The Deadly Job of Royal Food Taster

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[GlennRanzig]

Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison.

[jazzycat]

"Allegedly, this is all alleged" Max I seriously doubt you are in danger of hearing from Aggripina's lawyers on this

[francescosirotti]

Ancient people: "food tasters are essential to avoid being poisoned!".
Also ancient people: "Mercury? Yes, a great medicine!"

[Drivestort]

I had read a story of a figure who was served wine that passed the food taster, but was too warm, so he requested cold water to cool his wine down and it turned out the water was poisoned instead.

[GeekmanCA]

"Very toxic relationship" – I see what you did there.

[Brasc]

*Cleopatra:* Here Marc Antony, let this food taster/prisoner drink your wine instead.
_~person dies~_
*Cleopatra:* PRANKED!

[josephd.]

Terry Pratchett's Lord Vetinari had an excellent method for warding off would-be poisoners:
Make yourself so valuable to all the players in the game of power that anyone knocking you off would be immediately set upon by everyone else for ruining the game.
Then eat whatever you like.

[PurpleTurtle-tq]

I love the delivery on "he didn't think she'd be crazy enough to wear poisonous flowers on her hair... but she was"

[georgemachappy]

I was waiting for Max to taste the mushrooms, collapse face first for the bit, and then see Jose walk through the background rubbing his hands and grinning.

[SlaytheSquire]

“So to make strychnine, what you’ll need is…”

[lauragrandgenett]

Lovage! I needed that for the Parthenian chicken recipe you shared. So i bought seeds on Amazon, planted them, 4 sprouted and I put them out in my herb garden. They grew fast, tall and strong and are a fantastic herb. I didn’t know they were perennial. The same 4 emerge every spring and become taller than me. They are well behaved, always coming up in the same locations and not creeping all over the garden. It’s now my favorite herb. The Parthenian chicken was fabulous. Thanks for teaching me so much.

[JaxdoesArt]

If you don’t like mushrooms’ texture, try cooking them down even more. Undercooked mushrooms can be leathery or rubbery but properly cooked mushrooms, which are wilted and deep brown, are more tender

[brookechang]

To be fair, Claudius wasn't WRONG about Nero.

[neptune]

I think we’re all a bit of royal food testers when our spouse is eating something you should have ordered.

[GorilieVR]

17:37 solution to unpleasant mushroom texture: fill the bottom of a pan with a layer of water and simmer the mushrooms for 20 minutes or until the water fully evaporates, then add a bit of olive oil with salt to taste and saute until golden brown. Perfect mushrooms every time 🍄☺️🤌

[lemonflavouredquark]

“Squeak when I bite into them”
That’s not mushrooms, that’s mice.

[vane]

I read that royal food tasters were treated quite well by their rulers. Makes sense, you don't want to piss off the man who has direct access to your food just before the king.

[TheHej]

I have always wondered how many cooks were killed for trying to poison the king, because the food tasters were allergic to something in the food, like peanuts

[eirikmellesdal]

I love the small little Pokèmon that always decorates the background of the vids. So classy

[darylfaulkner]

My Lego castle now needs a food taster minifig.