3,500 Years of Hangover Cures - Kishkiyya from Baghdad

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[TastingHistory]

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm putting together my schedule for 2025 and want to hear what videos you'd like to see. Certain foods? Bits of history?

[legolassanimelover]

MAX IS I thought he was 30 😵‍💫 damn that man moisturizes

[Brasc]

I get the feeling Pliny the Elder asked other people their answers to different things and _they_ were trolling _him, _ but he just jotted them down.

[JerryB]

"My cure for a hang over is I to try not drink too much."
I concur young man, and that's called being 62.

[saineblue]

I'm Lebanese and we still make kishk today! The type we use is a dried fermented yogurt powder, my grandma makes it with diced potato, lamb, onion, and garlic, and sometimes she adds chickpeas as well. We usually add dried pita bread to our bowls and it soaks up all the soupy kishk goodness. While I haven't heard of it used as a hangover cure, its a well-known breakfast food and one of my all time favorite dishes!

[SarafinaSummers]

Remember everybody, a Lyft/Uber is a hell of a lot cheaper than DUI charges, funeral arrangements, etc. I promise. Happy new year, and don’t drink to excess!

[amyspeers]

When I was a nursing student, I worked in an ER one summer. One of the residents LOVED to party and would come in so hung over. He would put an IV in himself for hydration and breath some oxygen. He said it worked quickly. He was still unpleasant to work with both before and after his treatments.

[vod]

The more I hear about Pliny the Elder the more I think he was just some crazy guy who liked to write down random advice that popped into his head on any given day

[redpillpirate]

700 years from now, a distant ancestor will be making the infamous hangover cure, "greasy hamburger and fries". Courtesy of Max the Mad 2025...
Happy New Year 🎉

[Sorcerer]

About Max's comment in the end that nobody would want to be making this dish while hungover, that's what servants were for! I can easily imagine a Baghdad noble or prince like the one that wrote that poem ordering his servants (quite possibly actual slaves, at that time) to cook him up that dish after he came back from a night long bender, perhaps the servants would even know to do it ahead of time after a while.

[limeparticle]

The Finnish word for hangover is ”krapula”, definite link!

[gregc]

Max is actually a time traveling immortal who brings tasty dishes.

[jangtheconqueror]

In Korea we make a soup/stew called 해장국, which literally means soup to get rid of a hangover. There's actually a variety of soups and stews people might look for with a hangover, but since this one has the name, I guess it's the most famous. It's made with pork bones, a wide variety of veggies, and fermented bean paste, doenjang. The theory is pretty similar, soup for hydration, grease from the meat, veggies for digestion. After thousands of years of humans getting drunk, it's only natural that most would have come to similar methods

[katwitanruna]

I went into German class one day back in the 80s with a hangover. My German professor immediately recommended peppermint tea which is evidently the hangover cure in the part of Germany they were from. Works a treat! Peppermint settles the stomach and I also use it whenever tummy issues arise.

[internet_introvert]

I love the "God willing" at the end of a lot of these medieval recipes.

It both implies thankfulness for the meal and also recognizes that cooking misadventures are totally a thing that can happen what do you mean 1/3 cup I thought it said 3

Edit: Holy crap its spinda this time! Revursive gotta catch 'em all intensifies!

[DavidBroyles_axehat]

For how much we all dislike the story part of a recipe on a website, the beauty of this channel is the story, while the dish plays the minor role to some degree. Great work as always sir.

[Buoyant_Bear]

As a history teacher, thank you for creating this channel. It just fills my spirit with joy to know the kids years ago in middle school/HS who I showed your medieval cooking videos to during class parties are now as adults probably watching this one for the upcoming festivities 😂

[FrikInCasualMode]

Make no mistake, we Slavs do have our own version of kishk. In Poland it's called "żur" and is a mixture of fermented wheat or rye flour with water. It's used to make sour soups like "żurek" and "white borscht". I definitely can see some etymological relationship there, because Slavic word for "to ferment" is "kisić".
Anyways, in my country No. 1 remedy for hangover is juice from a jar of brined cucumbers or sauerkraut :) Again, hydration plus replacement of minerals and electrolytes alcohol removed from your body.

[QutroCoisas]

Its absurd the level of research of this channel. Congrats all the team

[stekarknugen]

Max... that ending line about being 41 and a few drinks being enough because of the hangover... I felt that.