Feeding Genghis Khan - The Universal Ruler

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Stones pressing curd: Taylor Weidman / The Vanishing Cultures Project

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[TastingHistory]

Lots of people have been curious about the term "Vegetable Oil" as what we today call vegetable oil is a relatively new ingredient. Historically though (and technically still today) the term refers to anything made from vegetation; olives, poppy seed, grape seed, linseed, etc. All of these have been used for a very long time and in China, some variant was used as far back as the Song dynasty (960-1279).

[MazzaAzi]

Genghis Khan: "Our kids are going to forget everything I did for them."
1/3 of the human population: "YO! I just found out I'm related to Genghis Khan!"

[rhekman]

Max: "Pretty darn easy to make"
Ghengis Khan: "Fine, I'll conquer most of Asia so you can make your meat cakes, lil man."

[ihascrayons]

Just guessing but maybe they wiped the grease on their boots not only to get it off their hands but also as a way to weatherproof them.

[ThatNordicGuy]

Love the guy who was like "If you drink this liquid it will turn into piss!". Thank you man, your input is as vivid as it is neccesary!

[ShortHax]

How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongols horde got bored?

[蜘丏陌]

by the way, mongols considered fish to be ritually unclean, so eating it was a sure sign of desperation

[DatBrasss]

"You would not like Genghis Khan when he is upset" is the understatement of the last thousand years.

[hedrickleonard]

I will always appreciate Max’s ability to find the best possible Pokémon to accompany any given recipe or historical subject. It’s almost like a game to guess which it’ll be based on the title of the video.

[wizardscrollstudio]

They look identical to Kofta, Eastern African/Central Asia metaballs. in Romania we call them Chiftele. The ingredients are very similar: can be any kind of grounded meat usually pork or beef or mix, black pepper, thyme instead of coriander then egg, flour, onion, garlic formed into small cakes then deep fried in lard/oil. They last a long time days to weeks if refrigerated and are sometimes re-used in other dishes for example chiftele marinate is made by re-cooking the leftover chiftele with tomato sauce or re-using tomato soup or can be made fresh in which case they are first fried then boiled.

[bushchicken]

As someone who speaks Chinese I can say that your pronunciation is really really good for someone that didn’t grow up speaking the language.

[Lauren.E.O]

I know they aren’t *technically* meatballs, but I’d still order a big plate of l’il meatcakes with pasta if it was an option in a restaurant.

[ravenwillowhart]

Several years ago, around 2008, the community college I taught at had students attending from Mongolia, most of whom lived in Ulaanbaatar. When I pronounced Genghis Khan with the Ch rather than how most of us grew up saying it their eyes lit up and one of my students said, "You said it right!" It meant so much to these students so far from home to hear a teacher try to honor their culture and their lived experience. They gifted me with a leather portrait of Genghis Khan that I have treasured. I hang it as close to the center of my home wherever I live so the Great Khan can watch over my hearth.

[Horse]

The ancient warlords of that region had a saying you might enjoy, Max. "The only way to conquer Asia is one steppe at a time".

[Lauren.E.O]

I know Genghis Khan was terrifying and seemingly remorseless conqueror, but props to his mom for giving 120% for him and his brother after their people ditched them.

[kicsiszol]

this is the 4th video im watching on this channel and for somebody who never cooked or baked anything in his life, i find them absolutely fascinating! also - and i cant emphasis this enough - im extremely impressed with your effort to pronounce everything in the correct manner! this is a rarity and especially with native english speakers. kudos from hungary!

[trottel]

That meat under the saddle thing might actually be for eating. Because in Turkey there is a type of dried meat called "Pastirma" which literally translates as "the pressed one". It is said that cavalry men put meat with lots of spices under the saddle until the spices cook the meat. You should definitely give it a go, it is delicious. And when you are eating eat you can see that it almost feels like raw meat.

Btw, funny story. That pope's messenger was so fat that he had to be carried by two mules while travelling to mongolia. Mongols were shocked at the border when they saw him and forced that poor dude on a extreme diet of one bowl of grain per day for two months until they reached to Qaraqurum. He complains about it in his writings, it's pretty funny.

[nosorab]

I don't know what's funnier, that the Mongols had an affectionate diminutive term for small things, or that Genghis Khan probably would have loved Pizza Rolls.

[FlashKillerX]

Very nice sneaky Harry Potter reference thrown in there with the “Terrible, yes, but great” line. Well done.

[theomacer]

I thought this was an honest channel, but it turns out Max is a Khan-man