Semlor: The Dessert That Killed A King

[@TastingHistory]

Next week is Tasting History's 1 Year Anniversary, and to kick off the festivities, we'll have a Q&A this Sunday, February 21 (details to come). Send me your questions on Twitter, Instagram, or reply to this comment.

[@stefanwacht4670]

Which foreign countries do you and your fiancee want to visit, that you haven´t visited before and what kind of foreign meal would you like to eat there, after the pandemic is over ? Stay Safe and regards from Vienna, Austria!

[@alliesealock]

Why are you and your fiancé so cool? But for realzies, what does research look like for you? (Like as you are researching for a dish, where do you go to find the historical information?) I love research (I'm weird, I know) and I love hearing other people's process. Much love ❤️❤️❤️

[@sheenachristina2385]

What culture/ historical period are you forward to cover most this year?

[@e.millustration1759]

How many pokemon plushies do you have?

[@Syntax_Error98]

What is your favorite time period/region of food?

[@BananaFromTesco]

Max has ascended so high that he got sponsored by a town

[@brothernobody1775]

was gonna say, htf do you get sponsored by a town? Pretty awesome!

[@cousinjake7986]

Dude thats true!!! Hes like John Oliver now!

[@scottosonic]

I live pretty close to Lindsborg, Ks. My 100% Swedish grandmother Loved Lindsborg. They are a small town that gets a lot of their income from tourism derived from it's strong Swedish heritage.

[@codyratliff4970]

I live near Lindsborg as well and am a history teacher. Lindsborg is the place to go in KS for the Swedish experience

[@em-agan]

I know, so cool. And such a sweet advertisement! I bet it’ll work lol

[@Rpground]

Normal People: *_Sponsored by a service or product_* Max Miller: *_Sponsored by entire city_*

[@leslaychandel947]

"RIAD SHADOW LEGANDS!" I was liiterally watching a makeup channel the other day and their sponsor is Raid Shadow Legends and I'm like, "This males no sense." but Max being sponsored by a town that relies on tourism based on recreating their culture from the old country makes perfect sense.

[@VidGamer123]

Just wait until Max hits Adam Ragusea levels! Then he'll get sponsored by an ENTIRE COUNTRY.

[@emmacorby835]

Yess! And it's such a cool place! Pretty small town but good food and activities (not so much at the moment) but definitely somewhere to visit if you're in the area

[@logantc.1353]

The power of baking.

[@stargirl7646]

@@leslaychandel947 Yeah I love it when the sponsorships actually make SENSE! And aren't overused!

[@ImnotCarlSagan]

Man is so successful he’s being sponsored by a municipality.

[@darrianweathington1923]

Just wait until he's sponsored by a principality...

[@noxy4966]

He will soon be sponsored by an empire.

[@arm279145]

I mean.... I wouldn’t have known but for this video, so smart choice!

[@profesercreeper]

Adam Ragusa got sponsored by a Korean province

[@KyrieFortune]

I have seen Vsauce2 being sponsored by the US Navy, nothing surprises me

[@volundrfrey896]

I really appreciate that you try to say the Swedish words, a lot of people just go "oh I don't want to look stupid so I won't even try" but I think it's nice of you to try. We know that it's hard for someone who's not a native speaker to get it perfect but you did a good job.

[@armadildo6468]

Im not a swede but it sounded swedtalian. Like an italian trying to speak swedish. Swedish has a cadence thats hard to pick up wjere certain words are supposed to drag or end abruptly. Also do they still have that "call a swede" thing or did that end?

[@fattestallenalive7148]

i would say people who don't even try look stupider and as someone who knows chinese and a little japanese, i'd say it's actually a lot more cringe to hear someone just brute force the english pronunciation rules on other languages. especially for japanese where the pronunciation is actually surprisingly simple and using more complicated english pronunciation rules on it seems really redundant and just... stupid

[@KairuHakubi]

This guy really enjoys his job you know they say don't trust a skinny chef, I think this guy is the equivalent for... youtube videos about niche but rich subjects. if enjoying making videos made you fat, he'd be morbidly obese.

[@visassess8607]

@@fattestallenalive7148 I don't know Japanese but personally, I find it cringe when someone goes all out on pronouncing it the "correct" way. I'm not the expert though since I only speak English but my thought process is that of course non-native speakers won't get it perfect so if they pronounce words wrong then it's no big deal.

[@illford]

​@Visassess making a mistake is fine but forcing the rules of another language doesn't make sense

[@molly_nap_queen]

"do not eat fourteen of them or else your country might fall into ruin" you say. All I heard was "13 is the limit".

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Modern medicine may save you from your gorging fate in case of diabetes.

[@doubleyousee72]

So you eat 13 and gain all the benifits and none of the drawbacks

[@brendorkusaviation8930]

Is that a a challenge?

[@protorhinocerator142]

So 13 today, 13 tomorrow... Is this like Gremlins rules? Don't feed after midnight? But how soon in the morning can I start eating again? I need to know these things.

[@jongerty8283]

@@doubleyousee72 each semla gives +2 IQ and +1 charisma but 5% hunger

[@ProjectThunderclaw]

"Just biting into them and probably making a mess" is absolutely the traditional way to eat semlor

[@TastingHistory]

🤣 good. I did it right.

[@WitherFang]

SO TRUE!

[@cyborgzloth]

I'm pretty sure some ppl take the lid and dip in the cream and it it like first and then the rest.. Then again the right way to eat them is to put it in your mouth

[@WASACADA]

I completely agree, if you dont get cream on the tip of your nose and powdered sugar all over the place you're eating it wrong :)

[@blitsriderfield4099]

Oh, so like beignets

[@Svenskadoktorn]

Being a swede, I once ate so many semlor that I felt sick for two weeks straight. It was a fascinating experience.

[@fredriks5090]

Give it time, and swedes will gain semla immunity.

[@be6715]

Is this part of being a very northern person, where you are happy being sad and depressed?

[@Svenskadoktorn]

@@be6715 Who said I was depressed? I mean I am, and yes it's part of being nordic, but it has nothing to do with semlor (semla in plural).

[@MajorNyberg]

That's why I only eat one per year.

[@Erixdel]

I had a semla last month and it made me feel so awful that I almost puked! Never again! I'll stick to the Danish fastelavnsboller :)

[@snorpenbass4196]

Cajsa Warg also coined the expression "You use what you have" as her philosophy of cooking - basically, don't complain you don't have all the ingredients, either fix it or try to find a good equivalent in what you already have. My mom, a professional chef, lives by this.

[@thedude4795]

Not true at all if you're referring to English. She may have in Swedish, but you are too dumb to explain that.

[@Oznej]

That is a bit of a myth, I'm afraid. Cajsa Warg never said that, or at least, she didn't write it in her book. What she did write, in several places, was "use X, if you have it", but never "use what you have".

[@samanthac.349]

@@OznejCasja Warg might not have said it, but my husband has many, many times.

[@Oznej]

Oh, absolutely. It's a very common saying, just erroneously attributed to her. A bit like 'play it again, Sam' being the most famous quote from 'Casablanca' - despite not being in the movie at all. A rogue phrase that somehow became a cultural icon, even though it wasn't there originally...

[@chelsealuchetti7112]

me being broke and having no choice but to figure out uses for what I have: Actually, i'm just following the wise expression by Cajsa Warg 😅

[@kelimar3014]

“Buried with nutmegs under his eyelids.” ... there’s a Townsends joke in here somewhere.

[@TastingHistory]

🤣

[@stijn2472]

Where do you think Townsends got his nutmeg from?!

[@steampoweredmaniac5359]

Townsend sends his regards.

[@ToaOfFusion]

I imagine when Jon Townsend passes away, he is going to request to have nutmegs under his eyelids at his funeral

[@MaryamaFarah]

I love this community, the comments make me just as happy as the video Bless you all

[@matthewmarin703]

It's a bit saddening that this poor guy's prevailing legacy is "that one king who ate himself to death" when he seems to have been such a gentle and even-handed ruler.

[@StonedtotheBones13]

Why not both?

[@frosmane9041]

not sure a gentle ruler is a good one

[@m.pensive]

@@frosmane9041 Sweden did prosper under his rule!

[@shamcra]

@Sown Not due to his efforts though. He left the Parliament (Riksdagen) alone to do whatever they felt needed. And by the way, Max dismissed his son Gustav III quite ignorantly. Gustav III actively implemented many reforms in science and art. He supported the Swedish Royal Academy, which later formed the basis for the Nobel Prizes. He limited the death penalty, introduced an incipient religious freedom and many other things that developed Sweden.

[@m.pensive]

@@shamcra Noted!

[@CAepicreviews]

Imagine making a channel just under a year ago and already being at over half a million subs and being sponsored by a literal town. This is a testament to the effort you put into this. Love your show.

[@TastingHistory]

I’m imagining it 🥰

[@ginawatson-haley5974]

@@TastingHistory you are living it, good sir. And I am grateful for it! You rock.

[@stalinsoulz7872]

@@TastingHistory give some time. PEWDIEPIE himself might Notice your Love for History cooking.

[@GEMIGMAT]

I'm so impressed by your dedication of proper pronounciation in every episode, no matter the country of origin of what you're making. As a Swede, hats and caps off to you for trying to pronounce our wierd language! And thanks for highlighting other stuff in History than war. Knowing what people ate in the past truly makes me closer to them.

[@rthj6446]

Come on! He sounds like a muppet! False compliments are so demeaning.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@rthj6446 He's like halfway there, where he's falling short is in the vowels, as in their proper tones and lengths. The way he pronounces "hetvägg" makes it sound like "hetvegg." I'm willing to cut him _some_ slack, because English simply doesn't have the vowels Å, Ä, and Ö, but I think they would not be hard to learn. Maybe he will do another Swedish recipe some day. I agree that people are exaggerating their praise, though I think that's because most English speakers trying to pronounce Scandinavian languages, are usually much worse. One that always stuck with me was an older American man showcasing an old Karl Gustaf m/45 (the old Swedish army SMG), and he described it with great fondness, but trying to pronounce "Kulspritepistol" it came out as "karoolpistool."

[@jaydubcee_]

Based on the reaction, I'd say the old recipe just hits so much harder than modern. Like, the modern looks fancier, but I want to be completely taken on a spiritual journey when I take my first bite. I want the spirit of a dead king to whisper in my ear, "I know, right? Totally worth it."

[@marissashea5103]

Can confirm. Made both versions, modern one is incredible, old one is spiritual journey worthy. Something about the bread being soaked and soft just elevates it so much

[@jaydubcee_]

@@marissashea5103 I’m glad to hear it, and that you commented on this, cause now I’ve been reminded I need to make it again

[@TheQuota2001]

@@jaydubcee_ you didnt hear correctly lmao the king said " Damn, I left my concubine under my bed and the Queen is gonna kill me"

[@Zubstep1315]

@@marissashea5103 How I feel about tres leches, cake is phenomenal but a good tres leches is divine.

[@Divig]

@@marissashea5103 that is why some swedes eat the modern ones soaked in hot milk. :)

[@RandySavag]

Imagine being such a good chef a King literally kills himself over indulging in your food. Bragging rights for life.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be bragging long because in a time before autopsies, the first suspect of an after dinner death is the one who made the food

[@vonhellsing6406]

Oh yes sir my cuisine is to DIE for....

[@RandomGamerCory]

@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 in fairness the story literally said the royal doctor did an autopsy

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

@@RandomGamerCory Good point

[@peen2804]

@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 autopsies have been practiced since the Roman Empire and possibly before

[@monstermcboo7282]

“He had hobbies. He made snuff boxes and loved to eat.” Sounds like a cool guy.

[@mortisCZ]

Exactly. I might enjoy a snuff with him. Kingdoms sometimes need competent rulers but there are times for hand off approach too.:-)

[@orlaithmcg]

Honestly, if he was alive today I bet he'd have a killer Instagram feed.

[@monstermcboo7282]

Yessssss!

[@apotato6278]

Hanging out with his predecessors might land you at an epic battle. 25,000 Swedish soldiers firing their muskets in thunderous waves, artillery ripping men to shreds and cavalry ferociously slaughtering all in their path. Hanging out with Adolf Fredrik might land you at a 7 course dinner ended with a delicious dessert or in his room where he eagerly shows you his latest snuff box. If you're lucky he might even give you a snuff box for being such a nice guest! Why would he do such a thing? Does he have an ulterior motive? Nope, he's just a nice guy. I know who i'd want to be friends with.

[@BlindErephon]

Yeah for a monarch you could do worse. Still be guillotined at the end of the day cos thats how you do, but afterwards you can feel slightly nostalgic. As opposed to "Good riddance, you can tell where he's buried by watching which direction farmers pee in the fields."

[@adde9506]

"Acute indigestion" may be the conclusion of the autopsy, but it sounds like he ruptured something. Too bad, as he seemed to have found the magical answer to being a good king: let the people picked by the people do the governing while he schmoozes the neighboring countries to keep any wars at bay.

[@anonvideo738]

If by "by the people" you mean aristocrats, then yes. If you mean universal suffrage then he didnt find the magic answer

[@Tintelinus]

Iirc as is often the case with these things it's a bit hard to know how truthful it is. He wasn't a particularly popular king, albeit he was seen as a good person. Because of this it's possible that his opponents "made up" a more demeaning death for him. He had health issues before and iirc the most likely causes of death seem to be either heart failure, stroke or possibly poisoning. Ofc you could make an argument that a man with that appetite probably didn't do his heart any favours.

[@Travelling_Heart15]

@@anonvideo738 better educated aristocrats than ignorant masses.

[@Olamina-c1y]

@@Travelling_Heart15 The "masses" were, and to an extent still are, maintained ignorant by the ruling classes who force them to labour nearly their whole lives away to such an extent that there is no time left for learning or self-actualisation, and only a little left for entertainment and finding belonging. The 8-hour workday came about as a direct result of workers persevering through these conditions and educating themselves on topics of collective resistance as a tool to achieve better working conditions, often with the help of anarchist authors and speakers. The little freedoms we possess and take for granted were all fought for with blood, sweat and tears by people who liberated themselves.

[@Travelling_Heart15]

@@Olamina-c1y if you believe that the 8 hour per day is cuz of people fighting for freedom then you are gullible. A collective resistance of unarmed workers are easily eradicated and replace with slaves or its equivalents, it's mostly because of politics, when your rivals has the higher moral grounds you will have no allies on your side when trouble came looking, the so-called "collective resistance" you talk about is nuisance at most and a weakness for enemies to exploit which is why working conditions is improved.

[@David-lu4gq]

"And he was fine with that, he had hobbies. He made snuff boxes and loved to eat." What a dude.

[@anderspersson7084]

He sounds like a human version of the bull Ferdinand in the old Disney movie "Ferdinand The Bull" that sat under the cork oak smelling on flowers rather than headbutting other bulls.

[@David-lu4gq]

@@anderspersson7084 Hahaha yes, I just remembered that show lol. 😂

[@calamitysangfroid2407]

imagine if he'd been more into snuff boxes than eating. he could've made 14 snuff boxes instead and lived.

[@David-lu4gq]

@@calamitysangfroid2407 Sweden may be very different today. Why Adolf why???

[@EB-yx4fn]

lol when I sit around doing hobbies and snacking it's some sort of quarantine problem - sure is good to be the king!

[@Erobazai]

As a native Swedish speaker I absolutely love your Swedish accent. it sounds like the Swedish chef.

[@fionaclaphamhoward5876]

The one from the Muppets? Is this a compliment? lol

[@solared]

Jag är finländare och det är konstigt att höra "fastlagsbulle" kallas semla

[@SecretLars]

@@fionaclaphamhoward5876 No. The Swedish chef does mock norwegian. Basically in that time of history he would have been a pleb.

[@afternoobtea914]

@@solared Bor i Småland och vi kallar dem oxå fastlagsbullar här.

[@noth606]

@@solared jag är född i sverige och har aldrig hört dom kallas något annat än semla, men sen bryr jag mig inte speciellt mkt om söta bakelser.

[@elliottb7009]

"sir would like another semlor?" 'no thanks i have had 13 already.' "whats another semlor, it not like it going to kill you." 'yeah you are right i suppose, they are delicious.'

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

"Ohh sir.. Its only a wafer thin mint"

[@chenstormstout9456]

@@PurushNahiMahaPurush thank you! Was hoping that reference would pop up.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

"Would you like to finish it off with this waffer theen mint? " "Fuck off, I'm stuffed!" "It's only Waffer thin" "Oh, go on then"

[@bookmouse2719]

Have a breath mint.

[@relentless_shotgun8207]

and nobody heard him utter another word

[@drunkenmuse]

As a Swede and lover of Semlor I consider this to be hands down the best Semla document on the internet! While I'm sure some traditionalists would complain about the modern semla not having a triangle lid it is definitely compensated by the ultratraditional hetvägg. But I also prefer and fully support the burger style featured here with it's more evenly and generous distribution of almond paste! Moderation has no place when it comes to the Selma, every bite should fit a feast to kill a king.

[@Gustavlanderholm]

As a Swede, I'm absolutely in love with Max's pronunciation, it's understandable and has a fun stiffness that reminds me of how swedes talked in the early 1900s. Well done Max! 😁

[@nordscan9043]

His pronunciation is terrible, English people butcher Swedish whenever they try to pronounce Swedish.

[@strawberryrnilk]

@@nordscan9043 He doesn't sound bad for a non-native speaker imo

[@nordscan9043]

@@strawberryrnilk Jag pratar inte sa dar pa Svenska.

[@404Dannyboy]

@@nordscan9043 People from minority languages always get super harsh about someone foreign speaking their language because they aren't used to it. People speak with hugely varied accents in English and most people are fine with it as long as it is understood.

[@Oddball_E8]

@@nordscan9043 Dude... he knows literally no Swedish at all... I'd like to hear you try to pronounce things in Pashtu or Mandarin for the first time...

[@Kall3ThaM3N]

I must say as a swedish fan of yours, this was very well done and I'm actually blown away by the pronunciations you did because swedes would definitely understand them, I'm proud of you! Another fun coincidence: It was actually pretty recently that a swedish program made a documentary series about swedish queens through the ages and this particular story was ofc mentioned, the timing is unworldly! :D

[@Elleoaqua]

i don't know much about sweedish history. definately interested

[@No0bT4rD]

Yeah it's true we understand the pronunciation but it is horrible. Almost every single sound he makes while speaking Swedish is wrong.

[@sod0m]

@@No0bT4rD Wow, you're depressing.

[@No0bT4rD]

@@sod0m I'm just happy to be here :)

[@sabinekarlsson8803]

@@No0bT4rD I'd say it's really good for someone who hasn't learned Swedish!

[@nynz197]

Max: no matter how delectable these semlar are, do not eat 14 of them Me: so the limit is 13?

[@acrispywaffleiron4014]

not with that attitude

[@Cinnaschticks]

Uh oh

[@vmprie]

@@Cinnaschticks Uh oh

[@Soul_Alpha]

@@Cinnaschticks aw mayne what did you do you done went and gave yoself that shit smh

[@Cinnaschticks]

@@vmprie I didn't mean to send that three times-

[@frivolousmagpie5155]

That look of absolute honesty and enlightenment after the first bite was felt in my Swedish heart. Semlor are in deed amazing. Thank you for sharing it with the world!

[@jockedredd1329]

Semlor is deeply connected with the Swedish winter. Imagine when everything is dark, cold and frozen and/or wet outside. You're tired and depressed and your clothes are all moisty and you step into a warm cozy café. All you want is a hot cup of coffee and a big sweet bun with lots of calories. Semlor is the king!

[@tia5532]

Sounds yummy

[@LuckyBadger]

This sounds like something a Hobbit would eat for Second Breakfast. :-)

[@jockedredd1329]

@@LuckyBadger yes. Hard to bring with you on an adventure thou..

[@Gurrehable]

So the semlor didn't just kill the king, they succeeded him

[@Soul_Alpha]

@@Gurrehable aggressive coup d'état, king never saw it coming

[@andreagriffiths3512]

Dear Max, I don’t know where else to send this so here it is. Thank you for saving my life. If it wasn’t for those ancient donuts (which I never got to try or finish cooking) and burning my hands and face with exploding oil and being sent to the emergency department, I’d never have found the massive issue with my blood pressure. Things are now stabilising with the meds and there’s no lasting harm done to any internal organs and you’d never tell I was burnt. So thank you for being amazing and making me new recipes. You were legit instrumental in saving my life. Love Andrea from Melbourne, Aus 😘😘😘

[@ilikeceral3]

That is absolutely wild oh my god (edit: not hating, I’m just laughing from how crazy it is)

[@atmywhitson]

😯

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Dessert may have ended King Adolf Friedrich's life, but it saved yours.

[@emmettbattle5728]

holy shit! glad youre doing alright now! well wishes for the future!

[@user-by7ir9ex4h]

Woah. I really pray you're doing better. Take care :)

[@Paganbeliever]

As a Swede, I'm utterly proud that You covered something that is just something seen in sweden

[@CookwitchCreations]

We know them here in London too, and we have a shop that specialises in them,. We are very lucky!

[@MLakeside]

Finland too! Although we use rasberry jam instead of almond paste.

[@popdartan7986]

Finland? Do you mean östra rikshalvan?

[@toddharig8142]

@@popdartan7986 Translation: "Eastern half of the crown"

[@toddharig8142]

@@MLakeside This is why we all think you are weird Finland... It does sound pretty good tho. Vanilla paste would probably be sick too if one dares to think outside the box.

[@janemiettinen5176]

I (a Finn) have tried to explain these to my international friends so many times, most of my friends know which time of year they come around and call them my “decadent buns”… And for the modern version, theres a fierce battle between almond and jam filling fans, Im an almond girl all the way. Two months to go, then its one month of pure bliss!

[@johanmetreus1268]

Seems living on the border (Övertorneå) will allow me the best of both worlds, why choose when you can have it all?! ;)

[@yes-zb2fb]

Hillo on perhana parempaa!

[@janemiettinen5176]

@@yes-zb2fb Hillo on lapsille :)

[@flemming1286]

SYLT?! XD

[@Ruinwyn]

Both is best. Almond paste and raspberry jam. Strawberry jam makes it too sweet.

[@maximilianholmstrom4561]

As a swede I find it extremely impressive how correctly you pronounced all the words. I’ve been subscribed to your account now for quite a while and I always look forward to your new episodes. And as an archaeologist I find your love of history really refreshing. Keep up the good work!

[@TastingHistory]

It’s a haaaaard language but it was fun to try my best ☺️

[@harmen2456]

@@TastingHistory Quite literally one of the more difficult ones out there, yea. See we never bothered with these nonsensical "rules" about grammar that most other languages indulge in. It's either right or wrong and that's that and there's no real way of telling other then asking someone who speaks it.

[@marcusfridh8489]

he forgot the almondpaste (mandelmassan) thou on the modern version

[@se6369]

@@harmen2456 For an English speaker, Swedish is not at all one of the hardest languages

[@lairdcummings9092]

@@se6369 agree; I've worked with Swedes a lot, and other than the 'lilt,' I've had little trouble with the language. Chinese, though? Ouch. That's tough.

[@arquentur6226]

One of the most impressive things about this channel is Max's fearlessness in pronouncing foreign languages. It would be all too easy as a cooking channel to butcher ( no pun intended) the pronunciations.

[@beckstheimpatient4135]

On the opposite end of the spectrum we have Andy at Binging with Babish who takes great pleasure in always mispronouncing Worchestershire because he just knows he can't get it right.

[@Klajnepojken]

@@beckstheimpatient4135 bimbing with bombish? He won't even rise to the sausage challenge!

[@petterteignesse5486]

His Swedish pronunciation is really pretty good for someone who’s just started out. And it’s a really hard language to sound “native” in

[@Jankin0079]

*Max Miller foodgasms* "They're both fantastic" Me: *Smiles in swedish*

[@Jimunu]

Which kind of swedish smile. The approving scowl one or one of the others?

[@TorchwoodPandP]

Jag gillar dit ‘namn’. Hälsningar från Danmark. Fik en semla i går av min granne som är svensk. Så härligt!

[@LolTollhurst]

@@Jimunu oh absolutely the special "we won again" smug one. Like this |) The one we get to use when we win at the Olympics (the real one _and_ the Norway one) hockey football Eurovision and country statistics |) (we don’t talk about covid. But we... kinda... won. covid. again. In a way. ...I think?) :'(

[@1alayzzia]

This channel is why KZbin was created. To think: we may have never met Max had it not been for the internet. Oh, tragic prospect! Awesome episode and channel!

[@emas5306]

If it were not for the pandemic as well he would still be working at Disney.

[@ChewingToothpick]

I think it's amazing that you interact with people from the cultures you're teaching us about so that you can get pronunciations and little details correct, it's incredibly thoughtful!

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you 🙏 I try to get it all correct but it’s really because I love talking to people from other places. 😁

[@tikkj]

@@TastingHistory Still waiting for you to speak in an English accent for those English recipes

[@KimiHayashi]

@@TastingHistory it's pretty hot tbh

[@MikaelMurstam]

@@KimiHayashi lol

[@KimiHayashi]

@@MikaelMurstam I know he's gay LOL don't worry

[@seuppibacken]

"-Nine-Lunn bun, what's your emergency?" "- I ate 14 semlor accidentally"

[@1224chrisng]

reminds me of that bacon song from Rhett and Link

[@GothosRedux]

Accidentally on purpose.

[@vjaceslavsavsjaniks6431]

Funny but a bit painful for me

[@salaltschul3604]

"I'm going to end up with nutmegs for eyes, can you help me or not?!"

[@harrybetteridge7532]

Take one thin mint waffle and expel them all.

[@cmorgansd]

I absolutely love that you tell us about your kitchen blunders like the buns touching eachother. I think its wonderful for people who are just starting out cooking to hear that that stuff happens and it's okay. I've known people that have tried to cook before and something like that happens and then they just quit trying. Normalize and destigmatize failure. Failure is good. It's how we learn and get better. :)

[@attekinnula4406]

This channel is a marvel. As a history buff, I absolutely love it. I admire the research and application you do for the food ... but what really astonishes me is the effort you put into pronunciation. Coming from Europe, I live in a diverse cultural region and love to delve into different cultures, appreciating each of them for the things they have brought to the world. Your attention to the language is - to me - also a way to pay homage to the culture that is the source of the recipe you're working on. My hat off to you :)

[@atmywhitson]

Well said! 💙

[@FilippaSkog]

I came down here to comment on the fact that he very obviously did his research on pronunciation, and clearly practiced it beforehand. I love it when content creators take their time to do so!

[@deadfr0g]

I'm going to be awfully careful the next time someone tells me a dessert "tastes like heaven."

[@wolvie1618]

Tastes like heaven, because guess where you'll be going soon....👀

[@pakki6555]

The likes are at 69 😭

[@Lafemmefutile]

One way ticket to the place….

[@joshp1820]

"It's way too big a bite. Okay, it's still a big bite, but I don't care." - Ah, it seems you've inadvertently embodied the spirit of Adolf Frederick. Good form. 😄

[@sharlharmakhis280]

He'd be proud.

[@keerak]

It's impossible to eat Semla without making a mess! And you kind of have to take a bit bite so as to not dip your nose too much in the cream! 😂 Most people would it the lid first though!

[@xXcangjieXx]

I usually eat it by dipping the lid in the cream like a nacho and dip. Then I eat the rest😋

[@KazakhToon]

I'm more concerned about his tyrant heir at this point

[@gnarbeljo8980]

I can't tell you how much I appreciate this. I'm Swedish and American living in Sweden. Hetvägg the old way is like nothing else 💕😋

[@OwinBlazer]

King made country so prosperous he could die of gluttony and still have a good track record. Good job on him, really.

[@KittenCritters]

He didn't do much, he wasnt in power of country decisions anymore.

[@SusCalvin]

The riksdag has law-making powers at the time. It's an assembly of four chambers from each of the important classes of the time. The aristocracy, the priesthood (only the lutheran state church is legal), the burghers of the cities and the comparatively well-off and prosperous farmers.

[@cuffzter]

Whenever the Riksdag decided on something the Kings only job was to sign the papers. By 1756 if for some reason he refused twice to sign certain documents, they just stamped it with his name. So he wasn't really in charge. So neither does he deserve praise for the prosperity, but neither does he deserve the blame, because the government was also terribly corrupt at this time.

[@SusCalvin]

@@cuffzter The power balance between the riksdag and the crown shifts through the years. At this point, it's not in the crown's favor. At other times, the crown can and will dissolve the riksdag. The amount of landowning peasants is pretty cool.

[@ayandas874]

KittenCritters that's the way liberty and prosperity happens.

[@lucas23453]

I love that historical chef's had food figured out, then when we look at the cookbooks from the 40's and 50's you end up with stuff like a banana covered in mayonnaise, lettuce, and almonds and wonder where it all went wrong.

[@kin2naruto]

That has more to do with recipe preservation methods than the actual differences in skill through the ages. The first cookbooks were written by the experts of the day (and are a bit hard to follow because how to WRITE a recipe hadn't been worked out yet). The 40's and 50's were the first time cookbooks were published by literally everyone and their Grandma. By then "how to write a recipe" was very standardized so those horrible recipes are much easier to follow... even if the skill of the inventor was far, far lower. We do have some records of historical "bad cooking" before the invention of mass cookbooks. Mostly in reports from sieges/famines on desperation cooking, laws from guilds on how NOT to do beer or bread, and some literary descriptions of bad meals. (And some occasional archeological find of very, very old food)

[@petergray2712]

@@kin2naruto Plus the 40s and 50s were a time when Americans were moving wholesale into suburban homes, and there was a push to turn one's home into an object of both luxury and leisure, along with all of the new kitchen appliances. That meant a glut of magazines and books trying to cater to this newfound domesticity, and their content often ran to ridiculous lows of gastronomic torture.

[@paavobergmann4920]

A banana covered in mayonnaise!? Thank you for my new nightmare. And here I thought "Toast Hawaii" was hideous....

[@kin2naruto]

@@paavobergmann4920 Bananas and mayonnaise are quite good together actually! Plantains are used in savory dishes all the time - bananas work that way too.

[@massivredboi2646]

Similarly to music, recipes that are good will survive the test of time, whereas the ones that are bad won't. Similarly to how the only music we remeber from certain eras is the good stuff since the bad stuff is forgotten

[@IQzminus2]

As a Swede I have to say Max’s Swedish was good. Not perfect, but I think you need to live here for maybe 10+ years to get it perfectly, but Max did impressively well.

[@chevyguy1422]

Ist max a restaurant too?

[@UrsusMagna]

@@chevyguy1422 Basically a Swedish version of McDonald's. AFAIK Max is the only hamburger chain that's managed to kick McD's out of an entire region in any country (northern Sweden). I dunno if it's true, but aparently it had a lot to do with the Swedish idiosyncrasy to eat almost everything with utensils (even chick drum sticks and hamburgers a lot of time). Max offered utensils, McD's didn't.

[@beardlessodin945]

Marcus Andersson so Swede-phisticated! I'm in, where's the nearest Max's? [No Locations in Canada] Shit. North Sweden here I come! [Travel Ban] Oh...

[@paragonaesir1957]

@@chevyguy1422 MAX in sweden is a burger joint, yes.

[@beardlessodin945]

IQzminus2 I thought you just had to say "Hurgen Flurgen Flod" really Swedishy like...

[@Miatpi]

11:13 lost opportunity to say “if you had just used your head Ernst, you’d still have it.” Loved the video

[@lactinaelectric]

Given his lifestyle and the list of symptoms given, it sounds more like he suffered a heart attack than died from overeating, but eating that much of anything can't possibly be good for you in any case.

[@00muinamir]

I was thinking maybe a stroke brought on by constipation, but yeah, any way you slice it, you're tempting fate when you eat fourteen full servings of anything...

[@ParkerUAS]

I was thinking an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Symptoms described seem to line up.

[@nckoes]

@@ParkerUAS ruptured AAA. They described it perfectly.

[@georgeford6056]

@@ParkerUAS Except for them not noticing massive internal bleeding when they did the autopsy. A widowmaker (blocked LAD artery) heart attack would also fit the symptoms, especially when you consider his age and lifestyle.

[@sleepy1697]

@@ParkerUAS Especially the literal stomach that was packed with food, some unchewed. I mean, that'll put a lot of pressure on the arteries, and if they're already weak from poor health, I can imagine that being the final straw.

[@captainjacobkeyes7804]

I've seen a lot of sponsorships in my day but I never expected someone to be sponsored by a city

[@Pschokid]

Simon and Martina (they were living in Japan at the time) was sponsored by the city Malmö in Sweden. It caught me off guard since I hadn't expected my favorite KZbinrs to be sponsored by a city in my country. The video turned out great 👍

[@KaptenN]

@@Pschokid Who are they and what was that video about? O.o Malmö is my hometown, btw.

[@Gamerad360]

Honestly more towns should do it, I would have never known about the city, and it makes me want to visit it one day.

[@kichop]

@@KaptenN they make kpop/korean videos (their channel is eat your kimchi)

[@KaptenN]

@@kichop Hmm... The only connection between Korea and Malmö that I know is "Kockums kranen".

[@grandmarshallkingwolfman420]

"I promise not to get political." 14 semlor later: the king is dead, long live the king

[@ChristianConrad]

Fourteen semlor later, no s at the end - the "or" is the plural ending. The singular is semla.

[@Nick-nh4nf]

lol

[@TVHouseHistorian]

I’m new to this channel. When I first heard Max speak, I could tell right away by both the vocal placement and hulk of his voice that he’s a trained vocalist (opera/classical/ possibly theater also). Then towards the end of the video he began singing to his food, and suspicion confirmed. Nice video, Max 😘

[@akashgaonkar]

At 15:55, I was really hoping Max would say "These are to die for."

[@simonanjou470]

Max Miller talking about semlor on the very Fettisdag itself? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[@chringlanthegreat4556]

It is a great surprise it is

[@jonatanlj747]

Was just eating a semla and then saw this :)

[@gustavengstromfalkenang3985]

A very welcome one indeed

[@rileyyoung4762]

a prequel meme in a tasting history comments section? a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[@thesecondislander]

@Mel Hawk They are very good, but super heavy. The upside is they are super easy to make in the modern version (which is even simpler than the one Max did): Just get a light and airy, sweet "sally lunn-style" bun, cut the top off, smear some almond paste and roasted crushed almonds on it (optional but highly recommended), heap a generous dollop of whipped cream over that, then put the lid back on and sprinkle some powdered sugar. That is the most common version today!

[@Manudyne]

"The dessert that killed a king" Me: Wow! How?? "The king ate 14 semlors and then died!" Me: Well ok it's a lot but surely... The ingredients: *butter, butter, sugar, butter, sugar and butter. also eggs and whatever* Me: I see.

[@watchermagic5325]

Legit my exact train of thought

[@myli9168]

I think the wheat flour were a bigger culprit here compared to butter and eggs at least :)

[@jonathanh222]

@@myli9168 Be gone you vile spawn of LCHF heresy!

[@myli9168]

@@jonathanh222 what makes you think I'm LCHF?

[@D-Vinko]

@@myli9168 I'll explain how they know you're LCHF; Let's go ahead and do a quick fact check on the amount of flour; vs. The purported amount of fat and PURE carbs (sugar) he ate in a serving. The king would've eaten 3x what max put here (max made 4 buns with his recipe, 4 x 3 is 12, the king died after 14 buns so this estimate is about as close as I could comfortably get without guessing.) Starting with the cream, and milk; he would've consumed 1204 calories of cream and milk, making up 132 grams of fat, and 492 mg of cholesterol. He would've eaten about 1828 calories of butter, which is 207 grams of fat, and 500 mg of cholesterol. He'd have eaten about 18 eggs; which is roughly 1404 calories, at 90 grams of fat, and 3,366 mg of cholesterol. Finally, the pure carbs, he ate 1100 calories of sugar, which is 300 grams of pure carbs. Now let's look at the wheat flour; he would've eaten a whopping 12 cups of flour; this is 5460 calories, but calories don't kill; this is 1140 grams of carb; with 40.6 grams of dietary fiber; this is exactly how much raw flour one would need to eat to reach their daily iron requirement, with flour alone. Now; looking at these numbers, there is a clear culprit. ESPECIALLY considering the fact that he gorged himself on atleast 4 other fatty meals, usually prepared with butter, and supposedly many servings of each of those. That, is how they can tell you're a LCHF. No one in their right mind would think after all of the fat he ate; that it was somehow the carbohydrates that killed him in this manner. Hell; according to the autopsy, the carbs didn't even gave time to digest. You know what was sitting in his gut hours before he ever got semlor? I'll give you a hint, none of them contain any carbs, and most of them are sea creatures.

[@mullull]

As a Swede who really loves semlor, you always eat the “lid” first, and then the rest of the bun. Less of a mess that way. 😊 And I believe the reason the original semla was served in milk was because it was difficult to preserve bread and it usually got stale, so soaking it in milk made a lot of sense back then. I love seeing my favorite pastry being presented like this, you did an amazing job telling the story!😃

[@lovesoderpalm1555]

No we dont

[@crayon7405]

@@lovesoderpalm1555 Yes we do

[@lb2843]

@@crayon7405 No we dont

[@rbck8826]

Depends. You can do how you want but eating the lid first shure makes things less messy.

[@axeljohansson3658]

@@lb2843 gör vi vist

[@NickPoeschek]

I guess if something is going to kill you, you could do a lot worse than dessert...

[@TastingHistory]

That’s how I wanna go out

[@lasagnasux4934]

Life goals

[@darthplagueis13]

@@lasagnasux4934 Death goals

[@fe.bonetti1537]

So true

[@lasagnasux4934]

@@darthplagueis13 nice

[@danak2230]

😄 I got so excited when he mentioned Lindsborg! I'm a descendant of those Swedish immigrants and grew up 15 minutes from Lindsborg. I'm going to send this video to my family. They'll be so excited!

[@littleshadow_]

I had no idea that there was a town in USA that followed Swedish traditions. I knew a lot of Swedes immigrated there and established towns but I didn't think some still followed the founders traditions or kept the original name.

[@littleshadow_]

I love the name of the town, Lindsborg. It's like Lind's borg, borg standing for fortress/wall. A borg is often a stone wall that surrounded cities of old as protection for it's inhabitants :)

[@danak2230]

@@littleshadow_ The traditions are mixed with American culture but yes we do still keep some of the culture. That's so interesting about the meaning of borg. I didn't know that.

[@Michellee970]

@@littleshadow_ There are towns, even cities, all over the U.S. that follow many of their homeland's traditions. My grandfather migrated from The Basque Country (Euskal Herria) so I'm more aware of the festivals in Bakersfield, Elko, Boise, etc... When I moved to Texas, I learned of the vast Czechoslovakian traditions that those immigrants had woven into the region. I'm excited to learn about Lindsborg in Kansas!

[@clickycrust]

What was their reaction? I'm curious :)

[@AGMundy]

I never ceased to be impressed by Max's facility for pronunciation of foreign languages. His Chinese the other day was remarkable.

[@norre_6623]

Really good pronunciation! As a swede it’s always appreciated when people use the correct Swedish terms instead of just using the literal translation of the word

[@ILOVEALLAH-dp6zm]

He rather sounds like a Finish person trying to speak Swedish with a thick accent. It's not actually good, but perhaps decent.

[@Getatron]

Going to add in here that as a native speaker of Swedish, I'm genuinely impressed with Max's pronunciation. Great job there Max! :)

[@MsHojat]

Yeah, I have no idea how to speak Swedish so I'm maybe not the best judge, but I thought his pronunciation was great. He pulled out (and pulled-off) a nice accent with the pronunciation. It did sound kind of tacky/fake/overblown, but I think that's very normal for people to do when speaking an unfamiliar language.

[@Njald]

I was taught much of the history of this in school back when I was a young Swedeling but I still learned much from Max's video. Thanks for helping me learn more about my own country's history.

[@scottosonic]

Swedeling! That's hilarious!

[@MossyMozart]

@Njald = "Swedeling" = .^_^.

[@SuperFralin]

Other KZbinrs: sponsored by ridge, raid, nordvpn etc Tasting history: a city

[@marafolse8347]

Love that you actually give your best shot at pronunciation and don’t just apologize for stumbling over it or put it on screen with an embarrassed gesture.

[@victoriagrady1779]

I feel like I learn more from an episode of Tasting History than from an entire semester of my history class LMFOAOO

[@isabellacarlo]

right??? i'm planning on using some of this information on an AP european history test eventually...

[@raileyti]

As a history teacher i either has to aploud that or scold your teacher.

[@TastingHistory]

Awww thanks

[@charles-y2z6c]

You enjoy it more thats for sure. A good history teacher is a good actor as well. I had one that dressed up in costume. He did Gettysburg address dressed up as Abraham Lincoln. As a young student he inspired me to memorize it.

[@Forgenshoot]

For real, though, it's kind of surprising how much culture and history you can glean from understanding the food of a people.

[@MoriyaMiasmaCross]

This man is cultured, I don't know how I haven't found this channel before but it is very informative and fun to watch.

[@TomasJonssonPlus]

For the modern semla: Eat the lid first, every time! Dip it into the cream and when done, go ham on the bottom part. Thats one swedes opinion!

[@petrecz]

That is probably how most swedes eat semla. I on the other hand scrape off the cream with the lid and eat it. then I give the bottom part to someone else who likes mandelmassa. :)

[@KevinUchihaOG]

@@petrecz mandelmassa är det bästa på hela semlan!

[@petrecz]

@@KevinUchihaOG då kan du få min. 😊

[@mayrapakastin]

Us Finns have two schools on semlor (we eat them in Shrove season); you fill them either with mandelmassan or strawberry jam, and each side thinks the other is out of their minds :D

[@petrecz]

@@mayrapakastin strawberry jam sounds really good! I'm gonna try that. Thanks for the sweet tip! 😊

[@begerbingchilling]

Your pronounciation is probably the best "american trying to speak scandinavian" ive heard. 8.9/10 + 1 style point for giving in to the bit. Like you actually nailed the scandinavian U sound, which no one else seems to get

[@buffalo5knives809]

I'm proud you resisted the temptation to go with a Swedish Chef joke.

[@sabinal17]

who was waiting for him to throw something back behind him?

[@Immopimmo]

Borky Berky Semlor Bork Bork bork!

[@Grapefruit_cosplay]

I'm a Kansan and loved that Lindsborg is your sponsor! I've never been to their festivals myself but they have billboards on I-70 that always make me want to someday 🥰 I even went to college with some people from there !

[@martinafredriksson9392]

Swede here. I'm used to the modern version of course, but you made the older version look soo good. What a great channel. 👍

[@lazarusmoment4682]

Loved this video. Im Swedish and it is so lovely to see someone non Swedish do something so iconic as semlor. Glad you like it! Also you have a great pronounciation!!

[@TheBestestKitty]

This man has whole cities sponsoring him. If that's not a mark of success then I don't know what is.

[@CIorox_BIeach]

Tax dollars we'll spent.

[@odessawild7798]

Been there! Wouldn't really call it a city, a fair sized town, and a very cool place to go, if you get a chance I would recommend it, if you're passing through Kansas you should also hit up Lucas after that!

[@xDrUmSt1X]

being swedish myself watching this was a delight, never have i heard such adorable pronuciations of swedish words.

[@Flaky1990]

Max before 15:55 :"Haha so weird, he died for a bunch of sweet buns with custard" Max after 15:55 :"No I totally get it, get me another thirteen of those. It's worth it."

[@skratkat3271]

The BEST content on KZbin that combines food, history, humor…perfection. So glad I found your channel, Max.

[@DuchDude]

Tasting history: This dessert KILLED A KING! Me: as a guy highly allergic to almonds I can relate, what a dish to die for 😂

[@Robolodon]

Most people are allergic to almonds, they have cyanide in them.

[@naturallight4745]

@@Robolodon *D A M N !*

[@benjaminmiller3620]

@@Robolodon That's... not how allergies... ...Just no. Toxins =/= allergens And humans actually have a much higher tolerance for cyanide than people think. We have enzymes dedicated to breaking it down.

[@Robolodon]

@@benjaminmiller3620 it was a joke

[@Robolodon]

@@benjaminmiller3620 I know this

[@paulherman5822]

"End up buried with nutmegs for eyes." Sounds like the way Jon Townsend would want to go... 😁

[@adedow1333]

Oh, good. I wasn't the only one thinking that 😅

[@paulherman5822]

@@adedow1333 Was done for royalty, and Jon IS the Nutmeg King... 😁

[@shannondore]

😆 that's funny and so true.

[@merrittanimation7721]

"I see this is as an absolute win."

[@ms.ammoniumchloride5157]

We also have these buns in Finland, although we call them ”laskiaispulla”. Not surprising considering Finland was once a part of Sweden...

[@TeKaMOTO]

I've never seen one where the inside was hollowed like in the video. And nowadays I think the version with raspberry jam and whipped cream is the more popular option.

[@jewelersofwhale]

@@TeKaMOTO What? Jam and cream? That must be the version in Finland, in Sweden they are 99% made hollowed filled with almond paste and whipped cream.

[@TeKaMOTO]

@@jewelersofwhale Yes. Probably because it's easier and perhaps cheaper that way. Google laskiaispulla if you're interested.

[@grettaoltjer]

In Estonia we call these vastlakuklid and we also use jam (I prefer raspberry and it is widely used, but lingonberry jam is most popular) instead of the almond paste and they’re not hollowed out. These are eaten on Shrove Tuesday (vastlapäev). I really love them, but yes, technically it’s just a pastry with jam AND whipped cream. I have never heard of them being boiled in or served with milk, nor of the almond filling even though I studied on Sweden for a semester (in autumn though, so I was not there for Shrove Tuesday). Estonia was also under the Swedish rule from 1561-1710, so that’s probably where the tradition came from...

[@piakorhonen6086]

@@grettaoltjer Interesting! In Sweden they often also try to invent new versions of semla. There has been a waffle version called semmelwrap, a milkshake version called semmelshake , a nacho version etc.

[@letradavis8260]

@tastinghistorywithMax, This is my 1st time seeing your channel and I must say that you sir, have captured my heart as you displayed all things close to my life’s enjoyments. 1) Culinary skills 2) Historical Depth 3) Broadway 🎭 talent (Your singing and acting ability 4) Foodie Blessings to you as I am well pleased

[@bocarlsson3rd]

As a Swede it's fun to see some semlor. They served semlor at the blood donation center today. When eating a modern semla you usually eat the top first but it's still a mess.

[@donthaveajungian]

The speed with which Max bailed on his Mae West impression to explain who it was brought me much joy this Fat Tuesday.

[@TastingHistory]

🤣 the kids won’t know who she is

[@donthaveajungian]

@@TastingHistory 🤣🤣 You're probably right! Thanks for responding Max, love you and the channel!

[@agimagi2158]

Is it weird that I'm kind of proud of myself now that I knew who she is?

[@saena971]

@@TastingHistory Funny, I was thinking to myself, "I bet that's not his BEST Mae West." A few more glasses of champagne and I'm sure we'd get an impression that truly captures her spirit. :)

[@cynthiamorton3583]

Pink champagne is so pretty! I’m a firm believer in the expression “life is uncertain; eat dessert first”. I’m going to try this. Thanks, I enjoy your enthusiasm!

[@mellie4174]

Yes! And do it with champagne!

[@NS-zj4vb]

My Dad always said that one should eat dessert first because when you throw up it comes up last and leaves a sweet taste after 😏

[@nikolajbentzon7554]

Wow! Thumbs up to you, Max, on your baking proficiencies, pronunciation attempts, video chops, and overall presentation. We shall indeed follow you here from Denmark from now on ❤😊

[@Lauren.E.O]

I can’t believe actual towns are doing sponsorships now. It’s actually kind of cool. I may need to look up some of those festivals...

[@schteeek]

As a swede, sitting down with a cup of coffee and a semla today and seeing this episode... couldn't be better; really enjoyed it.

[@johannageisel5390]

You need to send a ton of semlor down to us in Germany. We can send Pfannkuchen/Krapfen back, which are the traditional baked good for the shrove tuesday in Germany. They are usually filled with jam or similar sweet things, but it is customary to include some filled with mustard for the entertainment of all those who had the luck of not grabbing the mustard filled one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(doughnut) (They taste a bit different to doughnut despite being called that here.)

[@hdeyeg]

As a swede I love how he pronounces things, sounds like he is talking Magicka. Love it!

[@user-oj5bw7sl8p]

Menar du Magicka de Hex?

[@johanbergqvist6642]

fucking zoomer

[@johanbergqvist6642]

pls don report it was my brother on my account wrote i sorry

[@schteeek]

@@user-oj5bw7sl8p Spelet Magicka antagligen, av paradox north.

[@WhiteLama]

Indeed, for once I didn’t have to sit and facepalm when an English speaker was trying to use Swedish words!

[@EvaLou42]

I remember having one of these when I visited Stockholm a few years ago. I saw the thumbnail for this video and immediately had to watch because this was one of the best pastries I ever had. Death by semlor seems possible for sure.

[@misscandle]

The Alcremie in the background sparks joy, Max.

[@mandystory4275]

Thanks I was going to ask which one is it.

[@dragonwitch27]

I love that he has a Pokemon for every occasion!

[@lilly_koii]

i'd love to see all of his pokemon plushes at once.

[@kellyj5610]

The look on your face when you took the first bite. No words were needed.

[@tauIrrydah]

Nutmegs for eyes? Honestly I think that's how Townsends is going to pay the ferryman when he gets to the styx.

[@vickibart3491]

OMFG I DIED

[@danamontagnese6063]

Mr. Townsend would probably laugh his ass off at your comment!

[@mrsary7868]

I came down here for the Townsends nutmeg eyes joke so I didn't have to make it

[@Archgeek0]

Huh, I wonder what the exchange rate for obols even is...

[@sticky.fingers]

My grandmother was Swedish, and came to the US during WWII with a group of women who had skills and were offered apprenticeships of sorts. They were given basic housing, food and amenities in exchange for working for the business'. While they learned English, and got on their feet. My grandmother was a baker. I remember her making Semla. Her recipe had pecans instead of almonds. With nutmeg, and clove. (In the filling not in the eye cavities) Now I'm tempted to go looking through her cook books because I've never made it myself.

[@teadow]

It was a joy working with you on this episode! ❤️ happy fettisdag!

[@KetchupwithMaxandJose]

🥳

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you Tova! Hope my pronunciations are passable 🤣. Now go enjoy some Semlor

[@LeOhio817]

Thank you, Tova for helping with this informative video. Fat Tuesday is one of my favorite holidays. Won’t be having Semlor, but a delicious apple cake I made last night. Happy Fettisdag to you.

[@thatsalt1560]

Thank you, Tova! I'm Swedish, abroad, and the semlorlesness has been particularly hard this year. This improved my day.

[@nancylindsay4255]

@@thatsalt1560 I love words like semlorlesness and hogmanayness! (I hope you can enjoy some semlor soon.)

[@Lingiskhan]

Swedes eats semlor the same way Americans eats Oreos, in different ways. And the ones who eats it in one way, think they are superior to the ones who eats them in another.

[@Legohaiden]

i hate oreos... dry fake chocolate flavored cookies, with chemically tasting flavored cream inside them. no thanks. But this Semlor looks divine. (edit for clarity)

[@woutermollema]

@@Legohaiden How can you say such a thing, en garde my good sir (or madam)

[@Harril8265]

@@Legohaiden I think you're taking a cookie way too seriously, dude. Chill out. Besides... 1. It's not chocolate, it's cookie. Those are wildly different things, so how the heck are you confusing them? Cookies are always dry by their very nature unless they're freshly baked, so why are you mentioning that as a negative? You may as well complain about grass for being green. Also, the cookie part of oreos is far from disgusting, it's bland at worst. Oversensitive much? 2. So what if the cream is flavored with chemicals? That's incidental; it's sweet & tasty, and doesn't taste stereotypically "chemically" at all. Hell, if you want to split hairs, literally all flavor in all substances is caused by chemicals, so it's irrelevant. Just... chill, dude. There are many things out there that are much more worth malding over than a freaking cookie.

[@Legohaiden]

@@woutermollema lol i know a lot of people like them... but its that dang cream filling... i really do hate it.

[@Legohaiden]

@@Harril8265 uhm.... what lol?

[@lhfirex]

Adolf Frederick: "My dinner plate don't want none unless you got semla buns hon."

[@170319720]

May I say how utterly entertaining, informative and very professionally executed this is. The algorithm brought me here and I immediately subscribed after watching this. Looking forward to watch more of your work. ❣️

[@filipthebold155]

Tasting History: *I don't know the traditional way to eat these* Also Tasting History: _Eats them perfectly anyway_

[@sleepy1697]

I mean, lucky guess was lucky I suppose. Then again I would have done the same thing he did because they look so tasty I wouldn't want to bother with fork and knife, so I guess it's kind of natural at least.

[@fanbuoy9234]

Most people (in my experience) start off by eating the lid, using it to scoop up some of the cream. After that, just open wide and try not to embarrass yourself.

[@darkiee69]

@@fanbuoy9234 After you've taken some of the cream off with the lid you lick most of the rest of the cream of before opening wide, It keeps the mustache pretty free from cream, but not totally.

[@fanbuoy9234]

@@darkiee69 But... But... What about the symphony of flavours..?

[@GlasApplen1]

As a swede this is the most wholesale episode of anything I've ever seen! That you've tired so hard to pronounce the Swedish words is... Oh, it melts my heart! And that you like semlor, I just want to hug you.

[@cathdodd5072]

Carolina, I believe there is a queue of people wanting to hug Max. You may need to take a number and wait for a while. Take a sleeping bag.

[@Dyld1993]

As a scandinavian, i'm honestly impressed by your pronounciation of the swedish words. Never heard of the dish before, but great video. Def subscribing as a food and history nerd.

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you 🙏

[@Dyld1993]

@@TastingHistory You're beyond welcome. Love the series Max, not only is it a great idea, but you make it come to life impeccably. Thanks for making it. :)

[@meadish]

You should try making it. You won't be disappointed, it really is amazing.

[@The_Jzoli]

You're Scandinavian yet you've never heard heard of Semla/Fastelavnsbolle/Laskiaispulla? How's that possible!?

[@Dyld1993]

@@The_Jzoli I have heard of fastelavnsboller, but I never connected those, as being the same dish displayed in the video.

[@wolvenstar10]

Last Christmas we made the classic recipe and it was delicious. This year we are trying the modern recipe (will share pictures this time). When we did the classic recipe we didn't have trivets, so we used a small plate when cooking to keep the bun from burning. The semlor turned out beautifully, but the one snaggle we did hit was that the plate stuck to the bottom of the pan. It essentially welded itself into place and I had to use the thick wooden stir spoon to pry it off the pan. Have you had this problem? Any idea how to avoid?

[@gnarbeljo8980]

Boiling milk essntially creates an early form of latex. That's what sealed the plate to the pan, and what causes trouble in some cappuccino machines with the milkfeed after a while....

[@wolvenstar10]

@@gnarbeljo8980 Thank you for the explanation. Do you know of any tricks to keep the plate from sticking?

[@thecerpent]

@@wolvenstar10Reducing the contact surface would help. If you don't have an actual trivet, maybe put a few clean baking beads or maybe even toothpicks (laying on their side) or something. Anything to increase the distance between the plate and the pan surface.

[@agkittyhook2257]

Oh Max, the look of sublime bliss on your face when you ate the historical version was truly priceless! 🥰🤗

[@Hin_Håle]

The modern "hetvägg" is just putting a modern semla in a bowl of hot milk. I love it! Btw, I want Max Miller's voice in my GPS, giving me directions in swedish! That would keep me happy for hours and hours!

[@catnip1487]

Ja så jädra gott är det

[@Friendly_T_Girl]

This guy´s name is one of many for the devil in Swedish. Just thought peeps should know.

[@HolyKhaaaaan]

I didn't know Cat Nip was the devil.

[@ChristianConrad]

I have my phone set to English, because it's basically a computer and in my day computers only spoke (=wrote) English. You should hear the American Google Maps lady's pronunciation of Finnish street names...

[@darsynia]

Just found you and I have to go to bed but MY GOODNESS are you charming and I loved every second of this. Evangelizing by sending it to friends and family! Thanks for being you on camera, I can't wait to binge watch (and binge cook/bake, though PERHAPS not enough to famously pass away. Jury's out)!

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you for making my night!

[@TheBlackSquirrel]

I was shocked that he was going to make the "Hetvägg" version, because my dad used to tell me that when he was a kid, his mother insisted on serving the semla in a bowl with warm milk (these weren't boiled in milk, just the pastry version served in it), which dad and his siblings absolutely despised. They had to nick the buns from the kitchen before she had a chance to defile them. But I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that this recipe was a success! I'm actually curious to try one now. 😄

[@lol2kge]

Hetvägg is the one way to eat semla. But then, the way he shows takes too much time. Just go with the standard semla in warm milk and you're going to have a good time.

[@Vegeta900X]

@@lol2kge My parents start by making a reduction of water with a cinnamon stick. Boil water with a cinnamon stick until you have 1 cm of dark brown cinnamon water left, pour in the milk and heat it up and serve with the semla.

[@prarieborn6458]

@@Vegeta900X My Norwegian grandma made “Romme Grot”. skip the buns, Boil cream , add flour, cook & stir until butter renders out of the cream, pour off butter, serve the resulting cream pudding warm with some of the butter,, sugar& cinnamon. to taste. The heavenly fragrance that filled the kitchen was almost as good as eating this delicacy. Scandinavian 4 Food group: Butter, Sugar Lefse (flatbread) Coffee.. However, I am going to make those Buns. thank you for the recipe.

[@SingingSealRiana]

hihihihi, cute ^^ it is nice to find ones childhood memories like that ^^

[@adrianaslund8605]

If the warm milk is mixed with coffee its actually tolerable. Believe it or not.