How Civilization Was Created By Bread

Bread is the stuff of life, and i has a LOONG and storied role in the story of humans. Today on Weird History Food, we are going back in time to he beginnings of bread! Form ancient Mesopotamia all the way up to a most favorite 2020 Pandemic Era pasttime. Do you bake bread? What is your favorite kind of bread to eat? Let us know in the comments!

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[Erikcs]

The Vikings did not know potatoes. Potato is from South America therefore only arrived in Europe in 1500s. Viking breads used rye flour,  barley flour, a mixture of nuts, seeds, and herbs.

[patrik]

Bread is the goat. We wouldnt be where we are as humanity without bread.

[tested]

fermentation was discovered because spoiled food was so common. back then they didnt just throw food away. preservation was so important and difficult.

[Honeymoon]

I’ve been making bread for over 10 years for my family and friends. Everyone tells me I should open a bakery because I’m so good at it. I genuinely love it.

[ItzzzBeamo]

One correction on the trencher. It actually wasn’t meant for you to eat after the meal, at least, not at larger meals where they were typically used.

If a banquet or a festival was held, everyone attending ate off of a trencher. The food would soak into the trenchers and it would be collected later and dispersed among a community’s poor for a meal, as they would have soaked up a sufficient amount from the meal itself to feed a kingdom’s poor.

It was actually considered rather rude to eat your own trencher at a banquet, because it wasn’t meant for you, as you were at the meal to begin with. The poor weren’t.

[giraffesinc.]

Country Life Vlog, Tasting History, and Townsends!!! Nice to see them all on here!

[MrNommerz]

That Afghan bread is so good. I had some coworkers recently start working with me from Afghanistan and they easily bribed me with their bread, it is SO GOOD. They filled theirs with potato and spices and dip it in curry, and I could genuinely eat it every day. I would straight up look forward to work if that's what I'm eating for lunch. They gave me a 12 inch square and watched in awe and happiness as I ate the entire thing immediately.

[TheBandoBandito]

Sometimes, I wish these videos were just a bit longer. I can't get enough.

[lakrids-pibe]

Fresh homemade bread is just the best.


It doesn't have to be anything fancy, like sourdough.

Just plain old simple bread is fine.

(But figuring out how to make and use sourdough is fun)

[TheGiggleMasterP]

Just remember that sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White! ❤

[vicariously]

I love bread. My mom would often bake fresh bread in our bread maker, and it's such fond childhood memory of mine. I can still smell it.

[onlyme]

Bread is great, buttered toast is my fav :)

[Ivan_Ooze]

A loaf of homemade bread really is something special

[andyschlueter]

Good video..I live in Germany and we have over 3000 types of bread - it's not easy to say which is my favorite bread...

[AtagoJRPG]

In el salvador, where i am from, tortillas is a staple of our cuisine, pupusas are a different thing because they are entire meals unto itself since you add stuff to it to make it more delicious. Tortillas are served as sides for other foods that we eat

[JayromeD]

Thank you for recognizing that fry bread is a product of the reserve systems of Native Americans and not some sort of happy, authentic part of their history

[LogicalMan]

A little disappointed this wasn't at least 3 hours long

[katiewilliamson]

Due to flour shortages during lockdown I had to use whole meal bread flour to make banana bread for the first time…never looked back.

[kimberlyweaver]

The flour and oil disappeared very early in Covid. People panic bought and then had to use it before it spoiled. Most of it was probably wasted. Goodwill was flooded with bread makers after the panic ended. lol

[NewMessage]

Ut, oh. This video isn't on my diet.