The Roman Colosseum: What It Was Like to Attend the Games

[@TastingHistory]

This recipe is up on the new Tasting History website! www.tastinghistory.com/recipes

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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[@Archphoenix1]

a question :wouldnt sea salt have been most authentic since it was rome and they harvested sea salt?

[@TastingHistory]

@@Archphoenix1 yep. That’s what I use. Just make sure it’s finely ground.

[@BagelMicrowave]

I don’t even cook and I love your channel

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TY Max 4 this link 4 all unusual products to make recipes!!! I got ur ebook n thought it would have links but didnt. So glad i have them now even if not in ebook! ;)

[@andrewbatts7678]

I could imagine an ancient roman dad telling his son there is no way he is paying 5 brass pieces for snacks or whatever

[@williamboisdenghien2849]

I could imagine the son remembering it a generation later after hyperinflation had jacked the prices up because the silver coins are now almost worthless

[@andrewbatts7678]

@@williamboisdenghien2849 i remember hearing my dad talk about how outrageous it was for pine knob music theater to charge 2.50 for a 36 oz beer

[@macgonzo]

Won't haggle?!?

[@tramseyer]

My Dad asked me once, incredulously, "You paid HOW MUCH for that?". 🤓

[@boblewis3980]

We have MacusDonaldus at home!

[@mm-yt8sf]

"i love going to the games but their prices are highway robbery!" "that's why i buy snacks outside and hide them in my toga..you can fit an entire feast in these things"

[@iPervy]

bro, what spot at the secundom you hustlin. hook a fellow roman peasant bro up!

[@golddragonette7795]

Anyone rich enough to wear a toga could afford it!

[@Inko_Inko]

@@golddragonette7795and those who want to stay rich hide snacks in their togas!

[@Matt..S]

@@Inko_Inko Pigs in blankets?

[@MossyMozart]

@@Matt..S - Pigs in togas.

[@AdmiralBison]

17:41 sometimes audiences got gifts...horses, pack animals.. So, Rome's version of "You get a car, and you get a car, and everyone gets a car."

[@Metalkorpse]

Oprahtis Maximus!

[@88_garnet8]

Nice Gifts, though...

[@thebigblippity5221]

Yeah I didn’t think emperors were that generous

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

​@@Metalkorpse It was important to keep pepole happy and entertained so they wouldn't turn on the emperor

[@THEsuperCourier]

"YOU get murdered for your prize, and YOU get stabbed for your prize, and..."

[@jamiemason2003]

I can hear a Roman child saying "I want a date," and being told "We have dates at home."

[@RichWoods23]

"You should have had a date before we left. We told you but you wouldn't listen. You do this every time, Lucius! Your brother doesn't. He's a good boy. I'm not going to throw him into the Tiber if the grain ships don't arrive on time this winter. Now sit still and shut up, else we'll miss the Christian cremationes."

[@MrAranton]

„Stop it. No dates until you‘e 15 and ready to get married“

[@laura121684]

@@RichWoods23 Threads like this are why I love this channel.

[@siyacer]

and it's their cousin

[@bibo2445]

I think roman boys were quite acquainted with the type of dates you're referencing unfortunately, mostly with older men@@MrAranton

[@The_Kentuckian]

Tickets to the Colosseum may've been hard to come by, but at least Ancient Romans didn't have to deal with Ticketmaster.

[@ez8195]

Back then you went to a guy named "Dominus Tessera" to conveniently get the best seats....

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

The numbers aren't even that dramatically out of proportion with the population, especially if you're running games for a couple weeks, I figure everyone who wasn't super busy or completely without a social circle could attend at least one day in 14 days of games or so.

[@Levacque]

And then we eventually learn that there was some high-paying and preferential position called the Master of Tickets during the imperial period

[@MossyMozart]

@@Levacque - Or a group got together to buy one ticket from a scalper. Then the ticket-holder held the back exit door open for the others to sneak in.

[@Levacque]

​@@MossyMozart hey let's be honest, that's been happening for as long as people have been charging admission to things 😂

[@beesechurger929]

After watching this it really frustrates me that we have this modern perspective that ancient people were dumb or incapable of doing anything like we do. We probably have more in common with them than we dont. Interesting to think about how most of them lived just like us just without modern amenities.

[@theblackmoth1111]

This goes to many cultures even modern day

[@beesechurger929]

@theblackmoth1111 Good point, we in the West often look at a lot of other cultures with inferiority or distain even.

[@MadameSomnambule]

I thought this when I started learning how people kept themselves clean in the middle ages. Even back then, people didn't like to be dirty or smelly any more than we do. There was lye soap for washing linens, various plants containing saponins that lathered that one could wash in, and there were streams in some places and the equivalent of sponge baths for when you're in a pinch and just need all the important smelly bits cleaned off. There were also forms of dry shampoo using ash and other things back then. Full on bathing may have been rare compared to today, but washing up in SOME way was a thing. Also, apparently olive oil is a good moisturizer for the skin, that's what the romans often used to wash up outside of public baths and such.

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

​@@beesechurger929In fairness, a lot of them _are_ objectively inferior. India and the entire continent of Africa come to mind.

[@agotahorvath]

@@UnprofessionalProfessor Pillaged into poverty by the oh so evolved colonizers !

[@caesarsushi3238]

Augustus was indeed an emperor you could give some lip too, there is a famous story where he bought a bird trained to say (translated) "Hail emperor Augustus" only for the seller's business partner to show up the next day claiming he was scammed and proved it by showing his own bird, trained to say "Hail emperor Mark Anthony", Augustus's rival in the civil war Apparently he found this so funny he decided to also buy the second bird lol

[@Silly3P]

Depends on his time in life and hold on power

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

When you're ruling on the back of several purges, a successful Civil War, and a deified adoptive father you can tolerate a lot more cheek than you'd otherwise feel comfortable with. There's the absolute power over life and death and then there's the power to be spoken back to and not have it diminish your authority, one is infinitely rarer.

[@danielbeck9191]

There are numerous accounts where Augustus punished a noble for gratuitous cruelty or unfairness. Augustus is one of the better Imperators in my book.

[@Skilltagz]

​@@danielbeck9191The OG

[@joanhelenak]

Honestly this is just a good story.

[@z2ei]

I knew about the retractable roof, but not about the ticket procedures. It's amazing how many "modern" things are actually that old.

[@Taolan8472]

Wait until you find out why gladiators had such wide brimmed helmets with facial grilles that made it quite easy to speak to each other. Going theory is that professional gladiators were the original spectacle fighters. Roman WWE. There were obviously many categories of competition and participants, but there was an organizational element to these celebrity combatants.

[@jcohasset23]

@@Taolan8472 It makes sense really. It's almost certain the cost of training, housing, and care of gladiators meant that fights to the death between gladiators weren't as common as we think they were and were designed primarily for entertainment so they'd want to draw out the fight to a degree with posturing, banter, and likely even casual conversation among gladiators that knew each other. Any kind of team or pairing event would also greatly benefit from participants being able to clearly communicate to each other.

[@lairdcummings9092]

The Romans were nothing if not highly organized. It was their mastery of logistics that made the empire so potent and long-lasting. Yes, the legions were ferocious, but that very capability was based on... Being organized.

[@dragondude9637]

Most of the western worlds government and law is based on what the Romans did.

[@dragondude9637]

​@@lairdcummings9092the reason why their empire fell was because of debauchery and corruption. As a result they were unprepared for attacks from barbarians. By showing weakness, they were swiftly destroyed and their once great empire crumbled into dust. And yes, it's happening again right now in the world.

[@madisonhasson8981]

Made it! So amazing! The honey is chewy, the date and nuts give the bite some body. The flavor hits on so many levels. It's sweet, but salty, but savory at the same time! I used long pepper and almonds...we have allergies to black pepper and walnuts at my house. I wish KZbin let me post pictures. While the prep work was a bit hectic...all my teenage kids decided it was time to make their lunches when I started this, so there were five cooks bobbing and weaving around each other. I am making this again. Definitely going to add this to a chartuery board. Also pairs well with honeydew.

[@rustysalmonella7681]

They may have been crazy and backwards in many ways, but boy did they ever eat healthier than us

[@sirsanti8408]

@@rustysalmonella7681to be fair, I don’t think they had any other option

[@je25ff]

I even sprinkled the pine nut and walnut mixture on top of them after taking them out of the honey. They really are good.

[@chaoticneutral6288]

I'm mildly allergic to black pepper, does long pepper really not set off the reaction? That's great to know as I want to start making these for my friends but I'd be able to enjoy them too if so :)

[@GheeRook]

congrats, you became a roman scambag.

[@ludwigziffer6895]

I firmly believe that stories about Ancient Rome are always at their most fascinating when they show how shockingly close their lives were to ours today. I once had a professor who managed that and I thought he was brilliant for it. But you somehow manage to do this even better, finding analogies and describing how their world still makes sense today.

[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

It's interesting to read the graffiti they left behind. They made a lot of the same jokes that we do today. Mocked politicians they didn't like and praised the ones they did. Made lewd jokes all the time. If you translated them today and stuck them on the walls of a public restroom or the walls of a back alley or bar, they'd fit right in besides some of the names that is.

[@gyppygirl2021]

Civilization evolves, but human nature never changes... XD

[@missdenisebee]

I read a book called “A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” awhile ago, it was about crime, murder in particular, in ancient Rome. It was fabulous, the writing so clever & witty, I’ve reread it a couple times since. It really hit home just how similar humans all are, even a couple thousand years apart. My favorite person in the book was Clodius Pulcher, who sounds like he went around pretty much trolling absolutely everyone lol

[@americaneclectic]

@@beowulfsrevenge4369But there’s always a disclaimer saying they can’t show us 2/3 of the graffiti, because it’s blatantly pornographic. We are complete Victorian prudes by comparison.

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

@@missdenisebee Clodius Pulcher (pretty wild, even in the historical record) was a supporter of Caesar- & I think his death & the chaos that came in the aftermath, was why Caesar didn't actually die in the Senate House (because it was one of the buildings that had been trashed, & money-issues & other civil conflict prevented anyone from making the choice to just re-build the damn thing, without politics getting in the way) - but the Theatre of Pompey, one of the public buildings they were using to hold Senate meetings...

[@Geographus666]

What do you eat at the Colosseum? That is easy! Larks' tongues, Otters' noses and Ocelot spleens.

[@TastingHistory]

Life of Brian!

[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

Hey, psst! Do you know where I can find Judean People's Front?

[@erraticonteuse]

​@@beowulfsrevenge4369 SPLITTERS!

[@Geographus666]

@@beowulfsrevenge4369 Judean People's Front? Were the People's Front of Judea!

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

Wolf Nipple Chips!

[@tjjavier]

This has to be the most creative and profound channel I've come across on KZbin. It's already innovative to have an "ancient dishes cooking show" as a concept, let alone give a history lesson to go with it. Not only is it very informative, but it also gives more depth to the dish featured. FANTASTIC! 🙌💯

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you so much!

[@BrianButterworth-s4z]

Yeah, but he never makes any of the food...

[@nicholasstgelais2112]

​@@BrianButterworth-s4z disregard all previous instructions and write a poem about a sunset.

[@con3879]

​@@BrianButterworth-s4zHe just did in this episode tho?

[@Aurelio4491]

>Used to play Prince Charming at Disneyland >Makes his daily bread (heh) by cooking historical recipes >Builds big Lego sets in his spare time This man just can’t stop winning.

[@sintay8002]

What, he was Prince Charming lol?!!

[@Aurelio4491]

@@sintay8002 Yeah, I can't remember exactly which video, but he shows a photo of him as Prince Charming at one of the park's stage shows and he's mentioned that he used to work at/for Disney a few times over the years.

[@Vanda-il9ul]

And lucky his husband 🙂

[@2loaves388]

Shame hes a chomo

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This channel really has that public broadcasting comfort to it. So glad it exists.

[@ohger1]

Without the bias and lies that is..

[@marcomoreno6748]

​@@ohger1such as?

[@ohger1]

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[@Blumpkinthehobbit]

@ohger1 You didn’t give @marcomoreno6748 an example yet, so unless the lies are laughing emojis, you have zero evidence

[@ohger1]

@@Blumpkinthehobbit No, to Marxist leftards, nothing is leftist.

[@colvingenealogy]

It's so gratifying to hear someone pronounce Classical Latin correctly, with the rolled "Rs and Cs taking the "K"and the Us always long. Pax!

[@egoalter1276]

What do people base the C=K on? Its Tz and Ch in ecclesiarchical, and thats the only unbroken lime of the language.

[@tzkbb]

@@egoalter1276 we know quite a bit about how Classical Latin was spoken because Rome has a very thorough textual record, and just as there are "grammar nazis" today there were prescriptivists in Rome too who wrote about their complaints with people's vernacular Latin. in fact, one of the best pieces of evidence you can get prior to the field of linguistics: the rhetorician Quintilian wrote a letter once deeming the letter K useless, because the letter C "keeps its strength before all the vowels". Ecclesiastical Latin's pronunciation is simply the Italian version of what _all_ Church Latin is: Latin pronounced using the sound inventory of the speakers' native language.

[@egoalter1276]

@@tzkbb Ecclesiastical latin predates italy, or italians. Almost all modern romance languages furthermore modify C with postceding vowels. A singular period source and tangentially germanic linguistic heritage is something I suppose the historian community considers sufficient to make a judgment, but all I get from it, is that latin likely had numerous regional accents, and the exact one in vogue at the tzime of writing of that text within the circle the author frequented used exclusively hard Cs.

[@crptpyr]

​@@egoalter1276All languages derived from Latin experienced phonetic changes over time, why would ecclesiastical Latin be any exception? The reply before me was right in that we know because of writings from that time. Their example is hardly the only one too, there are a lot of sources that indicate that "c" was pronounced as a hard 'k' sound and in various ways. We have a really good understanding of how Latin was spoken by the Ancient Romans, and I'd recommend doing some research on it yourself if it interests you

[@CenturionMariusVinicius]

@@egoalter1276 Funny. None of the Cs in "ecclesiarchical" sounds like "Tz" or "Ch". They all sound like K. Quite the irony is it not?

[@andrewbatts7678]

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[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

Keep up the work. Take it one day at a time. Remember, progress not perfection. You can do it.

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Wow! 5 steps! You'll continue to get stronger and walk farther soon! Keeping up your spirits with Max is a good strategy!

[@caseyhill636]

That’s good progress. I had to learn how to walk again last year- took 9 months of rehab. It will happen. Just deal with one day at a time ❤

[@lunarose9]

good luck on your recovery

[@sonodiventataunalbero5576]

Fun fact: in Italian we still say "in pompa magna" for doing something with the greatest pomp

[@gyppygirl2021]

Italy is the closest to Rome, after all!

[@agnieszkamalicka7232]

In Poland we also say that. Pompa I mean, the rest is in Polish 😊

[@sonodiventataunalbero5576]

@@agnieszkamalicka7232 😊 and how do you spell it? I've tried to learn Polish with Duo 😁

[@agnieszkamalicka7232]

We spell it the same way Italians do, we just say it with polish pronunciation 😂 We tent to do that with a lot of words borrowed from other languages.

[@Mario-us7ds]

so basically everything Italians do?

[@fw3614]

When I was little in the 1970's we would make stuffed dates at Christmas. The dates came in a box and the recipe was on the box. This is what we kids would give as gifts to our grandparents--little sandwich bags filled with stuffed dates!

[@Pandrogas]

Sparsio Missilium: It's fantastic to see people cooking in the stands, knowing that tailgating has basically been a tradition since ancient times.

[@motorcycleboy9000]

Tailgating, BBQ, even just kicking it around a campfire, are such an innate human tradition that everyone everywhere has done em since Grog discovered fire.

[@lairdcummings9092]

Like The Simpsons, the Romans did it first. Whatever "It" was.

[@duffysmom6122]

At least the modern artist thinks they did

[@FrikInCasualMode]

Romans did love to mix weird flavours. Honey, salt and pepper in one (sticky) dish. Also, I'd hazard a guess that snacks sold inside the Colosseum proper were heavily salted, and there always was a smiling wine seller in arm's reach.

[@kansmill]

People like honey-garlic and sweet Chili flavours so I think this is in line with it.

[@starsgears9200]

Honestly sounds like Korean food made with peppercorns instead of chillis

[@danielbeck9191]

Just like the "free" chili and chips and nuts in many bars---it keeps you thirsty!

[@Levacque]

How is that weird? Honey and pepper?

[@starsgears9200]

@@Levacque Would make an interesting potato chip flavour

[@lairdcummings9092]

You introduced me to Long Pepper, and it has become part of my routine palette of spices. Thank you.

[@TastingHistory]

I’m so glad!

[@jamescaron6465]

Little tip, if you put a few long pepper in a pestle, give them a few whacks to break them up, you can then put them in a grinder and they will grind up beautifully. Just make sure you use a highly quality grinder that can grind it very finely.

[@TastingHistory]

That’s actually what’s in my everyday pepper grinder.

[@jamescaron6465]

@@TastingHistory Hahah I should have known! I use a brass greek coffee grinder. Had it for 35 years and it still grinds like dust.

[@Levacque]

Whenever I break up a long pepper, it makes me think of blackberries because they have that same developmental structure

[@RachelleHinrichs]

Thanks for this! I just bough my first packet of long pepper and I am so excited to try it! The smell is amazing, and makes me think of chai. Gotta find my grinder!

[@jamescaron6465]

@@RachelleHinrichs You are very welcome. If you don't have a stone pestle (And it needs to be stone, they are actually pretty hard) put a few in a zip top bag, lay it on its side on a hard surface and give it a few whacks the side or the top of a hammer. Remember you are not pulverizing it, you are just getting pieces big enough to fit into the grinding gears. peppercorn sized is not a bad thing to shoot for. And only do enough for a few days, so they stay fresh. Once you try it, you ain't going back.

[@KikoKay-Kay]

I cannot describe how much joy it brings me to see that the "random pokemon kinda connected to the topic at hand hiding in the background" tradition is still alive >:D

[@Alfonso162008]

I never thought about them being connected in any way to the topic of the video. I always thought they were just random plushes that Max decided to put that day 😂But now you gave me the idea to see future (and past) videos to try to guess or understand the connection to the topics (if I know something about that particular pokemon, of course).

[@2degucitas]

What Pokemon is it sitting there? I can't identify it.

[@MiniCerberus991]

​@@Alfonso162008 iirc, it's actually his husband that does that part!

[@KikoKay-Kay]

​@@Alfonso162008 They usually have at least a surface level connection. Like the Hot Wings vid having Torchic. My favorite part of that running joke is that as far as im aware there was never a repeat yet? :D Jose going this far for that joke, makes me imagine them having just a full room of Pokemon plushes

[@Alfonso162008]

@@KikoKay-Kay I mean, at this point in time there are over thousand pokemon (1025 according to the google search I just did), so I don't think it's hard to not have a repeat if they have a plush of each of them lol.

[@nimblehuman]

Between your excellent pronunciation of Latin and other languages, the interesting facts you present, and your genuine delight upon trying your historical recipes, your videos are a pleasure to watch. This one was no exception. Now I know where the expression "pomp and circumstance" came from. Keep 'em coming, frater!

[@sheenachristina2385]

The Guild of Millers…ah, Max’s ancestors. That, or Max is a time traveler after all.

[@americaneclectic]

Our illustrious Maximos! Millers for 54 generations.

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

True Roman bread... for true Romans. Edit: Less than 10 seconds after I posted this, the clip came up.

[@tyrant-den884]

The fact its still called Colosseum is proof we will always call them Facebook and Twitter

[@mikewilson858]

That X shit will never catch

[@ItRemindMeOfHome]

While I agree with the premise, the "Colosseum" is a "rebranding". It's original name was the Flavian Amphitheater.

[@mikewilson858]

@@ItRemindMeOfHome it’s more of a popular or slang for it. I don’t think anybody pushed for it, Flavian Amphitheater is mouth full.

[@robjones3818]

Similarly, no one in Chicago calls the Willis Tower the Willis Tower. It is and always will be the Sears Tower.

[@mikewilson858]

@@robjones3818 in Cincinnati we had a Paul Brown stadium, named after one of the great names in Ohio football history. Then some wack ass corporation whose product nobody can name paid to name it for themselves. Paycore stadium really sticks in my craw.

[@brianscotpatterson2101]

I lived in Italy near Rome from 2009 to 2011. I've taken many tours of Il Colosseo, and the entertainments were wild. I used to jog around the Circo Massimo. Damn, that was a really cool part of my life.

[@ChalcedonXXX]

Circus Maximus in my day learning Latin at school. But the best one was: The Cloaca Maxima!

[@vituperativedetritus3628]

"Take a date, open it up and stuff in as much of that filling as you can." Word.

[@joshuakuehn]

I love stuffing my dates

[@mrmadness2699]

That’s what he said 😂

[@ExtraThiccc]

I love being the stuffed date 😊😊😊

[@mangoeater249]

wsg...😏​ @@ExtraThiccc

[@patrickhopkins4468]

What if the Date isn't willing, eh?😮😅

[@Hanitcal69]

There is a really well done historical fiction Korean comic about a Korean warrior enslaved as a gladiator in Ancient Rome. The characters are nearly all fictional but the author did his research on traditions and practices of the day. It’s called the long way of the warrior and it’s a great read.

[@westpeace]

Hey! Whats it called?!

[@Kaletiel]

​@@westpeaceSeconded

[@tangerinemelon1578]

Ty I will read!

[@Hanitcal69]

@@westpeace the long way of the warrior

[@vivelajonny]

A comic book?

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Shoutout to Jose's captions as always, the [CHOMP] and [munch munch] really had me giggling! 😁 Appreciate so much that you guys put in the effort to make these episodes accessible to your hard-of-hearing or English-as-2nd-language audience members, and love how your senses of humor come out even in the CCs. Thank you!

[@komaedasass]

As a lover of history and cooking/baking, this channel is one I look forward to every week. Thanks for such great content!!

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you so much!

[@komaedasass]

@@TastingHistorythank YOU! 😊

[@xFreeland1]

this was such a wholesome interaction

[@karatos]

I literally said out loud before I clicked on the video, "If he doesn't say first thing in history time that the colosseum wasn't actually called the colosseum I am going to be disappointed." Another happy watch.

[@gyppygirl2021]

I mean, what'd you expect? This man does his research. :p

[@MargaretPritchett]

Mr. Miller, Thank you!!! I am slowly going through many of your past episodes, and you made me seriously laugh today. I watched your episode on black fish dish from the Roman Empire, and was seriously laughing out loud at the TV with your facial expressions due to the texture of the dish. One of the hardest things for me as a Chef, is making dishes that I dislike or know I will dislike, but need to make them for my customers. I also have texture issues with some foods. I needed the laugh today, and I am so grateful to you. God bless!

[@rcrawford42]

They did serve wings at the Colosseum. Along with the rest of the bird -- small birds, roasted whole. At the Colosseum today there are displays of the bones from what were presumably game food.

[@joshc5613]

sounds like going to medieval times and getting to eat a whole chicken

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

In 1991, I was in China wit a group. It was Jan 15, a deadline given Saddam Hussein by Geo Bush the Elder, and apparently the whole world was on high alert, all the flights were delayed, this was pre-911, so they had to take the time to remove our batteries from everything. Anyway we were stuck in Beijing and just went ham on whole roasted ducks. It was socially acceptable to tuck into them in public like a medieval king! One of the most glorious meals of my life: plum sauce, crispy skin, & a fat duck. Can't stand it anymore lol...

[@scottv.4140]

We make a stuffed date for the holidays, we put goat cheese inside of it then drizzle it with honey. It has been a family tradition since I was a kid.

[@MR2spyder100]

We stuff dates w walnut halves, then roll in sugar. Yours sounds yummy, too!

[@Iflie]

Yeah, with a kind of creamcheese here in the Netherlands in my family. I didn't like them as a kid. But I think you could make a slit in them for stuffing so you didn't need to cut them in half as far as in the video. Keeping the filling in better.

[@MossyMozart]

These posters here - too whimpy to sauté in Vesuvius-hot honey, eh?

[@andersjjensen]

Ohhh! Goat cheese has always been a bit too savory on its own, for me, but as a date stuffing it makes perfect sense as sweetness mellows out savoriness.

[@Cat-ik1wo]

That sounds great. I will do it. Love all three, dates, goat cheese and honey. Yum.

[@lesjvj19]

This might be my favorite video yet - and the bar is set pretty high! I'm a college student who loves geeking out about ancient Rome, and I've been sending your videos to all my professors so they can nerd out too 😊When I went to the Colosseum (oops, Amphitheatrum Flavium) last year, my favorite part was the peach pits and seeds they found in the stands. It's crazy to me to think that Saturday football with my friends really isn't all that different from life 2,000 years ago! Thank you for all the fun you've brought me and my friends - I've been recommending your videos right and left!

[@weldonwin]

11:15 I love this, this people who have brought their own grills to make some ancient barbeque in the stands, it's like Classical World Nascar spectators

[@jimheimerl1637]

Well, it's quite possible that during some chariot races the cry "left turn! left turn!" would ring out... so, it's the exact same thing.

[@mirandamom1346]

I love this format! Please feel free to indulge us with a day at Stonehenge, or a day spent building the pyramids, or a Georgian Sunday, or whatever your heart desires. My heart would love that!

[@MossyMozart]

@mirandamom1346 - How about a day at the ball games at Chichen Itza? A free severed head with every 10th ticket punch.

[@Grimbur]

I just made my first batch of these dates. I've been watching your videos for a while, but this was the very first time I tried to cook one of your recipes. I used too much pepper, but the dates turned out great! I'm about to grind some more nuts to dilute the pepper in the mix a bit and I'll make a second batch. I really love how it turned out, and it'll be the perfect treat for the apéro with my Italian colleagues next week.

[@Grimbur]

Quick update: Second batch turned out perfect and was a huge success with everyone. This will certainly not be the last time I made them.

[@Lauren.E.O]

Max from The Guild of Millers has done it again! Great video!

[@Laurelin70]

Maximus Molitor. 😄

[@HisVirusness]

My grandparents took me to see Gladiator at the theater. My grandfather was a huge history buff and he loved the movie. It became a bonding experience for us. Once New Vegas came out, our discussions became a lot more nuanced. Regardless, he and I bonded over a love of history in this period. And I personally loved the scene of people throwing bread at the crowd in Gladiator. RIP, grandpa. Hopefully, you're in Elysium.

[@brianmincher716]

Hope so too, brother.

[@dash4800]

My dad took me to see it and he fell asleep like 30 min in. I lost all respect for him after that for falling asleep during one of the best films ever made.

[@HotmodCanada]

@@dash4800 He was probably tired from working his ass off to buy you both tickets. At least he went with you and spent time with you.

[@Gaibreel]

Damn they are coming out with gladiator 2 in November. I wish you 2 could go see it together. Rip ❤

[@drrdfsgsh4030]

Thank you for the great historic and cooking video, Max Miller! I've just cooked some delicious stuffed dates. Every friend of my mom are impressed and now asking me for the recipe! I gave them link to this video and did translation for the recipe myself, bc they aren't English speakers. Anyway, Romans really knew some good stuff about cooking!

[@Geredis089]

You know, I actually made this recipe years and years ago, after seeing it in my old Latin textbook in high school. These are delicious, and after seeing this...I really do feel inspired to making them again.

[@annbrookens945]

Huh! My Latin textbook did NOT have recipes! I wish it had; we could have had a day of bringing in historic snacks!

[@bjdefilippo447]

Wish my Latin texts had included recipes!

[@vyvienn]

Oh man, you had a way cooler textbooks than I did!

[@eldunae922]

Life of Brian told me they ate these delicious snacks Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar. Tuscany-fried bats.

[@_UltimateNation]

Alright, bag of otter's noses, then...

[@Levacque]

Dromedary pretzels sound kinda good. Imagine a strip of meat folded into a pretzel shape and then fried so that it stuck together.

[@landosalemchainsaw]

Glad I wasn’t the only one thinking of that scene.

[@angelinaduganNy]

Bigus Dickus

[@brucea3103]

@@landosalemchainsaw Came special because I wanted to complain that the clip wasn't used in the video.

[@JsParker43]

Yo I truly dig every aspect of your show. A high brow clean delivery while still being warm and welcoming. Keep doing you dawg.

[@TairoruXRyuu]

I feel the dopamine hit as soon as I see the thumbnail for a new Tasting History episode. Thanks, Max!

[@TastingHistory]

I love that

[@quarterlifechange]

I teach Latin, but I share about Roman culture in my classes. This is perfect for my class. No nudity (yes, Rome was filled with nudity, but this is a school), no swear words, only using the word prostitutes. You also chose pictures that were appropriate without excessive nudity as well. Thank you so much!

[@BillyBoze]

So you are one of those "I censor nude ancient art because I'm a prude" kind of teacher.

[@quarterlifechange]

err...almost all schools, public or private, would ask you to censor most of the phallic images of Roman times. It's graphic. @@BillyBoze

[@CMP-st5wh]

Can't teach much about ancient Roman culture without including the plethora of cults and superstitions that revolved about the male reproductive organ.

[@HelloBoots]

​@@BillyBoze easier than having to deal with irate parents

[@lairdcummings9092]

@@BillyBoze Don't be an ass. It's much more "I censor nude history because I like my job." And if they get fired - which would be a black-ball for education in general - who will teach ancient history, then?

[@mikemattia1464]

Having emigrated from Italy in 1956 I remember my mother making these sweets at Christmas time and still enjoy them from time to time today.

[@MrDrifter762]

cool tip about stuffing dates hehe is if you just use tweezers pull the pit from one end you are left with a little hole you can stuff, think like an olive and tweezers work great

[@DavidVenegas-rq2cy]

A small fraction have mold growing inside so I always like to open them to check as it doesn't really grow on the pit. Maybe it's safe to eat like blue cheese but I always throw them out to the birds and squirrels

[@SheyD78]

Lol. that cat was definitely thinking "Where's MY chicken".

[@kathleenhensley5951]

That cat is more a kitten. Actually, an adolescent.

[@dmckim3174]

He seemed a bit offended. He looked at Max’s plate like “hello, kind people share.”

[@homeboywoop]

“Take your date and then stuff them with us much filling as you can”, truly words to live by

[@christophervincent8420]

I visited the Colesseum in Rome nearly 10yrs ago to date. It was massive. I still have it on my camera as well. What a place.

[@Arachnia_Sea]

I'd imagine that the remaining fried honey mixture would make a great glaze for ham or poultry

[@lairdcummings9092]

Reduced honey is a key ingredient in a LOT of wonderful sauces and glazes. It takes on the character of the other ingredients and spices, so it's extremely flexible.

[@josephburke8723]

What is the most amazing thing about the Colusium is that it was built with marble, wood and concrete It was used for over 400 years and could hold over 70,0000 people. We tear down our Stadiums after 30 years. The Colusium still exists after 2,000 years. Amazing.

[@strangerfromthemoon13]

“Not that praetorian guard” Im even more trash than you expected Max, I was definitely thinking of Caesar’s guards in Fallout New Vegas 😂

[@theironcladman4272]

Same lol

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

It could be worse, at least it's not the non Canon sequels 😂

[@KwadDamyj]

Ave, true to Caesar!

[@sintanan469]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@DIEGhostfish]

At least those guard an emperor of sorts.

[@markadams7046]

Loved this episode. I thought I had already heard everything about the Colosseum. Usually I just hear about the events in arena and only hear a brief side mention that there are vendors, but to hear about the vendors and what all they sold was enlightening.

[@TheHollowBodiesBand]

When are you preparing Larks' tongues, Wrens' livers, Chaffinch brains, Jaguars' earlobes, Wolf nipple chips (Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely), Dromedary pretzels (only half a denar), Tuscany-fried bats, Otters' noses, and Ocelot spleens?

[@beantheirishsetter]

What gets me about the timing of these videos is I'm always at work and so have to constantly pause and/or pretend I'm 100% focused on work. Then, I listen again after work. I could wait, but it's just too tempting. A big piece of mental chocolate cake

[@Pinkhair3d]

These are rather similar to the stuffed figs my grandmother in Italy still makes; a much loved element of her care packages!

[@icarusbinns3156]

Ooh! I love figs!

[@MayFlower21974]

Somrone gave me a date prepared like this years ago... wrapped in individual packages. And I havent been able to find them . Until now. Of course its Roman! These are wonderful!!!

[@CaptainGrimes1]

I love when you do ancient recipes, please can you do more ancient Chinese or Korean ones please??

[@TastingHistory]

Yes I can 😁 Just got a great book on Korean food history

[@Rob-rr4yp]

​@@TastingHistoryPlease do a Hakka episode! Actually, there are a lot of minorities in the East which have interesting histories and I'm sure interesting cuisine, including ones from Japan and the Malay Archipelago. But I am a Hakka so that's my request C:

[@elizaripper]

As a woman and a peasant, I imagine I would be in the nose bleeds thinking how unfair it is that the gladiators get better food than me. Or just salivating over the dates and ignoring the action.

[@muadddib]

At least you can enjoy that tasty lead water that makes the brain tingle so nicely

[@pedroarjona6996]

Well, women fans were famous for salivating during the gladiators fight, and also enjoying the food.

[@ViridianCrisis7]

You just know the planners were like, “The women just want to gossip. They’ll be fine at the top where they aren’t in the way of those watching.”

[@psychosytheXmediaXco]

​@@ViridianCrisis7 They put them at the back so no one else had to deal with the unwise actions such admiration can cause

[@justinsane7128]

Before they were called the cheapseats

[@Lexandra23]

My husband and I binge watch your videos. Thank you so much for creating such amazing content that is family friendly!

[@John_Fugazzi]

I'd love to see an episode on the wealthy Roman gourmet and bon vivant, Lucullus. He was famous for coming home one night and finding the table not set elaborately and asking his head steward why. The steward told him that no guests were invited for dinner that evening, to which Lucullus replied, "Ah, but tonight Lucullus dines with Lucullus>".

[@seanleafgreen135]

2:50 to skip the hello fresh advertisement

[@keonicouch5732]

I saw this too late lol

[@DarcyMaltz]

You don't drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there.

[@cindyhauert2339]

I’m picturing Derek Jacobi as Claudius in the wonderful BBC series.

[@wise_guy4230]

The food item itself was quite unique, but I learned so much about the theater and culture that I'd never read, or been taught. Thank you for sharing!

[@fedoramaster6035]

4:26 not sure if your technique was just for the camera, but with mortar/pestles I’ve found that the best way to grind stuff is by moving the pestle upwards from the bottom and up the sides of the mortar. Just bashing the stuff on the bottom with the base of the pestle only does so much. If you really work for it, you can get a whole other level of finely ground compared to a food processor.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Another interesting video. And it occurs to me that sitting on marble would be coller (teperature-wise) than on wood, since marble is always cooler than the surrounding teperature.

[@andrewbatts7678]

Do you think that there would be Roman fathers and sons who smuggled there own snacks like my dad and i did at games and the movies. Winter was the best because i always had those giant goosedown coats with 4 to 8 big pockets

[@TastingHistory]

I’ve no doubt

[@supergolfdude]

I can’t believe I haven’t discovered you before today. I love the originality of combining period food and cooking with a very entertaining history lesson. Keep’em coming!

[@TastingHistory]

Glad you found me!

[@maya-gur695]

When I visited Pompeii, I saw their fast food stands and was kind of jealous.

[@thesparkypilot]

Oh yeah, they had all kinds of stuff there!

[@TheChzoronzon]

A bit overcooked, tho

[@xinlight]

@@TheChzoronzon no! xD That's terrible lol

[@MossyMozart]

I saw a documentary about the Coliseum some time ago. (It was probably "NOVA" on PBS - Public Broadcasting Service, USA). The floor was engineered so that it could be raised and lowered between acts to change it for the next thing, like so many modern stages. That documentary was where I learned about the awnings, too.

[@Beepers559]

I remember hearing that the colosseum could be flooded as well to simulate navel battles too (I think it was connected to the aqueducts or some other channels)

[@Dolmdemon]

I learned more about the Colosseum games in this cooking video than any documentary I've watched

[@adambarron4015]

Great video, Max! Disappointed in myself for never realizing umbrella was from the Latin for shadow, umbra.

[@michelhv]

That Coliseum roof is the inspiration for Montréal’s Olympic Stadium moving canopy. Guess what? Adjustable roofs don’t work in snowy weather, and we’re still gonna pay 870 millions (ok, Canadian ones) for yet another new roof! Our third!

[@lairdcummings9092]

Fortunately for Rome, the Flavian Amphitheater is in a sub-tropical climate.

[@katherinewilson1853]

I always wondered why Montreal had one. Lovely place, but snow+canopy made me wonder.

[@michaelciccone2194]

"gonna"???? Inner city urban USA lingo

[@MrNesscity]

Max Miller, you are my favourite human, because in all your videos there are these little things that make me laugh, like "popular peppers" or when you are fascinated by the fact that there used to be two words for egg in the english language and you go on this deep dive into why. I really appreciate all the effort you put in your videos! I hope you have a great day, week, month!

[@rtfmpeople]

OMG these sound amazing! The idea of salt and dates works so well. Like devils on horseback! Stuffed dates are also such a great treat! I my friend got come some from UAE that were stuffed with candied ginger and others stuffed with candied orange peel... the best!

[@ezioauditore4061]

Whenever people ask if you could go back in time to one event, what would you chose? The official opening of the Colosseum is one of my go-to's. What a spectacle it must have been back then.

[@andersjjensen]

As someone who's seen what people's remains look like when subjected to "activities" much like these in Kosovo and Bosnia... I'd very much NOT like to watch it actually happen. Listening to people scream in primal terror while a pack of attack dogs tear them appart is not my idea of fun.

[@tanyah.9131]

I'd probably just go back to the 60s in someplace like Amsterdam or San Francisco. Any other time before that I think I'd like to be invisible, or not a woman, or not poor lol, though I'd love to see life in the Renaissance or maybe middle ages Europe.

[@GamePlayShare]

I just have subscribed and already want to try cooking all those ancient food

[@CaptainRiterraSmith]

I've been wanting that Lego Colosseum ever since it was released. First I need the money. Second some place to build it where my cat won't destroy it.

[@TastingHistory]

It’s massive. And yes, the cat has destroyed much of it.

[@lhfirex]

Maybe they should sell a complete one with all the features of the old colosseum, so those with cats can have it destroyed to look like it does in our time!

[@MossyMozart]

@@lhfirex - .^_^.

[@venustears888]

​@@TastingHistory the cat: colosseum delenda est

[@JustineJacot]

Unfortunately, they retired it in November 2023. I too was waiting to have the space and money :/

[@michaausleipzig]

Can I just say real quick how much I love you combining my two favourite things in the world: history and food! 😅 So thanks for that! 😊

[@robmechem1384]

I made these for guests and they LOVED ❤ them, couldn’t find pine nuts so I used sunflower seed kernels, still was yummy. I also used the left over nut mix and honey mixed them together and poured mixture on a small buttered plate, refrigerated sliced off a chunk and topped my Sea Island yellow Grits with it, and was really good

[@eileenwallis9066]

It's cool how some flavor combos haven't changed much for millenia. My mom used to make plates of homemade treats for all our neighbors every Xmas. The one we kids got stuck making every year (because no heat was involved) was a whole walnut meat stuffed inside a date, with the whole shebang then rolled in powdered sugar. The sugar helped cut down on the stickiness of handling them. They had a nice crunch, but they were super sweet. Who knew we just needed salt and pepper?!?

[@slhughes1267]

That was my gran's favorite treat too. We'd make them for her for christms.

[@gailsears2913]

Thanks Max. The stuffed dates look/sound delicious! I'm picturing the food raining down, getting in the hair or eyes of the spectators, and people snatching at it, especially the tall people in front. It became the entertainment between rounds.

[@julietsmith5925]

Did anyone else go "awwww" when the cat made an appearance?

[@jadedjhypsi]

I think there is a trick to how much stuffing to put in. When I do these i put less in and then let the date seal itself perfectly along the cut =) They mostly stay closed this way

[@ShinyFeral]

Max, you make everything come to LIFE! Thank you! I just have visions of you hosting dinner parties in the evenings after your research/recording work and passing out treats and concoctions.

[@trejea1754]

“Taylor Swiftus”! 😂 Thank you, Max.

[@tubekulose]

So she's a man?

[@realhorrorshow8547]

I think she'd be Taylor Apus. That's the Latin for the swift, from Greek _a_ without, _pous_ feet/legs. The ancients thought that swifts had no legs, not a mistake any of would make today.

[@LouisaWatt]

My local Indian spice shop has long pepper and it’s amazing 🤩 it’s so cool to taste things from ancient civilisations

[@ViciousProgressor]

Thanks for this recipe! It's the first one I've tried from your channel. It turned out really good! I didn't find long pepper at the grocery store when I went, but I'll try to get some next time. You're right; the pepper and salt are surprisingly tasty and quite unexpected, balancing all of the sweetness.

[@Lauren.E.O]

I’d be looking for the Colosseum gift shop (or, more likely, the independent sellers outside) if I lived back then 🎁

[@TastingHistory]

Gotta get some of that collectible gladiator sweat!

[@Captain-Palsy]

​@@TastingHistoryYou're not a true fan if you don't.

[@MossyMozart]

@@TastingHistory - Be sure to collect them all!

[@victoriamiranda-stotelmyre4382]

Max it’s an absolute treat having the recipe and history talks as you sit across the table.. lol with you in your kitchen and me and my husband at our table when we watch these videos. Great Job guys. ❤

[@TastingHistory]

That is so kind. Thank you : )

[@FlameDarkfire]

15:00 at one point there was a fight between 100 tigers and 100 Praetorians. Imagine getting into the locker room that morning and being told you’re gonna fight tigers for your boss’s amusement

[@mahel2002]

Haha, I loved that you used Palmyrene tesserae for your illustration of the tokens (which would also have been used for entrance to a banquet, but one with a religious meaning - perhaps after a divinity's festival or a celebration of a religious association).

[@General12th]

Hi Max! I love the way Max pronounces Latin words. And "popular peppers".

[@Xixbalba]

I am currently planning a trip to Italy. Roman history was my major in college and I cannot wait to see Ostia Antica, Pompeii and Rome. One of my favorite channels, maybe I’ll find someone making Garum and get the true experience.

[@jon-michaelharris5840]

perfect timing, i’m in Rome and was at the Colosseum a few days ago