The Most Disgusting Junk Food In History

Let's find out: what was medieval junk food like?

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[koriw]

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[joelayhervia]

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[cladinshadows]

Man I LOVE anything medieval! Especially the little things that aren’t discussed as much like simple foods. Maybe a video on how a serf would build their home and their daily life. Just an idea! Whatever you bust out will be fantastic as usual!

[jpbaley]

Fun fact - botulism is derived from the word botulismus or sausage poisoning, with botulus being latin for sausage. Because of the way sausages were made, stuffed full of meat and fat and eliminating oxygen with no refrigeration, Clostridium botulinum would grow rapidly before fermentation dropped the pH. The toxin formed is very heat stable so the toxin would survive the cooking process. Getting the pH down below 4.6 and keeping salt levels high would prevent C. bot from growing. Listeria though is salt and refrigeration temperature tolerant.

[CooperGal]

I looked up online on how the people in medieval times kept their meats fresh without fridges, they had some methods that we still use today.

Thanks to the salt that people used for salting meats, the moisture was drawn from the meats and the bacterial growth was inhibited. Smoking and hanging the meats also helped, as well as storing meats in cool storages during the cold winter months.

This combined with preserving other foods, like pickling and salting veggies and turning fruits into jams and preserves, helped a lot back then. Again, we still use these methods today. Despite the technology we use in factories for this, some people still rely on old fashioned methods of preserving foods, even if some methods had changed during the years.

[AkiraCatt]

I love how you cover such cool subjects! Things nobody else ever thinks about!

[ZeoViolet]

"Honey and almond pizza"....there's such a thing as dessert pizza, you know? Also, olive oil and a few light spices on flatbread might be something interesting to try.

[johnopalko]

Fish waffles sound pretty good. I presume the word "womb" refers to the roe. Fish roe is still eaten today and is considered a delicacy.

[joeydigrado]

There have been flatbreads with oil and herbs for thousands of years in other parts of the world before italy called it pizza. Fish and dates were some of the earlier toppings too. Cheese on flatbread with dates originated in Persia in 600BC.

[EyesOfByes]

20:28 That's what she also said...

[taylor]

Honey and almond pizza just sounds like a depressing baklava with many less steps

[blissypastell]

I like to imagine how a person from medieval times would react to modern junk food, it would probably be considered so good it would be witchcraft or something like that

[AdventuresWithRex-pzxl]

I just love the sound of oublys😂
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[jamiehamilton]

I hear a lot of people in the comments talking about that's not junk food that's hardly even food at all but you guys got to remember we nowadays have a lot of options and things that are more readily available to us than any place that a country had available to them in medieval times

[brandonlewis]

That mom joke w the pancakes was diabolical lmao

[j.p.]

12:58 bone marrow is still served in high-end restaurant. I think it goes under “Oso Buco”?

[Dr_Kyutoko]

Yeah, not being able to smell rotting meat, because of spices is not only ridiculous because of the price of spices at the time.
But also, another thing I learned on your channel. The human nose is built to detect two scents above all else.
The smell of arable land after rain.
And rotting meat.

[cheyanawolf]

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[rhiannonmusgrove]

I watch this channel outside the house because it's entertaining and not embarrassing.

[Lunatic]

We have an overabundance of lampreys in the states. They are everywhere in the Great Lakes. The slime that they have on their skin can be poisonous and make you sick if you don’t properly prepare before eating.