10 Misconceptions Around Popular Foods

Weird History Food is getting into some Misconceptions Around Popular Foods. We all know how to eat, and most of us know how to cook, at least on some basic level. We can’t all be Chef Bobby Flay, right? However, while we tend to have a pretty good idea of how food works, we often have misconceptions about particular recipes, especially when they come from other countries. There are also some ingredients that defy popular understanding and have things about them most people are not aware of.
#foodmyths #foodhistory #weirdhistoryfood

[@ls5448]

In Naples, Italy, we make "Lasagna di Carnevale" before Lent and it contains ricotta, which we usually mix with the tomato sauce, mozzarella, tiny meatballs and pieces of hard boiled eggs. I can pretty much bet that this is the origin of what you eat in the US today. Just like the origin of pasta with meatballs comes from our traditional Sunday dish: "polpette al sugo" (meatballs in tomato sauce). We cook the meatballs in the sauce, then use the sauce for the pasta as a first course and then eat the meatballs as a second course. They are both very old and common recipes that most certainly made it across the Atlantic with the Neapolitan immigrants.

[@bisonpitt]

I saw this video and made something close to the Naples version. Delicious! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fl6vnWRvnZ55fNEsi=4M2239a-trAumSZp

[@ls5448]

@@GlennRA3 Pizza! The best dish in the world. Neapolitan pizza that is. But I'm from Naples. Mac & Cheese too. Pasta al forno bianca.

[@mattflores9368]

Tacos Dorados (hard tacos) is a traditional Mexican dish from Durango. About half of this video is incorrect.

[@mrbear1302]

@@ls5448 been to Naples and had the worst pizza I have had in my lifetime. It was like putting sauce and cheese on top of saltine crackers with olives with the pits still in them. I almost chipped a tooth.

[@Rickt2445]

I must mention that most people here in America know the difference between a real taco and a Taco Bell taco. Authentic type Mexican restaurants are all over the US.

[@seiph80]

Rightfully so, especially here in Texas, no matter what race or language one speaks, no one is fooled by a real taco and a hardshell one from fast food

[@benjaminwatt2436]

I agree most know the hard shell is American, but a lot of dishes are more tex-mex than Mexican. Its very hard to find something that could be called authentic Mexican in the US

[@MrMackievelli]

​@@benjaminwatt2436You couldn't be further from the truth.

[@delpullen730]

It's not Taco Bell. Hard shells are Tex-Mex, which is superior. Yes, we improved Mexican cuisine. You're welcome.

[@brendandever8532]

@@benjaminwatt2436it’s incredibly easy to get good, authentic Mexican food in the US. This isn’t the 1970s anymore.

[@ridureyu]

“How does every British meal not end in a fistfight?” Is a question I ask every day.

[@JillWhitcomb1966]

Trivia: At 4:00, the teacup and saucer shown is a china pattern known as Old Country Roses by Royal Albert. It is the most popular, best-selling, china pattern in the entire world.

[@lindacoolbaugh962]

I always eat potatoes with the skins. My favorite part! And in San Francisco, I went to this tiny fortune cookie place and watched them make them and put the fortunes in them. They were so good!

[@meedwards5]

Yup. I grew up eating potatoes that have been cooked with the skin on and that was in the 70s and 80s.

[@edwardleemiller-eo8jp]

Andes Candies chocolate hospitality mints aren’t actually from South America. Turns out, the guy who invented them was named Andy, and there was already an “Andy’s Candy” shop in his town. So he changed the spelling to the mountain range instead.

[@bishopsteiner7134]

Hard Shell Tacos are basically a way to make no effort "Tacos Dorado", which is your typical soft corn tortilla, then fried crispy in oil.

[@ridureyu]

Try frying it crisp with the meat inside!

[@Caderic]

@@ridureyu Are you saying you try it because you can't, or try it because it's awesome? Because if you are saying t it's awesome, I completely agree! I have been to a couple of joints that do it and it is fantastic!

[@Caderic]

Yeah, for a video of "the real story" kind of thing, they actually got several things wrong. Like British tea, traditionally is actual a small meal, not just cookies. And it's only common to peal russet potatoes, and that is because the skin is extremely tough compared to other potatoes. Wouldn't you guess, the russet potato was developed in America, and is overwhelmingly grown in America. It's also the most common potato consumed in America. So it really is a perpetuating cycle of pealing potatoes. So to correct misconceptions, they misted the mark on a few things.

[@ridureyu]

@@Caderic try it because it’s AWESOME. Fry the corn tortilla crisp with meat and cheese inside. Leave room for extra fixings, or just dip it in guacamole or whatever. Whenever I do this, people eat like nine each.

[@castroh19]

Or a folded tostada

[@NewMessage]

Ok. Now I want tacos tonight. Tuesday's too far away.

[@Cosmic_Whimsy]

And Taco Thursdays was born!

[@forfluf]

3:12 boy: Would you like some cream with your coffee? girl: No thanks, I like my coffee black, like my men. Nothing beats Airplane(1980)

[@generybarczyk6993]

The way I heard it, the so-called "carbonara" was due to black pepper being the prominent spice of the dish.

[@carlsberg-gs6rl]

I tried making traditional pasta carbonara before and I was blown how much real guanciale and pecorino romano cost.

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

Depends on where you live, I guess. Where I'm from, we don't really consume a lot of dairy and cured meats in general just aren't popular, not just pork. I'm guessing in Italy, pecorino romano and guancale is like something an Italian could get easily, like their own version of 'Easy Cheese' and 'Wonder Bread'.

[@bamacopeland4372]

I learned how to make carbonara from criminal minds. Rossi during one of the later episodes showed him cooking it and the method of it. I make it at least once a month.

[@crIms0ngen]

I rarely ever discard potato skins before preparing potato based dishes, we love eating the skin. Recipes that want me to throw it away are thrown out, and I just do my own thing.

[@kademarlowe1419]

Carver didn't come up with over 300 uses for peanut butter.. he came up with over 300 uses for the peanut and never made peanut butter.

[@misterhat5823]

These videos are entertaining, but they certainly don't fact check things well. They remind me of what would happen if a professional narrator read a middle school paper of mine.

[@kademarlowe1419]

@misterhat5823 I feel like this was just a script error, either way they either don't proof read or they don't watch their own videos to catch mistakes lol

[@tipulsar85]

So, here's another thing about tortillas, the flour tortilla is from Southern Mexico, as opposed to northern's corn.

[@MichaelScheele]

The crunchy taco shell they mention is made from corn. Soft tacos in America are made from wheat flour.

[@tipulsar85]

@@MichaelScheele I didn't mention Hard shells at all. Also I have had soft corn Tacos here in Washington State many times.

[@MichaelScheele]

@@tipulsar85, I never said you did. This video did. I've also had soft corn tacos in Washington state. Taco Bell soft tacos use (wheat) flour tortillas. That's what this video was talking about.

[@benjaminwatt2436]

its the other way around. Flour tortillas are more commen in North Mexico and only corn in the middle and south of Mexico

[@RicRamos262]

@@benjaminwatt2436facts bro!

[@packertai1]

A lot of these surprised me! The Lasanga, the tacos and pudding! Wow! Fun video, hungry video! 🤗😋🎉

[@aribamark6433]

So as a Brit, I will tell you, high tea is absolutely not a thing. Tea breaks exist, but that's just a name we give to short breaks (about 15mins) we have at work separate from lunch breaks, and a lot of places don't have them officially, especially if lunch breaks are longer than 30 mins. If you're American and you come over here to have "high tea" on vacation you are getting absolutely fleeced.

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

I also chuckled when she said Earl Grey. We don't drink Earl Grey as a go to tea. We certainly wouldn't be dipping biscuits in Earl Grey. The yanks know nothing about Brits and tea. So we have biscuits because of all the black tea we drink? Yeah sure... When was the last time anyone had tea without milk here in the UK ;) these videos are just clickbait

[@JillWhitcomb1966]

@@WhatALoadOfTosca Agreed. I'm an American who used to live in Wales as a digital nomad in 2018 and spent about 6 months exploring both Wales and England. I drink tea daily and have been for well over two decades--either Tetley or Yorkshire Gold. I brew the tea in a proper ceramic tea pot, covered by a tea cozy while the tea steeps. I drink the tea, with a bit of soy milk, out of a huge inexpensive (£4) teacup that I purchased at ASDA in Newport, Wales. During my time in the UK, I met just one person who enjoyed Earl Grey tea.... he was a working-class builder from Herefordshire : )

[@proposmontreal]

Modern peanut butter is actually a Quebec invention. A Montreal pharmacist, Marcellus Gilmore Edson, as the first patent dating 1884, 14 years before Kellogg

[@btetschner]

Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! Eating CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP* with basil along with a grilled cheese sandwich (with Kraft Singles^) and drinking hot apple cider...while watching this Weird History Food video! * From the Weird History Food video "How Campbell's Soup Has Stood The Test of Time" ^ From the Weird History Food video "How Mac And Cheese Became an All-American Dish" This is a popular Nebraska meal.

[@TDK360]

I enjoyed the Airplane! clip. 🤣

[@ericbosken3114]

I have lived in Southeast Asia for 13 years and have never seen a fortune cookie at any restaurant - Chinese or otherwise outside of the US.

[@ridureyu]

Switching to lighter roasts has had an effect!

[@Meton2526]

Yeah, a placebo effect. They were straight up wrong on this one. Light vs dark roast does not have an appreciable effect on caffeine content.

[@justingray4291]

Okay, how has nobody appreciated the editors for the G-rated inclusion of the Airplane scene at 3:00?? I know they were giggling their weird history asses off with that.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

I don't mind the female Narrator

[@Sandman2007]

Better than the nasel one.

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😅

[@marvingecko1232]

​@@Sandman2007WN😢

[@alwallace4538]

I'm confused. I'm 64, was born in the USA and except for time in the military and vacations I've spent my entire life in the USA, but I've never seen Pasta Carbonara made with chicken.

[@lakrids-pibe]

I learned to make lasagne with bechamel sauce, and I thought for years it was the only way. I was very surprised when I learned about the variant with ricotta. I don't have a skin in the game of which one is "the real" version, (maybe both?) but I prefer the one I'm used to.

[@corinneskitchen]

Southern Italian lasagna doesn't use bechamel. It uses ricotta. This video is bullshit.

[@charlynegezze8536]

Bechamel is used more in Northern Italy.

[@12thMandalorian]

As someone who lives in the UK i can confirm they do NOT take a break in an afternoon for Tea and Biscuits

[@fae206]

lol. A break for tea and biscuits? I mean, I’ve taken an equivalent number of tea breaks as I have coffee breaks, five minutes in which to drink it. I might take it WHILST working

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! Like learning HUGE secrets about popular foods!

[@ArthropodJay]

Wait bechamel sauce isnt the norm??? I always use it Its the best part

[@btetschner]

1:55 Elvis Presley was a huge fan of the peanut butter and banana sandwich, I remember that from a Weird History video.

[@btetschner]

@@GlennRA3 Fool's Gold Loaf?

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🥜🌮🥔🥠

[@lynemac2539]

The Tom Cruise of root vegetables. Just fabulous.

[@darlenehoward2340]

I make a hybrid lasagna- I put the ricotta in the lasagna, then serve it with a bechamel sauce over the top of each piece. Delish!😋

[@Caderic]

Hmm...OK. I have never heard of bechamel until this video, but I want to try it now. You have given me even more of a reason!

[@vissehalah2543]

hybrid? No such thing. Lasagna is just sheets of pasta layered with imagination. Generally speaking, when someone says 'lasagne!' we think of the most iconic example. Like someone yelling 'bagels!'. Whatever goes on in between those sheets of pasta... well ;)

[@darlenehoward2340]

@@vissehalah2543 By saying "hybrid" I merely meant mine is a mix of the classic Italian way, & the American style... like was said in the video. I got the feeling that my lasagna recipe bothers you somehow. Whatever the case, we're all free to enjoy our food how we like it. Have a blessed day.

[@vissehalah2543]

@@darlenehoward2340 my goodness, no! I appologize if I made you feel that way.

[@corinneskitchen]

Southern Italian lasagna doesn't use bechamel. It uses ricotta. This video is bullshit.

[@btetschner]

0:30 Reminds me of the music video "Stars On 45" by Stars On Stars On 45, LOVE that video! They would play the video during Skate Night at Skate Daze in Omaha, Nebraska.

[@frazzzrrr67]

A Canadian Dr Marcellus Gilmore Edson is credited with the first modern day version. His peanuts were roasted. Kelloggs peanuts were boiled. So, Weird history food you didn't get this one correct! I have an idea! Why don't you do a weird Canadian Food video! The history behind "Poutine" is as wonderful as it tastes! Love the videos! Bannok, Saskatchewan berries and of course maple syrup. Have wonderful histories that are all just a little weird. 😅

[@KEVMAN7987]

"This video should be appetizing." *woman's hairy armpits* "NOPE!"

[@marvingecko1232]

WM😅

[@wrathofthelamb318]

Women grow hair too. Grow up. If men dont have to shave then neither do they.

[@btetschner]

3:16 Tony Hawk Pro Skater (1999) was one of the most popular games when I was a student at Doane University. It was played all the time.

[@A-Cat-in-Dogtown]

Couldn't take the vocal fry.

[@KKPsi-TubaDawg]

Recipes always get altered when they're exported. It doesn't matter where they are coming from or going to.

[@rgerber]

a traditional potato-gratin (Dauphinois) is also without cheese. It's just cream/milk that when baked turns into a almost cheese like substance. Absolutely amazing

[@TaraMolohon-lb1zn]

That was pretty awesome and I enjoyed each bit of it. Thank you for all the goodness you added to help me learn about the food out there. You rock and I hope we all have a great day. ❣️😁

[@dave882]

Really? Are you trying to get KZbin clout with comments?

[@michielhollister1996]

Cut the AI images out we gonna fight

[@NeilDeal2023]

Another informative, entertaining well research and presented video! I LOVE this channel! ❤

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

If you've eaten fortune cookies, you've technically participated in a gacha.

[@joannabaparileszczynska]

Ricotta? In Sweden it has always been béchamel sauce in lasagna

[@btetschner]

8:56 Those cards remind me of the recent REACT video of the magician Kevin Li, he uses cards a lot. He is fantastic!

[@eduardonavas9853]

5:46 Thanks for that AI sleep paralysis demon

[@btetschner]

3:55 I drink that coffee (from the same container) all the time!

[@seanrowshandel1680]

It's market manipulation when one country starts to buy only light and medium roast coffee, "because all others are low quality". That's why coffee is "going extinct". Because they're saying "no" to that country, rather than anything actually going extinct.

[@boraxmacconachie7082]

The thing that surprised me the most was that Americans put chicken and peas in carbonara. Here in Australia we have an inauthentic version of carbonara too, which has cream, egg, bacon and sometimes green onions. I thought we were eating the American version, but I guess I was wrong!

[@putoutmyfirewithgasoline1877]

It’s not unusual to see bacon in carbonara here in the US

[@BadContentCreator193]

Hard taco shells are so brittle, it’s impossible to eat them properly.

[@EHiggins]

9:52 I was not expecting this to happen anymore.

[@btetschner]

10:46 Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) likes Snack Packs, there are referenced multiple times in the film Billy Madison (1995). We had snack packs all the time for high school sports and detassling.

[@littlekirby6]

I never understood why the female voice videos got so many dislikes until I read the comments here and saw that it's AI. I couldn't tell, but granted I watch it at like 2x speed lol. This whole video felt like it was written by an AI though, so I looked through the comments to see if anyone else got the impression

[@joannasekua6273]

I watched at normal speed and only saw one image with the raccoons... People are getting too sensitive over this crap

[@Expat47]

@8:14 Charcoal burners aren't "coal workers". That's a whole different occupation.

[@kazuhasgloves]

Ayo, Weird Food History!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@quiyotralala7760]

I have another one, here, in Spain, putting chorizo in paella is considered a felony, instead of that, we put shrimp

[@M0nchis]

We have quesadillas doradas in mexico wich is the closes dish to a hard shell taco.

[@RedS0L0]

Without putting thought into it the first place I thought of when it came to the invention of peanut butter was Asia there's so much Asian cuisine that requires peanuts and peanut sauce

[@m.d.s.69]

I just came here to say, take it easy on Garfield 😂 He only ate what was given to him! He's just a cat, don't forget to remember that! I bet if he had opposable thumbs that he would make lasagna in every single way possible and find every recipe all over the world and would not discriminate one single bit when it comes to lasagna recipes. I'm sure a lot of you know what I'm talking about. Garfield rules. #cats

[@thatgirl6155]

I thought the potato peels containing most of the nutrients was such a widely-known thing that this was going to be debunking that and telling us they don't contain many nutrients.

[@SexyUndisputed2All]

Never imagined taco bell would get from 59 cents to $5 tacos. Still don't have a taco bell competitor

[@TheMythey]

In Southern California, we have Del Taco, a regional chain of Tex-Mex fast food restaurants. No crunchwrap Supremes or chalupas, but they offer tamales, fish tacos, and even carnitas as seasonal offerings.

[@jamesadams1261]

British call them cookies?? 😂😂 tea and cookies... good one.

[@BadContentCreator193]

Also I have wonton food inc golden bowl fortune cookies in my family’s Chinese restaurant

[@mmddyyyyalphabet]

Mexicans do have "hard shell" tacos and flour tortillas. The hard shell tacos are filled and fried in oil to make them crispy. And flour tortillas are favored in Northern México

[@David-R-Hall]

I heard that carbonara is so called due the black pepper used, there should be plenty, making it resemble charcoal, hence the name?

[@C_M_R]

Lasagna is a dish based on the layering of flat pasta, and not its contents . You can put toppings on a pizza that are not traditional ... but it is still a pizza.

[@btetschner]

6:40 Mr. Potato Head was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2000.

[@btetschner]

6:58 Alpine Inn is a wilderness restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska. The racoons eat their food outside on the other side of the glass while guests eat their food inside the restaurant.

[@paullord196]

I ate there once and they forgot to lock the doors leading to the racoons porch.I got caught trying to let them in.I thought they wanted my fried chicken.😂

[@btetschner]

@@paullord196 Hahaha!

[@coyotelong4349]

Most Americans don’t realize that Pizza Rolls are neither pizza nor roll

[@hellhound1389]

In my lasagna I never use ricotta because I hate the taste. Mine is noodles, meat sauce, mozzarella, provolone, and veggies ( usually thin sliced tomatoes, zucchini, and eggplant). I get requests for it from friends and family all the time. I grew up in the Mexican district so I had real tacos before most people had taco bell. I love soft corn shells but I don't like cilantro so I still get it filled with cheese, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream

[@paddybm3245]

What’s not to like about Béchamel sauce?

[@solsoman102]

ah yes, the weird history food video with the armpit fetish content b roll

[@timgerling6060]

Hard shell tacos are usually corn

[@brandonchapek9104]

Bring back the guy!!! Its nothing sexist, but it was the way he sounded that brought me here in the first place.

[@marvingecko1232]

WN😂

[@btetschner]

6:40 "Potato Head" is pot-smoking slang for being unable to think efficiently after a night of smoking pot.

[@JonBrown-po7he]

5:23 It's been 'posited' that the taco was created by vaquero's, on horse back, folding their tostadas in half to facilitate consumption.

[@ridureyu]

Apparently fortune cookies were originally Japanese from a single bakery that never got all that popular in its actual home country.

[@pasqualinamichelaconsiglio9391]

Bechamel sauce, (Italians say, "besciamella") is French. The French invaded Italy. Northern and central Italy. Mozzarella is a component of lasagna but as is hard boiled eggs.

[@timgerling6060]

Hardshells are also made from corn

[@MikeLutton]

i love Lasagna i even got Chef Boy rdee Lasagna meal in a can soo good

[@mxss115]

Yeah, the AI art is kinda jarring tbh

[@nicolemerrill9167]

Potato skins is no secret Americans love them in many different ways

[@billsam21st]

Wrong on tacos, taco bell is a americanised taco, but , I live in San Diego ca, lived in Tijuana BC in Mexico for 2 years, their are lots of shops who sell fried in oil/lard corn hard shell tacos, with meat in them usually presented in a glass case you can get salsa, pico, quac, with them, etc.I loved them so much, I make my own here

[@rebasack21]

i have never had lasagna with the bachamel sauce before (google thinks im trying to spell chameleon wtf) i grew up noodles meatsauce cheese repeat. When i had it with ricotta the first time i hated it. honestly i just dont like how grainy ricotta is. I will need to learn how to make this sauce now.

[@Phobero]

We Italians don't use mozzarella in lasagne ('cos it's lasagnE BTW) either: just ragù (meat sauce) and béchamel

[@KaoticReach1999]

To be fair regarding fortune cookies...ide be more concerned if they DID come from China

[@jameshill2450]

It's not hard to pin down where the hard shell taco was invented. It was literally Taco Bell. They weren't using that name yet, but the taco stand that created hard shell tacos blew up and became Taco Bell.

[@JetstreamGW]

No it wasn't. Glen Bell learned how to make them from a Mexican restaurant across the street from his hot dog stand. The new stand that he eventually turned into Taco Bell made them nationally famous, but the shells themselves were originally created by Mexican-Americans. And the people he learned it from probably weren't the inventors either. There are supposed to be references to hard-shell tacos from the late 1800s. Glen Bell did his thing in the early 1950s.

[@lakrids-pibe]

It's very easy to find _Digestives_ biscuits here in Denmark - McVitie's and many other brands. But that _Rich Tea_ biscuit is something I've never heard about before. Haha! I thought Digestives was as bland as you could get.

[@balls9420]

I eat them dry. But they are pretty bland with a slight sweetness.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Rich Tea is definitely best with a hot drink, but you can also put butter on one and then put another on top. A Rich Tea "sandwich" is a handy snack if you're out of bread and feeling peckish rather than outright hungry. Digestives are great, not only as chocolate biscuits, but plain and eaten with cheese. A cheese board is often made for special occasions (we still have a lot of cheese from Xmas. Guess what I'm about to do for lunch!), and it mostly contains at least one sort of cheese from many different types; Cheddar, a white crumbly cheese like Lancashire or Caerphilly, a smoked cheese, a Swiss and/or Dutch one, a blue cheese like Stilton, and so on. It's all according to your personal taste. That's served with an assortment of biscuits and crackers (you can buy boxes of assortments, or if you prefer, packets of family favourites. Cream crackers, water biscuits, cheese crackers, digestives, and others), and if you like, an assortment of different breads and/or bread rolls. A lot depends on how many people you're feeding. You can put sliced meats and smoked salmon out too. I make a small but tasty entrée with a Ritz cracker, a bit of soft cheese with herbs on each, and a finely cut piece of salmon that tops it off. One bite and it's done, but it's delicious! The downside to videos like this is that because the creators haven't tried things themselves, they automatically think that whatever it is sounds bad or boring or plain weird (ironically missing the fact that a lot of American eating habits sound equally bad to outsiders). The thing is, no type of food would last a long time as part of a culture if it was bad! And names are just that; names. Though I still can't wrap my head around wanting to eat maggoty cheese (from Sardinia?)!

[@tremorsfan]

I used to hate tacos until I discovered soft shells.

[@CwL-1984]

I've never asked my food, it's origin story

[@iwasanangryyoungman]

10:45 so this is how haggis came to be

[@albions]

There is noodles in lasagne... Ok that is some new information...

[@jlshel42]

George Washington Carver didn’t invent peanut butter, but he was samplin’ it

[@Herbicide420]

I watched a documentary on the origins of American food, and the hard taco was one of them. Long story short, it was invented in Los Angeles by a Mexican family who immigrated to L.A. So which is it; American because it was invented in America or Mexican because the inventors are authentic Mexicans? That question is left to the person asking it.

[@calicojack3628]

Nobody thinks Taco Bell is "mexican" food.

[@sfernando04]

Came here bc of the lasagna on the thumbnail

[@FirebirdDude]

"Befoe!"

[@DarkNekoStudio]

Thought that the modern version of peanut Butter was invented by a Montreal's Doctor

[@melissacooper8724]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention that chop suey is an American invention!