National Foods We Got Wrong 

love that channel!

One of the best new channels coming out of the pandemic. 10/10 would highly recommend.

His video about pumpkin pie was cool too. Since Thanksgiving is coming up I thought I’d mention it.

He struck gold by starting his channel during the pandemic. I believe it has become his full-time job.

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Pumpion pie

Love that recipe!

@Juan Gabriel Blanco Mourelle The Japanese word "Pan" meaning bread is thought to derive from pão. Though Tempura, etc is mostly attributed (maybe falsely) to a particular Japanese chef in the 19th century. (though some say it was his master and he popularized it.) But things like cutlets, and the look for bread as being super soft definitely comes from Portuguese influence. Some curry's influence was importation from Portuguese as well (them being spice traders at the time).

My most favourite food. Portuguese from South Africa 🇿🇦

@@KittynFranky7643 What other meat or vegetables cooks in South Africa made battered fried dishes out of these days? Us Thais had our mini revolution when electric deep fryers and palm oil become cheap enough for most household in the 00's.

But still Tempura in Japan uses different batter and temperature which makes them unique to their country. It tastes so light despite being deep fried.

I just watched the video on nachos yesterday and that story is how it happened

@@bamacopeland4372 haven't seen that video

totopo* a totopo is just a fried tortilla chip, the tortilla is usually cut in four parts, tha's why it has that "triangular" shape, they can come in different shapes but the triangular is the most common because it's easier to cut

Correct

There’s also a differing story that the nacho was invented by Ignacio Anaya in Coahuila, Mexico. They are a lot simpler than the fake cheese variety in the US so I guess you can say loaded nachos are completely an American thing.

Do you watch Bread Barbershop?

I read Vietnamese and I was very confused

Here in Argentina we call croissants "Medialunas", which means half-moon, maybe we don't think they have a crescent shape or something

@@dillonchamberlain well, I don't know how it works in English, but I remember reading a school textbook when I was in elementary school about the phases of the moon and "luna creciente" and "media luna" where listed separately

They invented danishes too! Not a danish thing

Of course, but this video is about tracing origins.

@Tiahna Rodriguez to be fair, the title and intro make it seem like they mean the current version of the food is from the wrong country, not about its origins. It wasn't until they started talking about the history of the food that I realised this video is actually about what foods influenced the current version. For example, tempura is now a different food in its own right, so it's not really accurate to say that it's not Japanese just because it was influenced by a different food from a different culture.

Not all of them, there are countries that are cradles of civilization, one of them is Mexico and the olmecs. Many of the native American foods such as tortillas and corn itself traces back to the first civilization in Mesoamerica and they are the same type of food even today, even after the Hispanic conquest they still remain unadulterated. Same for the other cradles like India and Peru for example

Love the pun! 😁

Weren’t they originally cooked in Turkey Grease? It was it Bologna? Man, I’m getting Hungary.

@@nessamillikan6247 Oooh! This is pun-ishment!😆😆

Uhm actually lard but yeah.....

Warning! Dad joke ahead!

The mayonnaise-like dressing is supposed to have lime in it as the acid- “limón” was mistranslated to English as “lemon”, but in Mexico, it usually means lime. (Limón, historically, referred to any citrus, but cultural context means lime. Similarly to “apple” which can refer to any sweet fruit, like pomegranate means “seed apple”)

In Romania, it survived as Plăcintă

and matrix originally meant uterus. well, I guess it still does.

Originally the word is ancient Greek and it's pronounced plakoùntas (πλακούντας). Ancient Greeks used to serve plakountas to athletes and on special occasions like weddings. There's evidence Greeks were making this kind of"cheesecake" already 4000 years ago.

@@keouine many countries still call the uterus matrice or matris

This is more obvious to people that know German - the German word for placenta is "Mutterkuchen" or "mother cake". I don't really see the resemblance but oh well

"The french eat frog legs, but it turns out people have been eating food for thousands of years"

The Caesar Salad in Tijuana, México is unlike any other. It is superior to any I’ve had anywhere else in the world. NOBODY has improved on the original.

@@stanford-nf4jk yes they have, by serving it on more than one leaf of lettuce

except that japan has nothing to do with fortune cookies outside of this video

My nonna was from Abruzzo. I've experienced different sizes, but I prefer Italian bite-sized meatballs in my pasta. Oversized meatballs are a good side dish, but when immersed in noodles, cutting/mashing meatballs is more awkward.

You know it. My meatballs are large. Like my grandmother made.

As far as balls are concerned...go big or go home.

You are saying things that are kinda true, but also saying them really poorly. Maccheroni alla chitarra is the dish your referring too, but it isn’t required to serve polpettes (what your calling meatballs) with it. A variety of meats either ground or shaped are used.

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Before the conquer, on many prehispanic codexes (codes) with a lot of recepies cuz the tomato is properly mexican.

@@Irene-V it’s amazing how all their gotcha hit is wrong😀

The world owes Mexico a lot when it comes to fruits and vegetables that come from there. And amazing varieties of each . 🌽, tomatoes 🍅, cocoa 😋, 🌶, avocados 🥑 and so much more ! The Mayas had a good technique called the 3 sisters : they planted the maize ( corn for americans) just next to it tomatoes, the leaves of the maize to shelter them , and pumpkins as the leaves would keep the soil moist for the 3. It's a Mexican lady who owns a restaurant here that explained that to me. Because I asked why there wasn't chillies con carne on the menu. And she told me that it's texan, in fact. Great cook and historian as well, and as if that's not enough, she's an archaeologist as well ! And to the Portuguese here, thanks as well because of spreading most of those produce worldwide ! Btw, as British, I'm not too pleased about those frog legs ! It disgusts me and will disgust you as well the way it's done : the french just chop the thighs while the animal is still alive ! And throw it still alive away ! For me, it should be forbidden. Here in Switzerland 🇨🇭, lobsters have to be killed before put in the boiling water.

​​@@coucoubrandy1079 Fun fact "Texas chili was created by mexican cooks as a substitute for the most intricate of sauces mexican mole. They had to make due with what was available to make something that could be similar to mole. Even now there are diners and restaurants that put chocolate in their chili to make it "unique"..Not really if they know the history of chili.

Right. I was a bit surprised that the video said meatballs and red sauce wasn’t Italian because I’ve seen some regional dishes that prove a variation existed before they were brought over to the US. The Italian segment would have been more understandable if he commented on how the Alfredo we see in America isn’t what Alfredo looks like in Italy, and explained it was an American creation. The actual Alfredo has a cute backstory too.

Yes, but the meatballs are much smaller in Italy. Also it is not spaghetti but tagliatelle. While spaghetti are dried eggless pasta, tagliatelle are fresh egg paste. So, no spaghetti and meatballs in Italy. Oh. And it is not "spaghetti alla chitarra con pallottine" as spaghetti are cut with a knife. Pasta alla chitarra is made with a special tool that has similarities with a guitar. Alla Spaghetti is just a poor substitute for the original pasta, not the dish itself.

Food now, Third reich later

And german chocolate cake isn't German,it's American- that was the inventor's name.

@@BakedRBeans even weirder, it was just the brand name of the chocolate used in the recipe.

I think I’d read that. Was the baker who first made them from Denmark, but made it in Vienna? Or was there some other apocryphal story of how it came to be called danish?

@@75aces97 Danish bakers brought it with them to America, as far as I know.

@@achris2249 that would make sense. Some of these foods have gotten city or national names as a marketing ploy to make them sound more exotic or sophisticated. I saw a pastry at a local store called a “Persian roll.” I thought it was possibly a misspelling of “Parisian” but from what I can find, this is a type of roll invented in Canada by a baker who happened to be of Iranian descent. Go figure. 😁

The story I've heard is that the first person to actually serve fish and chips as we know it was a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe.

@@MultiMidden Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (Ashkenazim) came much later, starting in the mid-19th century,,,, By contrast Jewish immigrants to the British Islands from the Iberian Peninsula (Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal) started coming in the 16th century due to Catholic persecution sanctioned by the crowns.

@@ilikehardplay Joseph Malin is the man credited with opening the first fish and chip shop.

@@MultiMidden: Joseph Malin is credited with doing that in the 1860s.... Yet in Henry Mayhew's 1851 three volume study, "London Labour and the London Poor" he goes into some depth on the street sellers of fried fish, suggesting that they number between 250-350, with 2/3rds being itinerant and 1/3rd have street stalls for vending their wares. Moreover, most had been in the trade for generations. And while their primary trade was fried fish, the stalls often sold other fried foods as well. (Vol I, p 165-170) It's also worth noting that Charles Dickens mentions "fried fish warehouses" in Oliver Twist (1838)....which puts some question to Malin's claims.

hummus is egyptian in and jollof is senegambian in origin.

I wonder if hummus went to America with Jewish immigrants or we have to wait for Lebanese and Egyptians who arrived in New York from the 50's onward.

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 hummus arrived with lebanese immigrants who actually first came to america in the 1850s not the 1950s. the lebanese and syrains were the first middle eastern diaspora in the americas second only to jews.

@@zombieat Hummus is Palestinian!

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 It wouldn't have come with the Jews since most of the Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century came from Europe where hummus wasn't eaten.

But the real prize captured from that war was coffee beans. I'd argue that the introduction of coffee into Europe change the continent far more than croissants.

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 true, both lead to the opening of the first cafe

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 damn, the best breakfast combo came to Europe at the same time, love it

To make it more hilarious, Japan has 'German Cheesecake' with creme cheese mixed with cocoa powder, brought to the country by Marines at Okinawa and spread from there. I do not know how the cake got the name 'German' though.

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 who knows? Sometimes these foods get names through confusion. Or the recipe could have used a German brand of cocoa. My guess would be most Germans wouldn’t recognize that particular style of cheesecake.

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 and to make it more funny, German cheesecake is made with a cheese called Quark and no biscuits are involved in the making at all...

@@helgaioannidis9365 How do you make cheesecake without crumbled biscuits base?

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 the base for German cheesecake is made from flour, butter, sugar and salt. The filling is made from milk, quark, starch, eggs, lemon, vanilla and sugar. That's the basic recipe, it can also be refined with the addition of fruit. Apples pears and apricots are the most commonly used for that. German cheesecake has nothing to do with what Americans consider cheesecake. It's a completely different dish.

pickled cucumbers aka, pickles

No offence , but Russian cuisine is mostly foreign. Pelmeni are from Mongol origin , Oliviere Salad is from Belgium , Pickles are found all over the world , Vodka is from Wodka Polish word , Rye bread came from Western and North Europe , Borscht soup is from Central Europe , Shproti is from the Baltic region , Halva is Persian/Turkish , Vareniki is Ukrainian/Polish , Doktorskaya kolbasa is from Italian/Spanish mortadella , other cold cuts are all from Western European origin , Plov is from South Asia/Central Asia , Shashlik is from Causcasian origin , Kotleti and Mashed Potatoes are meatballs (Italian). Basically all Russian dishes are from former Soviet colonies , very limited "authentic" Russian dishes

@@judejaradat1446 no offense, but you have a very bad idea about "Russian" cuisine which making you looking ignorant... There are actually 3 cuisines which you are mixing together... # 1 the very original Russian which is thousand and hundreds of years ago. Made in our own and unique style of stove and fireplace ( pechka). The "pickles" and sourqraft cabbage is not the same way cooking as German or else... it is a natural fermentation.... By the way original vodka is made only from weat which is original for European continent before Columbus brought potatoes for Polish vodka. The word " vodka" comes from Russian word "voda" meaning "water". And there was a international dispute which was won by USSR about the origin of vodka... Cuisine # 2 : Tsar Peter the 1st brought a lot of German influence into rich people diet and life style. Such as coffee, Christmas tree and some German dishes and ways. Way later there was an influence of French cuisine. One of it is Oliver salad which is by French chef and not Belgium. I was in Belgium and I didn't see any similar. Please send me that Belgium receipee I would like to cook it.... # 3 Soviet Union cuisine is quite unique. There were the concept of healthy and affordable diet for every age and health conditions. Education was provided and advertised: how organize the daily routine for the family from infants, to working and active generation to the needs of elders or people with disabilities. ... There was also a such a thing as friendship through cuisine. Cuisines of all 100 + nationalities were promoted and respected... When it comes to dishes such as pelmeny or perogy or wonton ( you called it Mongolian by original) or another big dispute such as crepes original... It is proven that these are the first dishes of first humans. And there is no sense to prove who cooked them first. As for example French failed (in the court) to claim that they were the inventors of crepes.... So, my advice, please don't be that judgemental to the culture you don't belong to and the cuisine you never really tried or cooked...

@@JuLiA_9_5 you didn't have to write that long sweety. In your whole you didn't mention any Russian dish or any evidence of anything , except disagree with me from your "Russian" point of view. Just soak it up and know that your only have some soups and cabbage and potatoes in your cuisine , everything else is stolen from your former Russian Empire and Soviet Union colonies , the only thing you have original is your Beef Stroganoff dish , that's it , even that is European influenced. And if you wanna be a smart ass , then I will tell that Belgium is French , and the person who created that "Russian" salad was of Belgian and French descent. Sure , Russia has an extensive and wide history , but their cuisine is mostly foreign , because their climate does not allow for that type of cooking and the ingredients for the dishes they cook. Even the word pelmen is Tatar-Mongol , I mean what else can I say. And voda also means water in Poland , they are your Slavic brothers after all. I'm actually half Russian , so I know what I'm talking about.

@@judejaradat1446 I'm sorry to know that you consider yourself as "half Russian" and not respecting or knowing "that half" of your own family culture... Please, don't feel targeted with my "long writing" ( yours is long as well)... It is not for you. It is for mostly other opened mined side of humanity. I can proudly say that I have met lots of people from different nationality enjoying, understanding, sharing food and cultural experiences with me. You don't have to remind me that Polish people are the western Slavic... you are very judgmental and making a lot of assumption about other people and their cultures, nationalities and backgrounds. All the best to people around you and lots of patience to them. I personally don't see any reason for further communication with you. Sorry, no waste of my time... and again, my writing WAS NOT for you, just for the others, don't feel special.

The video got it wrong. The french fries are indeed french

Good point.

@@metalblind95 Belgiums are the ones who invented the fries. The area that it came from was French speaking. There are a lot of people who have said as well.

@@sarawinardi6745 nope

Belgium doesn't exist. Its 3 regions.

Big difference: French baker used for that a typically French leavened puff pastry. This dough, which makes the french croissant special, is used in many other preparations such as fougasse de Nîmes, pain au chocolat or kouign amann.

And très sounded more like tray, so he was serving François? X-D

François was the actually the original name in Old French. So he was correct.

@@Cloudyvi François hasn't been used to refer to the language or the people since the adoption of Modern French in the 1500s. Credit where it's due, you're right, but I doubt Weird History Food is trying to appeal to the Carolingians with this video.

That and calling a cook "Honore" instead of "Honoré".

😂😂😂

That and the Battle of Shanghai that cut us off the import ingredients to make Chinese noodles from Mainland China FOREVER. Every ingredient you see in Thai Chinatown market today came from resellers in Hong Kong and Taiwan where it used to came from Shanghai by ships before the Pacific War. Every Chinese exporters Thai merchants had connection with fled the country then and we had to followed them there.

Of English speaking countries, we in the states might be the only ones to commonly call them fries (well, us and Canada, I guess), as “chip” came to mean a fried flat crunchable a while back.

@@75aces97 In the UK we use the word ''crisps'' for what you call chips, i.e. thin crunchy fried potato slices.

@@75aces97 find it curious only english speakers call them french fries. For the rest of us is just fries, at least for any spanish speaker I've known

"You call them chips because they're cut into chips" smh they're not really chip sized.

@@maximipe yes because they're fried, to a lot of the world, it's potato fries, sweet potato fries, plantain fries, etc

Except that most Mexican food in Texas is actually much closer to what you get in Mexico than that made in the rest of the USA. Much confusion here.

It could also refer to the fact President Jefferson had them in France and brought them back to the US calling them French Fries

Not in southern Germany. In Bavarian cabbage is called Kraut or Weißkraut and red cabbage Blaukraut. We love our Krautsalat and Krautwickerl, too. And what you guys call Blumenkohl, in Bavarian is called Karfiol. Only you guys in the north have never learned how to speak properly and get the words mixed up. 😀

Bavarians say Kraut to Kohl, Krautsalat, Blaukraut, Sauerkraut.

Yes, but Kraut (finely sliced cabbage) is an old term for cabbage. It is fermented white cabbage, red cabbage is made differently.

They were introduced into the USA by Russian and Polish Jews. That why the labels on American pickle jars list them as "kosher".

Especially the part about how the crisp hard shell taco was invented in a McDonald's french fry cooker.

@@hamaljay Which is not quite so accurate. The basis for the hard shell comes from the Tacos Dorados served in Northern Mexico. They just aren't as favorably looked at for the simple street food that the soft corn tortillas offer.

@@godaistudios well that is an origin, it's not the origin of how it became popular in America through Taco Bell. While Taco Dorados are hard shell in nature they are crispy and chewy because they are pan-fried with the meat in and then usually condiments placed on top; completely different than the American hard shell taco that we know and love, that I was referring to.

@@hamaljay My point is that is the inspiration for the hard shell taco that became popularized in America was from Tacos Dorados. Mexican chefs had already done this in Los Angeles in the early 1940s, and there were even patents filed by them for frying hard shell tacos. Glen Bell took credit for the idea and ran with it.

you might want to watch this video

And in France they're pommes frites, or just frites. So, yeah!

Anything except calling them "French" fries (which is a capital offence in Belgium).

What does frenching mean?

@@KJ-yises To sut into thin strips.

the french fries were indeed invented in France though. The video got it wrong; it's simply that the Belgians have improved the recipe, which is still unique to them today since double frying is not commonly used abroad

@@metalblind95 I thought, hence frenching and not Belgiuming :).

Was thinking that too. Cake has been around in some form or another fir a long time, but without sugar and refined flour, it looks and tastes nothing like what we now think of. Plus, without modern ovens with heat control and insulation, certain delicate textures would have been impossible before about 130 years ago.

In Germany we wouldn't consider that American cracker stuff a cheesecake. So much already processed stuff in there! We use completely different ingredients for our cheesecake and it also tastes very differently. And I think that goes for most European types of cheesecake. So where would one draw the line? In my opinion, as the Greeks seem to be the ones who first had the idea of making a sweet that combined staples, cheese and honey, it's only fair to acknowledge it's their original invention.

The video did NOT say it was Mongolian but it was Chinese. It was the Mongolians that brought it to Germany from China during the Mongol conquests.

@@toolbaggers but that's napa cabbage that they eat in china. So if it's a different vegetable and pickled vegetables already existed in europe, how can anyone claim that sauerkraut comes from mongols?

@@toolbaggers Weird. The mongols never came to Germany. How did they "bring" it there then?

@myeramimclerie7869 Let me guess, the only cabbage dish from asia you know is kimchi, which isn't even fermented, but marinated. It is very unlikely, that the mongols brought the concept to Germany, so what is the evidence?

​@@joeysimek7707Oh yes the mongols definitely strongly influenced the region today know as germany

Not really. Rising the amount of sugar is not perfection. Well, rising the amount of sugar in all food is a strategy to mask a poor cuisine at all.

All hail The Proper Voice Dude!

Belgium doesn't exist. Its 2 regions

@@RedRocketthefirst You are confused with "Holland"

@@mavadelo No?

@@mavadelo Its literary 3* regions (* forgot the german one) are you stupid?

@@RedRocketthefirst the USA is 50 regions, the Netherlands is 12 Regions, 47 in Japan. Saying a country doesn't exist because it has reasons is ridiculous... are you stupid?

Olive Olis burning Point is aro und 160

@@timbucktu5141 around 180c and can be higher with refined. Your point being?

That's one theory. The other one is that President Jefferson brought them back from France and called them French Fries

Belgium was annexed by France in 1795, was taken by the Netherlands in 1814, and only became independent in 1830. French fries probably just came to the America's while Belgium was a non state.

It doesn't matter since the dish is called chips! Ha ha! Sorry, couldn't resist!

Pomme frites in French, Belgium, Dutch etc Chips in English - the dry wafer thin potato slices are crisps. McDonald's eventually brought the Americanism of French fries for this food item in to wider use .

@@AutoReport1 Belgian food historian Pierre Leclercq has traced the history of the french fry and asserts that "it is clear that fries are of French origin".[Fries are first mentioned in 1775 in a Parisian book, and the first recipe for modern French fries is in the French cookbook La cuisinière républicaine in 1795. They became an emblematic Parisian dish in the 19th century.

This is the only correct use for “ actually”

It’s actually used in the North of France, in the Haut de France region. You find the same food truck that sells fries, it’s part of the identity of the region.

@@msch7620 ouais j'sais bien. Y suis jamais allé par contre

Well you sound confused, Belgian historaians agree the modern version is French in origin

A lot of 'French' cooking exists because Catherine thought French food was so bad, she brought a bunch of Italian cooks with her from her families Court in Florence/Tuscany in Italy so she wouldn't have to suffer bad food.

​@@brucelee3388fr*nch food is still bad asf. Resurrect catherine

@@RedRocketthefirst No

@@brucelee3388 It's a myth (or an exaggeration of history) which has been proven wrong like a million time

Pffft. Wallonia ew....

@@RedRocketthefirst Vive la Belgique et Astérix, «dude»!

@@Game_Hero Leve een functionele staat!! 😊🇧🇪❤

I think he mistook Kipferl with Hoernchen. Hoernchen is a Wiener invention, celebrating victory over the Osmans. Supposed to look like the half-moon for mockery. The Royal bakers in Paris where on strike - German Kaiser in Vienna send his bakers for the duration. Thats how it got there. That`s what I was told.

thats true.

Tomatoes and chiles are from South America

Placenta means pleasing in Latin.

Probably