What Food Was Actually Like in the Elizabethan Period 

Samoa perhaps?

This is the one👏🏻

If people of the past are known for anything, it's philanthropy

And dying of disease

@@cleverusername9369 with the Victorian era being a notable exception.

there are plenty of areas like this. You just assume it should exist amongst the rich. Just like them, the rich had no reason to have actual community. So regardless, you’re still incorrect as people who weren’t rich are community oriented in any era. If you do not have community, you most likely make enough money to not be in a situation in which community is vital to your survival, at all.

@@cleverusername9369 it’s wild. You probably just live in a place or class that just barely surpasses the need of actual community. If y’all head into areas where people financially struggle- there’s community. If you had enough to suffice- the need for community is literally not vital and not created. it’s not rocket science, unless you just live and work in a bubble

Do you play the cheese between two crackers?

@@awfan221 depends on who the crackers are 🤣

Like with a digestive biscuit??

@@chromicapop4595 Digestive biscuits with a bit of chedddar - tantalising!

The eating of the top part of the wedding cake a year later is for good luck 🍀

I heard the saved cake thing is supposed to be your baby's first birthday cake, as like, a measurement of time for when your first child should be born after you're married, but I'm unsure when or how that came about.

It was saved for the christening of your first child

Ikr! Plus elisebethan era foods could vary by region

Spices were so expensive, if you could afford them then obviously afford fresh meat. Most meat people ate was generally preserved with salt or smoking anyway, but whenever they got fresh meat from the market the butcher would usually gather a bunch of people and sell every part of the animal before it was butchered. It's a dumb myth, rotten meat will kill you no matter what time period you live in.

Actually it’s half right spices and seasoning were sometimes used by terrible cooks and butchers to cover up bad meat or in some cases they would mix bad meat with good meat and sell it back to people

Apparently Liz ate a chess set made of marzipan in 2 days, LOL.

some people really wanna correct others with so much confidence, and it’s embarrassing

@@aurorajude4674 I could do that.

I have been to that Inn - it was amazin - ghe visit was part of a wonderful day trip tourist package by ViaTour. We also visited Bath & stonehenge. It was worth every cent we paid for it

Its a custom? I heard in Greece you can get cheese in a taverna😮also ouzo and other stuff

pretty sure this is just one of those BS things people say...like eating rotten meat in medieval times just adding spices...etc

The fact that most everyone was dirty and didn’t clean much, makes perfect sense to me that rotting teeth was in.

I don't think it was exactly cause they thought it looked good, I think it was more of an attractive status symbol-you had the $ to buy stuff that destroyed your teeth

@@missyouwish88 Its the same situation with being fat. Everyone knew it was bad for health and it was bad looking, but it was a good trait to marry because it meant the person had money.

@@Harcorwrestler People didn't bathe often but they absolutely cleaned with wet rags. It's a common misconception.

Probably a lot of dates and milk

@@user-ds8gf3ki2g honey too 🍯

dont forget the old beers theyre were first to produce it

Food

@@lestatangel and water in some form

What was done for folks with kidney stones and diabetes back then?

@@ankhpom9296 I don't know the details of the treatments used for these diseases back then. However, they did know how to surgically remove kidney stones since Ancient Greece. There were also various herbal treatments, though how effective they were I really couldn't say, As for diabetes: Type 1 diabetes had no treatment, but had been recorded since Roman times. The only thing they could do was treat the symptoms (nerve tonics to ease the pain, physical therapy, etc). Type 2 diabetes, they understood had something to do with eating grains and exhaustion since they had noted that it mostly afflicted soldiers and women who had just given birth. Physicians could proscribe a protein rich diet, and were able to make sugar pills: although the latter were expensive. Unfortunately though, most people still died of it (unless they died of something else first which to be fair was the usual case). Synthesizing insulin didn't happen until the 1950s, although it is one of things which you could plausibly include in an alternate history/fantasy setting since there isn't any particular reason it wasn't discovered earlier apart from people weren't looking in that direction. It came out of Herschfeld's research on hormone therapy: as they were looking into chemicals which determined anatomical sex, and which induced menstruation, they also discovered insulin by accident. There were a few cases of people recovering from Type 2 diabetes, which might be related to the use of animal organs as folk remedies for a wide variety of ailments but the documented evidence is not clear enough to say for sure if this what caused their recovery or if it was pure dumb luck.

It was a way to show off your beauty in their culture my dK guide Japan says

First, yes it was created by people. Second, i'm happy you will be able to further promote veganism.

But almond milk then was just ground almonds and water. Not the kind we have now.

@@carolynwatson4301 but then so we’re most things, so what’s your point. That’s like trying to say roads didn’t exist because they made with cement or it wasn’t a house because it had a foot made with straw.

@@mat967 first, you do realize that milking is a process so to not call it milk is well, stupid. Also, pretty much all food that isn’t plant base in engendered in some way shape or form & even then plant based food is mostly engineered. Second, I’m not a vegan. I’m not even a vegetarian. However what I don’t do is get my underwear in a twist over people’s diet.

@@kenyattaclay7666 and the Romans had both concrete and roads that are still usable. My point is that their almond milk isn't really almond milk because of all the garbage that we add to it.

Me too minus the chef😂

Probably just fish 🐟

@@AstarionWifey They ate lots of stuff actually, they had it pretty good since they had so many people working so hard for them.

@@resentfuldragon looking like what? 😮😮😮

I eat both almond at night to sleep

I I . .

You forgot eggs. Or are they too expensive right now?

That’s such a heavy breakfast 😂 I just rather have the toast

The one thing to keep in mind is that, especially if you were a peasant, you'd burn off all that food by working all day long.

Damn. Just give me fruit and some turkey bacon please

@@scorch33 that’s true

Unfortunately in the U.S., it usually means we are eating a lot of highly processed sugary foods that are terribly unhealthy... mostly because they are less expensive and have a long shelf life, but they are also addictive.

@@TH-hy9kr Look man, those little debbies snack cakes were calling my name

It was a compliment in western nations as well before sugar got cheap, being fat in medieval europe meant you were doing well financially.

@@resentfuldragon Sort of fell by the wayside after the turn of the 20th century when print/media became more visual & the invention of movies

Aww....he was just trying to be nice 😔.....

It was the ship worms that were infesting the armada

Weird history food might🎉

Why no fruit? There were plenty of apples, pears, plums, and seasonal fruit like peaches, apricots, cherries, strawberries, etc. The Elizabethans knew how to preserve them, in sugar, vinegar or wine. They probably even imported oranges and lemons from the Mediterranean area.

A forerunner of the " spitz"...I suppose.😊

Trader Joe's "Ajika Georgian Seasoning" has marigold, chili pepper, and garlic and it's damn near delectable lord have mercay

Imagine someone from that age seeing a bunch of meth heads walking around nowadays with black teeth and thinking they’re royalty or something 😂😂

Black teeth come from consumption of sugar.

I read they were fashionable in Japan in the Shogun period, but not because of sugar, I think it was something religious, if I remember right...

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Not necessarily. Black teeth was a standard of beauty in some cultures, particularly East and Southeast Asians were very enamored with black teeth that had been purposely died black.

@@Chrochella Dyeing is NOT what I meant.

Rotting, with pests, and poop

Learn how to pronounce them.

Do you honestly believe things were better back then? Our ancestors did not have the same sanitation and hygiene practices and regulations we do today. The lack of refrigeration also meant many products going bad faster. A shady chef or baker could've easily mixed good and bad ingredients in order to save costs, and sell those same products to people. Some meat starting to go bad? Just mince it all and put it into a pie so it goes unnoticed. Flour too expensive? Just mix some chalk or plaster to the batch and sell it as flour. (Some bakers in the Victoria era would do this). History has long record of unsafe practices and adulteration in products. Does this mean we're better off now? No exactly. Fast food chains and restaurants can still try and sell bad batches to people, hygiene and sanitation is still dodgy in some places and many products are still adulterated in order to save costs. Big companies can buy or sponsor tests and inspections to pass off their products as "good" or "healthy"; lie to people in order to sell. And there's a chance things might get worse now that we've invented ways to make artificial food and ingredients. My point is; people will be people, regardless of technology and regulations. The spirit of malpractices in the name of profit or necessity has remained (and grown) with us... That being said, I trust our modern products more than those of the old days. Here in Europe at least, we tend to take regulations about food, health and quality inspections seriously.

@@ivoryowl He didn't say things were better, he said rightfully that we eat things today that we can't understand unlike back then. Unless your situation was extreme, eating things you didn't understand was not the norm in any era of human history before the early modern era. Even back in the days of citystates, people knew what they were eating and it wasn't processed garbage. Eating rotten food was not common at all. As for the negatives of the past, that is mainly about quality of life in general. We eat processed garbage but we have excellent hospitals, even a poor 3rd worlder can generally get better medical treatments than a noble back in the day. We also have great pros like the ability to travel and communicate across vast distances quickly, and we have less wars in general too. Edit: Also I wanted to add that trusting modern food regulation at all is not the smartest choice. Many things we eat have horrible consequences, even just the dyes in foods can be carcinogens. We eat tastier cleaner food, but definitely less healthy food and thats a fact. While we have little danger of contracting a food borne illness, we are astronomically more likely to gain nearly any diet based ailment and we are far more likely to consume garbage like microplastics due to our pollution. The average person of today, at least in richer nations, eats terribly compared to nearly any other time period and it shows in our tendency to gain too much weight and our high rates of disease like diabetes.

Except they didn't. Sure, if you grew all your own grains and vegetables, raised chickens and cows, and had an actual kitchen to cook in, you knew the core ingredients. But you did not know anything about foodborne illness, germs, or the importance of a balanced diet. Also, just because something is hard to pronounce does not make it bad. Modern labeling requires the use of proper names of substances rather than common names.

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@@shawnmaria9064 I do like the channel that's my issue

Indigenous Australians?

Smh dont know why ppl fool with "diets", portion control & physical activity give far better results than any "diet" ever will. You only have one life to live eat what you want/like just dont overeat & burn what you do eat off. All these restrictive diets/religious based diets, vegan bs that goes against our very biology etc are insane

@@kristiskinner8542 It was actually just a joke about how disgusting the food sounded... but hey, you do you. 👍

It’s not true. And you’re right, they wouldn’t have wasted expensive spices on rotten meat they couldn’t even eat. Unfortunately, this is myth that refuses to die🫤

It isn’t true

Thats because it's not true at all. People back then were no more able to eat rotten meat than we are.

He said meat/food that had started to turn. Not rotten meat lol. That's certainly not worth the spice cost im sure.

@@aussiejubes Same argument, replace the word "rotten" with "starting to turn". Spices were luxury items, someone who can afford spices can afford fresh meat. lol

Depends on how you cook fish, it can be delicious. Also, back then, the river Thames gave so much seafood that it was cheap and for the lower classes. Later on, that became scarce and expensive, due to pollution. I never ate swan and peacock though, I heard they are heavy meats, I'm curious about it.

Usually only that cheap because someone wasn't paid a living wage

@@cassieoz1702 You didn't stick up for them and now you are feeling guilty about it.

@@btetschner I have no idea what you mean. Not something we generally buy

@@cassieoz1702 You didn't do anything to stop those people from being exploited. You also lied when you said you have no idea what I meant.

@@cassieoz1702 Do you know how much it used to cost?

I mean Royalty meant they had feasts regularly

Fresh food was delivered regularly at Henry and Elizabeth's castles. The kitchens employed men that went out to the landowners and fishermen and contracted for meat, vegetables and fish. Everything was inspected and anything substandard was rejected. Livestock was brought in and slaughtered nearby. There was very little space for storage of raw goods when feeding several hundred people two meals a day. Less desirable parts were given to servants as part of their wages and leftovers were donated to the poor. Proteins were salted, brined or smoked to preserve them in the fall after excess animals were culled before winter, a practice in virtually all cultures. Spices were too expensive to be used for anything other than flavor. There are records of vegetable and fruit dishes but it is likely that simple preparations were not included because it was expected a cook in a noble household wouldn't need instructions.

Unfortunately not. I live in Denmark, a country where it is commonly accepted that minors drink. They are actually the heaviest drinking youths in the EU. Binge drinking is still very much a thing for people, also as adults.

@@Cysticspyke Yup, its just like how caffeine and sugar got so widespread, easy access and easy addition. We should make sure to keep the blanket ban on alcohol for minors here in america because it can mess up their brain development. It isn't done developing until they are 25!

Didn't work too well before, also if he/she is old enough to enlist and serve his country...

Unfortunately with the drinking culture in America it may make things worse. The age was lowered to 18 for the Vietnam war because the logic "if you're old enough to serve and vote then you're old enough to drink responsibly". It was a disaster and that's when the age limit went back up. There are some outlined exceptions state to state on minors drinking and usually religion event with parental supervision is a common exception I've come across. Personally, I never had the urge to drink when I was a minor and I can count on one hand how many alcoholic drinks I've had in the past 5 years. I grew up with a large family and in our culture you bring gifts when you visit so often times someone would also bring alcohol as part of a visiting gift to the household. We had tons in the cabinet and if I had wanted I could've easily drank a couple bottles over the years and no one would've noticed. My parents aren't big drinkers either even socially. So I'm assuming culture, environment, how someone was raised and their personality impacts if they'll partake in underage drinking or just drinking irresponsibly.

@@itazuranakisu Drinking alcohol is a bad idea regardless of age to be honest so staying away is a good idea. Its the drug that caused the most harm, its cause problems for humanity for thousands of years.

Cow's milk was drunk by folks who owned a cow. Beyond that it was preserved (butter or cheese) because of the lack of refrigeration, no other reason

Only if you could take a lot of Antibiotics and Anesthesia with you. Having to get an arm or a leg sawn off because it went Gangrene from a simple open wound, with no Anesthesia existing back then, would not be pleasant.

Absolutely. British food had the advantage of good, locally produced ingredients. No need to pretend it's something it isnt.

No. I think here that would usually be an appetizer or hor d’oerve. (Please excuse the spelling.)

It was a French fashion that is still respected today in France and its former colonies. Nobles consumed expensive cheeses all over Europe and French was the courts language for centuries in all Europe, including Imperial Russia. It was a snob thing to differentiate from the lower classes and was considered a sign of higher education to be able to speak fluent French. Now we have the same thing with the English language. I can speak both but I use English more.

It’s common enough here (UK) that there is a popular podcast where a celebrity chooses their dream meal - starter, main course, accompaniment, drink and final course. It’s a running joke that one of the presenters has a tantrum if the final course is cheese instead of a pudding (dessert) 😀.

Genuinely curious, what's your source for this bc I've heard this before and would like to know more.

No amount of wealth kept food edible forever. Hampton courts fridge was a narrow outside alleyway between wings that got very little sunlight. They very much did use spices for their taste and aroma just like today but they relied on them more to mask food rather than enhance it. They would use them more once the food starter to turn even more. Waste wasn’t an option for anyone in any social class really.

Your wrong.

So basically charcoal? 👌

I reckon there's a reason they were virtually unheard of for several hundred years between then and now

@@cassieoz1702 probably because the dairy industry kicked in and tried to bury these things so they could turn into a billion dollar monster of animal exploitation.

@@albertorkenbjorken I think you'll find that (imported) almonds were actually prohibitively expensive and you wouldn't waste them making pseudo-milk

No one cares about California

And Nutty History. I'm sure he hosts that one too.