“Back then, tamales were made with masa and stuffed with veggies and meat and other fillings before wrapping with corn husks.” Dude, that’s how my family has been making them my whole life. Cool to know that it hasn’t changed much over the millennia though.
Those berries were preserved because honey does not go bad. Honey also makes excellent wine, so if they didn't immediately move to mash those berries for fermentation, then a huge opportunity was missed.
Well, honey actually can go bad. Granted, it is estimated you might have to wait for 100,000 or so years for that to transpire. So, on a practical level it is a food that will not spoil, but it actually can because nothing is truly immune to the passage of time and entropy.
@@derekstein6193 I mean, if we are going with pedantry, then yes; honey can go bad. Also, anyone saying the world is not going to end is wrong, because it will be engulfed by the sun. Of course, it won't be in any of our lifetimes, but it'll still happen.
Possibly the one that shocked me the most was cheesecake being served to athletes at the Ancient Olympics before competing. And I thought it was odd that Reese's sponsored a gymnastics competition 25 years ago.
I always think it's funny when people ask "How did humans think to eat that?" Animals. They probably saw animals eating a fallen bee hive and realized, "Hey, there's something edible in there." Hell, honey is natural, we've probably been eating it since we were walking around on all fours.
Yep, things like honey, eggs, etc we probably ate since before we came down out of the trees. It's things like figuring out which bits of pufferfish aren't poisonous that baffles me. ("Everyone who's ever eaten this thing died. Maybe if I only eat this bit..."). My personal theory involves a bored nobleman and a crap load of dead peasants.
Popcorn was the most surprising to me, though logically it makes so much sense. You should also cover the history of chocolate sometime, if you haven't already.
It doesn't help we are basing it on honey we found to be in containers. Honey has a natural container which probably was used much earlier in history before we moved it to pots for large scale storage.
"Humans were baking bread before agriculture was even invented, which suggests that bread itself may have been the reason humans settled down" Or.....it suggests that human civilization and agriculture is much older than we have been told
No. Actually humans started settling in slowly, over hundreds of years. There were a lot of downsides to doing it too fast, so they would come to places they knew to have the cereals they wanted to make bread and beer. And actually, the video is wrong. Beer is older than bread apparently. We discovered it quite recently, but beer could actually be the reason we settled down in the first place.
It also isn't one way street. Some communities would try agriculture then ditch it and go back to a more nomadic life style. Imagine doing agriculture without any large tools or domesticated animals! It was a really hard lifestyle. But yeah, I think its possible that humans have been engaging in agriculture for longer than expected, but then its also possible that we have been baking bread for longer than expected. After all we've been using fire to cook our food for tens of thousands, maybe even over 100,000 years!
@@hugolouessard3914 I highly doubt an entire group of humans decided to change their entire way of life and damn near everything that is familiar to them and their entire culture over a piece of food or drink. It's far more likely that the advantages of always knowing where your food is at, what has happened to it, how much of it you have, how much of it you need to supplement with hunting/foraging, and being able to manipulate many of those factors became obvious and likely paid immediate dividends
In the UK free school dinners dinners were brought in after the 2nd Boer War as many recruits were found to be malnourished. The law was enacted just in time to feed up the future Tommy's of WW1. I'm old enough to have got free school dinners (they were really nice) but "Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" ended our free school milk when she was Education Secretary.
Goats, and horses surprisingly. I believe one of the food history channels points out that Mongolians during Ghengis Khan’s time were using milk from their horses, though I could be wrong about that >.
I had a feeling bread was the oldest food humankind cooked up. As a little kid, I used to think, "Birds eat seed, cats and dogs eat meat, horses eat hay, and humans eat bread."
oldest thing humans ate were roasted grain. then they decided breaking hard cooked grain was unappetitizing, so they powdered it and baked it after mixing with water. they made it with acorns, and other items they could powder and baked them. All humans ate this. Europeans, Africans, Asians, Austronesians, Arabs, Steppe people
The Ötztal is located in Austria, not Italy. The Alpes span over multiple countries, a quick wikipedia search could have told you guys that right away ...
Same goes for the university of Innsbruck ... yeah maybe they have some Italian scientists working there, but i suspect the majority to be Austrian ... given the fact that Innsbruck is solidly in Austria.
Exactly what I was thinking when I heard that. All tamales are still made that way. Jesus, there better not be any other d*mb industrialized way of doing it with pre-made flour dough in order to save time and money. The only way to make tamales is with corn masa. But watch there be some fool that makes it with pre-made flour dough - similar to what these American fools have done with our precious tacos and that nasty flour stingy tortilla shell.
Sharing good food has always been a universal human experience It builds bridges, it brings us together, it makes us who we are And who doesn't like to fall asleep full?
if you've never had dry cereal you're either lying or using the wrong kind of cereal. Dry cereal is a great, cheap snack for those of us who always want something to chew on and by not dousing it in milk, you're preserving the crunch. It's like eating sweet chips.
I'm curious why there were Italian scientists studying Ötzi at an Austrian university? The last time I checked, Innsbruck University is in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
@@markcarey8426 I thought he'd ended up - initially - in Vienna because they had the better equipment available. But my curiosity re Italians in Innsbruck brought me here. Good answer though. Makes sense!
im liking these new videos. im just gonna be blunt and say i loved whoever narrated the old videos but i will give kudos to whoever is narrating the new ones, she has the same sort of dry humor and im enjoying them just as much.
Can you do the history of coffee, please? It was used as a sacred beverage and there was a lot of espionage/conquest around building the coffee plantations in South America.
The history can be summed up as genocide maskerading as a dinner party and falls in the long trend of piping hot levels of historical revision being served American children as "history". Followed by the main course of "did you ever ask yourself why the roughly 100 years between the end of the civil war and the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century are just skipped in education like nothing ever happened?" Optional dessert is "Let's not even imagine what the German equivalent to this approach to teaching history would be" Depending on your personal palette this might either result in vicariously vomitting, or falling into a sweetly ignorant food coma.
@@ledzepgirl92 interesting, I assume it depends on school and stuff, but my history classes hit pretty hard on the American Industrial Revolution. Obviously i'm sure there gaps and stuff that wasn't taught or incorrect, but I wouldn't say it it was skipped.
Honey was definitely discovered by someone angrily smashing a beehive to bits and finding the golden liquid all over. That or by watching bears rip open beehives to eat it. Probably the latter one.
Another food ingredient that _feels_ recent is date sugar so I was pretty surprised and excited to find out the ancient Egyptians have been using dates to sweeten desserts since forever lol
Gen X Foods: #5 Cheese Sandwich #8 Crackers and Cheese #13 Melted Ham and Cheese Sandwich (on a hamburger bun) #22 Grilled Cheese #28 Jiffy Pop #45 Banquet Pot Pies #46 Fresh Bread #47 Chicken Pot Pie #48 Popcorn #50 Pancakes
"Well, why do they call it 'cheese'?" "They smelled the rotten milk, and that was what they said! 'Cheez!'" Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, "The 2000 Year Old Man"
A+ video! Very surprising to see how long some of those foods have been around, had no idea pancakes have been around so long or that bread may have pre-dated agricultural society.
i recall a story (not sure if it actually happened or just apocryphal): some archeologists were in a tomb and discovered a jar of honey, still edible! and then they discovered some hairs in the honey after eating some- turns out the container it was in had a preserved corpse
We do know how humans knew honey was edible. We saw bears and other animals eating it. We know this because Native Americans were asked things like that, and they pointed out that they saw animals doing it first. Same deal with maple syrup.
Man, that is such a limited reference to use, to illustrate human experience. People get a little bit of knowledge and want to expound as though they had the last word and are vastly expert - when in truth their knowledge is glancing and rudimentary. It is surreal to see those with no practical experience in the physical world, and almost as little in academics - who've never had to learn common sense in striving for survival, or live in a dirty, comfortless, brutal environment, expound on why people acted as they did, back in the day. Smh.
Given that baboons also eat honey, I assume we've been eating it since before we were H. sapiens. There are also birds in Africa called honeyguides that will literally guide humans to beehives so they can snack on some tasty wax after we open them suckers up. The amount of time for that behavior to have evolved to the point that an entire species of bird relies on humans (and probably other animals like honey badgers) to get the *main* food they eat says we've been doing that for way longer than anything on this list.
Frank Maixner et al. did a study on the content of Ötzi's stomach and intestines and said of the charcoal "[...]a slow drying or smoking of the meat over the fire would explain the charcoal particles detected previously in the lower intestine content." And I haven't seen any comment about pancakes. Y'all should source your claims so we can search it up on our own.
@@ridureyu Ingredients wise, no.... The main ingredient of spaghetti is wheat flour, but noodles can contain different types of ingredients such as rice starch, rice flour, potato starch and Canna starch. High quality spaghetti is prepared of durum wheat.
Food history is so fascinating. In regard to bread, what was not mentioned in the video is bread's close relationship to the making of beer, bread being baked then fermented and strained to produce the alcoholic beverage. The Sumerians drank it in large clay pots by sipping through a hollow reed straw and produced 20 different varieties and exported them. The ancient Egyptians paid their workers with beer. Hops did not factor into beer making until the Middle Ages.
You think I moved a box of Ramen to 3 apartments? Well you're wrong because I moved the same box from one dorm to another dorm to the house of my landlord. No apartment complexes involved.
Because her voice is a generic white woman voice that we hear everywhere on radio ads and on other countdown/list videos. That other narrator had a unique voice.
Have I ever eaten cereal without milk? Why, yes. Yes, I have! It makes for the perfect snack. 😁 Especially if there's other yummy things in it like raisins and almonds. Scrumptious!
She keeps saying that people were using foods before we cultivated them ourselves. Ya. That makes total sense. Why would we put time and energy into something that we don't know is useful?
Well, the breadcrumbs in Ötzi´s stomach indicate having eaten something I would call "bread". Probably baked on the fire directly, or an a hot stone next to the fire. Surely he did not use a pan, so calling it "pancake" is far-fetched. (And most surely he did not have baking soda in there, as in nowadays US-American pan cake premade mixtures.) Whether it was sour dough or yeast or autolytic preparation, or just roasted fresh mush .... we do not know.
I enjoy these videos, but definitely prefer the male voice. His deadpan delivery and sarcasm is what keeps me coming back. The female voice I find to be a bit irritating.
There is no reason that people would have gathered corn and brought it home to the hearth unless they were already planning to eat it - and that doesn't require fire. Fresh corn is the best eating, when it's still juicy and sweet! On a constant lookout for food, if folks see something that looks good, they're going to experiment with it, tasting, watching for adverse effects. Learning that corn can pop would come later, as it was commonly held & utilized.
There are people who just don't like women. I agree most of us just like the guy and dislike change, but you can't claim there aren't a vocal group of dudes who dislike ladies.
what surprised me the most is that you think dry cereal is somehow bad???? I mean usually the milk doesn't even change the taste of the cereal much so idk what to tell you but it is amazing dry?
7:00 someone want to explain to me why Olive Oil is described here as an all-purpose cooking component? It has two uses, and that's it. And if you can't remember where you bought yours, consider buying an actually decent one.
