Fun with corned beef 

Dear pentagon this week we have caught 37 black flies, 12 horse flies, and one bee (unknown species)

Procrastinating getting ready for school that starts in 30 minutes

@@MarylandFarmer."It's fuzzy, but that is inconclusive. Will properly debrief the bee and report on its species status within 24 hours."

So here is your problem: You have auto play enabled.

I have auto play disabled, BUT, the next up video for me is about Salisbury Steak being the first fad diet.

To be fair, the video (at the time that I'm writing this) is titled "Fun with corned beef" so you're going to get some number of cooking videos recommended to you after watching this one. For me, there's three in the first 10 suggestions on the side of the webpage, while the second heading after "From Lateral with Tom Scott" is titled simply "Corned beef" and has those three followed by many more.

One of the few times auto play lead to something good. I highly recommend binging Max's entire channel, at least if you're into food but also history in general. Start at the Garum and hard tack times a few years ago, as those two will crop up regularly :) *clack clack*

RU-vid's now recommending me a corned beef recipe. Even though I have never, ever looked at a cooking channel on RU-vid at all.

Exactly! If nothing, they knew how body parts looked better than the average modern, young Western person does (I still have trouble distinguishing which chicken organs are which when I eat it! They all look brownish and spongy when cooked, so it's difficult to tell.)

This and also they were way less safety and health laws, so people tended to die a bit more. Also 1935 was no even 20 years after WW1 so probably there still were a lot of veterans there.

It probably depends on the era and whether you lived in the city, or a farm. At one point, people no doubt butchered their own animals. But I would expect professional butchers made the process more efficient. Being able to get every bit of meat you can. Or if you lived in the city, I imagine the meat was already butchered when tou got it. Before all of that, when everybody lived hand to mouth, it would have certainly been common to butcher your own meat. Can't pay for a butcher if you have no money. And you can't make mich money living hand to mouth.

I've never seen or heard of bully beef but it appears to be Spam made of beef instead of pork?

given that this prank was perpetrated against a hotel- it would probably cost them substantially more than a couple hundred to replace all the missing bulbs

3:00 ok, not art... But what is it shaped like... From what I remember corned beef has a sort of grainy meat texture and would even if dried up would look rather meaty; so it must be an imitation of some internal organ (or perhaps a body part that is skinned). And I would actually think that most people know hows what kidneys and livers at the time (not necessarily human versions, but cattle offal was much more common to prepare and eat yourself a hundred years ago than today); so it would have to be some organ that is not normally eaten like a (skinned) penis or testicles (both of which would be sufficiently weird and morbid to draw a crowd), or if it is regularly eaten, actually has a similar texture to corned beef like a tongue, or muscle tissue, or perhaps it could have been pressed into a bulbous shape and claimed to be a tumor? If it was painted or covered in something to hide it's normal corned beef texture I don't understand why it even would be made of meat at all; because then you could have made it out of more or less anything... unless you were going to eat it... in which case it probably wouldn't be stored in a velvet lined box since that would indicate it's dried up and not fresh. Besides having fresh human meat would be much more suspicious (and probably illegal) than having an old preserved sample, which could be claimed to be an ancient relic from a saint or something; or perhaps just a morbid memento of some long dead famous person, like Napoleon or whatever.

5:20 Person with a very famous association with a body part... Vincent van Gogh and his ear?

I've heard some theories recently (think it was in a history podcast) that the cutting off his own ear thing might actually have been a lie to protect a friend who accidentally (or in a drunken rage) cut his ear off with a sword, perhaps in some sort of illegal duel or just drunken thing. It's one thing to be mad but to be able to slowly and deliberately slice off the whole ear; everything but part of the earlobe apparently; yourself in an act of self harm is rather extreme and somewhat unlikely. I could understand starting to cut it but it probably would very quickly be too painful to continue. And if he had impulsively cut it of very quickly in one slice; I would have assumed the logical way to do it would be to grab the earlobe and cut upwards which would not leave much of an earlobe at all (but possibly leave a bit of the top of the ear). Having part of an earlobe remaining (the presumably easiest part to cut off) and nothing of the cartilage; seems to suggest a cut from above, which is rather odd choice if you're doing it yourself. But as a fencing injury; it makes a lot of sense.

Mid-guess 5:20 : The "hidden" hand of Napoleon?

-Banana on a wall- The Comedian - 2019 Hold up, I'm getting news that the person who made The Comedian got sued for copyright infringement.

I mean, it would be a commentary. Not the meat itself, but everybody's reaction to it.

Assuming he meant politically correct

'political' and 'polite' have the same root, and for a very, very, _very_ long time they were more or less interchangeable.

"Political" also means something like 'tactful', ie, inoffensive.

@@anarchodin thank you, that makes a lot of sense. I assume talking about genitals on Tom's show would be a little awkward lol

​@@Connor-sj7uv I mean, its a very not PC way to describe genitals as just male or female; its way more PC to either use the medical term penile and vaginal reproductive systems, or juet say reproductive systems, or just say genitalia. The prob with describin genitals as male or female is it excludes around 2% of the population who are intersex and have what is defined medically as "ambiguous genitalia"