Dishes That Are Much Older Than We Realized

[@j6302]

“Back then, tamales were made with masa and stuffed with veggies and meat and other fillings before wrapping with corn husks.” Dude, that’s how my family has been making them my whole life. Cool to know that it hasn’t changed much over the millennia though.

[@carlosfranceschy9428]

If it ain’t broke…

[@LucidOpticLab]

right? its funny how bad of a source of info these videos are.

[@Kyle4OH8]

Lol this was def written by a white person

[@livenandlove1980]

Right? I was like, "What do you mean WAS made with masa?"🤨

[@CoinSlotKitty]

She actually says "something called masa" as though nobody has ever heard of it nowadays Nobody noticed the crappy bud at 6:46?

[@colinroberts2060]

Possibly the one that shocked me the most was cheesecake being served to athletes at the Ancient Olympics before competing. And I thought it was odd that Reese's sponsored a gymnastics competition 25 years ago.

[@HisVirusness]

Those berries were preserved because honey does not go bad. Honey also makes excellent wine, so if they didn't immediately move to mash those berries for fermentation, then a huge opportunity was missed.

[@derekstein6193]

Well, honey actually can go bad. Granted, it is estimated you might have to wait for 100,000 or so years for that to transpire. So, on a practical level it is a food that will not spoil, but it actually can because nothing is truly immune to the passage of time and entropy.

[@HisVirusness]

@@derekstein6193 I mean, if we are going with pedantry, then yes; honey can go bad. Also, anyone saying the world is not going to end is wrong, because it will be engulfed by the sun. Of course, it won't be in any of our lifetimes, but it'll still happen.

[@shibolinemress8913]

Popcorn was the most surprising to me, though logically it makes so much sense. You should also cover the history of chocolate sometime, if you haven't already.

[@alukuhito]

No. YOu should. Make your own video.

[@ToxicDeflect]

They ground it into flour

[@rgerber]

Kennel falls into fire and goes pop

[@mrs.g.9816]

I had a feeling bread was the oldest food humankind cooked up. As a little kid, I used to think, "Birds eat seed, cats and dogs eat meat, horses eat hay, and humans eat bread."

[@rgerber]

and chinese eat them

[@doldemenshubarti8696]

oldest thing humans ate were roasted grain. then they decided breaking hard cooked grain was unappetitizing, so they powdered it and baked it after mixing with water. they made it with acorns, and other items they could powder and baked them. All humans ate this. Europeans, Africans, Asians, Austronesians, Arabs, Steppe people

[@danic9304]

I was surprised at how recent the oldest honey was. I'd have thought that would have been one of the oldest

[@pphtm]

It is the oldest. There is tons of evidence of early humans eating honey from beehives. This video has some terrible info.

[@BaeBunni]

It doesn't help we are basing it on honey we found to be in containers. Honey has a natural container which probably was used much earlier in history before we moved it to pots for large scale storage.

[@mindstalk]

Chimps collect honey today. So I'm pretty sure humans have been eating it since before we evolved into being human.

[@echolalia682]

"Humans were baking bread before agriculture was even invented, which suggests that bread itself may have been the reason humans settled down" Or.....it suggests that human civilization and agriculture is much older than we have been told

[@hugolouessard3914]

No. Actually humans started settling in slowly, over hundreds of years. There were a lot of downsides to doing it too fast, so they would come to places they knew to have the cereals they wanted to make bread and beer. And actually, the video is wrong. Beer is older than bread apparently. We discovered it quite recently, but beer could actually be the reason we settled down in the first place.

[@fathurrochman2469]

Calm down Hancock

[@stacie1595]

It also isn't one way street. Some communities would try agriculture then ditch it and go back to a more nomadic life style. Imagine doing agriculture without any large tools or domesticated animals! It was a really hard lifestyle. But yeah, I think its possible that humans have been engaging in agriculture for longer than expected, but then its also possible that we have been baking bread for longer than expected. After all we've been using fire to cook our food for tens of thousands, maybe even over 100,000 years!

[@echolalia682]

@@hugolouessard3914 I highly doubt an entire group of humans decided to change their entire way of life and damn near everything that is familiar to them and their entire culture over a piece of food or drink. It's far more likely that the advantages of always knowing where your food is at, what has happened to it, how much of it you have, how much of it you need to supplement with hunting/foraging, and being able to manipulate many of those factors became obvious and likely paid immediate dividends

[@TrineDaely]

@@hugolouessard3914 Thus making the roots of alcoholism much longer, too.

[@NewMessage]

Anything in my fridge is much older than you'd realize. Especially near the back.

[@darthjarjar5309]

Noob, you should see what’s under my old *ss sofa, you can probably find pizza from ancient Mexico.

[@sb416]

Speak for yourself 😂 sounds like U need a cleaning Sunday!!!

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

The mental image of a bunch of olden irishmen just hucking an infant-sized ball of butter into a bog is very hilarious to visualize.

[@hensonlaura]

Why the f*ck would it take "a bunch" of Irishmen to put 10 lb of butter in a Bog? Smh. No common sense.

[@mehdihassan8316]

Can we see one of school lunches please? Around the world or history in the US

[@cookingforsingles]

I love that!

[@NewMessage]

That's a brilliant idea.

[@cookingforsingles]

@@NewMessage clever user name 😅

[@TheDesertRat75]

WWII School lunches in the US must’ve been interesting thanks to rationing/shortages 😮

[@richardsawyer5428]

In the UK free school dinners dinners were brought in after the 2nd Boer War as many recruits were found to be malnourished. The law was enacted just in time to feed up the future Tommy's of WW1. I'm old enough to have got free school dinners (they were really nice) but "Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" ended our free school milk when she was Education Secretary.

[@sarahcoleman5269]

I always think it's funny when people ask "How did humans think to eat that?" Animals. They probably saw animals eating a fallen bee hive and realized, "Hey, there's something edible in there." Hell, honey is natural, we've probably been eating it since we were walking around on all fours.

[@alukuhito]

We're animals though. Maybe other animals watched us eating honey.

[@tonybehere7792]

@@alukuhito it’s more likely that we saw them. Other mammals have been enjoying honey before humans even existed 💀

[@alukuhito]

@@tonybehere7792 Good point. Honeybees and honey had been around for millions of years before humans.

[@overbeb]

Our ancestors were probably foraging honey when they were still tree dwellers.

[@athena8794]

Yep, things like honey, eggs, etc we probably ate since before we came down out of the trees. It's things like figuring out which bits of pufferfish aren't poisonous that baffles me. ("Everyone who's ever eaten this thing died. Maybe if I only eat this bit..."). My personal theory involves a bored nobleman and a crap load of dead peasants.

[@samwill7259]

Sharing good food has always been a universal human experience It builds bridges, it brings us together, it makes us who we are And who doesn't like to fall asleep full?

[@ricksmith7631]

im liking these new videos. im just gonna be blunt and say i loved whoever narrated the old videos but i will give kudos to whoever is narrating the new ones, she has the same sort of dry humor and im enjoying them just as much.

[@leslietonn3181]

I would’ve liked to see the history of Thanksgiving dinner and how it changed through the ages.

[@charliekent9526]

ages? what past couple hundred years of well recorded history? lmfao

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

Through the ages? You mean the last 160 years?

[@ledzepgirl92]

The history can be summed up as genocide maskerading as a dinner party and falls in the long trend of piping hot levels of historical revision being served American children as "history". Followed by the main course of "did you ever ask yourself why the roughly 100 years between the end of the civil war and the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century are just skipped in education like nothing ever happened?" Optional dessert is "Let's not even imagine what the German equivalent to this approach to teaching history would be" Depending on your personal palette this might either result in vicariously vomitting, or falling into a sweetly ignorant food coma.

[@kriyasheeli]

@@ledzepgirl92 😂😂😂

[@TheTurncloak]

@@ledzepgirl92 interesting, I assume it depends on school and stuff, but my history classes hit pretty hard on the American Industrial Revolution. Obviously i'm sure there gaps and stuff that wasn't taught or incorrect, but I wouldn't say it it was skipped.

[@cookingforsingles]

So glad we're getting these twice a week now! ❤️❤️❤️

[@sophiaisabelle027]

It's interesting to know more about food in-depth. We look forward to seeing more content like this. May God bless all of you.

[@thememeteamdream]

Can you do the history of coffee, please? It was used as a sacred beverage and there was a lot of espionage/conquest around building the coffee plantations in South America.

[@maenad1231]

Another food ingredient that _feels_ recent is date sugar so I was pretty surprised and excited to find out the ancient Egyptians have been using dates to sweeten desserts since forever lol

[@alukuhito]

It doesn't feel recent to me. You're weird.

[@hensonlaura]

​@@alukuhitoif you rely on your feelings for factual knowledge you are a deep shit, my friend 🤦‍♀️

[@nowandaround312]

"Have you ever tried eating cereal dry? It tastes like punishment." Punishment is soggy Rice Krispies. I never eat wet cereal

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

naw, punishment is soggy cornflakes, hands down

[@mygetawayart]

if you've never had dry cereal you're either lying or using the wrong kind of cereal. Dry cereal is a great, cheap snack for those of us who always want something to chew on and by not dousing it in milk, you're preserving the crunch. It's like eating sweet chips.

[@alukuhito]

In my country, when I was young, mothers would sometimes bake mixed cereal in the oven with salt and spices. It was such a good snack.

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestion: Milk. When did humans begin drinking the milk of domesticated animals? From what other animals are used for dairy purposes?

[@ruthanneseven]

In China, they use dog milk. Not joking.

[@TheDesertRat75]

Goats, and horses surprisingly. I believe one of the food history channels points out that Mongolians during Ghengis Khan’s time were using milk from their horses, though I could be wrong about that >.

[@ant713m]

In India at least 5000-1000 yrs ago.

[@HughGort]

"back then"? Tamales are made literally exactly the same still. It's not like it's NOT filled with masa today or something.

[@darthjarjar5309]

Exactly what I was thinking when I heard that. All tamales are still made that way. Jesus, there better not be any other d*mb industrialized way of doing it with pre-made flour dough in order to save time and money. The only way to make tamales is with corn masa. But watch there be some fool that makes it with pre-made flour dough - similar to what these American fools have done with our precious tacos and that nasty flour stingy tortilla shell.

[@SireneKalypso]

"Filled with masa"

[@MithrilMaia]

Was not expecting cheesecake xD

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I'm curious why there were Italian scientists studying Ötzi at an Austrian university? The last time I checked, Innsbruck University is in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.

[@markcarey8426]

The body was on the border between the two countries. Was a bit of an "ownership" issue then I think they co-operated.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

​@@markcarey8426 I thought he'd ended up - initially - in Vienna because they had the better equipment available. But my curiosity re Italians in Innsbruck brought me here. Good answer though. Makes sense!

[@Bob-jm6no]

The Ötztal is located in Austria, not Italy. The Alpes span over multiple countries, a quick wikipedia search could have told you guys that right away ...

[@Down_the_Wind]

To be fair, the Iceman was found in an area near Tisenjoch on the border between Austria and Italy, so I won’t fault them that much.

[@tubab72]

Same goes for the university of Innsbruck ... yeah maybe they have some Italian scientists working there, but i suspect the majority to be Austrian ... given the fact that Innsbruck is solidly in Austria.

[@timthegem]

7,000 years of inexperienced diners biting into the tamale husk and getting laughed at.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

Early man settled down and started growing grain for beer, not bread. They had their priorities in order, lol...

[@MrEurolaf]

Can u also do a show about pickled foods? Like pickled eggs (white and red) and whatever else like Kimchi? Pickled pigs feet? Etc

[@JoeOklahoma]

Annnnd now I want kimchi and dill pickles

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Very surprising to see how long some of those foods have been around, had no idea pancakes have been around so long or that bread may have pre-dated agricultural society.

[@swagamuffin3511]

These videos are always so well done, so it really threw me when she talked about tamales containing masa like that's just some ancient relic.

[@krisfrederick5001]

I almost said "Who eats pancakes for Christmas?" Wow 🤦🏻‍♂

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

You'd be surprised, lots of people eat pancakes for Christmas morning breakfast :) and to be festive, add red and green M & M's :D

[@alukuhito]

Really? That would be a typical Christmas breakfast for me growing up. Not Betty Crocker though. We made them from scratch.

[@purplealice]

Jamaican meat patties have curry powder in the crust (which makes them a more golden color when cooked). Just like the Mesopotamians!

[@alukuhito]

That's a blast from the past. I used to eat those all the time in the 90s.

[@SimplyStormy]

I eat my cereal dry and I am indeed offended.

[@yourmommakesmegrapejelly171]

I concur indubitably

[@nicolebishop2210]

Love me some food history! Fun history and lovely narration!

[@SPFLDAngler]

Honey was definitely discovered by someone angrily smashing a beehive to bits and finding the golden liquid all over. That or by watching bears rip open beehives to eat it. Probably the latter one.

[@rosescott9299]

Also a beehive smells fantastically delicious, and the smell is very strong. One smell and you know you have to try some.

[@alukuhito]

I doubt it. Why do you say "definitely" when you don't even know? Grow up.

[@overbeb]

Nah, our pre-human ancestors would have already been foraging for honey long before modern humans came about.

[@Reven-xm3gb]

Random not to related thought....how did fruit snacks end up in lunchboxes? Its basically candy...

[@btetschner]

Gen X Foods: #5 Cheese Sandwich #8 Crackers and Cheese #13 Melted Ham and Cheese Sandwich (on a hamburger bun) #22 Grilled Cheese #28 Jiffy Pop #45 Banquet Pot Pies #46 Fresh Bread #47 Chicken Pot Pie #48 Popcorn #50 Pancakes

[@erraticonteuse]

Given that baboons also eat honey, I assume we've been eating it since before we were H. sapiens. There are also birds in Africa called honeyguides that will literally guide humans to beehives so they can snack on some tasty wax after we open them suckers up. The amount of time for that behavior to have evolved to the point that an entire species of bird relies on humans (and probably other animals like honey badgers) to get the *main* food they eat says we've been doing that for way longer than anything on this list.

[@TrineDaely]

Honey guides and honey badgers have likely teamed up on hives longer than humans and guides.

[@hensonlaura]

​@@TrineDaely "honey guides" sounds like something out of a Hunger Games book 😊

[@williamking3301]

Food history is so fascinating. In regard to bread, what was not mentioned in the video is bread's close relationship to the making of beer, bread being baked then fermented and strained to produce the alcoholic beverage. The Sumerians drank it in large clay pots by sipping through a hollow reed straw and produced 20 different varieties and exported them. The ancient Egyptians paid their workers with beer. Hops did not factor into beer making until the Middle Ages.

[@Asignuva]

"Chicken Pot Pie. My three favorite things."

[@WishIWasWildRandy]

I LOVE THE WOMAN EVERYONE SHUT UP SHES VERY NICE ABOUT THE FOOD!

[@hensonlaura]

Very surprised at the how many people like pot-pies. They're revolting!

[@kaelang12]

i recall a story (not sure if it actually happened or just apocryphal): some archeologists were in a tomb and discovered a jar of honey, still edible! and then they discovered some hairs in the honey after eating some- turns out the container it was in had a preserved corpse

[@Marnie_C]

I heard this story too. I read it in a childrens book about Egypt back in the 90s

[@hensonlaura]

That's hilarious!

[@cocoaorange1]

I really enjoy learning stuff like this.

[@steakcrust558]

Oh hey its the woman everyone complains about for no good reason. Both people are good and she doesnt deserve the criticism

[@ktanner438]

Cuz she has no charisma lol

[@OfficialRickHarrison]

She’s a woman

[@steakcrust558]

@@ktanner438you dont know what you’re talking about

[@steakcrust558]

@@OfficialRickHarrisonha sexism funny. Small dick energy

[@jonsmith6496]

I forgot, we aren’t allowed to have opinions unless they are in line with yours.

[@lp-xl9ld]

"Well, why do they call it 'cheese'?" "They smelled the rotten milk, and that was what they said! 'Cheez!'" Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, "The 2000 Year Old Man"

[@petergray7576]

Btw, those ancient Chinese noodles were made from millet, as durum wheat (semolina) and rice were unavailable at the time.

[@matthewjay660]

2:51 WHOOP! An Aggie ring. 👍🏻

[@Automatik234]

Innsbruck is an Astrian city and I am pretty sure that it was austrian scientists, since it's the austrian university of Innsbruck...

[@megacheese]

Whoever was pouring the milk on that cereal deserves jail time.

[@tremorsfan]

Whoever discovered honey was a Boss.

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

Somebody probably just tasted some honey that had dripped out of a hive.

[@tremorsfan]

@@OneOfThoseTypes Yeah, and then he wanted seconds.

[@janerickallado8881]

Probably saw a bear dig into a hive then ate what was left.

[@alukuhito]

They were the GOAT.

[@TrineDaely]

We probably learned it from honey badgers.

[@packertai1]

Very cool! It blows my mind, the long history of these foods! 🤯😱🤔

[@fluffybbpeachhun6768]

I warm up for this! Love it!

[@LanceBeckman]

Dry cereal is the best!

[@weelzneal4768]

Wet cereal!!

[@johnjohnson8575]

Frank Maixner et al. did a study on the content of Ötzi's stomach and intestines and said of the charcoal "[...]a slow drying or smoking of the meat over the fire would explain the charcoal particles detected previously in the lower intestine content." And I haven't seen any comment about pancakes. Y'all should source your claims so we can search it up on our own.

[@andrewn8002]

Have I ever eaten cereal without milk? Why, yes. Yes, I have! It makes for the perfect snack. 😁 Especially if there's other yummy things in it like raisins and almonds. Scrumptious!

[@parkerstroh6586]

Popcorn may even have been the method by which maize was first consumed! This stuff is oooold

[@hensonlaura]

There is no reason that people would have gathered corn and brought it home to the hearth unless they were already planning to eat it - and that doesn't require fire. Fresh corn is the best eating, when it's still juicy and sweet! On a constant lookout for food, if folks see something that looks good, they're going to experiment with it, tasting, watching for adverse effects. Learning that corn can pop would come later, as it was commonly held & utilized.

[@HOOLIGANSSSSss]

That apocalypto joke was hilarious 😂

[@animegodandlover59prestond51]

Hey weird history are we going to get a timeline poll soon

[@Fayanora]

We do know how humans knew honey was edible. We saw bears and other animals eating it. We know this because Native Americans were asked things like that, and they pointed out that they saw animals doing it first. Same deal with maple syrup.

[@mindstalk]

Chimps gather honey. We've probably been eating it since before we were human.

[@hensonlaura]

Man, that is such a limited reference to use, to illustrate human experience. People get a little bit of knowledge and want to expound as though they had the last word and are vastly expert - when in truth their knowledge is glancing and rudimentary. It is surreal to see those with no practical experience in the physical world, and almost as little in academics - who've never had to learn common sense in striving for survival, or live in a dirty, comfortless, brutal environment, expound on why people acted as they did, back in the day. Smh.

[@shanidar]

I loved the "...cereal without milk tastes like punishment".

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

I still think it's criminal the people who eat it with water instead of milk, like I wanna shout "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!" lmfao.

[@brandoncampbell6534]

Love cheesecake and pot pies

[@ditroia2777]

You can still get steak and kidney pie.

[@ivonrokko7565]

She keeps saying that people were using foods before we cultivated them ourselves. Ya. That makes total sense. Why would we put time and energy into something that we don't know is useful?

[@Fenderbenne]

Wait. Is that the girl from Watch Mojo?

[@MrEurolaf]

Can u do a show about Scrapple?

[@alexandercampbell7903]

Beer & Wine should have been featured in your video as well.

[@buddywallace2814]

Back then? We still make tamales out of masa. 🤣🤣

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@Rita1984]

Matza goes back 3000 years.

[@sneakyskunk1]

Dry cereal tastes like punishment? A blasphemy has been uttered.

[@CoinSlotKitty]

6:56 nobody noticed the bottom shelf bud that was put in here?

[@mathewritchie]

Bread was a side dish for beer,beer led to farming.

[@HVS-gk7oo]

Uh since when is honey a dish? Also, dry cereals make a good snack. No one of these foods are surprising facts.

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

The first pancake wasn’t made in a pan…

[@kiniburk]

"From something called Masa" The copy editor must have been asleep on that phrase. Even this old white guy knows Tamales are always made with Masa.

[@LassieFarm]

The very oldest food, is that hot dog on the rollers at my local Kwik Trip

[@funveeable]

You think I moved a box of Ramen to 3 apartments? Well you're wrong because I moved the same box from one dorm to another dorm to the house of my landlord. No apartment complexes involved.

[@corrodan2995]

I will refuse to refer to "honey" as anything other than bee juice or bee milk. Nothing else.

[@kindbud]

6:56 ancient popcorn looks a lot like boof weed, bad Marijuana

[@dnc411]

Weird History guy has a more dynamic narrator voice than Weird History girl

[@cgscott]

Shout out to whoever lost their Aggie ring in a pile of tamales.

[@stefanoraz27]

sounds a bit like watch mojo girl but i am sure it's not the same person

[@vancakes4500]

That's exactly what I've been thinking!

[@jmccoomber1659]

Mmmmmm, spoiled, fermented milk curds....yum!

[@angelomadla]

Can you try filipino Adobo?

[@Thrillhou]

7:00 someone want to explain to me why Olive Oil is described here as an all-purpose cooking component? It has two uses, and that's it. And if you can't remember where you bought yours, consider buying an actually decent one.

[@packersmresandvintage]

Kallogs frosties with baileys is lush

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

Wondering how your drawing a line between bread and flapjacks

[@natlenan6743]

No puns just history!

[@paulyiustravelogue]

I could be wrong, but that piece of Chinese writing looks to be more like a kind of Buddhist scriptures than an ancient writing about noodles 😂

[@alukuhito]

Christmas wasn't celebrated as soon as AD hit. It was a few centuries later.

[@Urfavigbo]

About 100 years later

[@remyw.4959]

Olive oil for grilled cheese?

[@jafethlagos9264]

“Tamal-eeeeh”

[@cleo4548]

Hey now dry cereal is the best snack.

[@Mr.Scootini]

Pizza should be on this list. People have been making flat bread with stuff on top of it for millennia I’m sure.

[@Tactical_Hotdog]

Noodles and Spaghetti are NOT the same thing, not even close.

[@ridureyu]

Spaghetti are noodles, but not all noodles are spaghetti.

[@Tactical_Hotdog]

@@ridureyu Ingredients wise, no.... The main ingredient of spaghetti is wheat flour, but noodles can contain different types of ingredients such as rice starch, rice flour, potato starch and Canna starch. High quality spaghetti is prepared of durum wheat.

[@ridureyu]

@@Tactical_Hotdog yes, noodles can contain many types of flour, from rice to wheat. But ultimately, they are all Squiggly Bread.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

On top of spaghetti 🎶"... All covered with cheese! 🎶"

[@markjackson6431]

this girl is growing on me. don’t worry you’ll will love her soon enough. change is good.

[@parisite99]

Nope

[@markyogg1]

I agree. It’s just hard to embrace the big change. But she’s fine.

[@neuroisis85]

Also, Utzi was the first to ever Dab. Dabbed too death.

[@diannt9583]

NEVER cook a pot pie in the microwave! And masa is still used to make tamales. At least, the good ones. But basically, a fun and informative video.

[@NOmoreSHULISequalsWORLDpeace]

And she talked about using olive oil to make a grilled cheese 🤦

[@1hiddenearth]

If you're cooking pot pies in the microwave, you should not be allowed in the kitchen. 🚫 🥧 ♨️