Why Was Baking The Most Deadly Job In The Victorian Era? | Victorian Bakers | Absolute History 

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If only they understood the ease and simplicity of no-knead bread (:

LMAO these people just cant help themselves can they? An indian woman frmo india is alongside white bakers to fulfill diversity quota whne literally all bakers in vict. england were white, by virtue of being the indigenous population.

Disgusting additives are still added to food today; greed... greed never changes.

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I just heard that line. Had to pause to go back to work and saw your comment...

Doesn’t that slowly cripple people More than likely America since forever

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Damn this show tells so much about human nature ! They were all complaining when they were exhausted or making bread that could kill people locally, but they are all happy when they get the the cheap flour and sugar from america and immediately say that even in their modern actual bakery they do not mind using cheaper product from abroad then more expensive product from local makers as long as they can make better profit and they do not care about the consequence about the product today beign produced by underpaid workers, wrking in horrible conditions, sometimes even children, just like their ancestor bakers in the 19th century didn&t care that the reason the flour and sugar from the US was cheap was because it was made by slaves and directly a product of the slave trade. Slaves were taken from East Africa to the US then the same ships would go from the US to England with flour and sugar and then from England they would go to Africa with mass produced things from the industrial revolution and these would be sold in Africa and the ships would leave Africa for the US with their loads of Slaves on them, males females and children, and on the ship the males would be separated from the women so that the women could be available for the crew, along with the children. And those bakers felt nothing about it when they got their cheap flour and sugar, just like Bakers today and other professions do not give an F about the fact that those cheap products come from modern forms of slavery and also the destruction of countless natural habitats and the extinction of the local fauna and flora all over the planet. Yes we haven't changed at all.

Just remember that a lot of those regulations have nothing to do with safety. But was lobbied by very large companies to keep out smaller competition.

@@timesthree5757 capitalism: profits over people .

@@laurenwalker1048 you do realize that because of capitalism our poor is richer than most of the world. I think the words yer looking for is crony capitalism.

@@laurenwalker1048 I'm all for capitalism not crony capitalism.

@@timesthree5757 nope, capitalism. I mean unfettered late-stage capitalism, which is where we are.

Hear,hear.

It's also medical history.

Right. And I think understanding how everything is interconnected also makes you pay deeper attention to all that’s happening TODAY. I’m with you, love documentaries like this

And a "professionals loosing their minds" video

specially focused on labor + something else

During the industrial revolution, white hot bolts were sledge hammered and riveted to hold steel plates together. While making ships, children had to crawl around in the hull holding metal to rivet the bolts from inside. Sometimes they missed, sometimes they broke, sometimes they got sealed inside the ship. Coal miners, asbestos removal, soldiers, tree trimmers... Most jobs MEN do are dangerous, even today. So much for privilege eh?

@@sicsempertyrannishonk7197 once again...the concept of what we're actually talking about with respect to privilege goes WHOOOSH...right over your head. PEOPLE do a lot of dangerous jobs, back then and even today...it being solely in the domain of MEN has nothing to do it. Not surprising this is your take given you have a playlist with "What's wrong with millennials?" in it. Generational hate is stupid and a waste of time. GTFU already.

Bruh just living in general was dangerous in the Victorian era

I think our immune systems are a little fucked nowadays because of all that poison from earlier eras.

@@sicsempertyrannishonk7197 Mhn it's almost as if men put themself in those positions and dont even give women the chance

If he was from a family of bakers, he probably started working in the kitchen when he was pretty young, so he probably was baking bread in the Victorian era (pre 1901).

I worked in an industrial bakery for a few years. A friend if mine had pneumonia all the time and the doctors said it was from flour dust

Woah baking must really be in your bloodline

I had a job conducting research in a medical school. At that time state institutions were not subject to federal OSHA regulations. I found that one of the electron microscopes we were using was leaking 100 times the allowable limit of x-rays. I was only subject to that for about a year and a half. But a woman who worked on that microscope 10 hours a week for 15 years develop breast cancer in both breasts. She had a different type of cancer in each breast. Her doctors kept asking if she’d had radiation exposure. She said no because she didn’t know the microscope was leaking. Then I came along and found the leak. And her fatal breast cancer was explained, but unfortunately she died. Please don’t listen to somebody that says Small businesses will be hurt by safer environment or regulations. No one should make money by causing harm to another.

@@scothammond5736 as someone who had pneumonia once upon a time let me say what my doctor told me is that this unfortunately creates scarring a permanent scar that never goes away. This also unfortunately makes your easily sustainable to getting sick easily and causing a life time issue with breathing. Like myself I love baking and cooking but sadly I have to use a mask these days because when I don’t I end up inhaling the fumes or the stuff from baking that leads me to wheezing heavily and breathing hard. May your great grandfather Rest In Peace🤗

If you've ever started your own yeast culture and baked from start to finish, you sort of get invested in the whole process since baking is pretty technical and you realize real quick you can lose a lot of time, effort, and ingredients, if you screw up in any part of the process before you put that thing in the oven, you'll get some sub-par end product or something you didn't really want. So you're going to put a lot of dedication to getting it right, you grow to appreciate what goes into baking. Of course anyone can just make simple bannock, but to get a lovely loaf with good crumb AND consistently pump that out in many loafs over and over again? That takes a lot of effort.

Yeah to pop all those adulterants in there is heartbreaking to those who make their best product for friends and family. The amount of labor and little pay would have you looking for a new job or turning to crime.

They are true crafts people. There is a dedication among people who feed other people to give them their very best and using shitty ingredients would crush many of them.

Seriously people now a days literally get injured in the kitchen when baking from muscle strains to poor posture and arthritis, etc. and that’s with all the modern machines and technology, imagine how labour intensive it was back then!

To think people complain about the shit in our modern food; all our modern food additives and preservatives(E numbers for across the pond folks) are child's play compared to the shit used back then.

And that's if one didn't die, or get robbed on the way back home

They generally didn't eat the bottom of the bread, most families who could would throw it out, but yeah coal infused bread is not good for you. Makes you grateful for supermarkets.

@@Amelia7o9 no makes you greatful for modernization and education. Even without a supermarket or civilization collapse people alive today know about the dangers of certain cooking fuels and sanitation and how to cook food in a clean enviroment. A simple stove we use today would have been voodoo magic to people back then as literally anything you want to cook can be cooked on it safely and without danger for the most part

​@@Amelia7o9 I know right, it's crazy how far we advanced in just a few hundred years. Nowadays you just gotta go for a nice stroll down the street to a supermarket which gives you easy access to a plethora of safe and delicious food and ingredients to make whatever you want.

Don't forgot the chalk and sweat.

This video has made me think of the bakers at grocery stores in my area.

Mind if I ask what’s the new career? I admire career changers later in life

My mother worked in the bakery department in Safeway. She certainly said it was demanding.

That sounds like my job. I quit after 17 years because it was just getting to much for me and I already had somehealth issues. I went from working with food to one on one sitting an 95 year old with dementia. It is rough some days but so much easier and I get to sit down when I need to where I couldn't at my last job. Even being in a lot of pain, my supervisor wouldn't let me sit.

@@acmhfmggru what about plumber?

What ingredients did you use? It should only take about 10 minutes for a rich thick creme...

@@runed0s86 They weren't making thick creme like you'd glop onto scones or something, that's not even a common thing in many places (most of the USA doesn't use it). They were describing making frosting (doesn't say what kind, could have been a whipped cream frosting but might have been cream cheese or buttercream etc), which is a whole other story, you have to whip it so much that it's almost like making meringue.

@@ItsAsparageeseI’m a commercial baker and I can confirm that buttercream when done correctly does have a very light, fluffy, meringue like appearance, and it would be a nightmare to have to aerate and whip it by hand

as an amateur cook, completely agreed- ive only had a meal outright dud a few times, but....

bruh same

@CaraCara Well pastries are her speciality as the others are more on the normal loafing business.

I'd like to boss that Alex boy around 😉

Happy ? I was disgusted by it. Damn this show tells so much about human nature ! They were all complaining when they were exhausted or making bread that could kill people locally, but they are all happy when they get the the cheap flour and sugar from america and immediately say that even in their modern actual bakery they do not mind using cheaper product from abroad then more expensive product from local makers as long as they can make better profit and they do not care about the consequence about the product today beign produced by underpaid workers, wrking in horrible conditions, sometimes even children, just like their ancestor bakers in the 19th century didn&t care that the reason the flour and sugar from the US was cheap was because it was made by slaves and directly a product of the slave trade. Slaves were taken from East Africa to the US then the same ships would go from the US to England with flour and sugar and then from England they would go to Africa with mass produced things from the industrial revolution and these would be sold in Africa and the ships would leave Africa for the US with their loads of Slaves on them, males females and children, and on the ship the males would be separated from the women so that the women could be available for the crew, along with the children. And those bakers felt nothing about it when they got their cheap flour and sugar, just like Bakers today and other professions do not give an F about the fact that those cheap products come from modern forms of slavery and also the destruction of countless natural habitats and the extinction of the local fauna and flora all over the planet. Yes we haven't changed at all.

I kept waiting for them to point out that the *reason* sugar was so cheap was not because of positive reasons, and then it never happened...

@@Ebbagull because that is not the aim of this documentary

@@moniquem783 here in the US, instead of teaching history, many citizens want to destroy it.

most of the history in my country, colonizers know more that it's people.

To be fair, they were colonisers and have never been colonised meaning, no reigning foreign government that has the urge to destroy the indigenous culture and history

@Cara you're comparing apples to oranges when they have a longer history than we do - of course there's less to document about the USA with its age only being 243. And furthermore, a true scholar of history would see just how All countries gloss over their darker days to glorify only the beautiful history. A major example being Japan and Korea and how the former refuses to acknowledge the damages they inflicted over the past century alone, and my girlfriend who lived in Russia informing how their curricula now rewrites historical scenarios rather than just omitting the gritty parts. It's egregious to assume that its only America that suffers from divisive interest in the true history of both their own culture and the world.

@@moniquem783 I know exactly what you are saying. Compared to Britain, Australia and New Zealand (I'm your kiwi cousin) are a lot younger so I think Britain is similar as our early relatives.

I really loved some of their individual perspectives throughout the video. John Foster with his morbid sense of humour and the way he took it all in and related things to things we still enjoy or deal with today. John Swift with his reflections on the unspoken ugly compromises his forebears most likely made. Harpreet with the undue brutality of a trade which should have been more modernized and happier at the time...

but girls hated this series n think it's boring n nerdy tho

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Too right!

Corn syrup is todays version

IM SO HAPPY NOT BEING BORN BACK THEN.

@@1320crusier Sadly I am more worried about all of the shit veggie oils.

@@vagabondwastrel2361 I mean, palm oil isn't nearly as bad as chalk, its diabetes properties don't hit you within a month, you can avoid most of them by avoiding fried food too, bread on the other hand is staple food

I'm too broke to buy a kitchenaid so all my bread is by hand 😂 but even then, working out of a trough just sounds horrid

I've never been more grateful to have been born in 2001 and not 1856

Kitchenaids are amazing! They even sell giant ones with guards for kitchens!

A 30 liter commercial stand mixer sells for about $5000 and would do all of that trough work easily.

@@totoroben not exactly catered towards the average consumer.

Also, don't forget tobacco

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Oof this too real after the tornadoes

employers still try to pull that. when I was a child in North Carolina I lived near a chicken processing plant that caught fire. there was loss of life because the owners chained the doors shut during the work shift

Still goes on today. Not just him, but do you really think all the jobs shipped overseas bc it's cheaper have better conditions?

That was a depressing read.

@@Neuromancer23 Those times were depressing.

@@jessh4016 right and I'm sure you "meet" lots of them while you walk past them disgusted.

@@hughrealman50 I have the image of a person stalking homeless people as they beg on the street, then picking through their pockets to count the change. Is that what they’re saying they do, if they say a thing like that with such confidence?

@@jessh4016 200$ is too much but yeah, many beggars are making quite a lot of money a day, certainly more than I have for living on a daily basis

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I really appreciate bakers and farmers in the cheese industry for fueling my diet.

There is one, May 16th, in honor of St. Honoré, patron saint of bakers - and inspiration for the delicious eponymous cake.

I think everyone working a job is important we don't appreciate just how important every job , the working class makes the world go around and without us society would fall apart .. Respect to the working classes always .. we all play important roles in society..

@@annaverano5843 The US and Canada have labor/labour day

@@Moxinea Labor day sucks because the people doing most of the grueling labor (food service, gas stations, grocery stores) don't even close on labor day so the middle class can still have modern conveniences on their day off.

What’s it like being a weak girl

can relate, men still get disappointed when I say I don't bake bread but pastries. I'm literally so fragile 😔. but I do help sometimes if they need some help on busy days

I believe you, a lot of carrying heavy equipment and pastry trays … constant hand workout from kneading and shit… standing for 8+ hours daily..

What a surprise the average worker was shitfaced from morning till evening.... 😅

@@Patrick3183 calm down babe, we all know you're weaker 🤣🤣

hot cross buns!!! yes!!!!

I shed a tear watching the dude coming to terms with the choices his ancestors likely made.

Me too! I was so happy for them…and suddenly inordinantly proud of American wheat and it’s naturally high gluten content!

So fudge numbers to get desired numbers? So let's not count people that die of cancer that way we can say people live to their 90s

@@diegoflores9237 Go pick a fight somewhere else troll.

Very interesting, thank you

They just replaced chalk with calcium propionate, don't pretend the regulations had anything to do with it besides making jobs for state dogs.

@@foetusdeletus6313 Ok there there. Here is your aluminium foil, now go play with other nut cases

@@saunajaakko699 5 shekels have been deposited into your account for defending uncle sam and Zion, good job, pup.

You say this; however, the addition of chalk was likely a good thing for the average Victorian with a subpar diet. Chalk (calcium carbonate) is a necessary nutrient... It's good for you in moderation and not bad at all.

@@saunajaakko699 That man isn't a conspiracy theorist. Loaves baked in the UK today are REQUIRED to be made from fortified flour... Fortified flour is going to contain added iron, thiamin, nicotinamide and calcium carbonate (CHALK). Chalk is a necessary nutrient. SOURCE: The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998

That’s your subjective opinion why are you acting as if it’s fact

@@Shoegaze- Because they're stating their own experiences, which are a fact for them. The silly cat in your pfp would be ashamed of your rudeness

@@KyzenEX most intelligent white woman

Lol- my boss had flood lights installed for when the power in our bakery goes out ! 😭 we have huge antique gas ovens with stones so we just keep right on baking 😭😭 we luv capitalism

@@jo-eo9ld The glory of capitalism is that if someone is working their staff to death or in dreadful conditions, eventually no one will want to work there and the problem self-corrects. Either they do better or go out of business. In the end it's completely voluntary.

@@wingy200 There's the invisible hand at work. One problem, if labour is unskilled enough and work is in high enough demand, you can get away with those conditions. Who cares if everyone working there quits at once, theres a group of employment ravenous soon-to-be bakers waiting at the door

@@CaptainShenanigans42 I never had guaranteed automation at any job Ive ever had, if the power goes out you do it manually, thats common sense not a reason to destroy a company wtf is wrong with people so lazy and quick to turn on anyone providing a job!

Has no bakery owner ever heard of a backup generator? This is 2022 FFS!

Please help her fight them.

G'day, Yeah... Funny, that. The Tribes which had overpopulated their Ancestral Homelands, huddled in Industrial Slums...; they ONLY Colon-ised and STOLE the resources of EVERY other Tribe on the Planet - whose Ancestors had done a BETTER Job of Conserving their Ecology...; The EuroPeons ONLY Colon-ised and Trashed the World - To bring The "Benefits of Christian Civilisation and World's Best Practice To the Ignorant benighted Heathen Savage Barbarians - Who clearly did not Deserve their traditional ancestral Homelands, or Resources - because they don't know how to Man-Age their Country, In order to Maximise PROFITABILITY While satisfying Europeon Market DEMANDS... Who'd've thunk they came from a place which raised them all to be Selfish Turds.. For CENTURIES...? Who knew ? Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

Many kids… sooo many kids, like people were just pumping them out

Just wait until you hear about the Romans

@shiftmym9079 the cool thing about birth control is that it made child abuse less profitable and encourages innovation, since there is now more money facing fewer child laborers. Basic economics.

the architecture was the only good thing but all the bad victorian architecture was demolished so who knew

I think they only ate the chalk one

@@jeremyscungio16 I'd hope so.

@@jeremyscungio16 You literally watched them eat the alum bread and discuss how disgusting it was...

@@Fitz1993 you believe everything you see on a show? It could have been just normal bread for all we know. It isnt real life. I wish people wouldnt over use “literally”

@@Unkn0wn1133 Yeah ok Aristotle... That's a really fucking stupid way of thinking when you're watching some innocent show about baking.

Treacle has become very expensive and that's if you can find it in the regular shops.

molasses was also really popular to put into the bread itself instead of sugar (it was cheaper) which has a ton of nutrients, and is super high in calories. It's kinda like the indigenous mesoamericans putting ashes into their corn (which nixtimalized it) and not realizing that was allowing them to absorb vital nutrients

the chalk would even have been a high source of calcium, but the other adulterants... Funny how if they had been willing to eat whole wheat instead of white bread, it would have been cheaper and more nutritious.

​@@miss.guidedghosts7858 They actually were aware of it. South American indigenous have some of the most knowledgeable practice in this regard. Modern perspectives in regards to health are much less so.

@@TheRealSamPreece oh deadass? that's cool!

"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.

Sounds, “delicious.”

@@lavinialadlass9432 I know, right?

Yeah, I thought the same when I looked at the length. Yeah I have 52 minutes for bread.

On the same boat. But watched all of it and want more.

@@GinsuSher same

Have you seen the BBC's various Farm series yet? Alex Langlands did several of them, and they're equally as engaging and interesting. There was a medieval castle series, a Tudor Monastery Farm series, a Stuart era farm called Tales from the Green Valley, they also did Edwardian, Victorian, and WW2 farms.

Agreed, i was so engrossed That it wasn't until the end when the baker was stacking the rectangular loaves on the table that i remembered that i had also worked in a bakery at a Jewel/Osco for 6 months stacking loaves on trays then loading them into freezers. Cold, lonely, fast paced whip at your back work. Guess it was a repressed memory.

Don't look up how coca cola is made, it will make you drown in salty eye liquid.

Oh my God, me too. You can suddenly feel the restoration of dignity later when they use wheat flour,

@@imdhepchannel7153 finally! Someone who could relate to me!

@@patmonte8426 actual cringe

@@LolLol-yn4gw it's not like yours is any less cringe with someone named lol lol

Yes, this was common particularly as people back then (as in some places now) didn't always have an oven. I have to say the best roast I have ever had was out of an old brick bakers oven.

In South Philly a few bakeries charge a small fee to cook your Thanksgivings or Christmas Turkey.

@@JohnThomas-lq5qp I am not from the States and have little knowledge of the demographics of Philadelphia. Is South Philly a working class area?

@@kesfitzgerald1084 yes it is; diverse immigrant population, with historically large Italian and Irish population.

@@petesmitt thank you 😊

When I started we mixed sponges in huge troughs and wheeled them into proof boxes before the first shift. It was much easier when we changed over to brew tanks. The flour was drawn over to them by a vacuum system and the only thing we had to add was the bagged brewers yeast we bought from Anheuser Busch. We had smaller tanks attached to the mixers for the Guard (calcium propionate) and other chemicals.

It should be noted by you that the machines present their own particular dangers not the least of which is the high voltage necessary to run them. I had a friend who was a maintenance man who was blinded two weeks and burned badly when he arced a 660 breaker box with a screw driver. The fact that he wasn't hurt when it blew him 30 feet across the makeup area was a miracle. Easier rarely means safer.

There's no such thing as the good old days, that's for certain. Maybe a few little things made life feel more rewarding. My grandparents grew up in the middle of the Canadian plains on isolated farms and were pulled from school in 3rd grade to work, else the family may starve.

Mexicans are almost always amazing at cooking, baking, anything about making good food. Bet your grandfather was amazing too

@@OffTheWagons Its all that expat german blood in the mexis that makes them so good at using ovens.

Ah I hope you still carry a love for bread

Respect to your abuelo.

@@OffTheWagons Mexicans are good at pretty much everything they put their hands to.

The difference between a freshly baked, homemade bread and a store-bought bread is like night and day. All store-bought breads have legal additives to "improve" them in some way or another. homemade is made with usually just 5-6 ingredients, not to mention it's fresh. It's soooo good.... I like round loaves because they have a nice, thick, kinda chewy crust.

@Karl with a K why do you keep commenting that? What the hell is wrong with you!?

​@@karlwithak.Let's just call it sustenance alright, because bread is very close to a full nutritional profile.

I'm glad your chronic condition isn't stopping you from making bread. Seeing the passion the bakers in the documentary and comments have for their bread is a pleasant surprise to me.

I don't think anyone would forget that Baking is a very physical Job. But I damit I never thought it would be the most Dangerous Job in the vctorian age.

When I was making my own bread I used a bread machine. Tip the ingredients in (in the correct order), press the button, come back when it beeps and the whole house is smelling of fresh baked bread. I complicated the process by grinding my flour by hand each day, but the bread-making part was gloriously easy.

People really underestimate the efficiency boost of a well made tool

Your sweat is... Delicious? Ew

@@runed0s86 yum

Sweat bread? *MonkaS*

they sweating a lot, natural human salt

@Karl with a K if you really could help winners win, why are you a loser? No offense, i'm genuinely curious. Those 21 subscribers seem to think a pyramid scene would better help them achieve success (maybe that's why they dont tell their friends about your content). Not really a "winner" are you?

Yea and it was pretty much needed because of widespread calcium deficiency

It truly was hard work baking. As for chalk being added, today people still bake with bleached flour and enriched flour. As for me when you know better, you do better. Economically you do what you can, with what is available and what you can afford.

@@Crossano True. A lot of 19th century children of the working poor and destitute were born with deformed legs bones and deformed pelvis bones due to calcium deficiency, which could spell death for girls/young women during labour if they got pregnant. And chalk at least isn't harmful to health when swallowed. Where it gets nasty is when dough was adulterated with worthless "bilk" stuff like sawdust/sawmill wood shavings (as human gut biome can't digest cellulose) or plaster to make the bread loaf heavier, as it was sold by weight.

@@TF2CrunchyFrog and alum was added a lot, I believe.

@@TF2CrunchyFrog plaster??? 😱😱😱

That’s great, did they cure him?

​@@nofurtherwest3474his immune system, probably kicked in

Bakers lung is a fakers lung. He used the non-delete add-ons without knowing and is thus negative value. Is he negative value when compared to the other “skilled laborers” specifically those in the known bake houses?

People on welfare now live much better than blue collar workers even 60 years ago.

I've been making pizza weeky and all of my own bread since the start the pandemic. There is a learning curve and it's quicker than it was in the beginning. But here's the thing, it's still a long process and I am using a stand mixer and other modern tools. This must have been hell for these baker's

@@christines3638 have you got some good tips? my dough always turns out terribly

@@becky-kn6vc add enough flour to your dough and make sure to knead until the dough is soft, don’t stop when it’s still rough, you really want to develop the gluten. You don’t want your dough to be stick either, by the end of kneading it it shouldn’t be sticky and shouldn’t be rough either, just a round perfect ball. If it’s still rough you still need to knead and if it’s still sticky you need more flour. Make sure your yeast is alive before you start and maybe try to follow a recipe. Allow time for proofing, make sure your dough doubles in size before baking. Make sure to add enough salt and/or sugar (or else it will not have flavor) and that is why I recommend a recipe to follow. Bread isn’t hard. Good luck ✌️

@@becky-kn6vc I haven't tried bread but for pizza I've found if you can leave the dough in the fridge for several days you can get away with less kneading.

@@dianalove539 thank you so much i will try some of these tips next time i attempt to make bread :D

If you were of the aristocrats

@@ultracapitalistutopia3550 even for being an aristocrat. The things they'd have to do for hygiene, the amount of times they'd get dressed in a day, the treatments and operations they'd have to go through in the case of an illness or injury... It was not a pretty world. Sure, better to be an aristocrat than a coal miner, but compared to today I'd take a million times to just be in an average income family than being even an aristocrat during those times.

@@blame7121 or maybe be killed because someone wanted your position.

Unless you were Jack the Ripper XD

I’d say the Victorian era was better than any previous era, you gotta remember humans have struggled since the dawn of time

A butcher might be a better provider. 😂

I'm a butcher.

No trolleys and lifting equipment?

@@angelaalbury986 I very much doubt he has to do it constantly for 7 hours; I do parcel delivery with parcels in that same weight range but it's intermittent, so not onerous at all.

thank you

Yall need to invest in a lifting table dolly. U can dump whatever at near ground level wheel it to another work station and by miracle of the screw u can lift 500lbs to about 6' high. They sell shity ones at hazard fraught.

I lift pavers between that weight all day and come home feeling good about myself that I can endure some hard work

Read up on the number of bug parts and rat hairs that are legally allowed in chocolate

@@jakehuffman4041 That's true of all canned and packaged food, also. But I don't read it because I'd rather not know. I mean, I make bread at home by hand, so I know there's dead skin and hair from my hands in there, but I like to think whatever I buy from a bakery was kneaded in a Hobart.

Well sweat I guess. It is salty, but it probably has other stuff too. Feet could be properly washed first and then it wouldn't really be much worse than using your hands.

it's OK anyway. Bread undergones high-temperature processing, so all foreign and pathological constituents are sure to be killed. You'd better think of your favourite restaurant's cook preparing barehanded a veg salad you're eating raw

I used to work with a baker who would blow his nose into his hands and then work with the dough..... He said that it wasn't a problem as it would all be sterilised when baked....I would hope most bakers would be more hygienic than that though!

It seems they were baker's for such a short period of time. Why only 3 yrs?