Spartan BLACK BROTH | Melas Zomos 

Looking at what warriors of this period prefered to eat during the classical times would also suggest barley or oats would be used as it promoted a fat layer over muscle which offered some protection and aided healing of shallow blade cuts, also it helped to bulk up fighters more than meat. As it is also suited to broths and stews I would guess it might be included in such recipes. Just a thought. Also another point to mention is that modern pork has been bred to not have as much 'boar taint' ( androstenone) which gives the meat a urine smell of dried ammonia, not very nice (sometimes you get that still in supermarket pork especially pork belly). On the other hand white laundry was usually washed in urine to get it whiter, so maybe they were used to that odour, it's one of those mysteries of history.

Swap the vinegar for milk and a pinch of all spice and it's basically the black pudding (British blood sausage) recipe. Don't see the issue here.

2:25 Aisle three, next to the pangolin's right? **cough**

I was about to comment by mentioning dinuguan filipino food, but upon watchin the cideo it was mention already, i think spartansfood taste like it, and it is really good food

Gotta correct you on one of the ingredients: Pork wasn’t readily available during war marches. Guess what was though: dead soldiers. ;)

"What's the occasion?!"

So the same thing but with ghost pepper chilis.

Spartans: Finally, some decent fucking food.

Pretty sure it was Apollo they thanked.

666th like. Perfection

I guess you decided to post a comment before watching the first minute of the video.

It's not a joke it's a fact

@@2Cerealbox might be a joke in the same line as Napoleon joked about the british, 'the reason they're suicidal is because it rains a lot'

@@jhnshep Or the classic, "France has one religion, and hundreds of sauces. England has hundreds of religions, and only one sauce."

@@Lucius1958 mint sauce, my french girlfriend still cant get over the Idea that mint can go with lamb or boar lol

Then it may also interest you to learn that the bones of neonates aren't preserved nearly as well as those of adults, and even if they are there, they can be extremely difficult to spot in the field if you're not excavating very thoroughly.

Are you a calm and reasonable person?

@@ronramen5827 if the moment calls for calm

I think Kratos would appreciate Tyr making something from his homeland, while Freya would joke that they intended to make Hildisvini into a stew Chances are that Kratos intended to do just that I'd also think they'd have a conversation like: Mimir: "Brother, I heard a rumor that Spartan mothers would bathe their newborns in wine to test their strength. You didn't happen to do something similar with Atreus, did you?" Kratos: "No." (Kratos takes a bite from his Mela Zomos) Kratos: "Freya wouldn't allow it" (Freya and Mimir share a look of shock, while Tyr tries to keep himself from laughing. Kratos makes a small, unnoticeable smirk)

@@KoJIJoky i'd say the moment calls for calm, yeah

@@vermagupta5432 *knock knock*

Funnily enough that's exactly what the Russians said after they entered Germany in 1944 seeing how the Germans lived, wondering why they would invade their poor lands. History repeating itself :D

That one drew a wholehearted laugh out of me.

That line had me crying!

Actually spartans were not in poverty wealth wise, they just were brought up in such a frugal way, and the also laughed at people who considered riches to be important, in a spartan household they had golden objects such as small statues and other things but never did they care about it, and most things he said about sparta and spartans is complete false, not his fault though, it's what foreigners teach about Greece, anything that can make them look bad and what not, and he also didn't prepare the meal properly.

@@alexanderka1956 how does this video make Greece look bad? It makes Spartans sound metal as shit. Also, if you know how to make the meal properly then you should tell us cause apparently the recipe is lost to time.

That’s why they were all angry , they had terrible wives who couldn’t cook

@@lawrencesaavedra758 Let's not forget Mother Dearest giving newborn baby their first greeting by dunking them into a urn of wine. That certainly won't immediately breed stress. Lmao

@@Geminei Yea whoever founded that city was clearly a psychopath

@@lawrencesaavedra758 keep this up and you will get canceled on Twitter

@@lawrencesaavedra758 Psychopath - Real Man, what's the difference?

Must have been a very dry cheese because that sounds like the worst thing to take on a march

TBH as I had commented some time back, I think that the true "blood soup" as you said was prepared only on special occasions (blood spoils quickly so it can't be preserved, and carrying enough animals on campaign to feed daily an army would mean destroying a herd every battle) whereas on the field they could have used a differend "black broth" made of staining ingredients (lentils, wine, roasted olives etc.), that were normally carried on march and would make an basically even more bland/unappetizing soup (especially mixed with some boiled salted meat like what you'd carry on campaign) than actual blood-based soup. The idea of Spartans eating blood on the regular was also probably PR on their part to give them an additional aura of badassery (and Spartans, as their recorded witty remarks show, were masters of selling their legend as warriors as much as proving it on the battlefield)

I find it difficult to believe the Spartans placed any value in ANY form of art.

​@@WobblesandBean war is an art and they placed more value in that than literally anything else.

@@WobblesandBean Spartans were known for the art of wordsmithing, both in their laconic retorts and poetry

Hot

​@@AndreLuis-gw5ox 🤨📸

there was another case of a young Spartan soldier preparing for war and thus getting the family weapons (apparently his father's). He looked at the short sword and lamented, "this sword is too short to be any effective" to which his mother replied "just approach a bit more your enemy". LOL! Heartless women.

@@dinos9607 ya think thats the same thing his mom said when seeing his fathers other sword?

​@@AndreLuis-gw5oxya thats going on the record

neglection was consider to shape a better attitude and help young kids to mature more... in those times they probably confused showing surface stoicism due to chilhood traumas , with "being mature".

@@Dan_Kanerva And yet, the adults, who were ALSO raised this way as children, still believed it was for the best.

I'm guessing the reason for the nurse to do it was also tied to experience. They are trying to train the baby to suffer in silence, but they also need to provide just enough care that it can grow up strong, and that's probably a fine line

They produced strong willed, physically fit and self sufficient kids though. Their methods were gruesome but you can't deny the results. Nowadays we have "warriors" like Emma and her two moms who keep talking about inner strength in a painfully obvious attempt to assure themselves in spite of everything else they lack. As if inner strength was all anyone ever needed. Lol!

@@lespectator4962 Sure, can't deny the result that today there's no Sparta around anymore :v

It has "what are you protecting, the Struggle?" energy.

LMFAO 🤣

Spartan were known for their quick witty responses, their 'bon mot'. Another king to a spartan one presenting his city walls, wanting to impress him got for answer "what fine quarters for women", so you can imagine, pretty much like Frank Miller's comic and the subsequent adaptation.

Nils Pochat I’d guess that being quick with a response would come about naturally if you’ve spent your whole life with your “friends” constantly and intensely mocking every aspect of you

That sums up how brazilians feel about anything left from feudalism!

I’ve had the Argentinian version of grilled intestine. (Specifically the large intestine) it wasn’t “bad” it just kind of lacked flavor. I wonder if it was just that one batch that had no real flavor. Idk.

@@AwesomeMusicLady That's kind of like eating a sausage casing without any filling, I figure, considering guts are commonly used as sausage casings.

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine fair point.

"Now if Little Billy *doesn't* have his guts ripped out by a woodland creature..."

@@wandanemer2630 🤣🤣

Hey, perspective, am I right?!

Well, it's still a morality play or fable; the moral is just the opposite of what we would conclude.

I remember the story of a man in sparta, he offers his life to god ares, and killed his family by accident......

@@justineanddreilogan4825 hmmmm sounds familiar……

@@Bigdoghirohito hmmm, it said that he was dangling in the hip of the ghost of sparta?

@@johngenericlastname9781 Maybe not current year, pre-pandemic though

@@johngenericlastname9781 I mean I personally know several people who got sick from *something* at least, if you want to dispute whether it's COVID or something else.

@@johngenericlastname9781 Flu season is year round? You could just say its really the flu without specifying the time period.

@@johngenericlastname9781 so why have like 200,000 more people died this past year? Coincidentally it started right when the pandemic started. What a weird coincidence that like 20k people a month MORE THAN AVERAGE died right after COVID started spreading. I mean, are those bodies fake? Are all the families who have lost relatives paid actors? What about the morgues that ran out of room because most hospitals only have a dozen or less capacity? Its all fake? My aunt wasnt a real death? Because the flu doesn't kill 20k people a month. You can't argue with facts. A shitload more people died this past year than is normal.

@@johngenericlastname9781 flu does NOT kill 3 million a year. Google it. You are delusional. Flu is average 60k per year. Covid has been over 3x that. Wtf. And deaths being attributed to COVID is a Red herring. 200K MORE PEOPLE DIED IN THE PAST YEAR THAN THE PREVIOUS 10 YEARS. WHAT A COINCIDENCE.

I think that came from the mindset of setting ourselves apart and more “civilized” as a new culture overall during and after the time of the revolutions. So many cultural practices including food were slowly left out in favor seeming less barbaric or uneducated. This also helped the many cultures assimilate better and not stand apart. I could be wrong, but it seems that may be the case. Just like black pudding in Scotland is still used today, but it didn’t survive in the americas as a main dish despite the heavy Scottish population in many regions.

I know it's common for people who eat meat.

@@kcarter0265 instead the big Mac thrived in the US 😏😇

​@@kcarter0265 Something to do with the Puritan movement apparently. Following the Bible more closely than other Christian denominations. Puritans got bigger in the US than it ever caught on in the UK or Europe.

I mean some in the East can think that cooking with blood is an oddity too

Also Kaszanka sausage is made using blood, similar to black pudding.

@@phenethylamine91 Black pudding in Canada and Germany.

I've had this before at a Polish restaurant in Buffalo, NY. It was lovely :).

​@@Misses-Hippyalso in the UK

Or just not steal small predatory animals....

So did the kid after stealing the fox lol

@@c4call Or just kill the fox before you stuff it into your trousers.

Distortion Nation Damn you beat me to it

The version I heard of that story was it was a fighting cock used for gambling that was stolen by the boy, which makes more sense than someone raising foxes at that time.

Like the British nannies of the 19th century.

I too laughed very hard at that part. Maybe too hard.

I'm sorry. I laughed many times during this video presentation.

@@TastingHistory Watch out: we'll turn Mary Poppins on you! The recipe reminded me of Asturian bean stew, which is essentially a load of pork belly, a bunch of white beans and slices of black pudding (blood sausage) which disintegrates and makes the rich sauce.

@@TastingHistory Hope people now realize the importance and revolution of Dr. Benjamin Spock [1903].

respect for trying it out and coming back with the update 🫡

I bet you have a pattern where thinking outside the box has improved other areas of your life!

Brok: I made some svartsoppa! Had to use pig instead of goose for the blood ‘n all but I think it’s adequate Kratos: It reminds me of the melas zomos from back home… Mimir: Aye, I’d eat it like the black puddings from my homeland if I didn’t think it’d fall out my neck hole Atreus: I think I’m gonna be sick 🤢 Kratos: You are spoiled Boi…

@@Abdega I see you are a man of culture!

brilliant

The Peloponesian War really exposed Sparta as being nothing more than a legion of thugs who only cared about money at the end of the day.

@@kyonkochan ah yes, the good old practice of painting a whole people with the same brush based on selected instances

@@mokkaveli Those "Selected instances" are the historical documents everyone quotes when talking about Sparta. Most of it comes to us from Plutarch.

@@kyonkochan And those selected instances are based on a time of Sparta losing tons of money because the entire Greek world ganged up on them, so Sparta took everything owed to them and more. The Greeks had a habit of loving Sparta when there was a foreign enemy, but as soon as things were cool and normal Sparta was GARBAGE to them. Sparta was fairly reclusive in the amount of battles it would take part in, but the Greek world sure loved to taunt the people they were most afraid of. And in the end, Sparta won.

Yes. Could explain how he can pronounce all of these foreign words perfectly

Also explains why he liked the soup. You can see the nostalgia in his eyes when he sipped the broth.

Seriously he was smacking them lips 👄

He's actually part of The Old Guard... Andi collects art, he collects recipes and stories...

He was craving it

Really? How do we know? Can you point me to some sources or something?

Watched a documentary on Food of the Middle Ages an they had a similar mentality. Not me, give me the PEASANT food that tastes good rather than some Modern Art Masterpiece that tastes like the bottom of my Chamber Pot lol.

maybe they cooked it more crudely than tastinghistory did. not much water if at all, just boil everything in the blood with a ton of vinegar. maybe there would have been some oats or beans, and the pork cooked rare. all the organs as well, the heart and liver, perhaps intestine. they didnt waste anything. now that would probably be a different experience than what we saw here lol

@@Mutiny960 was it modern history? He shows what peasants are vs. knights vs. nobility and the peasant food looked (and seemed to taste) the best.

@@mingolaflare6224 No it was a specific documentary on Food of the Middle Ages about an hour long. You can find it here on RU-vid. They talked about stuff like live birds inside a pie and Elaborate cakes made to look like Castle that took days to make but werent meant to be eaten.

😂🤣🤣

Funnily enough, the supposed rivalry between Athens and Sparta is more of a historical artefact, due to the striking differences in the two conceptions of government and the Peloponnesian War. However they were allies on numerous occasions, and after Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, Sparta was rather lenient on Athens (Thebes and Corintus wanted a much harsher punishment on what was essentially the imperialistic power of fifth-century BCE Greece). Real hate was between Sparta and Argos, sworn enemies so much that when Persia invaded Greece, Argos remained neutral in order not to be allied with Sparta.

This is woefully underrated

I award you best comment of the day... nay, the week! (I would say the whole month but, yanno, the whole spoiled thing...)

Love for your Spartan bros, love for freedom, love for Sparta.

I always have to remind myself that while Mexicans and Filipinos share a language, certain words(puto) have very different meanings

@@prestonnormile9996 Oh yeahh that is true ahahahhahaha

I’m sorry to hear that, I will pray for you

@@prestonnormile9996 We share a couple words, but not a language. The Philippine Dialect of Spanish is pretty Mexican (it's pretty much extinct btw).

I Hoped to find a dinuguan lover like me ahahahah

A little Helot

Surprised that he didn't use olive oil, they put that stuff on everything, even themselves.

Marrow is the best. I created this soup where you boil beef bones all day then to the broth, add a lot of chopped up portabellas and a few cans of great northern beans and some chopped up steak and just let it cook in a slow cooker for hours in the marrow broth. Add a few bay leaves. ad far as I can tell bay leaves just act as an emulsifier and let the fats and oils mix with the water better. Only salt and pepper for spices with that. My wife and I deal with winter by making it 'soup season.' and making all sorts of great soups. she just made her Kale, ground sausage, potato soup in a cream and butter broth. Then I have my Split pea soup with lots of ham and bacon and all the bacon greese in there. there's so many great soups. I have a great White chicken chille I make. Sorry I'm hungry I guess. Can't forget creamy buttery chicken and wild rice soup.

Blood, marrow, bone dust, lentil paste, and scraps from the warriors feasts you are absolutely nothing until you are a warrior, your a spartan so you aren't a slave, you will be given nothing but what builds you as a boy, as a man you will have broth and meat, but lentils where easier to grow and had more portien per gram. Spartan women make spartan warriors so they get the choice cuts, you a warrior make due.

That sounds delicious

A perfect choice

Hitmonlee is more bangable imo.

"It's Pikachu!!.....awww dammnit!"

@@TastingHistory you should make a special Halloween episode making Pokémon foods xD

@@TastingHistory Hitmonlee would be a pro at the Spartan kick.

There happened the opposite as well. In early 4th century king Agisilaos II organised a campaign in Minor Asia against Persia. When moving with this army deep inside he raided the region of Phrygia which was governed by satrap (Persian governor) Pharnavazos. Pharnavazos called Agisilaos II to a meeting to talk and they arranged it at a neutral zone out on the field. Agisilaos and his guards were sitting on the ground while Pharnavazos arrived with a whole team fully equipped with a tent, carpets, pillows and plenty of food to give and invited Agisilaos to come and sit to talk. However Agisilaos did not stand up to go sit there. Pharnavazos, who was quite older than Agisilaos, was not vexxed at all, he understood that a Spartan would be reticent to do such especially in front of his troops, he stood up and approached Agisilaos and sat down on the ground next to him and then they talked. Pharnavazos' manners highly impressed Agisilaos and if I remember well they came to an agreement to cease Greeks' attacks against Phrygia.

I'm about to make it now, do I have to copy his measurements for 1 bowl?

@@kaz4397, much less vinegar, probably.

black eggs with too much salt is my level of cooking

@@muhhammadilham4743 how do you fuck up an egg bruh 😂

He must not like Popeyes chicken

I recommend use the plate assisted flip to make that omelette keep that nice round shape 👌👌👌... even tho it's half burned...

@@joshuasalomon3289 Start with century eggs?

Maybe the babies' bodies were carried away by scavengers/necromancers

I imagine the mother or other family members retrieved the bodies and buried them. Maternal instinct is no joke even for a spartan woman. Besides, I genuinely doubt the degree of callousness attributed to the Spartans. One must remember the Persians and Greeks tried to erase any record of their society, and what information did survive was rife with disinformation.

@@ubermenschmexa a yes the mountain necromancer, a common sight in ancient Greece.

@@swedishm90camouflage17 Sadly now extinct.

The bodies found at the bottom of the cliff were traitors and war captives, and the babies were left outside of the city to die. Sometimes the perioeci (more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perioeci) or the helots took them and raised them.

Me in every video he uploads

Most annoying part of the show imo. I come here for a historical cooking show but he barely spends any time cooking.

@@TsunaXZ Me too!

Why would you want this recipe?

🤣 it’s my new death metal band name.

@@TastingHistory LOL! I hear it's also the preferred building material in Transylvania.

It is a thing as the blood would coagulate into a block and can be handled. Found in some Chinese and other culture cuisines today.

"Brick of blood" is a more or less apt way of describing Black pudding

Super delicious though

The char aznable of ancient Greece hahahahaha holy shit dude haha so true

I'm bad at both history and anime someone please explain

@@aguywithahand502 so chars dad was killed, he was the beginning of a revolution for people born in space, this is in the future. Anyways to get revenge he plays both sides and starts a war so he can take out the people involved. Alcibiades went and betrayed Athens and seduced a spartan queen, it lead to a whole host of problems, I highly suggest watching count dankulas mad lads video about Alcibiades

@@FUBARGunpla you're a legend thanks

I'm going to get a petition going to put that characterization in our history textbooks!

My grandmother is greek

@@Agm1995gamer 😄

Grandmother's family is from a town just south of Olympia 🇬🇷 It has since been destroyed by an earthquake.

@@restezlameme oh ,I didn't knew

@@restezlameme Are the people OK?? At least the ones that survived?

nah mine was from texas and would be like "anyone mess around here, imm have the security here faster then you can say "ohh shit my bad""

Maybe because he's the same age that your History teacher was at the time you were taught.

@@PickleJuice76 man my social studies teachers in texas are mainlycoaches and they don't care if you talk as long as you aren't too loud

and he also looks like the history teacher everyone at school says is hot

Teachers who are actually passionate about what they're teaching are the best.

Nice that you spotted that

Never noticed, but now I have to go back and watch them all to see

I appreciate that you add metric measurements! Many North American cooking shows/videos fail to do so. Plus, it could help attract audiences.

My husband pointed that out after I'd spent a day binging and didn't notice that they changed 😆

I personally would have chosen a Spoink or something like that! XD

🤣 right? Jokes on them.

"Oh my god, I can believe they fell for it. They ate that crap!"

"Hey I have an idea, what if we make a vinegar and pig blood soup for this Athenian, and tell him it's one of our main dishes"

Now to my history of modern diplomacy and political science ears - these stories about Spartans sound about 25% local boasting, 25 % crazy humor, 25 % xenophopia and 25 % athenian war propaganda. And theuy thought these in school like facts. 😂

Shades of Discworld’s jokes about Klatchian food, where it turns out that “vindaloo” is Klatchian for “mouth-scalding gristle for macho foreign idiots.”

PO-TA-TOES.

No potatoes in ancient Greece I'm afraid.

I laughed so hard at that part

This is semi-relevant at best but one of my weirdest memories when I was a kid is the time me and a friend noticed that someone whose backyard was next to the school playground was growing rhubarb, and my friend just decided to scale the chain-link fence and steal that rhubarb. He rinced it in a water fountain and we ate some rhubarb during lunch hour, and no one really asked any questions even though kids carrying several whole stalks of rhubarb around the playground cannot possibly have been common. So, I'll vouch partly for stealing edible plants.

If someone died because of a blunt force of a shillelagh against the back of your head, I would know it would be you.

You get the chance to find a Portugese or Brazilian restaurant and ask if they got Feiojada, the ingredients found in that dish shares ingredients with black broth

In Poland "Czarnina" is made from blood of a duck or a goose. There is also a tradition in Poland (altough almost nonexistent nowadays), that if a boy came to a girls house and her family would serve him czarnina, that meant the family will not accept him and he should gtfo. And here is an actual recipe for a polish goose blood soup, with a touch of dried fruits (no english subtitles unfortunately) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DtPPhq-OyBg.html Also (as you can see in the video) the base of the soup is made by boiling the otherwise "throw-away" parts of the bird. It is a common thing in eastern europe (and it was a common thing all over the world not that long ago) and it's surprisingly tasty. However I am quite sure that your players won't be familiar with it. You can start by describing a big pot full of boiling bird carcasses, feet, heads, necks etc. and when they are repulsed by that, then you describe pouring the blood into the soup. Have fun :D

@@MrAsaqe I got the opportunity to eat feijoada one time from a brasilian friend, it was delicious

There are lots of versions across many cultures. Not a US thing

Come to germany! We have soup, sausages, pudding and cake made with blood. But we lack spartan humour or in fact any humour.

@@omkr0122 If you dunked it in wine and it survived then it was judged as strong; enough of your tautology!

And people wonder why Spartan Society was fundamentally unsustainable..

@@Wasserkaktus Actually the customs and simplicity is what made it strong. Greek politics are what killed Sparta. Sparta won the Peloponnesian war against Athens. It’s just every part of Greece hated Sparta (bar maybe Boeotia) and worked together to make sure Sparta stopped having any money. As well, Sparta sort of loses favor if there isn’t an immediate war as well. That is all they were considered good for, they worshiped Ares for crying out loud ;)

@@GokuInfintysaiyan This is complete bullshit. Sparta was fundamentally unstable. The entire society was built on oppressing their enslaved population with a level of tyranny unmatched almost anywhere else at that point, and then also expecting other lower castes such as the Perioeicei to do literally everything else for them, including trade, manufacturing, food production, and even supplying the bulk of their armies (Most of the soldiers in Spartan Armies were Perioeicei; Spartiates were a minority in their own Armies.). This all happened while the Spartiate population continued to shrink over time because of their extremely strict and rigid citizenship rules, and the only jobs Spartiates could themselves do were military work, police work such as the Krypteira, or participating in governance. They were explicitly prohibited from ever leaving Spartan Territory unless they were ordered to do so on military campaigns or emissary missions. Even in what you Fanboys and Spartans themselves claimed to be their biggest strength, war, was in fact inefficiency performed by Spartans. The Agoge taught resilience and tactics very well suited for irregular warfare, which apart from the Krypteira, was something Spartans shunned and avoided, opting instead to put all their effort into their Phalanx, and this almost never changed even as military technology, strategy and tactics evolved and improved all around them. The Spartan Army was squarely defeated by Thebes even before Philip I of Macedon came into the picture, and their supposed "crowning achievement", which you point out as the Peleponnesian War, was only really won by the DORIAN LEAGUE (Sparta was just the leading State of this League) because Athens suffered a Plague in the middle of the War which killed a huge portion of their population, a population much larger, more flexible and superior to Sparta's, and it also killed Pericles, who would have absolutely lead Athens and its Delian League to victory had he not been killed by the Plague. He was about to instigate and arm a massive Helot revolt which would have completely destroyed Sparta, had he not died and a bunch of bad leaders took his place. I haven't even talked about several other topics which made Sparta just awful. Face it, Sparta sucks.

@@Wasserkaktus First of all, calling me a fanboy? Really? Just shut up and debate me normally. Ad hom isn’t gonna get either of us anywhere so can we please just act like grownups? Now for one, you’re not considering the strict limitations placed on Sparta due to location and culture. They were shunned for worshipping Ares, shunned for bad-mouthing, treated as brutes with no intelligence by many commoners (despite it being WELL known by Athens that Spartan education was fairly wholistic), etc For another, I grant you that they placed too much in the Phalanx when they could’ve had equal and possibly greater success if they just skirmished based on their level of conditioning and training (Boeotia, Vikings, and many other cultures understood this). You’re also not considering leadership and placement of their troops. How many times did Sparta have the land advantage? Hell they always went far away from home and ended up fucking themselves in that regard as well. I’m not arguing it was perfect, but sucks? Sparta was crucial in winning the war against Persia. Athens, even if it’s ENTIRE main population had died, had gained MANY allies with huge populations to assist them in the sagas, and their naval fleet was still fairly protected. Besides that, Athens governing system was better, while the Ephor and Oracle often made really stupid calls against the judgement of Kings who knew war (literally Leonidas and his 300... plus 6000 other greeks and a supply line consisting of about 10,000 slaves). But that was also relative to the time not just to Sparta. And again, Spartans won more battles than they lost. Also I saw Thermopylae as the crowning achievement based on sheer numbers and level of attrition, you know, a showcase of their training actually making a difference. Besides that, take Spartan women, who were trained in similar respects to the men, and the success they found outside of Sparta due to their training! Sparta’s flaw is that is governing system operated under the assumption that as long as they were strong warriors, everyone would be cool with taking care of all the other crap they needed. And this isn’t exactly flawed thinking since this is essentially how mercenaries get by. But Sparta wasn’t respected for anything except combat so no one was interested in that status quo, and even if a king did want to change that it’s ultimately up to 5 Ephor to tell him if he can or can’t. Spartans made strong citizens capable of any task, but it’s problems were not just internal but a reflection of the same issues that caused all the in-fighting of the Greek world. And you know that’s true. Sparta was a society that had its potential squandered. It’s training was effective, it’s methods of training were practical, but the execution was never great because the leadership was usually a shitshow of “will I be allowed to do this? Hope so!” and getting shot down, and then being the most reluctantly supporter society imaginable. Sparta would’ve been fine with a more streamlined governing system and a focus on having more Spartans. The slave/helots issue was always present, but again, the conditions of that come down to being mainly a political issue and could be negated by more troops regardless.

*Leonidas'

I don't know about that (seemed to be quite customary anyway), the known dialogue before Leonidas' departure was Gorgo asking him what she should do and him answering "Marry a good man and raise good children".

I love liquorice. But I know I'm weird.

Black Lunch Matters!

haha thanks bart

Black beans, cuban style.

Dark Chocolate be like "Am I a joke to you?"

Does it taste like vinegary blood sausage?

Kind of, I guess. It’s a different taste, but of course you have the same „earthy“ and kind of sweet tastes you can find in many of the German and Central European blood sausages or black pudding, but with a little bit of sourness from the cooked vinegar.

Someone mentioned the German blood sausages, we have a similar thing here in Bulgaria, it's mostly pork liver, lungs, some blood and rice, leeks as well, all packed into an intestine and boiled. I hated it as a youngster, but perhaps it's an acquired taste for me now, absolutely love a good homemade one during the cold winters (with a glass of red wine and some cheese and bread), nothing beats it. Not even prosciutto.

Good question! It‘s a mildly sweet and sour taste, in a way comparable to beetroots, especially regarding the consistency.

@@peterkroger4311 are they small / baby pumpkins or just normal chopped in pieces. I've never tasted picked pumpkins either, but we did pickle baby watermelons (the lucky ones who grew those on their own land at least - I just recall my grandpa doing it, also grapes and that tasted really odd, but nice). Not sure how things are now, since I've lost my touch with the land. Not available in the stores for sure.

Other Spartan: Yeah! Pathetic! Hahaha! *Internally cries as he is served the same meal for the past 5 years*

I imagine it's pretty energy dense so honestly it checks out for Spartans

Yeah except that peloponisian war ......

@@reverendglitch Yea, but as the Man above you comments, no matter what you're eating, if it's the same thing over and over again, human beings enter a weirdly suggestible psychological state. Which is pretty useful for keeping absolute consistency in such stagnant, insular insignificance as the Spartans.

They even have sex with women for pleasure 😆😆😆😆 that what slaves and teen boys are for! Spartans were men of tase !!!!

I will also like to be let known when someone finds this

Go back to the first part of the video and the quote shows that it is miserable. I reckon they just dumped in pork and blood over a fire to cook just to fill their stomachs.

It most likely was blood as they would have been trying to use as much of the animal slaughtered as possible since meat was quite rare. Although, it would probably not have been modern white vinegar. More likely it would have been wine gone to vinegar and so had a more sour and tangy flavor.

was beer a thing back then in the region? maybe wine, wine is a common ingredient in mediterennean quiside

@@viorp5267greek archaeologists have found evidence that Greeks knew how to make beer, most likely taught by Egyptians and Summerians who bought greek wine like crazy, because it was a rare commodity in their lands. But the quality of the beverage back then was most likely subpar to their wine, and what was really rare in Greece, is cerials. Greece is a rather rocky place, with not many fields suitable for cereal crops, unlike the Nile and Messopotamia. So it's most likely that the cereals were too precious for food making, no reason for the ancient Greeks to waste it on beer when the wine is of better quality and quite cheap too.

I don't see why not. The availability of blood might be the main limiting factor. But for example I would gladly add slices of black pudding into a pork stew.

@@Kinotaurus I don't think it's about it being hard to make...

Blood, meat, and onions. Sounds pretty damn delicious to me

@@Gabranicus So do crickets to lizard people... (= - =) (slowly backs away)

I'm a Filipino and we have our famous Pork Blood Stew, it has intestines yum! Perfect with a loaf of bread.

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That could be an improvement, anything to add a bit more flavor.

Stu Saville - Waiter: “Sorry sir, that’s an extra obol for the fly”.

Yes 😉

Based on descriptions, it sounds like a society which breeds, encourages, and rewards sociopathy openly, which does make me wonder just how accurate historical accounts actually are.

Yea I think the going comparison is that in history there have been two hitlers, one named Alcibiades and the second named Hitler :-/ lol

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine yes, it has to be an exaggeration if only because such a disfunctional society would be able to last one or two generations at most

Can't hear your accusations. Too much charm and Henry Cavill-with-anime-eyes. "Whatever you want, Alcibiades." (q.v. Overly Sarcastic Productions)

Black puddings the best

"British contribution to world cuisine : The chip"

@@astrorafhan First recorded chips in Europe were in belgium, but it's known that South Americans were frying potatoes before anyone in Europe knew what one was.

@Mike J I am english and some of it IS bland though, but the reality is a lot of northern and eastern european food isn't as tasty as much of the rest of the world. I live in Germany and can honestly say the food here is really bad, they use even less herbs and spices than brits do and really rely on the Turkish for nice tasting things. For example Germans don't really have savory snacks in their bakeries, you need to get those from Turk bakeries.

@Mike J It is a stereotype, I’ll concede, but it is still pretty lacklustre, speaking as a native.

TastingHistory oh so many things. Bird Nests from Asia, snails from Europe, horse meat from Italy. As a cooking ingredient, blood is a staple of German cuisine, and, in Scandinavia, blood is baked into many breads. My great grandmother apparently liked to make Bludwurst.

Tripe. It’s a texture thing.

Brain... Eugh

Offal in general is unpopular in the West. But I find myself quite liking Liver, one of the tamest of Offal.

It is Greek. You don't dissapoint ever. I love you, but don't tell Jose.

I heard that he only came back because he ran away from battle and asked his mother that if he could hide home. That's when she pulled up her skirt and told him he might as well climb back. I.e, mom tells coward son he's a lil baby bitch.

That's hilarious.

Come back with your shield or on it.

I don’t get what’s so offensive about losing a Shiel though. Presumably it did its job...?

@@danidejaneiro8378 the shields they used were heavy, and if you were running away, the first thing you drop. but not something a victorius army would need to worry about, only deserters. hence "come back with it (victorius) or on it (dead)". and not without it (deserter).

Noooo 🤣

Lmao for real

Brace or dumb

imagine tho, CSI guys come in with the blue light & the freaking blender is the only thing that lights up lmaooo

"If."

The raisin and prune version sounds good. I can't get behind eating scabs, even if they are liquified.

@@SG-js2qn Recipe for czarnina smega (or "blind czarnina"): Put a pound of smoked ham hocks into a large saucepan or a stockpot, cover with water by about an inch, bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, and simmer for at least 4 hours - overnight is fine. Skim as required. Put it into the refrigerator, and chill until the fat solidifies. Remove the fat. Separate the meat from the bones, chop it into bite-sized pieces, and return it to the stock. Chop about 1/4 lb. each of raisins and prunes and add to the stock. Bring back to a boil, and return to a simmer. Simmer for about 1/2 hour. Add either red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar to taste. Serve as is, or with wide egg noodles (kluskis). And as always... *ENJOY* !

I'll stick with pierogi, thanks!

@@supergeek1418 I would probably do a simplified version that cooks up fast, like an adaptation of an Indian korma or biryani, which uses nuts and raisins along meat, vegetables, and rice.

@@Mark-zu6oz While I really do enjoy pierogi, I probably like this as much. It pretty much tastes like barbecue soup. Don't knock it until you've tried it.

He's an awful cook though tbh.

"Thank God, I'd love a barbecue right now"

A Hollywood phrase right?

Thanks. I didn’t hear it the first time

I'm sure Hades served tasty food

Modern military provide worse meals than ancient military

@@iggy1979 I mean roman military meals weren't great

If you haven't already you should check out black pudding

I feel the very same 🤤

Blood sausage on rye is an old (polish?) meal that still makes me salivate just thinking about it. And I've been vegan 5 years lol

Im a big fan of eating fried goose/duck/chicken blood, a lil bit of salt pepper and onions and you'll get a full plate of meaty chewy deliciousness.

Leonidas:"tonight we dine in hell" Spartans:"Finally, some good fucking food"

Sounds pretty good. A somewhat bland but hearty meal.

Cool, source?

@@kylew.4896 It's from an article of a greek historian. Article name "Φάρος της Λακωνίας αρ.φ.463/28.04.83"

@@gravygraves5112 Guarantee everyone seasoned and spiced it in practice. I've seen old recipes many times where seasoning and spices were left out or sometimes added lines about seasoning to taste since herbs and spices were limited to what was available.

You did your research 🧐

Waste not, want not.

When every hunt is a blessing, you learn quick to use EVERYTHING.

Where would that be? Google is failing me.

When life is one bad harvest away from massive famine, wasting food is a capital offense that could result in divine punishment in some cultures.

Are you by chance a Minang?

Rsrsrs

@@TastingHistory wait a minute, do you speak Portuguese?

Kkkkk

toda semana feijoada ou só o feijão preto

Everyday with rice.

Like wtf 🤣🤣. Probably thinking these idiots 😂😭😭

So did the kid.....while he was vomiting up his own blood lol. He didn't though, Spartans kids are trained not to vomit, it shows weakness haha.