BREAD: The History | Laughing Historically

Bread, one of the most important inventions in human history… We explain why and how it was created from the invention of agriculture, beer and flour, through ancient Egypt, Rome, medieval ages, to modern day.
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[@ThatCamelGuy]

My stoned question has been answered. Thank you.

[@LaughingHistorically]

This is exactly what we aim for

[@HamburgerMolester]

Just had some good bread while baked and also just had to know. 😂

[@leabrocha]

Same here hahaha

[@CharlotteLeeRay]

Lol same boat

[@smokeyboii]

Same man.

[@shiromarcelo]

watching this while eating a sandwich for a truly immersive experience

[@suchithravishwanathan983]

I was watching this while eating bread

[@Monkforilla]

Bread.

[@ookyio]

yes

[@Alex.the.humble]

I’m watching this while making bread

[@TinyCloud90]

I absolutely searched for this, it drove me nuts to think how bread was invented. It’s now so under appreciated, but basically it’s the base of our society.

[@Kwad_rat]

Making bread is easy and hard at the same time XD

[@LOL_MANN]

XD kzbin.info/www/bejne/op63c31roL1krac

[@maenad1231]

The Ancident Egyptians also prescribed molded bread for several bacterial-induced conditions. Without knowing this many millennia later the Scottish Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered/made the first antibiotic medication ever _(penicillin)_ by examining mold on bread and isolating certain parts Bread is awesome even when it goes bad!

[@hai2743]

Bread has been a holy food

[@Tripledashhh_]

Beer and bread are the same thing. Like ice and water. This is dope.

[@PRESIDENT_LEMON]

Bread, something so simple as flour, yeast and water but it played such a necessary role in human society and it serves as a great unifier.

[@ripevanwinkle494]

I was eating a fresh out of the oven baguette and thought to my self damn whoever discovered this changed everything

[@Kay94lp]

Woke up early and thought who invented bread

[@rosiesaikaly1178]

omg loved this video and loved the ending about how we are baking at home in quarantine!

[@XAnimazingX]

Wait wait wait wait wait....the yeast farts in my bread?

[@BANHMIZON]

Very entertaining and well written. I was surprised at how few views this video has! It deserves more.

[@orangecat9559]

why are you only getting 1k views and 8k subs?? THIS CHANNEL IS LITERALLY SO GOOD

[@LaughingHistorically]

Thanks! We’re happy anyone stops by...

[@abetwabe]

Informative, well explained, and interesting. Subscribed.

[@cheetorofrohan8835]

You just gained a new subscriber 👍👍

[@AlexSharayMusic]

As an Egyptian-American, I must correct you on one thing you said. The builders of the pyramids were NOT slaves. Any college Egyptology class would confirm this. (Nor were they Hebrews. The pyramids were built well before Abraham was born.)

[@mikilfaith9718]

They were proud to work, right? The slave idea seems very outdated yet it's still always displayed as fact

[@thiskneegrow]

Pyramids were definitely built by slaves 😂 Bible is extremely accurate in its historical canon.

[@coweebs9837]

Thanks Ollie, now I know the history of bread

[@parker798]

Same here XD

[@Enyoiyourself]

Same.

[@satcon1617]

This video had given me intensified motivation as you talk about the beautiful creation of bread. It has given me motivation to buy a loaf myself and indulge upon the flavor and truly beautiful nature of bred itself. I thank thee for the efforts and opening my eyes to bread. Welcome

[@Btester2]

I was stoned and eating bread. That's how I found this video. Very informative.

[@taladiv3415]

Thank you for your video :)

[@fawziasraf7575]

I don’t know about men were hunters and women were gatherers but the invention of bread is vibes. thanks for the video.

[@okaywonderful9843]

ive been thinking about where bread came from for years and finally looked it up, thank u

[@kevinu.k.7042]

The first fermentation was in Iraq? Most historians say Egypt. However recent archaeology site the first bread ovens in Bulgaria at about 6500 BCE. Did the Bulgarian's ferment their loaves? Working from a photo of a flat bread abandoned near a Bulgarian Fire Pit (not oven) it seemed to me to have been fermented. It was far too thick to be consumed as an unleavened flat bread. Roughly 2-3cm thick. Can you give me a lead on the Iraq fermentation please. I am so interested in this. Just adding wheat got to Europe about 2000 BCE. Up until the late medieval period most cottagers had their own (? Roman style) Mills. They also used something like a Cloam oven which were certainly in use by the Viking diaspora in the Dark Ages, but the early Saxons are likely to have had such ovens too. Thanks for a great video.

[@lithiumchloride3693]

Thank you for answering my curious question.

[@lilchromozome]

I love bread. The history has always fascinated me.

[@erric9987]

This was awesome

[@WhattheFwouldIknow]

Great vid. Bread rocks!

[@khantzawhtet6896]

Thank u for answering all my biology questions.

[@davidmouat-cortes4889]

Awesome video! Concise and easy to follow! No sponsor messages or any of this in-your-face "HEY! DON'T FORGET TO CLICK LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!" nonsense. Just for that, you've got yourself a new subscriber. Oh heck, I'll even hit the like button.

[@randomguy2402]

1:17 imagine how many things we wouldn’t have if not a single person looked at something that you probably shouldn’t cook but said “nah, I’ll do it anyway”

[@charuscourtyard9048]

Good afternoon sir ..wow how beautifully you described the story .. . which is a delicious food all over the world... thank you 🙏

[@kyo_1up575]

Weird bread be like: “My hearts a-seized, my lungs are wheezing, the fucki’n walls are melting, I can hear Satan’s voice, he’s telling me to invest in apple, what does that mean? WHY DOES HE WANT ME TO BUY APPLES?!”

[@beaushaver3779]

Amazing

[@robertbeger4275]

Cheers Mate! Really enjoyed your video. Puts a lot into perspective.

[@scarletttrott6082]

tysm! this helped a lot with my hw! we had to re search how bread was traditionally made before mashines were invented! tysm!!

[@breadwithouttheead]

Bread is the best

[@dennissemichaellabatausa7202]

how does this channel only have a small amount of views and subs--

[@LaughingHistorically]

Thanks. I’m trying! Happy to have anyone watch!

[@charliecroft5477]

ty!

[@waterpkmn]

I wanna tag ollie hololive id so bad

[@lorettalynn2610]

I'm a rice eater and I'm really wanna know how breads were made I don't eat breads daily but I don't hate it. But I always see delicious looking breads and want to try it

[@alexpacheco2031]

bread & beer! its like the universe pulled 2 things out of a hat & said go!

[@Genius766]

The irony is the Middle East where bread was invented is now struggling with bread and wheat shortages

[@anvime739]

Great video! I just want to add that the notion that women were only recollections in the Palaeolithic is outdated. More and more studies show that in many cases women hunted small prey and even big game as often as men. For example in Atapuerca (Spain) researchers found that the first cause of death in men were hunting wounds. The first cause in women was birth (for obvious reasons) but the second was also hunting wounds, showing that the majority of women there hunted big game. Another examples can be found in the actual Aka and iKung societies (hunting-gathering) where women hunt amongst their men. The have very lose gender roles and fathers participate greatly in child raising. Sadly the more contact that these tribes have with other societies the more sexist they become.

[@gjaguaribe]

I was in the comments looking for someone calling this out

[@anvime739]

@@gjaguaribe Thanks :) Its a topic that I love I did a presentation about gender roles in the paleolithic last year. It was super fun.

[@TinyCloud90]

I mean it makes sense since hunting probably was the main food they got back then. So every hand was helpful. But when they started settling I guess female weren’t as much in need to go for hunting more as watching the home and other things. It’s not bad that everyone got to do what they got to do in order to survive I don’t think that they thought much about it. Except when Christianity came and dictated it.

[@treasuretrails]

Thanks to food and the internet I don't revolt LOL

[@BrianFaas]

White bread is not allowed in this house!! (cool shirt)

[@cabezadepija7318]

0:57 m'lady moment... only thing missing is a fedora 🤣

[@gusolive]

That was good

[@estefanolivares4159]

0:39 probably called it pan . both in romance languages and Asian languages pan is a common word involved in naming bread. honestly hearing this similarity is why I'm here.

[@randomguy2402]

Watching this while eating bread

[@snd5258]

The Egyptian pyramid builders were not actually slaves. They were highly regarded workers who were generally buried in mini pyramids/tomb things.

[@Harem__King]

Home baked sourdough bread is amazing. Flour salt and water no added sugars and junk.

[@Philo-Vids]

Fantastic video!!! Bread, and rice, have both intrigued me for quite some time. Now, you should make a video on the history of rice! Rice is not mentioned in the New Testament, but I was told that that the ancient Chinese, thousands of years ago, had already consumed rice as a source of food and nutrition. Potato, like nuggets of gold, which is so common today, is one of the great blessings of the discovery of America back in 1492.

[@KneeSurgeryGrinch]

Finally the questions of the universe answered

[@brandanmentch]

Bro this explains “get that bread” bread was money and you’re saying get that bread like get that money.

[@ashleymarie7452]

In the 1960's, one of my friends' father was an engineer in Richmond, Virginia, for American Machine and Foundary (AMF). He used to tell me "I'm an engineer. I design the machines that make Wonder Bread. So I know what goes into it. If you ever knew what goes into it, you would NEVER feed this to your children!" True story.

[@StarryBakari]

You guys are really funny, thanks for making me smile during quarantine

[@ahmadhamzah7238]

It's weird that beer used to be sager than water until alchohol was invented and people ruined it

[@chriscostello9111]

Hang on just a minute so if I made bread dough the traditional way and just left it to go bad I get beer 😂 I need details please

[@1973Washu]

Well I am making beer so I am most of the way to bread.

[@tkeosaksith]

Man if my mom saw me toss a bag of rice like that I would get a flip flop to the head.

[@kingofsomething3250]

When you're a grown man, you can throw as many bags of rice as you want :)

[@johnathansheffield1846]

So basically towns were made so we would have a place to get drunk?

[@oneactoneda4393]

I still Horatio J Slocum is the best bread maker especially with a brand he invented called Gardenia !

[@StarryBakari]

Hey! I’m first! ❤️💛💜💚

[@Not_Thebadguy]

Slaves were NOT used to build pyramids, it was actually built by farmers who were loyal to their farao, I don't get why some people still don't learn this at school.

[@oftin_wong]

To be fair hunter gatherers also have a long history of measurable slavery with relatively recent modern day examples such as indigenous Americans on the plains. Slavery is as old as someone who didn't want to collect the fire wood

[@sawahtb]

I'm making bread while I watch this. Homemade bread is so much better. The French wouldn't eat potatoes btw, so they were going hungry. Avoided the famine later tho.

[@emmettdockery6637]

To fear and bread!

[@craigsweeting507]

My neighbor is interbred .

[@kingbread5808]

Bread is good 👍

[@BerylLx]

It seems your flatbread is just a tad overcooked.

[@josephcowell7549]

skeletal remains of our ancestors indicate that both men and women hunted together

[@hydrolito]

Others thinks Flintstones were written to be in the future there is video about that.

[@becausehelivees4672]

FEAR and bread.

[@bread0237]

Bread

[@cherryzcarryz4776]

that slave sound made me lose it the first time subbed

[@trinistylezz]

Watching this after eating a sandwich made from bread from my bread maker 😂

[@iamHGP]

I think first they developed agriculture and then bread afterwards.

[@kumzuklkr8623]

So both amy and sheldon were wrong?

[@eliakimbenishchayil]

Scholars have determined that most of Egyptian civilization was not developed on the slavery

[@bread3475]

Bread...

[@ronin7561]

Bread 👍

[@grayrook8637]

Hey, you should really academically credit Proffesor Eric Pallant and his Lecture "The Rise and Fall of Sour Dough: 6000 Years of History" that this entire video and basically all its concepts were lifted from. I mean it's free on line but you should not plagiarize and should provide sources for people who want to learn more.

[@dukewellington7050]

Egyptian pyramid builders were not slaves.

[@seancssu]

Gotta rewrite history to make the tiny hat people happy

[@lillbitdenveronlyfans6582]

I'm here because last of us got me curious

[@MYSASOCCERHIGHLIGHTS]

you show 10,000 BC but you say 10,000 years ago? it's 2020. just trying to help not a big mistake :)

[@ngmui430]

if you think all of ancienr asia had rice and only rice, shows how little you understand about food history

[@henrybird26]

Even if man started eating grain it didn't mean it was good for us.

[@parkerflorence5332]

Yeah the pyramids were probably not constructed with slave labor. They would have been skilled artisans and engineers to reach the level of precision in which the pyramids were built.

[@tilasole3252]

It wasn't very funny. But it was good for information.

[@emilgervide1715]

You are funny

[@josephrain5025]

Thatssss not how beer was discovered

[@Lifhtban]

Yknow Australia made bread it was a hard bread

[@imajwalker72]

Hunters and gatherers were not strictly gendered roles. In some societies women contributed to up to 50% of hunting.

[@isazisempi3896]

I hate when modern day people look at ancient people that invented the things we enjoy and say they had no idea what they were creating. They made bread, just like we did. Just because we added a bunch of other vocabulary doesn't mean they didn't know they were making the things they made.

[@user-hc2vk2ic3u]

ancient people didnt know how bread worked, but they knew what bread was.

[@supereggnog8099]

🤓

[@justnoob8141]

No idea why I search for it but whatever -_-

[@pongangelo2048]

Since Romans copied the method of making breads from Greeks. How about the origin of Pizza? Was it originated from Greeks and just copied again by the Romans? Or just some random Roman dude decided to make a circular flat bread and put random sauces to it.

[@armaanafzal9294]

Anyone watching because it was your homework?

[@Melissaamerica.777]

I don’t think anyone really knows for sure that men were responsible for hunting and women responsible for gathering. I know in my own experience that there’s a lot of feminine born males out there that would much rather be gathering. And if a female is stronger and more capable for hunting then why wouldn’t she hunt… and then those small feminine males can go pick berries…It’s actually kind of sickening listening to somebody say that men are responsible for hunting and women are responsible for gathering it kind of is disgusting, and you know that that idea is just that that idea is put out there by insecure males…