Hahaha, I love how completely true this is. In Atlantic Canada, where I am from, the main industry is fishing. Both my step-father and Grandfather have told stories of their lobster sandwiches (which is what all the poor kids ate) and how jealous they were of the kids who got bologna sandwiches. It completely reversed by the time I was a kid, but one thing that was never questioned was that SOMETHING had to be shoved between two slices of bread.
I'm still mystified by the "Lobster Roll" sandwich. I grew up enjoying the occasional -- i.e., once a year on my birthday -- lobster tail with drawn butter as a fantastic treat. Plopping the costly meat on bread and slathering condiments on it seems outrageous to me. I still only order lobster roll to see if someone can make it taste better than lobster tail with drawn butter. I haven't had it yet.
@@pacificostudios’ve had a similar experience with lobster rolls. There’s a place where my family is from in PEI that has the greatest lobster roll. I get it every time I visit. Its nothing but fresh lobster all buttered up in a toasted bun, and a bit of mayo to hold it all together. They use nearly a whole lobster with each order and every time it’s wonderful. Now I’ve been all over Atlantic Canada and spent most my time living in its biggest city, Halifax. No matter where I’m at, every single lobster roll is filled with celery, green onions, and whatever else they use as filler. Ends up tasting more like a lobster salad than a lobster roll. Not to mention the prices they charge for it. Now, I never bother unless I’m in PEI. Can’t knock the simple formula but everyone here always wants to reinvent the wheel.
"Rincewind had eaten in many countries on the Disc, and sometimes he’d been able to complete an entire meal before having to run away. And they’d always lacked something. Oh, people did great things with spices and olives and yams and rice and whatnot, but what he’d come to crave was the humble potato."
A bloke I used to know reckoned we shouldn't eat bread, because it takes the human body 5,000 years to get used to a foodstuff (I don't know where he got that figure from either!) 1) How are we ever going to get used to it if we don't eat it? 2) The Egyptians were making bread 7,000 years ago anyway.
You get these idiots talking bullshit about any food type. It's the same type of people who follow whatever get rich quick schemes they can find, they are convinced life is full of "hacks" and if you just find the right hacks and use them you gain eternal life, infinite money, etc, etc. The reality is that the best diet is most things in moderation, and the best way to get money is to get yourself good at something and then doing that thing for money. You don't get to skip the hard boring parts with hacks or gorge yourself with absurd amounts of whatever with hacks.
I love the idea of 5,000 years of humans tearfully stuffing their faces with bread and hating every minute of it just in case it will turn out to be a good idea for later generations.
I heard a vegetarian say that it takes 20 years for the human body to digest a piece of meat. If that were true, and you fed a baby nothing but meat, it wouldn't do it's first shit until it was 20 years old. Then it would look down into the shitter and say " They don't even make those sort of sausages anymore."
@@dougwhiley4028 Again, absolute b*llocks. Human digestive juice is the most powerful natural solvent ever discovered. Given time, (a couple of years) it will digest bone.
2:03 "Certainly, I would defy anyone to eat anything else as much as we eat bread and butter and still find it as delicious as bread and butter"... that bit is just too good
The point about lobster is totally spot on. Lobster used to be a cheap food eaten by people in New England because it was widely available. It was only when the technology was developed to ship it and wealthy people started getting it shipped to show how wealthy they were that it became a food associated with wealth.
"For people who couldn't afford proper foods and were reduced to slurping cold snot from a rock." lolololol. My thoughts on eating oysters perfectly expressed.
Why did David stop making these? They get more views than the majority of BBC uploads, he must have been making a bit of money off these and they couldn't have been that difficult to make.
I think it gets to a point where your not enjoying doing them anymore, there is only so many things that one can rant about and I think even for DM it became a little tiresome.
+TheRhinehart86 I think you are overestimating the financial incentive. This particular video has about 500,000 views after 5 years. Others in the series are similar. RU-vid don't publicise how much they pay uploaders per view, but many say it averages at about 0.1 cents. So this video would have made about $500 in 5 years. It's a professionally made video, not just some girl in front of a webcam chatting about makeup (name your own suspects), so it will have cost more than $500 to make. Hardly a money tree.
Evi1M4chine if you think that, why waste the time to watch his video and leave a comment on someone else’s comment? Also, why do you think that? What has David Mitchell done to offend you so much? He’s just voicing his opinions, if you don’t like them then don’t listen, but try to accept that some people do like them.
Agreed. Chicken and rice are both are essentially hot meal versions of bread and butter. Both are so versatile and delicious that we won't shut down on them as a staple
turns out that's actually not far from the truth, carbs aren't too good for you, especially in something lacking nutrients and fiber as much as bread does. i know that's a reference to QI though.
" cold snot from a rock", loved this analogy, I've always thought of oysters as 'the mucus of the ocean', if I wanted to swallow a slimy mouthful of sea water I would, but alas, it is not to my tastes.
"slurping cold snot from a rock" is the most accurate description of eating oysters I've heard. I plucked up the courage to eat one, convinced to do so by some student friends after a very heavy session on the Old Peculier in the early 70s in Scarborough. It remained in my stomach for 10 seconds and was then evicted over the harbour wall, where a Herring gull ate it. I hope it enjoyed it more than I did.
So I absolutely agree with David, despite being one of those knobs who tries to eat a diet primarily consisting of vegetables, fruit, nuts, eggs, fish and meat... I broke down so hard I went out and bought a fresh loaf from a local bakery and ate almost the whole thing with a stick of butter when I first heard this. Long may they reign!
Apples are certainly not cheap, even if they are given to horses. In Hawai'i, the price was astounding. Still, I grew up buying a half-bushel of apples and making pie with them.
The bacon sandwich/Indiana Jones comparison was ingenious. Bacon _is_ fantastic - as an ingredient. And Harrison Ford _is_ fantastic - as Indiana Jones.
Yeah man it’s whack. I know the feeling.By that i mean my word is my bond. That on any value society attributed to the freemasonry in our industries. Merciless the need to control. They only have one weakness, and may it be the sand in your shoe is not sand all but resalised sensation you use in the masking of your spiritual self with economic leaching and narcissism. Be real. Holy by the name of his name who shall not be spoken. Mute to the wicked. Barnyard of barricaded barcoded electronic super sonic social order disorder syndrome and cheers to the young, fortunes and fortitude amuster.
Oh, how I miss David's Rants. BRING THEM BACK! Right. Onto the topic. Just bread and butter?...amateur. Toast the bread, spread with butter, sprinkle upon it a generous amount of sugar and cinnamon. That, my friends, is food for the gods. A modern day ambrosia.
My mum actually followed that diet (and it worked) but I could never give up bread or potatoes, like what am I supposed to eat food with if there’s no bread rice or pasta?!!! That’s not a meal that’s just a snack then
To all those who follow carb free diets there are few culinary pleasures as simple or enjoyable as freshly baked still warm bread, generously sliced then covered in proper butter. The delicious aroma as the butter melts.
I'm rather partial to the tantalizing texture of cheesecake as my fork cuts through the soft, spongy body, knowing that within minutes I'll be enjoying the simple yet engrossing experience of its delectable flavor flowing through my entire body. Its like entering a new woman for the first time.
When I sometimes have a few friends over and get hungry I'd instigate a Toast Party. Basically toast as much bread as possible and put all the jams, spreads and butter we own onto a tray with various knives. Then people can happily nom the toast with whatever spread they felt like. Toast parties, simple and cheap ways to keep guest happy.
Yes! Wonderful! Perfect timing! Sitting here, pondering about all these diets, you say all that needs to be said, in a sort of mildmannered yet furious way! Love it!
It reminds me of that story about salmon, where quite some time the monks in an abbey were complaining because they got salmon so often because then it was practically poor man's food. Now we pay quite a lot for it and consider it one of the better fish.
Breathing 100% oxygen is bad for you, but I wouldn't propose to become healthier by foregoing the stuff altogether. I guess that's why I'm not the founder of a bafflingly popular/idiotic diet
It's possible to live perfectly healthily without bread, but not without oxygen. The weird thing is the sense that people (inc. D. Mitchell) seem to have, that because bread tastes good it is morally good, so therefore people who say "Don't eat bread" are morally bad. It makes zero sense.
"Long may they rule over us! And confusion to the usurper Atkins!" When he said that, I really wanted to say, "Here, here!" ... Also I'm now craving bread and butter. Darn you, David Mitchell.
When I was in Thailand they made fun of me for loving rice (any vegetable actually) whichw as only meant to be filler to them. MY first meal there was a sandwich that came with a slice of lettuce -- as a garnish. They all had a laugh when I put it on the sandwich, assuming (as one ought) the lettuce was on the side so it didn't make the bread soggy on a cheeseless sandwich.
I thought the Harrison Ford Spielberg analogy a bit out of place till David ended it with the Harrison Ford interviews. That really drove the point home 😀
The hardest thing on Atkins is, when you love butter, but there's just no point in eating it without the bread 🤣🤣(Even dousing your veg in butter gets old soon.)
There are no words to express my joy at the return of David's spot-on rants. And I agree, bread and butter are too delicious for me to ever contempate giving them up, no matter how badly I would want to lose weight.
Scampi also used to be er.. scampi. True scampi is made of langoustines (aka Norway Lobsters, aka Dublin Bay prawns), but these were expensive, so the dish was posh. Then a cheaper substitute was made using an abundant large fish whose bodyweight is about 75% made up of a large ugly inedible head, which rendered it almost unsellable, hence the idea to make cheap scampi-substitute out of it to shift a few more of them. This also put Scampi within reach of the ordinary person and gave them a taste for it, even if that taste was only for the substitute rather than the real thing. The fish in question was Monkfish. Then a couple of decades ago highbrow celebrity chefs started cooking with Monkfish and popularised it to the extent that its supply struggled against the demand and it shot up in price, making the substitute dearer than the real thing, hence suddenly the ordinary person was eating the real thing, and posh people were eating the substitute. As time went on the langoustines were soon also popularised outside of their use in scampi, and became more expensive, whilst at the same time some people who had been used to the monkfish substitute of the past did not recognise their scampi as being 'true' scampi, so another cheaper substitute was made by mashing-up and pre-forming whatever cheap and abundant white meaty fish was available, which is what a lot of pre-packed and pub scampi is nowadays (unless the pack says 'WHOLETAIL scampi, which is the real langoustine one).
Well, as an aficionado of licorice and celery I have to bid you a sad farewell Mr. Mitchell...I thought we were kindred spirits until you spoke those fateful words.
I attempted to eat a bucket of Bolognese sauce after I heard it being derided in this video. I can see why we don't do it. I then ate a slice of toast. Much nicer.
Dear lord, David is a perpetual saltmine. I'd argue though that calling oysters "snot from a rock" is overly generous, the one time I've tried raw, live oysters, I wondered if I'd been given whale semen by mistake. I love cooked, smoked oysters though, those are delicious.
I can't imagine why anyone chose to get mad about the Atkin's Diet over half a decade after its popularity was over, and also why they'd get mad about it in THIS way.
@@IncredibleMD Okay, there is alot to unpack here so 1. The Atkins Diet was invented in the 60s... So I'd hardly call it a fad 2. He wasnt even getting mad over the Atkins, he was getting mad at restricting carbs. (Which is why he said "or whatever they're calling it now") 3. It's not far-off to think that people still talked about Atkins in 2012... If I were to make a skit about the keto diet (which reached its peak in 2015/2016) it would still be considered funny and pretty topical today as people still practice keto today 4. The reason he "chose" to get mad in "THIS way" is because he is a comedian... That's his job. He talks about a subject he wants to talk about and generally uses hyperbolic language and expression to drive a point and to make us laugh 5. You edited your comment (I don't care what the original was, but I'm just saying thats a bit shady)
I went swimming at Dr. Atkins' house in Long Island before he died, and man was he ever loaded. I was (and still am) amazed at how much money somebody could make by creating a diet plan.
@Robert Jordan, unfortunately not lol. I was there in summer of '02. I was only in my early double digits, so I didn't quite realize the importance of what I was experiencing, but let me tell you: His pool, house and even live-in caretaker's quarter's was incredibly impressive. The caretaker's children and I even played hide and seek inside the Doctor's mansion.
I used to think so, but I've had some horrible strawberries in the last couple of years. Some of them weren't quite ripe (which is understandable) but others tasted bitter or flavourless. Choose your strawbs carefully.
They once had a court case in the U.S. where it was determined that too many meals of lobster a week was considered cruel and unusual punishment for our prisoners.
Roman soldiers were never played in salt though. That's just a myth wich probably spawned from the fact that the english word salary is similar for the latin word for salt.
They weren't paid in salt, however the salt ration was a part of their pay as a soldier. Salt was an incredibly important item in daily life. Where do you think the 'sal' in salary comes from?
It still is an important item in daily life. We need salt to survive. It’s just today it’s so cheap and plentiful, at least in the developed world, that no one gives it a second thought. Plus, we eat so much pre-prepared packaged food that many people are getting too much salt.
From etymonline.com: salary (n.) late 13c., "compensation, payment," whether periodical, for regular service or for a specific service; from Anglo-French salarie, Old French salaire "wages, pay, reward," from Latin salarium "an allowance, a stipend, a pension," said to be originally "salt-money, soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt" From lexico.com(OED): Origin Middle English from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’.
now I've got a mental imagine of Mitchell in a studio asking "really you want me to do the rant in front of giant green wall? you really can't think of anything more interesting?"
I once ate only watermelons the entire summer, and while I lost about 20kg, I still found them delicious, and it's still one of my favorite things to eat. Take that, bread and butter. Also, don't try this at home, apparently it's not super healthy if you basically ingest nothing but water and sugar the entire summer. :/
"Meat and eggs are useless without bread and potatoes!" ... "I have never eaten a bacon sandwich .. without the bread!" Ah, a mind is never so completely sure of something than that which has not been tried.
Carbs are the fastest source of energy, and thus wholly essential for all but the unemployed. If you are on a no-carb diet, you should be fired from your job for compromising your performance for vanity's sake.
Way down in the comments section, Angela Gustufson said she was an "aficionado of licorice and celery". How many types of celery are there? I'd also like to say that my friend who likes aniseed cookies, but hates licorice, is mental.
Thanks for a great response, however I'm not sure if shaving off a few calories by stuffing 'the bread' with fibre and therefore ruining the taste is worth it. I think it's a better idea just to eat less and save yourself the trouble of eating weird food.
