How to Eat Like a Pirate: Hardtack & Grog

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@TastingHistory 3 года назад

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@lezardvaleth2304 3 года назад

_Gone, gone, RU-vidr bland_ _Arise the patron Etrigan!_

@KetchupwithMaxandJose 3 года назад

@@lezardvaleth2304 hey Max it’s my guy from Valkyrie Profile

@cleoharper1842 3 года назад

Woo-hoo! Can't wait to get into this one.

@chanceDdog2009 3 года назад

Sr. Your hands are amazing. It's like alabaster or white marble.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

@@chanceDdog2009 I’m very pale

@pyrojinn 3 года назад

It was Steve. Steve ate the hundred years old hardtack.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Yes!

@lorenzocolantoni161 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory His videos are so interesting! They always make me think about the connection between food and history and I love it

@alexward1319 3 года назад

he also ate the 120 year old boer war beef *hork*

@alanhyt79 3 года назад

He even got it out onto a tray. Nice.

@hizurumegumi5727 3 года назад

I love that video, Steve is a fun guy to watch eat old ass Mre's

@ArmouredProductions 3 года назад

If you mentioned Townsends a third time he would be summoned and bless all your dishes with Nutmeg

@astralgravy 3 года назад

WE CAN ONLY HOPE

@dougradtke 3 года назад

Savor the tastes and aroma of the 18th century baby

@AveImperatoris 3 года назад

Freshly ground

@adelheidsnel5171 3 года назад

Haha

@WantedVisual 3 года назад

On the one hand, this recipe calls for no nutmeg, almost forbids it. On the other hand... There's Jon Townsend.

@picax8398 Год назад

"theres a guy on the internet who eats it" lets get this on to a tray

@dustyfan22 Год назад

The only downside is hard tack doesn't come with a good powdered sports drink

@HankMcMacOReily Год назад

Nice

@chauntikleer Год назад

Or a vintage 5-pack of Chesterfields.

@garge7676 Год назад

Nice hiss!

@grimrot Год назад

Steve is a legend lol.

@tgbluewolf Год назад

I'm betting that lembas and cram were what Tolkien *wished* hardtack was: tasty and nutritious.

@seronymus Год назад

Can I have a lembas recipe

@zxyatiywariii8 Год назад

@seronymus There's one online, "Lembas Bread 'Authentic Elvish' " which sounds delicious. Now I want to try making some. . .

@SiniBANG Год назад

If only lembas is a thing, I'll just bring that bread to work and I'm set for a month at least, a bite per day during lunch break, saves me 2 dollars per meal.

@mr.zardoz3344 11 месяцев назад

And juicy sweet.

@w.reidripley1968 9 месяцев назад

_Cram_ -- ". . . said to be sustaining, and certainly not entertaining, except as chewing exercise."

@bon7029 3 года назад

"They watered down the rum." 4 parts water. 1 part rum. Me: Sounds like they spiked the water.

@AnhTrieu90 3 года назад

Kinda important on a ship because god knows what has been growing in that water.

@Wormworttea 3 года назад

@@AnhTrieu90 nice. My worms come pre drunk.

@spiderfan1974 2 года назад

That and water down the alcohol so you don't have a bunch of drunk sailors.

@kiroat 2 года назад

@@spiderfan1974 what do you even do with those guys?

@JM-pk2nv 2 года назад

@@kiroat something something rusty razor, something something captain's daughter ... on the tip of my tongue

@carolineh.1925 3 года назад

"someone on the internet eats hard tack from the civil war' Ah yes, Steve1989 back at it again giving himself food poisoning for us, I see.

@katiewray2525 3 года назад

Let's get this on a tray.

@jakewolfe7397 3 года назад

@@katiewray2525 Nice!

@bigmoniesponge 3 года назад

I love the taste of shoe.

@jaykutts9664 3 года назад

Nice hiss!

@azsunburns 3 года назад

Haha Steve!

@toonbat 2 года назад

I'm reminded of dwarf bread from the Discworld series. It was highly prized by people going on long journeys. Basically because if you ever got hungry enough to try and eat rocks, you could use the bread to grind the rocks into porridge.

@eskarinakatz7723 2 года назад

It was also used as weaponry, and the Low King of the dwarves of Uberwald was king by the right of the Scone of Stone, dwarf bread that is believed to have first been sat upon by Bh’rian Bloodaxe, first of the Low Kings.

@kryw10 2 года назад

gooood reference! :D

@agihammerthief8953 2 года назад

And if the rocks aren't appetizing enough, you can take one look at the bread and go "you know, I'll rather eat the rocks"

@globalwarmhugs7741 2 года назад

Wow. And I thought I was a nerd! I love it!!! Well met, friend. 🐢

@Zerbey 2 года назад

There's a few wonderful scenes about the Dwarfs (and Carrot) getting teary eyed about dwarf bread. I'm sure Pterry was just following Tolkien's lead with "cram".

@timeagenty4560 2 года назад

17:14 And thus began the most entertaining cutaway in this channel.

@ThinWhiteAxe Год назад

I'm catching up on old videos and watching the birth of the meme!

@masterimbecile Год назад

Hardtack *clack clack*

@hidefstef 10 месяцев назад

facts lol

@harmsc12 8 месяцев назад

Clack Clack!

@pdawg216 8 месяцев назад

I've seen the reference so many times and this finally came on my feed 😂😂

@thrandompug2254 3 года назад

"He reported his findings to the British Navy who then proceeded to ignore them for 200 years." might be quite possibly the funniest sentence I have ever heard for some reason

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 and it’s true

@Eviltwin531 3 года назад

It's insane how stupidly stubborn the nobility can be. I'll never forget the story of doctors stubbornly refusing to wash their hands for decades (leading to who knows how many deaths) because "Doctors are gentlemen, and a gentleman's hands are always clean."

@MadJustin7 3 года назад

@@Eviltwin531 Or the doctor in the 1800's who discovered that washing your hands in a bleach solution before surgery cut down on infection, but was then promptly ignored because it when against medical wisdom of the time.

@truckerallikatuk 3 года назад

It wasn't submitted on the correct forms. Navies have standards... and also float on red tape not water.

@krankarvolund7771 3 года назад

@@MadJustin7 It was also because bleach is fucking corrosive for your hands, and because doctors at the time were proud to have their hands dirty from the dissection of corpses... yeah, they examined their patients with hands full of corpses germs and juices and were astonished to have so many blood poisonings ^^'

@celestialangel666 3 года назад

"being on a ship, you don't add salt because everything is salty." Me, Navy Veteran: yes.

@chucklebutt4470 3 года назад

Ever sleep in a Hot bunk? Lol, worked some shitty and sandy places but I always got my own bed! Also, If you are a young man or woman in the US that qualifies for service and wants to join I'd suggest that you JOIN THE AIR FORCE. lol, kind of joking but also not. I spent lots of nights either in a shithole or living at Ft. Drum thinking "I shoulda joined the Air Force" lol. One of the greatest things I've taken with me for going on 10 yrs since getting my DD 214 is PATIENCE. I bet a lot of other Vets would agree.

@_Fizel_ 3 года назад

@@chucklebutt4470 My air force veteran dad would agree with that point XD

@katleman 3 года назад

So as a landlubber away from the sea, I should add a bit of salt to recreate the naval experience

@celestialangel666 3 года назад

@@katleman I'd say more than a bit. Like, enough salt WHILE COOKING that you taste it. then have salt on the table just in case.

@gwydionrusso3206 3 года назад

@@chucklebutt4470 i’m planning on becoming an aviator for the US military when I turn 18 so that way when I get out I can become a private pilot. why does everyone say that the Air Force is better than the Navy?

@marybethjordan8520 2 года назад

I had a dog who, when he was a puppy, won a contest prize of a giant biscuit in the shape of a bone. I realize now it was hard tack because he kept that thing for his whole life, re-hiding it whenever I pulled it out its latest hiding place.

@selinesbeau 2 года назад

I knew an old guy from Newfoundland that would have me pick up "hard bread" from the fish market for him every time I went to Ottawa. It was like those cheapo dinner rolls you get at the grocery store, but the consistency of a brick. Apparently, you were supposed to boil it with fish. ..... I was never brave enough to try it, but he loved it as a taste of home and was always thrilled to get it, along with a container of loose leaf earl grey tea. Edit: typo corrected.

@kjonita Год назад

It's made by the Newfoundland company Purity. It's called hardbread and is served with salt cod as a dish called fish and brewis....sounds like bruise. Purity also makes a similar product called sweetbread which is softer and sweet eaten as is with a cup of tea or coffee.

@DaimoHope Год назад

@@kjonitaI was just gonna say that it sounded like Brewis

@TeddyBerry 3 года назад

Missed opportunity to say "I'd sooner eat a man at sea, than eat a manatee!"

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

Ah! How hadn’t I heard that?

@asweknowit123 3 года назад

Wouldn't a man at tea likely have more meat on the bones though?

@RenaissanceEarCandy 3 года назад

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

@Amy_the_Lizard 3 года назад

@@RenaissanceEarCandy As you should - I'd be concerned for your sanity if it was the other way around!

@Amy_the_Lizard 3 года назад

Sadly that wasn't the case for the Stellar's sea cow. Poor things got eaten into extinction. It was really sad too, they were a monogamous social species, so there were cases of the surviving mate following ships around for days in the hopes that their mate would come back after the sailors drug them out of the water, and of some repeatedly ramming ships to try and free their mate or another member of their group...

@seventhsheaven 3 года назад

“Ship’s biscuits” sounds like an old-timey exclamation that a wholesome pirate would make. Like, “Ship’s biscuits, where’s me peg leg got to?! Arr!”

@Archgeek0 3 года назад

A fair curse considering their properties.

@averagejoe9040 3 года назад

That sounds so much like a curse I think I'll start using it.

@northernlights9533 3 года назад

Aye captn! Look! Do i see right with me eye!? *_SHIPS BISCUITS... ITS ME TREASURE!_*

@eigenvee 3 года назад

Sounds like something Dr. McCoy might say.

@goddessofgreen1 3 года назад

🤣

@owenwolfco.8344 Год назад

Once I convinced a friend of mine to try and make hardtack alongside myself to compare. Mine ended up as expected, but his didn’t dehydrate completely so he ended up with a tough, stringy, web-like mass that he aptly named “tuff-tack”. I don’t know the science, but it was so good to eat

@albgardis Год назад

Hello northwest German here. I stumbled upon one of your words for sailor's foods and was astonished over the spelling: Lobscouse. We spell it Labskaus (sounds just like yours) and I have eaten that in the 70s as a regular dish. It contains herring, beef, red beets and (after getting introduced by Prussian King in 18th century) potato mash. I am likely forgetting some ingredients now, it's been a while and I have been a vegetarian since 1984. The red beets make it look very red or purple. It is a really good nutrition provider at sea.

@uberspessmann9604 7 месяцев назад

That’s just like George Orwell’s book

@andersjjensen 2 месяца назад

Labskovs (Danish) is made with just potatoes, onion and beef. But everywhere the name pops up it's basically the same: "Irish Stew" with whatever you happen to have.

@chronovac 3 года назад

"There is still hardtack from the civil war and a guy on the internet eats it" You can go ahead and call Steve out, we all know who you're talking about

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

I couldn’t remember his name 🤣

@rocknrevolt938 3 года назад

NGL I was wondering if it was Ashens because he does stuff like that all the time. It sounds like something he'd do.

@teresafarley3838 3 года назад

Andrew Zimmern did too

@aq5426 3 года назад

Steve gets called out by EVERYONE, I swear! :D

@Jessica-zi7xd 3 года назад

@@teresafarley3838 thanks I was trying to remember which show I watched that did and tasted a hard tack recipe.

@blacknapalm2131 3 года назад

Their diet was SO miserable that I once read an account that said 'and the hard tack was full of weavels, and they were thankful for it' *They actually looked forward to some insects in their diet to break the monotony!*

@livinglifeleona 3 года назад

Protein

@MrYfrank14 2 года назад

I read story a prison camp survivor told. They always had a pot of water boiling and they would throw any insect that bit them into the pot to make a daily soup .

@taraelizabethdensley9475 2 года назад

Extra protein. Lol

@xentixs Год назад

holy that is bad

@luisar5755 Год назад

@@xentixs Not really, boiled insects, its protein, its beef in a different form..

@Thought_Criminal Год назад

I think you may have the Grog™ wrong. As any pirate of the time will tell you, Grog™ is a secret mixture that contains one or more of the following elements: Kerosene, Propylene Glycol, Artificial Sweeteners, Sulfuric Acid, Rum, Acetone, Battery Acid, red dye#2, SCUMM, Axle grease and/or pepperoni.

@Lerrinus Год назад

Sounds more like a Pangalactic Gargleblaster! ;-)

@beetleperson9437 Год назад

Oo Oo Now tell me about Loom™!

@ringring8938 Год назад

What is that kind of drink, seems like fuel for jet engine.

@MortimerZabi Год назад

I prefer root beer. Does wonders against ghosts.

@kell_checks_in Год назад

And, if it's not-found-in-nature blue, it probably has some SLUSHO! as well.

@SS4Xani 10 месяцев назад

Between Townsend with his nutmeg, Chef John from Food Wishes with his cayenne pepper, and Guga with his Guga Rub (or even his basic SPG mixture), we have a combination of spices that I wonder how well they would play together.

@my20101996 3 года назад

The Pikachu dress as a Team Aqua grunt gives me ✨Pirate vibe✨

@KetchupwithMaxandJose 3 года назад

It’s the best I could do 🥵

@patdolan5210 3 года назад

@@KetchupwithMaxandJose you can't convince me that you find a plushie after the idea for the video lol. I think it's the other way round

@crickett3536 3 года назад

Team Aqua is totally pirate themed, lol, I say it counts!

@juanrolon9682 3 года назад

Team Aqua is best team

@FlexibleToast 3 года назад

Half of the fun of the videos are to see what Pokemon he will have back there.

@Kadanyix 3 года назад

"there is a guy on the internet who eats it", our boy steve is getting the reconigtion he deserves

@klikboers 3 года назад

He's so polite, even when something is terrible in one of his rations

@johnr797 3 года назад

Nice!

@johnr797 3 года назад

@@klikboers "It has a really rancid taste... oh, that's off. Yeah that's definitely off. Lemme go in for another bite.."

@klikboers 3 года назад

@@johnr797 He like politely described a Ukrainian ration almost killing him one video

@davidward2651 3 года назад

Let's get this out onto a tray. How come Townsends gets mentioned by name but Steve is just a "guy on the internet"?

@sharks3010 2 года назад

I loved your little reference to lobscouse. I'm from Liverpool, England (hometown of the Beatles) and if there is one dish that's iconic to our city it's Scouse. So much so that in the UK, people from Liverpool are known as Scousers (said like s-cow-sers). We are a port city and for hundreds of years we were one of Britains largest ports moving goods between Africa, America and the West Indies. With such a huge influx of ships and sailors, lobscouse was adopted by the city and because we shorten everything we say, lobscouse just became known as Scouse. I make mine with lamb neck (it always has to be lamb neck as that's how my Nan taught me to make it) carrots, potatoes, onions, rosemary, sage, S&P and beef stock. It's also not a true Scouse unless you have some picked beetroot or cabbage on the side. Now we're into the winter months we make a big pot each week. Love your channel and thanks for taking the time and effort to make such great content for us. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@juanponce3737 Год назад

Up the reds!

@thenovicenovelist Год назад

Thanks for explaining the pronunciation of the word Scouser. I remember living in the UK for a semester and occasionally being confused by the pronunciation of certain words. One of my professors thought I was an idiot because he kept telling me to "hit the Zed key" when he was teaching us how to edit video and I had no freaking clue what a Zed key was because we pronounce Z in a different way in the US. When he finally pointed at it and I went "Oh! Zee!" He said, "Yes! Zed! Zee!" and he literally threw back his head and eye rolled .

@linjubar 2 месяца назад

I haven't eaten scouse in decades, in fact I forgot all about it, until I read your comment. We had it at least once a week when I was a kid, and it was delicious. My family used beef, not lamb, but I suppose you can use whatever you like.

@elrusito5034 Год назад

By the sound and color of those things, I think I already ate it before. Or at least the mass-produced, consumer friendly version. They're literally just called biscuits (or my family calls them that bc it just says "BISCUITS" on the package). Although they are flavored with some vanilla and lemon, and cut into rectangles, they're as dry as dirt. We have them with mate, which is a tea with extra steps. I may try to replicate this recipie with the added flavors, bc they're expensive as hell

@magicmon 3 года назад

"The Lusty Argonian maid" a must for any Pirates traveling Tamriel.

@Amy_the_Lizard 3 года назад

Just don't eat her, no matter how fleshy she may be...

@victorkreig6089 3 года назад

No >:(

@TeranceIsStupid 3 года назад

"The 'Fleshy' Argonian Maid" has a more narrow audience

@heliveruscalion9124 3 года назад

@@victorkreig6089 yes :)

@julilla1 3 года назад

Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.

@schonlingg.wunderbar2985 3 года назад

"Lusty and fleshy" sounds more flattering than fat. If I ever get eaten I would prefer such a description.

@Belgand 3 года назад

It feels like a more unisex "voluptuous".

@musicguy20 3 года назад

These days it’s a compliment like thicc lol

@akiramado9198 3 года назад

Its all a matter of appreciation.

@Jen-iy7lq 10 месяцев назад

In keeping with the naming convention of the Hardtack line, Grog was the name of Seabiscuit's identical half-brother and was super slow. If you ever read the book which I recommend as it's meticulously researched and quite amusing, you'd enjoy the bits about the trainer's hilarious tactics using Grog to deflect any attention and stress on Seabiscuit. Probably most surviving, non-running photos of Seabiscuit are actually of Grog. He even did Seabiscuit's closely monitored pre-race training runs with Grog so Seabiscuit could train in peace during off-hours since a registered pratice session often drew large crowds.

@Trund27 2 года назад

Can we appreciate the sound level of the music? It’s faint but present. I love how it doesn’t interfere with Max’s narration!

@weeaboomanotakutsuki8353 3 года назад

Imma guess that the guy who ate the Civil War hardtack is the guy who eats old MRE stuff. "Let's get this onto a tray. Nice"

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

That’s him!

@TheVicVance 3 года назад

Good old Steve at his best.

@schlieffenska 3 года назад

My man, Steve! ....every one's man Steve! Haha. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't like him. Haha

@mcrichton46 3 года назад

MRE Steve: “I don’t normally smoke cigarettes, but when I do they’re usually over 50 years old”

@bort3486 3 года назад

steve scares me he got sick twice i think?

@allisonglamour6363 3 года назад

While Legolas was eating Lembas Bread, Will Turner had to eat Hardtack 😔

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

🤣 I forgot he played both roles

@ashleejones1690 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory My favorite high school era snack 🧝‍♂️🏴‍☠️

@Tymdek 3 года назад

Will Turner(-ed) to hardtack

@noctuanyctus7837 2 года назад

Lobscouse (or Labskaus as we say) actually is pretty famous here in northern germany though I think the recipes differ nowadays compared to 18th/19th century cooking. It basically consist of meat mixed with potatoes which is mashed, spiced with butter and salt to your liking. Depending on the region, one does usually eat it together with pickled cucumbers, red beetroot, pickled herring, fried eggs and/or black bread. Though I guess on long journeys across the sea, hard tag is to be prefered.

@Rig0r_M0rtis 8 месяцев назад

"spiced" with butter and salt. AKA tell me you're white without telling me you're white 🤣🤣

@terryjohns8176 Год назад

I grew up in the arctic Inupiat village of Barrow Alaska, it was my understanding that hardtack came to Barrow with the whalers and with them they brought a form of cracker made by FFV called Sailor Boy, this is still to this day one of the natives and my favorite foods. Spread with butter, peanut butter, and many other spreads. This kept me happy while hunting, camping and just for a plain simple snack.

@smeeself Год назад

Nice

@w.reidripley1968 9 месяцев назад

Generically called 'pilot bread,' it's a sort of tender hardtack. Sailor Boy is just about the last maker there is. The stuff is much favored for stocking seasonal cabins up there in the Great White North. Tastes just like oyster crackers. Used to get it at the Winco.

@chris77jay77 3 года назад

“If they’re too hard and bland for ya, fellas, there’s plenty of seasoned water around to dip it in!” -Me, and the final smartass joke that gets me thrown overboard

@averagejoe9040 3 года назад

Youd be fun on a ship for the fisrt couple days. After, Id say youd be right about going overboard

@encryptacat8817 3 года назад

“A guy on the internet who eats it” *Steve1989 intensifies*

@NozomuYume 3 года назад

I immediately thought of Steve when I saw the episode title.

@sydneygoyette5403 3 года назад

Nice!

@schmeaty.1297 3 года назад

Remember when he ate that 1898 powdered beef boullion? Steve: "To think this cow was killed over 100 years ago...lets give it a try"

@apuapustaja1958 3 года назад

@@schmeaty.1297 Mmm Botulism City

@schmeaty.1297 3 года назад

@@apuapustaja1958 Botulism = "Nice hiss"

@commandantcarpenter Год назад

in southeast Michigan we have a living history museum called Greenfield village, and they have a late 1700s/early 1800s tavern that does their best to make period accurate meals with the food they grow on premises, and they serve salmagundi. theirs is more like a charcuterie: some sausage or salami slices, pickled vegetables (usually onions and something else, I love their pickled black eyed peas for example) with mustard and pickled eggs. excellent stuff

@calethornburg8959 2 года назад

I love all of your videos! I am a history teacher and love to include them in my lessons. I have used your “ship’s biscuit” recipe for my classes!

@jean-yvesmead3972 3 года назад

“The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot.”

@johnnygnoneeded 3 года назад

Now that's some larping, that is! /;p

@Lucius1958 3 года назад

Just like Mother used to forge...

@antipatsy 3 года назад

I'll make some for you, I haven't emptied the catbox in weeks!

@figjam9530 3 года назад

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett.

@andregon4366 3 года назад

Lmao

@quantumbandit6202 3 года назад

Fun fact: William Dampier was also the guy who, on February 2nd 1709 (exactly 312 years ago!), rescued Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for 4 years as a castaway on an uninhabited island, and whose story was the inspiration behind Robinson Crusoe.

@QueenBee-gx4rp 3 года назад

Wow! And this is February 2nd ! Amazing!

@JJoy-bk8yr 3 года назад

And the 1820 epic poem Castaway, too?

@jeffreym68 3 года назад

I love the esoteric knowledge that surfaces on this channel!

@jeffreym68 3 года назад

@@bookman7409 I can't believe I didn't notice that! How embarrassing.

@jeffreym68 3 года назад

@@bookman7409 Interesting! I have a friend with the "gift gift " if you will. You never know when a gift might appear, but it's always perfect. Geek is good. Geek works. 😎

@cavvieira 4 месяца назад

Interestingly, when I read The Lord of the Rings, the description of lembas reminded me of my father's German Stollen bread recipe. The cognac used to marinate the dried fruit makes the dough raise less but keep longer and the refined sugar coat also helps. Lembas is supposed to be delicious, laborious to make, feed well and keep long without spoiling. Properly made and aged Stollen will keep for months, is dense, nutritious and delicious. We used to age my father's Stollen for a month, encased in clingwrap. Once we couldn't wait and opened it before even two weeks were over. It just wasn't as tasty.

@josephhargrove4319 Год назад

It looks like you've made a particularly flavorless version of zweiback (like biscuit, meaning twice baked.) Also, convalescing sailors often had their diets limited to pap, ship's biscuit crumbled (or maybe chiseled) into water, allowed to soften, and crushed to a watery pulp. If a sailor were really laid up, one of his mates would actually spoon feed him as well as make the pap. richard -- "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.” - Granny Aching Terry Pratchett. The Wee Free Men

@manuekhuntyk2563 3 года назад

Oh God! I never noticed that in Italian "biscotto" means twice cooked. Learning things on my native language today, apparently.

@ConnieDAgostino 3 года назад

Yes, and here's another one for you.. ricotta means cooked again.

@dottore3870 3 года назад

@@ConnieDAgostino And terracotta means baked (cooked) dirt.

@IlastarothTayre 3 года назад

Anch'io c'ho messo decisamente più anni del dovuto a farci caso. Oh, well

@Tropicalpisces 3 года назад

So does Zwieback 🥰

@Theo-oh3jk 3 года назад

Here's another fun fact: Proto Indo-European had two words meaning "to fart": *perd- "to fart loudly, like a trumpet" and *pizd- "to fart quietly, like a whistle or hiss".

@AubriGryphon 3 года назад

I know everybody knows this, but I love that we have a specific "patient zero" for stereotypical "pirate talk", and that it's the guy who played Long John Silver in Disney's Treasure Island (1950) imitating his Cornish grandfather.

@MtnBadger 3 года назад

Actually, the origin of "pirate talk" comes from a small area in the south of England, Bath. The dialect comes from there... :)

@liammckevitt8096 3 года назад

@@MtnBadgerhe means its use as a "pirate" dialect

@MtnBadger 3 года назад

@@liammckevitt8096 I understand, the stereo typical pirate accent of long John Silver comes from Bath, England... A little coastal area of southern England. Most people think it's just made up... :)

@Nysvarth 3 года назад

@@MtnBadger Most people would be correct in thinking the coastal town of Bath is made up, since the real one is about 20km inland.

@MtnBadger 3 года назад

@@Nysvarth Thank you, I tell people about Bath and they either just dismiss me out of hand or try to argue that I'm crazy. And just because a town is 20km/mi in, doesn't mean it's not generally considered coastal. They're close enough to be directly affected by everything from weather to trade coming from the sea. A town doesn't have to be built with the ocean as a border to be "coastal."

@theAverageJoe25 Месяц назад

I love going back to this episode as it’s The beginning of the best running gag of the channel

@dwightlee4315 Год назад

While watching this I had to try Grog, which I had much heard about but never tasted. I probably used a higher quality rum, but at least it was a very old recipe called Bumbu a craft rum from a recipe of the 1700's. The Grog was more palatable than I expected it to be, but a pinch of sugar and a little lime did improve it. Thanks that was interesting.

@Rhinegoldt 3 года назад

“Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.” - From As You Like It by Shakespeare

@lifuranph.d.9440 3 года назад

I like it with lime marmalade and black tea.

@dakotaiscoolify 3 года назад

Fun fact: Several cookbooks for soldiers in the Civil war call for grinding the hardtack into a flour for making breads, cakes, and other baked goods.

@NovaStorm93 2 года назад

"I used the bread to make the bread"

@trevthekidd 2 года назад

@@NovaStorm93 hahahaha

@truthbydesign5146 2 года назад

Refried beans and rebaked bread. yum

@lifeuncovered6188 2 года назад

@@trevthekidd f b t be

@trevthekidd 2 года назад

@@lifeuncovered6188 what are you smoking?

@caseyharwick8455 Год назад

I’ve just finished making my own hardtack based on this recipe loosely, doing the “clack clack” myself was very satisfying. I’m excited to move on to the hellfired soup

@mikegallant811 8 месяцев назад

Hellfire stew, you mean? Civil War Digital Digest has a video on RU-vid about that.

@einkitteh109 Год назад

I finally decided to give this a shot. Several distant relatives of mine fought in the American Civil War, so I thought it'd be fun to try something they ate. Also, I want to see how hardtack squares up against the infamous MRE cracker, which I'm more familiar with. For those that never had the pleasure, MRE crackers are so dry that as a joke we'd bet the new privates like ten bucks that they couldn't eat both crackers that come in an MRE in under a minute without water. Inevitably, the guy would try and cram an entire cracker in his mouth, where it would soak up all the moisture, turn to a thick paste and glue his mouth shut.

@MadJustin7 3 года назад

There's a guy on the internet who eats it. He's talking about Steve1989! Nice!

@sartoriraphaelr 3 года назад

Lets put this out into a tray... nice!

@SaberViper 3 года назад

Nice hiss

@petras8385 3 года назад

do I smell a future collab? ! ? ! Maybe? ? huh? huh? huh? Come on!

@jamesgilboy9302 3 года назад

@@petras8385 oh that would be a goddamn TREASURE

@crabmansteve6844 3 года назад

In the words of the man himself "Nice!"

@Kore_YT 3 года назад

Ahhh so that's why us Australians call alcohol "Grog" lmao

@shootymcshootfacekoff7972 3 года назад

Hi verified account

@gilbertotoledo1421 2 года назад

If you keep in mind most Australia's ancestors arrived in royal navy ships then it does make a lot of sense.

@Vacuon 2 года назад

Do you think being groggy in the morning is actually being hungover?

@iamarizonaball2642 2 года назад

Arizonan here, (or Australia inside the United States)

@Ajehy 2 года назад

@@Vacuon wouldn’t be surprised.

@poloziki9990 Год назад

Small curiosity. Current Polish and Lithuanian military rations does include hardtack-like biscuits. They are called "Suchary Specjalne SU-1/2", and are jokingly called by the soldiers "panzerwaffles". And they are indeed hard AF.

@jamesbrandau3712 Год назад

The Mariners Museum in Newport News, VA had a display that described “Plumb Duff” and “Dandy Funk” made shipboard out of sea biscuits.

@kellychuang8373 Год назад

That's also really interesting to know since given that type of foods reputation.

@TheBearJew1309 3 года назад

"There's still some hardtack leftover from the civil war, and there's a guy on the internet that eats it." Nice.

@bosschonk 3 года назад

Let's get this out on to a tray!

@Amcsae 3 года назад

How *much* of it is left? I would think such a historically significant, extremely limited supply, item would be something to keep, rather than eating. I could see once, but the way it was phrased, 'a guy who EATS' seems to imply that it's a hobby, not a one time thing...

@datensaft 3 года назад

@@Amcsae just in case you are still curious about who is eating 100 year old hardtack. look up Steve1989 he has a channel on youtube

@Raskolnikov70 3 года назад

@@Amcsae It was a 1-time thing, normally he eats rations that were made in the 20th Century, not the 19th. But the video he made of him taste-testing it is infinitely more valuable as a historical document than a dusty chunk of hardtack sitting in a museum behind glass.

@nurgleschosen8145 3 года назад

@@Raskolnikov70i agree that recording will always exist. Plus it's not hard to replicate the food of that time. Sure maybe it won't be exactly the same but... No one's going to eat it. And no one besides Steve will know the "original" taste.

@Neptunequeen42 3 года назад

It’s really neat that they independently agreed with the romans that flamingo tongue is good eatin’. I thought it was just one of those extravagant roman things that was just to show your wealth, but it seems like it’s genuinely just a practical way to eat skinny flamingos.

@kramermariav 3 года назад

Like... How big is a flamingo tongue?

@garrettrector3953 3 года назад

Welp when in rome

@Neptunequeen42 3 года назад

@@kramermariav It’s gotta be big enough for a one-person serving, right? Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth it to cut it out

@OutOfNamesToChoose 3 года назад

@@Neptunequeen42 My bet is that they're eaten like canapés. The real question is...what did they do with the rest of the flamingo? Would it have been good eating, or not, but the tongue was good enough to make the whole bothersome affair worth it?

@ExtraThiccc Год назад

6:23 Oh you sweet innocent child, "docking" means more than just that.

@siomokof3425 Год назад

It seems that a food item that should be considered to replace the hardtack in our times is ramen noodles. You can eat it dry like a biscuit lightly seasoned with the flavor packets.You can break it up too or you can make a really good soup with added items like meat and vegetables if you got it. We are so lucky to be alive these days

@zep4814 3 года назад

In the Netherlands we still eat sea biscuits for birthdays, with butter and candied anise seeds. A side effect of this is that if you survive it, you know you are worthy of living for another year. It is really effective for population control.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

That’s a terrible birthday treat 🤣

@jessiegrider529 3 года назад

I kind of like the flavor of anise and licorice. There is a candy in some Icelandic countries that is literally made out of licorice and tar. People used the tar to seal things such as their ships and they had developed a taste for it too and made candy out of it!

@mione3690 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory it's a different kind of biscuit though. it's leavened bread that is dried. It has a crumbly texture. So it's not so hard you can murder someone with it XD

@johmyh14 3 года назад

@@jessiegrider529 There is only one Icelandic country: Iceland, which is a Nordic country. 😉

@sazji 3 года назад

@@mione3690 Greece and Turkey both have versions of leavened but hard-as-rock dried wheat and/or rye biscuits that are obviously made because they keep forever. But they aren’t meant to be eaten as is; you dunk them in water and then let them sit to soften up for 15 minutes or so first. Then they put oil, lemon, tomatoes and other things on, like a messy heap-o-sandwich.

@tammyt3434 3 года назад

"And there's a guy on the internet who eats it." I'm picturing a guy who posts weekly videos of himself gnawing on hardtack without progress.

@BrokensoulRider 3 года назад

so he's a living squirrel?!

@afrochickenboy 3 года назад

Couldn't be farther from it, he was talking about Steve1989

@ursoisarktos6474 3 года назад

Steve1989 is a national treasure. If the army had any sense, it would draft him to work in their MRE development department.

@oldfrend 3 года назад

'week 3: still a couple teeth left. proceeding to gnaw - success! i chipped off a piece! oh wait i just chipped a tooth. oh well. onwards and upwards dear friends.'

@DovahKanye 2 года назад

Steve MRE, he's great, a legend, he will eat anything, I'm surprised he's not dead at this point.

@nmccutcheon2243 2 года назад

Rewatching episodes. 12/21/21. The hardtack clack has become famous 😂. And A million subscribers. Hurray!!! Watching you, Max, is time well spent. You are brilliant!

@Zuendfunken 11 месяцев назад

The Lobscouse you mentioned at 12:25 really amazed me! A similar dish with exactly the same pronounciation (but written „Labskaus“) is still served in northern Germany! It looks horrific, but tastes quite okay 😅

@SoulcatcherLucario 3 года назад

"How to Eat Like a Pirate" well first you need to download a torrent manager...

@severalowls 3 года назад

You wouldn't download a car...bonara

@blackvial 3 года назад

I laughed harder than I should have at that

@DualKeys 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@archonhalcyonvking4315 3 года назад

Lots of small bytes of bits.

@MmntechCa 3 года назад

The year is 2521. "Our research has discovered that pirates in the 21st century used to subsist on nothing more than something called Mountain Dew and Doritos. The recipes of which have been lost to history."

@apathetic_aesthetics 3 года назад

"Teenagers are fickle" me, a teenager: never have I been so offended by something I completely agree with

@passonthestar3689 3 года назад

Let me tell you this at 20: you will look at this exact moment someday and realize it's even truer than you thought

@SimuLord 3 года назад

@@passonthestar3689 Let me tell you this at 43: If you play your cards right, you'll be reminding all your friends with kids, and possibly also yourself, that "teenagers haven't changed since we were their age."

@MtnBadger 3 года назад

They're not fickle, they just can't keep a singular mindset for more than 24hrs at a stretch. ;)

@cecilyerker 3 года назад

Your brain is rapidly growing and changing, especially your prefrontal cortex, so it truly is harder to make decisions and choices, and to determine the possible outcomes of those choices.

@PanAndScanBuddy 3 года назад

It will only keep happening as you get older lol

@richard9184 Год назад

I’ve been delving into the deeps of your infotainment, I very much appreciate your attention to detail and dedication. Moreover, I do appreciate your Pokémon in company.

@gordianusthefinder9862 Год назад

Coming in late to this conversation, but you should do an episode on barbacoa and buccan since the latter is the origin of the word "buccaneers" and the first gives us "barbecue". They'd be great addition to your feeding a pirate series 😊

@smeeself Год назад

I'm going to have to follow this up as I live in a suburb called Buccan 😃

@tealia 3 года назад

More serious comment: I think you'd enjoy Korean fried barley hardtack (건빵). Eat some sugar stars with it and you get a taste of wartime Korea.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

I’ll have to try that!

@jl_woodworks 3 года назад

@@TastingHistory I don't think you will enjoy wartime Korea.

@KelseyDrummer 3 года назад

@@jl_woodworks Haha!

@jengime 3 года назад

I feel blessed to know not one, but two historical cooking channels willing to make videos showing me how to make this bread from 300 years ago which nobody at that time wanted to eat.

@carlchapman4053 Год назад

6:36 "Dryer than the humour of an English baker after two GnT's", as an Englishman I have never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with!

@jeremybrazier786 Год назад

I grew up in a fishing village in southeastern Nova Scotia and ate hard tack a few times. We also had a dish called Solomon Gundy which is raw herring and slices of onion pickled together

@dracodistortion9447 3 года назад

i, a teenager, have been in love with sea shanties and sailing culture for 6 years now. Seeing my peers make a trend out of it with 2 songs makes me feel like they're... ...pirating it all

@kenetickups6146 3 года назад

oy puns

@thelightgeektastic 3 года назад

At least they're being true to the source material

@dracodistortion9447 3 года назад

@@thelightgeektastic kinda

@thelightgeektastic 3 года назад

@@dracodistortion9447 Lol I meant in that they're being true to pirates by pirating

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine 3 года назад

But what DO you do with a drunken sailor?

@HangmanOfficialUploads 3 года назад

I like how he gets teary eyes when he tries to eat that stuff. Good lord, you took a bullet for us.

@anival9576 2 года назад

I wanted to see him gnaw on it... *sigh*

@ixxxxxxx Год назад

youre supposed to soak hard tack. where im from its still apart of our traditional dishes, served with salt cod, small bits of crispy fried pork fat called scruncheons, and potato and onion if you like. makes for a delicious meal called fish and brewis

@leesweets4110 Год назад

@@ixxxxxxx Irish?

@ixxxxxxx Год назад

@@leesweets4110 newfoundland. a big island off the east coast of canada, it used to be a country of its own up until like the 40s when it joined canada. but youre not wrong to say irish, youre pretty close

@leesweets4110 Год назад

@@ixxxxxxx I know where newfoundland is, my friend. Geographically close doesnt count. I based my judgment on the unique words you used in your previous post.

@JeffPaiva 17 дней назад

After almost a full year watching the channel, I've finally got around and watched the original "Hard Tack Bit"- The origin of the meme. 17:14

@DDlambchop43 5 месяцев назад

funny reference: OSP did their charity stream of TOTK in AUgust and among the random topics they talked about while playing was what baked good could you use in a fight; Blue actually said, "Max Miller's hardtack could kill a man". I can't argue with that.

@ondank 3 года назад

Lobster last week. Hard Tak this. This is basically what my budgeting looks like too.

@ccggenius 3 года назад

I need clarification, because back in the time period lobsters were a garbage animal that poor people had ready access to in abundance. I assume your intent was to say you splurge one week, and have to boot strap it the other, but in context it would be roughly equivalent to living off instant ramen and off-brand hot dogs.

@asweknowit123 3 года назад

@@ccggenius Both could be apt :)

@ondank 3 года назад

@@ccggenius splurge week 1. Eat ramen the rest of the month. Though that is a great justification. "I'm just keeping in touch with the working class of a bygone era"

@lauren8627 3 года назад

The difficulty of fortnightly/bi-weekly pay schedules! I'm laughing and crying because it's Hardtack week this week. 😔

@madvulcan8964 3 года назад

*The Pirate Pikachu in the back is killing me.*

@parkchimmin7913 3 года назад

😖 his lil hat and shirt awwwww

@sassysarah39 3 года назад

I just noticed so cute

@kyrab7914 3 года назад

I love him! I think he's actually supposed to be a team aqua goon from the games iirc

@The105ODST 3 года назад

Team Aqua Pikachu was the best one from the line up.

@Schulzffw 3 года назад

Not Piratchu? Nobody? Really?

@KimchiiQueen 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this video and all the work you do for your channel and viewers. I randomly found your channel this week and I was so delighted that there are so many other food historians out there!! I’ve been really sick the last few days and watching your vids in particular makes me smile and forget about the pain. Thank you for sharing your kind light!

@alpenjon Год назад

Giving props to Townsend made me respect you a lot! You have another loyal follower now :)

@blakexu4943 3 года назад

Yar matey. You forgot the weevils. They be important for texture and protein.

@ricardoramirez4819 3 года назад

Max: "Dont say anything about Ketchup with Max" José: "Write it in the captions anyway" That was funny! xD

@KetchupwithMaxandJose 3 года назад

Mwahaha :D

@3Dmilkcartorn 4 месяца назад

The third type of hardtack, already mentioned and alluded to, was the insect-infested variety. Yanks referred to this kind as " worm castles" (Wiley 1992) and some went to great lengths in describing its inhabitants. Billings (1887) elaborated on the " maggots and weevils" that he encountered in hardtack.

@moonythespoonie9551 Год назад

I've had hardtack once or twice, actually. It was part of some history lesson back in middle school. It was just about how it's described here - bland and hard to chew on its own but good as a way to bulk up other stuff. I ended up liking hardtack soaked in warm compote so much, I write it into a lot of the settings I've been toying with in my spare time.

@freestatefellow 3 года назад

Fun food fact! The term “Buccaneer” comes from the French “Boucan” which refers to a style of preserving meat common among the hunters of the Caribbean in the 17th and 18th C.

@TastingHistory 3 года назад

I didn’t know that!

@DH-xw6jp 3 года назад

Thats also believed to be the origins of barbeque Edit: nope. I mixed words, my bad.

@SonofSethoitae 3 года назад

@@DH-xw6jp I thought Barbecue came from the Spanish "barbacoa"

@DH-xw6jp 3 года назад

@@SonofSethoitae thats the word! I got the two crossed, my bad.

@cecilyerker 3 года назад

Boucanier!

@mordekaihorowitz 3 года назад

I wasn't expecting the tack to sound like actual stones hitting each other holy ship

@imrail1 3 года назад

reminded me of terracotta tiles hitting each other, with this slightly porous sound

@riograndedosulball248 3 года назад

I see what you did there

@ME-hm7zm 3 года назад

The first set I ordered came in a sack and the sound it made unboxing reminded me of wood blocks clinking together.

@mordekaihorowitz 3 года назад

@@imrail1 Lol that's extremely accurate

@rachelfields9248 3 года назад

The Scone of Stone.

@angelaw7963 10 месяцев назад

17:15. Iconic.

@404cp Год назад

15:27 They're were going to eat him.... and then they're were going to eat me! OH MY GOOOODDDDDDD!!!!!!

@bajubner 3 года назад

Skillygallee is definitely a relative of a dish we have in Newfoundland called "brewis" (pronounced "bruise"), which is small pieces of hard tack soaked in water overnight, then fried in butter or fat along with onions and sometimes salted fat-back pork (scrunchions). Always served with salt cod because it was a staple food on the island for centuries, and slathered in molasses.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

I was with you till the molasses... ... then remembered I come from the Land of Vegemite, so no judging

@angolin9352 3 года назад

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Newfoundland is in Canada. Stop giving 'murica a bad name. Seriously, fish and molasses? The fuck is wrong with you, Canada?

@onamuir4985 3 года назад

Max: Another region to explore!

@bajubner 3 года назад

@@angolin9352 hey now, sweet and salty is a common flavour combination worldwide! Don't knock it til you try it!

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 года назад

@@angolin9352 Vegemite is from Australia but ok :-D

@interesting.960 3 года назад

The drink made from rum, water, lime and sugar is currently known in the cocktail world as a 'Rum Tea Punch'. Any bartender worth his salt will know this drink, and it's origin which you described perfectly.

@rgerber 3 года назад

add some mint and you got a Mojito? ...

@elcidleon6500 11 месяцев назад

Usually we replace water for club soda for most of the cocktails.

@robbinallan3767 2 года назад

In Newfoundland, hardtack or Hard bread or ship's biscuit, is a staple in dishes like Fish and Brewis. Pronounced fish and bruise. It's a salt cod stew with soaked hardtack and pork scrunchions.

@giggy7935 2 года назад

Ooh that sounds good! If you're a local, I'd love to get your recipe!

@MamaDarius 10 месяцев назад

Definitely, not a stew as the ingredients are not cooked together.

@J_E_Sandoval 2 года назад

I go into a lot of the ships cuisine in my books. So glad you hit on the Dandyfunk! Another of my favorites: Potage Au Du Hardtack1

@randomschittz9461 2 года назад

“We’ve had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days”

@Vacuon 2 года назад

"Yeeeeeaaah! Why can't we have some meat?"

@Reticulating-Splines 2 года назад

"Wot about dem?? theyre FRESH"

@Alizudo 2 года назад

"they, are NOT for EATINg!"

@UnderASwiftSunrise 2 года назад

What about their legs? They don't need those!

@g2p2k 2 года назад

What is this from? The quote is familiar…

@crumb167 3 года назад

3:18 steve MRE biting into a 150 year old civil war biscuit: "Wow is that rye?"

@DGneoseeker1 2 года назад

"Mmmm that's decadent."

@6Shroomie9 2 года назад

As soon as he said about a guy eating civil war hardtack, I thought of Steve eating Boer war rations.

@renegadeace1735 2 года назад

hah, I was just thinking about him too

@CrowBag 2 года назад

@@renegadeace1735 what happened to him? He vanished

@MilitaryBarbie11 Год назад

Your Team Aqua Pikachu is not lost on me, that's so funny! I love your Pokemon in every video

@dwhitt567 2 года назад

Max, I stumbled onto your channel and was hooked. I love your blend of education and humor. I have always loved history and that includes what people ate. Would like to see some cowboy cooking as well as what men ate in WW I and WW II on the front lines. Thanks for a great and entertaining channel.

@Kai_Peters 3 года назад

There is someone who eats a hundred year old hardtack? He sounds _nice_ -let's get this out onto a tray.-

@olympian3 3 года назад

poor tray has seen its fair share of horror

@notgray88 3 года назад

nice hiss

@alexanderh.5814 3 года назад

Speaking of Steve1989, I always worry when he doesn’t post for a while. Guy eats 100 year old beef. The

@Toastybees 3 года назад

@@alexanderh.5814 He treats his channel more like an actual archive of the MREs than just an entertainment thing which is very earnest and charming.

@alexanderh.5814 3 года назад

BEES AND TOAST I am aware of that. Steve giving a history lesson while he smokes WW1 cigarettes is fanatic.....but he still ate beef from the Boar War

@SirLoinOfsteak85 3 года назад

Remember chaps, when selecting biscuits to eat always choose the lesser of two weevils.

@tigertoxins584 3 года назад

hehehe

@rc59191 3 года назад

Love that movie

@majalisaavery6635 Год назад

I love how lively & silly you are with parts of your videos... You're as geeky & quirky as my kids & I... Love it, don't change!

@smeeself Год назад

I'm midway through my third reading of the Patrick O'brian novels and this had me in stitches ( not applied by Stephen) Thanks again for your brilliant videos 👍