Feeding a Roman Gladiator 

Lmao

Stop before Jake Paul gets wind of this...

@Jonathan LaPointe If only it was their sweat...

@Jonathan LaPointe real simps buy gamer girl bath water

Amouranth sells farts now. Idk who she is, but I know she sells farts.

🤣 yes!

With nuzlocke rules on as well.

In celebration of another informative and witty episode, I hope to pit my (AuntDebra's) against Josémm's or JMaximus' Pokémon some time in the near future!

The lucky -trainer- Lanista caught a shiny one!

@@peasant8246 I dunno, Maximus was kind of a looker in Gladiator. :v

underrated comment

I actually think he hasn't watched it irl. Call it Christian vibes, I could be wrong 🤔

Come to graubünden..we eat that stuff all the time

In Italy we have many dishes that recall ancient Roman dishes, and also a food culture that has been handed down for centuries. In northern Italy we still make hams as the Romans did.

We ate that growing up at our grandparents house

Mine were from there as well (Ferruzzano) and also ate it. 🙂

@@scotmclean5124 oh wow thats just down the road theyre from Guardavalle, so cool! You dont see that many Calabrese people

🤣 yes!

Thats a good one

@@bustedkeaton The real question is: would you be glad to have a dad bod?

😂😂

@@austinpresley6187 Personally I'm dad to have a glad bod

Well he failed, if you’re commenting.

Make sure to tie the kids to the seats, so they don’t escape. Also, tape their mouths so they don’t get carsick on the real leather

@@smartstudyingdoggo9031 ahh yes, *life hacks*

Well not me..

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Same shit, different age. Cancel culture happened back then too, it was referred to as 'damnatio memoriae'.

@@tylere.8436 lol

gladiator girl bathwater

Sadly we don't appreciate superior forms as they did back then

@@bartoszstarszobracki8675 you mean dead person bathwater?

**tucks you in**

And his opponent, I give you Granitus Thermos Austinius Murmilo. "Cue Stone Cold's theme song in Lyres and Flutes.

And vampire repellant

@@jlshel42 it attracts Ukrainians as well

YOOOOOO DISTURBAN WATCHES TASTING HISTORY?

Well, darn. Considering I haven't done the dishes yet, I could probably stab someone with Rome...

Saaaame

Out of laziness I tried cooking rice with lentils in the same pot. Didn't get the timing right. The lentils turned mushy and the rice soggy, but it tasted surprisingly good. There is something about grains + beans that somehow complements each other.

@@marcheck3400 what you made on accident sounds a lot like Indian Khichdi (/Khichuri), if you liked what you made and want to give it another go, I hope you look up any of those recipes, they're super easy too!

“A Roman themed party” Hmmm, back in the 70’s we’d have called that a toga party. I never would have thought to bring Puls though…Toga! Toga! Toga!

@@davidfusco6600 toga parties are still a thing

​@@marcheck3400​ Apparently the one amino acid that prevents lentils from having a complete amino acid profile is found abundantly in rice. Tyrosine I believe is the one. Regardless, they are super tasty together

because part of being a good gladiator is to accept your death after you surrendered, clearly

Expect a movie for him 20 years from now.

Right! This dude sounds awesome

The gladiatorial games started out as essentially human sacrifice to the gods and its not a good look when one of your sacrifices doesn’t play his part

reminds me a lot of a battle royal win I got last week

Actually, Italian cuisine uses a lot less garlic than non Italians think and, most importantly, we do it smartly There's a good video on pastagrammar about it Also, garlic bread doesn't exist in Italy

@@iafozzac I’ve always thought of garlic bread as more of a French thing, especially since it’s usually garlic _baguettes,_ at least here in Norway.

@@iafozzac i have seen several dishes that call for garlic and just as many that do not. but i will hand it to the ones that know what they are doing, they know how to use herbs and spices to make the dish pop and not overpower and less salt than many other regions do.

@@ragnkja true germay has garlic baguettes too! very good stuff...

@@iafozzac I do suppose that depends on the region, right? The dishes I had in the Emilia-Romagna region were quite garlicky, from what I remember, as were those in Rome (which I don't mind, as I LOVE garlic and always put tons of it in nearly every dish I make, whether it be Italian, Thai, Chinese, Indian or French). I don't know about the south though, visto che Sicilia e Napoli sono ancora sulla mia lista dei desideri.

🤣

Now I can't help imagining a "Gladiator" scene where, say, Lucilla goes to Maximus in the cell and complains for the fart stink LOL Gosh, this notion ruined it for me (and Russell Crowe is my absolute idol as it comes down to acting).

So I’m on my way to be a gladiator. Flabby and gassy, now I just need to learn to fight.

@@Ethernaut7 played by Kirk Dougl”ass”

@@Ethernaut7 Outstanding

The logistics of that always floored me (being a former stage crew member). How'd they pipe in that quantity of water? How'd they keep it from leaking into the lower levels? How did they get whole ships into this structure? I want to know how they did it all!

@@slwrabbits from what I`ve read, the Colosseum had it`s own aqueduct and channel system for flooding and draining, the ships weren`t full size, but small scale, think large fishing boats, made to look like the real ones. The water on the arena was not deep, otherwise the weight would become a huge problem.

@@takhu That makes sense, thank you!

@@slwrabbits I believe it was there before the lower levels were added in transition for gladiator fights.

@@takhu Also if the water was too deep you risked drowning your prized gladiators and that's not very fun to watch.

Similar to the notes by DaVinci's students with penises doodled in the margins

@@reddragoon7981 Only difference is Da Vinci would complain that the doodles were horribly drawn, and they should be ashamed of that.

This is why it's wise to study people if you wish to change your situation. Morals and cultures change, human nature does not.

It’s only 2000 years, a blink of an eye, relatively speaking. We are not that different from our ancient ancestors.

Some things never change, huh?

oh shit there always is a background pokemon in his eps? never knew about this easter egg EDIT; just checked and its true :o

Has anyone ever gone back and cataloged the Pokémon for every video? I’d be interested to see how many we’ve gone through 😂

Looky man!

I think Falinks would have been a better choice here. Maybe if he did/has done a Roman Legionaire video (IDK)

Technically, all of them would be appropriate for a gladiator episode.

And u know what? That’s half the battle :)

And your girlfriend / wife / significant other will be so thrilled to learn that she's 50% of the way to being in bed with a gladiator!

😂😂😂

@@Julia-lk8jn lmao

You'd be a great jobber, at least. Bleed a lot to excite the audience.

I also eat oatmeal everyday. It's filling and good for you. No need to feel bad. 😊

It's very very goooood!

#NotASponsor

AND RIGHTFULLY SO!! lol

More like he made this video so he could list the purchase as a business expense 🤣

No, it was to show off "his" cat. The Lego set is just to keep the cat's attention while filming.

@ Ornessar Hithfaeron Lego should have sponsored it.

Good point. Interesting because I love barley.

@@Anesthesia069 How plebeian

@@Anesthesia069 Pffff, peasant.

It seems to depend on the period. There are quite a few barley recipes in Apicius. Must have been reasonably respectable then. (1st century)

There's a traditional barley-and-pork stew they make around where my dad's from and I absolutely love that stuff. But even there, it had a reputation as a poor man's grain well into the 20th century.

What's with 'kinda'? Words like "kinda, gonna gotcha wanna" are incorrect English words that originated from Southern USA states.

​@@michaelciccone2194 why are you like this?

@@michaelciccone2194 he can say whatever he wants

Learn English

​@@michaelciccone2194 Daily Reminder that American Southern English is the best representation of historical English

🤣 That’s worrying

Boiled barley (made with stock and/or spices if you prefer) can be made in bulk and frozen in plastic bags for easy use later.

@@ragnkja Not in the roman era.

@@dnmurphy48 i think theyre giving OP tips, not the gladiators.

@@dnmurphy48 Are you saying that they didn’t have freezers or plastic bags in the antiquity? 😂

So like a modern day professional wrestler.

Virilis Vir Lupus Barbarus, the cream of the crop...

@@bigfatchubbybritboy9445 more like mma

@@bigfatchubbybritboy9445 with more death

Its like signing up for a death game gamble like in kaiji/liargame or the shiity live action squid game

Sure but the DID like to buff of, something that can be seen in paintings. Apperantly a layer of fat functioned as a type of armor giving at least some pitiful protection.

@@michaelpettersson4919 actually a layer of fat bled nicely, but an injury to it was less fatal. Put on a better show

@@michaelpettersson4919 Whatever was cheap, calorie-rich and nutritious enough to not cause any obvious deficiency issues was what they were given, basically.

in most cases they ate better than the nobles that held them, they were in essence viewed as live stock and you feed your livestock to keep them in top shape for events. an account of one such gladiator i read was a man that fought for 20 years and won all but one match where his opponent showed leniency and this bloke up and killed the man that spared his life moments later. from some of the things i read about him he was 36 when he won his freedom and had trained for 5 years before his first fight...so he was around 11 when he either willingly went into service asa gladiator or was sold. he may have even been a servants child. until his hard won freedom he was fed on grains, fatty meats, and fresh fruit and vegetables. This account pops up in several places where i try to learn more about that time and is used as an example as to the life of a gladiator that survived most if not all of their fights. Can yall imagine an 11 year old being told that he needs to buff up these days? most of them would whine that it is too hard.

@@helema23 was that last part you honestly being nostalgic for when kids were Tough and sold into slavery? Lmao

Chankonabe!

Go away Asia

One word: full

Nabe!

Chanko nabe :D

That's right, gladiators would have been taught to fight in a style that would have been designed to look as flashy as possible.

And their gear was almost certainly gimmicked. If a blade is made with a deliberately poor shape it can cut shallowly easily but not deeply. The trident with the triangular tips would also be difficult to pierce deeply with, especially compared to a spear. The armor also leaves exposed areas with fat deposits and no bones or tendons right by the surface. I think a common ending was a shallow slash across the stomach, which the loser grabbed as if they were holding their guts in from an actual disembowelment.

If I recall correctly, they were trained to aim for the back, slashes on your ack piss blood, are really impressive, but not threatening to your life ^^ Of course there were deads, but not a daily occurence.

@@krankarvolund7771 not in a daily occurrences? Actually very few of gladiators survived more then 10 fights

Pretty sure that the quality of the fighters in a social context greatly determined how the fight was going to be set up. Prisoners? Feed them to the lions for blood sport. No-name random grunts? Probably a decently dangerous fight where dying was going to determined by if one of the gladiators genuinely wants to kill the other. Celebrity fighters? No chance these guys were dying and they were going to do a full-on spectacle fight full of dumb, flashy moves with no real combat application but would look cool as hell.

Or a garlic-y Roma aroma. 😏

But how many men you've cooked for have died in the arena?

You can mash this dish in a food proccessor, and you'd have a hummus-like dish

I'd also swap out the salt and season with fish sauce too. Going to try this recipe as I happen to have all these ingredients in my pantry at the moment.

@@-jank-willson Good Idea!

Honestly, even if you don't die immediately from a modern boxing or football career the long term effects of repeated concussions suck. If you watch videos of Mohammad Ali late in his life it's pretty harrowing and that's the fate awaiting many professional athletes. Others like Phillip Adams have been driven to murder and the scientific consensus does seem to be that it's probably caused by the repetitive brain damage suffered during their career. Rugby is also notoriously brutal. Or look at Nascar, another deadly sport which has killed 29 people in 74 years which is one every 2.5 years. I think from a morality standpoint we actually should ban these blood sports. Sure, life gives you no guarantees of safety or longevity and there are many other far more dangerous jobs out there but to pay people to attempt to cheat death for no reason other than entertainment doesn't seem moral. The argument could be made that football lifts many hopeless urban youth, especially young black people, out of poverty but does that make it right? If you took two homeless black 12 year olds from Baltimore and told them that if they'd fight to the death you'd give the winner $100 million, would that be moral? Surely the best solution would be to create alternate routes out of poverty, not add more blood sports. A universal basic income is completely feasible and would do a much better job: if you eliminate social security, food stamps, housing subsidies and their related bureaucracy in favor of giving every US citizen a check just like the ones during the pandemic but for $1,200 every single month, you could far more efficiently tackle poverty. I think a combination of UBI and getting people invested in improving the lives of others in their community is the best path forward.

"The party was filled with corpses. And then some members started to act violently!"

@@sarafinasummers7863 I'm with you on the sweet pasta salads. What hath they wrought? I think the answer to the "how can midwestern folks eat all that" is: the cold. Cold burns fat.

I would really love to have your recipes. Meal makes a meal. Glop is the glue that holds the world together with such inventive variety. I'm of such a mind as to say there is so much to cherish in a thin nut gruel. ;-)

I guess these days food photography is such an inescapable thing that it'd be hard to give a tasty helping of glop away for free. Shame about it! Fun thing about a good glop (a.k.a a thick soup): it stays in the stomach a lot longer than the exact same ingredients would do if they hadn't been boiled to a soup, so the satiation lasts longer.

I’ve seen _so_ many examples of single consonants that should have been double in Norwegian, mostly written by children.

some people like their documents bland and flavorless i guess 🙄

@@juanjuri6127 How better to describe bankers, accountants, and lawyers?

Heh, job security.

Garlic juice was used as glue to adhere gold leaf by illuminators, so there may well have been garlic in the documents!

They also tended to have different standards of fitness. Could you go all day in doing rough and ready stuff? Cool? Have a little flab? Good! It means you have meat on your bones and won't starve. Also, women who were pudgy tended to be seen as much more beautiful than the rail thin supermodels we consider such these days.

@@jgkitarel So what you're saying is, THEY LIKE EM THICK

Fitness doesn't mean rocking a 8 pack year around. Not always.

Well, most people who rock the dad bod aren't packing pounds of muscle underneath-- same deal with sumo wrestlers. Sure they're fat, but it's subcutaneous, not visceral fat. And they train got hours to build muscle underneath. That kind of body takes real dedication

@@LancesArmorStriking Exactly, the caloric surplus ensures that they are building muscle at the fastest possible rate. According to Mike Israetel, in order for the body to make muscular hypertrophic adaptations, it has to be convinced that food is not only there, it is abundant. The inmates in US prison have the best most perfect strength regime for optimal fitness. The dirty bulk, and they train to get their push up, pull up and squat number higher and higher and higher. From former ex inmate in Mississippi, who is now a bartender, I have heard that they do half their max reps each set, for push ups and squat, each set 15-30 minutes apart, all day, and when doing half their max reps feel easier than before, they go for a new max attempt, build their next training cycle (aka sets of half of their new max reps) based on their new max, and repeat this cycle indefinitely. It's not rare to see 250 pounds or better hulking dudes who can bang out 20 pull ups and 100 push ups like it's cheescake, and majority of that bodyweight is hulking muscle, which also gives them beast stamina and cardio.

I hate you for making me laugh so hard at such a crap joke.

@@cousinjake7986 More of a carb joke.

Dude didn't know nearly enough about anatomy to be a cannibal.

@@angolin9352 yeah… he preferred things fresh, not out of a can.

...and a nice Chianti.

But how does it accentuate the flavor of the liver? That's what I'm hearing pairs best with fava beans. I just love fafafafafafava beans.

And a nice Falernian

Wow we have been doing WWE for a long time thats fascinating

@@MonsterPumpkin As long as fighting has been a spectacle, which is since forever, it has been a "work" to one degree or another. There's money in spectacle and everyone involved can make more money, more reliably, if the fighters don't hurt each other too badly and can live to fight each other another day.

Although deaths were surprisingly rare.

To be fair, they should have muscles under the layer of fat, since they were training every day. Kind of like sumo wrestlers.

@@BorisBelomor Or like professional wrestlers from the 80's on back. Not many were chiseled, or even showed much muscular definition, but those guys still trained/worked out all of the time. You had to just to be able to keep up for a 20-30 minute match without being gassed in the first few minutes. They were strong SOB's and you didn't want to mess with them outside of the ring.

@@BorisBelomor Yeah, it's like in any "Worlds strongest man" contest they don't look chiselled, they look like someone shaved a bear and then decided to see how many carbs they could fit in it. It's almost like Hollywood has been consistently lying to us about male perfection.

@@aidanfarnan4683 Nah, it started long before Hollywood. Have you seen ancient Greek and Roman statues? They also mostly admired the chiseled body-building type look.

@@aidanfarnan4683 😂😂😂😂 Brilliant description! You should write comedy.

Very very true. I’m bummed it’s finally time for Hakuho to retire.

Chanko nabe isn't a specific dish, it's more a category. Like "ramen bowl". It can have a myriad of different ingredients and there's no fixed recipe

Please tell me the actual translation is not stables.

That chanko nabe is by far one of the greatest things in Japanese cuisine.

Chanko nabe is very healthy for a meal that's supposed to put weight, but the portion tho 😲

Interesting, I didn't know the author of this famous tune was Czech composer Julius Fučík. Another reason to be proud for my country.

@@JustSpectre Be proud of your country it razed you.

@@buckysgirl4945 Hopefully it raised you first

@@Cubstiti Nope I'm a proud American ninth generation military brat. I'm also a bit of a history and fantasy nerd, hence the handle.

For the record: the circular arena used in Gladiatorial combat is called a circus. The circus was also used for chariot and horse racing, staged battles, and monster chariot rallies (kidding). The association with the modern circus began with an English equestrian rider named Philip Astley, who started trick riding in a circular path in 1768 (his predecessors preferred straight lines) and filled the intermission periods between his performances with jugglers, clowns acrobats etc..... The first use of the word circus in this format was by another Englishman, Charles Dibdin, when he opened the Royal Circus in 1782, featuring acts similar to Astley's. The latter opened his own full circus in Paris the same year, calling it the Amphitheatre Anglais. These circuses were permanently moored to a single purpose built building, and the traveling circus with a canvas big top didn't debut until 1826.

I know what you mean by more water than food in your gruel, i have had gruel in which it was basically a big bowl of soup with not much food in it, like a few scoops of rice and a trace amount of meat. It did not fill me up for long, my stomach was growling again in about 2 hours

Fireflies? ;)

Apparently many ex sumos that didnt make it big make a living opening chankonabe restaurants.

@@MrMickio1 If one of them would kindly move to Seattle, that'd be lovely!

@@SimuLord *roll

Women are not "ass" you prick

@@joltjolt5060 dude, no

I really love simple foods like rice and beans!

Oh god, I just don't understand how people can do that. I get bored of eating the same thing super fast, can't eat the same dish (or even just similar ones) for more than 2 days in a row, and even _that_ is hard most of the time.

@@Serjo777 Have you lived alone and cooked everything yourself? Lazyness is a very powerful motivator. I can cook like 3 things and eat them in different combinations for 4 days no problem, it happens often. Like cooking a shitton of rice, bean chilli and sauteed veggies and just eating that everyday (with some different breakfast and snacks)

@@classypotato9255 I'd rather starve ._.

Its not bad eating. It's how it is cooked. The Indians live of rice and beans, and they have endless variations of such dishes.

How ironic considering what happened to Gaul cuisine-wise when the Franks got there and discovered what one can do with garlic...

Add a little soy sauce, and/or hot sauce?

Gladiatorial training emphasized speed and endurance. So while they might not have been hollywood ripped, they certainly weren't chubby or fat. And when Galen mentioned the "softness" of gladiator flesh, he was most likely referring to the fact that they were more vulnerable to disease.

Sumo wrestlers are probably a decent frame of reference, I would suspect.

Galen couldve just been lying.

So, gladiators had dad bods? I'm cool with that. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@EvanHBogle More likely, they were muscular _and_ had a good bit of extra fat. They definitely weren’t the type of chubby that’s most common among sedentary people today.

Wow that’s cool, in Spanish the word arena still means sand

Reminds me of what we would say about military rations, especially after weeks in the field and eating the same damn shit day in and day out. You get tired of eating MREs, even though modern issuings have a lot more variety, very quickly if that's all your eating for weeks on end. Not helped by the fact that how palatable some are depends heavily on whether you have the time, or are simply allowed, to cook them with the FRH.

If you want the dish to have been possible in Roman times you’d have to leave out the peppers, but everything else was probably commonly done by farmers at the time.

@@ragnkja Point well made. With a little cursory digging it looks like sweeter peppers like bell and pimento didn't arrive in european countries until mid~late 1400's, but I'd be surprised if hot peppers from India weren't making their rounds in the BC's and early AD's from the spice trade. Though I don't know how well bird's eye chilis and the like would do in a dish like this. Maybe if you added them to the oil as well for a little bit of a kick?

@@DarkPatu Chili peppers are from the New World--South and Central America--hence only showed up in the Far East and Europe in the 1500's But black pepper was native to India, so it was certainly around before that.

@@DarkPatu Even though bird's eye chili is called thai chili, it was only breed in southeast asia in the XVIth century ^^

@@krankarvolund7771 Really? That's neat as heck, thanks for the history nugget!

Pffft please. Marching band got all kinds of special treatment compared to other sports and clubs because of their use at the football games.

i guarantee you your football team made the school money. i don't understand why people get so peeved about it. Sure you brought home state and national awards but did you generate any revenue?

@@landynstella5977 Outsider here: how does a not very successful football generate money? The whole idea of a school earning money from their sports Team is a bit alien to me. I figured sports teams _cost_ money, same as bands.

@@Julia-lk8jn booster clubs, donations, grants, fundraising, ticket sales, admission, concession, and apparel.

@@kevionrogers2605 🤯 How it works in my country: free to play, although parents may need to buy some equipment eg. shoes. Officials, referees etc. usually volunteers. If a team wants to travel far from home the students fundraise by holding raffles, sausage sizzles etc. - sometimes for more than a year if it’s an overseas trip. And the spectators will all be parents. As for college sport, it’s just a way to unwind, keep fit and make friends - or an excuse to go to the pub after.