresh bread and a cold beer.

@douae5857 3 года назад

Same in morocco, minus the beer and bread. It's usually a winter street food, warm and spicy, amazing for when it's freezing.

@whynot8781 3 года назад

Along the coast of Maine, periwinkles are eaten, picked out of their boiled shells with a safety pin, dipped in butter.

@ceruleanvoyager1847 2 года назад

If I needed another reason to love this channel, your opinion on the pseudo Mexican food made my day. Caballero lo felicito por su buen gusto y por la joya de canal. I’m binge watching your videos and love everything about them.

@nunosilva6574 3 года назад

In Portugal, snails ("caracóis") are still a popular fast food in many taverns ("tabernas") and restaurants. The ones used are much smaller than the ones in the video (or only about half as small if you ask for "caracoletas"). Despite my parents best efforts, I never did find the courage to eat them myself, but after your video I am a little curious. :)

@badgerattoadhall Год назад

i also saw "fresh" snails in the town markets on my holiday in Portugal. i did try a snail on a cruise ship once, i didn't really have a flavor of its own (it tasted like what you cooked them in) it was more of a texture.

@rafedidomenico Год назад

Growing up in the Midwest of the US, we still had escargot at certain upscale bars and wine bars

@ohrats731 3 года назад

Max: if you have live snails, that’s fantastic. Me with pet snails: ummmm yes... but no

@emilh2361 3 года назад

Pet... snails?

@fabulousimcatbulous690 3 года назад

@@emilh2361 Yup, pet snails. One of the lowest maintenance pet that we could have. I found it very peaceful looking at em glide around.... not garden snails tho, they're pest that I'll take em away (not kill) whenever I see em. While its kinda different, I also used to keep some Ivory White snails in my aquarium to clean the algae. Damn, now I miss Snaily and Swirl.

@luckybones7808 3 года назад

I have a small fish tank that was overrun by bladder snails from a contaminated plant. It only takes one small egg or teeny snail to start a Gastropod-calypse. I moved my fish into a larger sanitized tank, and now I have pet snails.

@MK_ULTRA420 3 года назад

@@luckybones7808 Seeing snails lay eggs in videos gives me trypophobia. I have no rational idea why but I just detest looking at snails, it's like my monkey brain immediately sees them as pests that need to be purged with fire and bleach.

@j.bailey5619 3 года назад

Basvsgafsgshagx yeah

@KommissarAzuraCh 3 года назад

"Salute, this is Burger Augustus, may I take your order?" "Yeah, can I get Parthian Chicken Burger, with Cocleas BBQ and Extra Large Pepsi-crates, please."

@abelbabel8484 3 года назад

I'll have two number IX, a number IX magnum, a number VI with extra liquamen, a number VII, two number XXXXVs, one with caseus, and a conditum magnum.

@John-hs4in 3 года назад

@@abelbabel8484 magnum fumum

@abelbabel8484 3 года назад

@@John-hs4in Est

@SwanDigEnt 3 года назад

Sir, this is a Vendus.

@pavladavlas 3 года назад

Would you like a Caesar salad with that?

@lordsheogowrath3005 3 года назад

5:11 I said "Hm" the exact same moment you did and am now in a state of great euphoria. What a grand channel this is, and what a grand personality you seem to have - enjoyable to the utmost degree! Bits of very interesting history in a package that couldn't be more lovable, bravo!

@jazzrodgers 3 года назад

"You're probably wondering who puts fava beans in their wine?" Reminds me of that scene from Silence of the Lambs. All you need is liver...

@Vospader21 3 года назад

“You will find virtue in the temple, the marketplace, and the senate.” Well that didn’t age well.

@comradewindowsill4253 3 года назад

Nah, it aged perfectly, we just regressed to it.

@kathyparrow1390 3 года назад

We should ask Mitch McConnell, he was there then too.

@matasa7463 3 года назад

Funny how the Roman Empire fell eh? Almost like the reverse was probably more true - the runaway slave looking for freedom, the sellswords trying to find a better life, the young prostitute trying to make ends meet... I would probably find gentler souls in a Roman tavern than the Senate.

@jasonhemphill6980 3 года назад

@@matasa7463 Prostitutes are always trying to make "ends meet" 😂

@arztschwanzfurz1631 3 года назад

@@jasonhemphill6980 They make ends meet, alright.

@InsomniacPostman 3 года назад

I loved the excerpts from the great Roman wall of Yelp.

@harringt100 Год назад

This is one of the funniest episodes of Tasting History I've seen.

@Chefgrlangel Год назад

I’m fascinated with ancient fast food! Plz do more of these!! 🏺🍔🏛

@AmunRa1 3 года назад

I absolutely love the old graffiti. The Gaius and Aulus one is oddly heartwarming.

@red_doggo7219 3 года назад

"Gaius Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of Rufus, screwer of women"

@ShortArmOfGod 2 месяца назад

Based sex haver.

@HappyBeezerStudios Год назад

Going out in the evening, grabbing a snack and some drinks on the go, watching the games. Some things never change.

@christophevonschoeler8902 3 года назад

Love the show Max... keep em coming... I read once ( in I believe that ancient Roman cookbook you peruse often ) about a dish of boiled pork... although the part that was most interesting was that it was boiled in seawater... always wanted to try this, a sort of Pot-au-feu alla Romano...

@carolynallisee2463 3 года назад

This week's pokemon is Magcargo, symbolising the snails the Romans ate, along with Vesuvius, the volcano that buried Pompeii, along with Stabiae and Herculaneum, under metres of pumice, ash and other volcanic products! By the way, I loved this one. Max makes good videos any way, but this one was hilarious, with his dead-pan and arch delivery making me laugh out loud frequently!

@Berd 3 года назад

im gonna go eat some snails

@cormarine9812 3 года назад

a fine descision!!

@gardenturtle4878 3 года назад

But then they give you a meal comprised entirely of onions

@YourOwnPeronalJesus 3 года назад

make a video called "eating snails"

@sandk7969 3 года назад

Try it with tamarind

@keyofallworlds7549 3 года назад

OMFG ITS BERD

@Joemamahahahaha821 2 года назад

I can’t get over the quality of these videos. The amount of research that must go into all of these episodes to bring so much relevant and interesting information that is all the while walking you through a part of the story you’re being told, a start of the story we’ve always wondered… what did those people eat? I am so happy I found this channel. LATINA EST VIVA! ET SEMPER ERIT!

@TastingHistory 2 года назад

Thank you!

@Joemamahahahaha821 2 года назад

@@TastingHistory really the thanks is all to you for putting in time and effort to produce high quality content to fulfill some deep need we all have to know what old people ate and how it tastes 😂😂😂 Seriously though I am in no need of thanks that is entirely to you

@Joemamahahahaha821 2 года назад

@@TastingHistory wow and I realized I hadn’t even subscribed yet lol

@DracowolfieDen 2 года назад

I really adore when the background plushies are pokemon, and they match the episode theme. An excellent touch, heh

@phodgs9563 3 года назад

I feel like I just got all the gossip from down at my local Roman market.

@maosama3695 3 года назад

Ave sidizen.

@murderh0b0 3 года назад

Yeah I'm gonna need a full feature film about ancient Rome cast solely with grumpy Italian American new yorkers, accents and all

@catrinlewis939 3 года назад

Seriously. Why do they always sound like upper class Brits?

@SeymoreSparda 3 года назад

@@catrinlewis939 Here, the exact opposite to that shit, Monty Python dubbed in Latin; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RxfDIV1f0R4.html

@InhabitantOfOddworld 3 года назад

@@catrinlewis939 Probably because the best actors usually are.

@kathyparrow1390 3 года назад

@@SeymoreSparda the monty python guys could probably have done it in latin themselves.

@mrdanforth3744 3 года назад

Try this one while you are waiting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rR_5h8CzRcI.html

@gooberzify 3 года назад

Another great video ! It’s amazing how detailed you go into history!

@NewGoldStandard 2 года назад

I've only had escargot once, and I was quite happy with the butter and garlic flavor. I never even thought about the fact I was missing out on actual snail taste. And, after hearing your description, I'm even happier to say I don't really know what a snail tastes like.

@rockitgamer 3 года назад

"Magcargo" in the background of a video about an ancient snail dish served in Pompeii just before/during the volcanic eruption which destroyed the city is a very cheeky move, sir! I applaud and laud that at the same time.

@tbard 3 года назад

Italian here, minus silphium and garum (and with parsley and garlic) my grandma used to cook them like that for me quite often after it rained.

@DaDaDo661 3 года назад

We had them in sauce

@framegrace1 3 года назад

Same in here in Catalonia. Just after rain, you could get enough for 4 rations in 10 minutes. Strange there are not that common in wetter climates.

@DaDaDo661 3 года назад

@@framegrace1 South Western Canada, lots of snails in the springtime also lots of rain.

@Anon_Badger 3 года назад

I enjoyed this episode more than others because he ate the food at the end and gave a fantastic description of the food.

@adrianoliverblood7133 2 года назад

I remember reading a long time ago about ancient Roman traditions, eating snails was rather common but as i recall there was more to it. Snails kept with a bowl of raw milk would gorge themselves and swell to several times their size, then they would be cooked.

@jonathantillian6528 3 года назад

Max: "With remains still in some of the containers" Fast Food Manager: "It's still good, sell it to the customer."

@NekogamiKun127 3 года назад

"Hail, coclea?" "Coclea slave runneth away." "Understandable. Hail to Caesar."

@johnbradley2343 3 года назад

"Salve, coclea?" "Coclea servus autem fugit." "Comprehensibilis. Ave Caesar."

@michellesingh6087 2 года назад

Mixing egg whites into wine doesn't really remove the red shade, but it will help to clarify it/remove the leese. I wonder what Fava beans would do!

@ohshctrash1410 3 года назад

The painting that appears at 6:19 is one that I know well. My grandparents had a copy of it hanging in their dining room at their old house, and I always get a little excited when I see it in videos and such because I can go "hey! I've seen that before!"

@willcliffe3746 3 года назад

This is one of those episodes that makes you realise how close we are to our ancestors, really - The seedy reputation of fast food continues through the centuries! Utterly wild, thank you for this Max

@FritzMonorail 3 года назад

Only difference is now a days you can't get a hand job upstairs at the McDonald's.

@boywithcrackers3871 3 года назад

@@FritzMonorail You just need to know the password man, yesterday they allow me to bust on the ice cream machine.

@mahenonz 3 года назад

And they had Twitter beef, just with a different medium. I’m not sure if that’s reassuring or depressing.

@alexanderpasha1826 3 года назад

You clearly haven’t been to a macdonalds in England on a Saturday night

@willcliffe3746 3 года назад

@@alexanderpasha1826 You tellin me that a maccies at 3am is the peak of gentrification and culture lad?

@originalcharacterplznostea2749 3 года назад

"Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they ever have before!" - Some Roman guy in the basilica

@hermaiamoira1064 3 года назад

"I wonder, O wall, that you have not yet collapsed, so many writer's cliches' do you bear."

@shannondore 3 года назад

That was fantastic! I was so fascinated with that Pompeii discovery. The murals are amazing. And I love snails, their delicious.🐌

@juanjuri6127 3 года назад

Sorely disappointed that your samples of roman grafitti didn't include that one about the guy in a gladiator's barracks who simply wrote "on this day, I baked bread"

@SharpForceTrauma 3 года назад

"you will find virtue in the temple, the marketplace, the senate house" Boy would he be pissed were he alive today.

@Zievereir44 3 года назад

Not really. The senate in Ancient Rome was one big hodgepodge of Game Of Thrones-like political intriges. Politics never change, man. To be honest, the guy was part of the senate himself. Hardly a trustworthy source to rely on to find out how honorable the senate was. He was mainly boasting about his own ego.

@SavageGreywolf 3 года назад

@@Zievereir44 exactly this if anything we're still a bit more civilized than Roman government was. A bit.

@sisterulicia9492 3 года назад

No shit. lol Politicians today might as well let their whores and mistresses live with them. Some probably do.

@arztschwanzfurz1631 3 года назад

@@SavageGreywolf Same game, newer technologies, with little to no emphasis on virtue or "merit". Power attracts wicked people. It's just how we are. Next to nothing has changed between the humans that existed two thousands years ago and those of us here today. The Stoics had the right idea, Aurelius especially (considering his popularity, there's no surprise there)

@jackculler1489 3 года назад

@@Zievereir44 Nothing really change, politicians are more dirty than Prostitutes

@Jixxor 3 года назад

6:40 this actually blows my mind. We see all these recipes recreated, and that is already amazing and fun - but to hear that they found that vine vessel which actually has exactly what is written down in that ancient recipe collection.. I dunno, it's a small thing probably but it somehow blows my mind.

@auntieb3621 Год назад

this is one of my favorites sir Max. extremely well done!

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 3 года назад

"could they really be so crass" "well, let's look at their graffiti that's too crass to put in this video"

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 3 года назад

11:35 is so passive aggressive "yeah we left you with soiled bedsheets, my bad, but it was because the service was so bad and our toilet didn't work so we just did it right there"

@Ze_Ze_Ze 3 года назад

I'll have II number IXs, a number IX large, a number VI with extra dip, a number VII, II number XLVs, I with cheese, and a large posca.

@therugburnz 3 года назад

Me to

@siamsasean 3 года назад

@@therugburnz "Me two" fixed it for you

@robertcornhole5197 3 года назад

"Who puts fava beans in their wine?" Was it a nice Chianti?

@beevstew1896 3 года назад

this channel taught me more about history and cooking than school ever did.

@cassidy5408 3 года назад

Funny timing- I recently told my friends about how the Romans had fast food and they thought I was joking until they looked it up!

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 proof!

@jasonblalock4429 3 года назад

I'd imagine you would have to go VERY far back in time to find a city without any "grab and go" street food.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@jasonblalock4429 I imagine that if it could be called a city, it had vendors that sold food to go.

@tharos 3 года назад

"I will read these in the voices I imagine they were written in." *reads inscription about wetting the bed in his own voice.* Hope everything's okay Max.

@wochan7193 Год назад

i love this. thank you for deepening my love and knowledge of foods. so inspiring.

@ryand.3858 3 года назад

Thanks for including the links to the good stuff.

@blackoceancreativeuniverse 3 года назад

I'd like a large #XII combo, extra garum, hold the irony. No napkins- I'll just use my toga.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Basically wearing a giant napkin.

@blackoceancreativeuniverse 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory And it hides the garum stains nicely.

@rcrawford42 3 года назад

@@blackoceancreativeuniverse A stained toga would have been a bad sign if you were running for office. A sign of low-qualities and bad morals. White togas were so important they'd get them specially bleached -- not with the normal Roman bleach made from aged urine, but with a special chemical that made them whiter than white. And slightly flammable. Supposedly a ship full of ultra-white togas headed for Rome spontaneously ignited and burnt to the water line once.

@blackoceancreativeuniverse 3 года назад

@@rcrawford42 You say that now, but that "garum joke" killed when Rodney Dangerfield did it at the Parthenon.

@PhantomStella 3 года назад

"Now, pray, who can live without a snack." Bruh I feel this so much

@xmapa4677 3 года назад

Where I live there are Escargot EVERYWHERE! French Settlers brought them here, and now when it rains you have to be careful not to step on them. Of course, you would need to breed them for a few generations before consuming them. You can't just eat them off of the sidewalk. Still, no one sells lives snails.

@xmapa4677 3 года назад

@American Nyan The snails here are not "wild" they are "urban wild" and full of heavy metals from the heavy concentration of pollution. We have one of the largest highways (in the world?), and manage to gridlock it for 7 hours a day, even on Sundays, now that everyone is getting vaccinated and going back to normal. The snails here area not safe to eat without farming.